elle2585

Find a lovely park and go for a walk... best machine ever

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Taz

Just want to tell you a problem I faced before I started to lose weight and wanted exercise equipment for at home. Most of the equipment you can buy has a weight limit! All the ones I wanted at the time I was too heavy for! Watch out for that

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toller-girl

I always worry when people put stuff off until they've lost weight, it sounds like they're putting their lives on hold until they are x size, which is doing themselves short.

I've always wanted to get back into horse riding, and I set myself a goal of being below a certain weight before contacting a stables and asking if I can help with mucking out and things (it's good exercise!) so I can be around horses and get my confidence back.

That weight came and went, and a stone under that I contacted one. They were so lovely, friendly and welcoming, that I'm sure I could've contacted them months ago. What a waste of time waiting to be thinner!

I had other stuff put off until I lost more (skiing lessons and kayaking) but that's scrapped now, and I'm just going to do it - and have fun losing weight!

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Taz

I know what you mean TG but sometimes it's about confidence. I would never have started karate when I was at my biggest simply because I didn't have the confidence then. I am still very aware that I am possibly the largest girl there but I'm not quite so worried as I would have been

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toller-girl

Yup, it's definitely about confidence, but I think you can make yourself more confident by doing things that scare you.

My tendency is to avoid things which are uncomfortable or difficult, and it gets hard because once you start avoiding it makes it almost impossible to start doing it.

When you do confront your fears, it's never as bad as you thought, and it gives you such a boost. The more successful you are at difficult things, the more able you are to deal with anything life throws at you.

I think it's part of the cycle of weight gain as well, kind of 'retreat and eat', and when you stop retreating, you have other ways to feel good and don't NEED to turn to food.

That's just my psycho babbling thoughts though

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magb

TG you're definately right! I think you have to do things that scare you to gain confidence (to an extent!). Swimwear scares the hell out of me but my friend has been asking me to go for a while as he's trying to get fit for summer too. After putting it off for a long time i FINALLY gave in last night. Im just self concious about things like that but once i had been in there for 5mins or so it felt great. Now I'll probably worry more over how funny my swim cap looks lol =)

toller-girl

Yay congratulations!!!!

You need to remember how brave you were when you first walked out of the changing room, and remind yourself of that whenever you feel you can't do something.

I bet everyone else in the pool is more interested in their own wobbly bits!

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