Fat and disgusting and not doing anything about it

Yes, I do this too. Usually followed by a beer & chocolate to cheer me up. Madness.

Oh yes, I can relate to that feeling all too well.

You ok? ?

Feeling exactly the same. Yet i am eating a packet of hula hoops hating the way i look and it's starting to affect me not wanting to go out etc now Need a kick up the arse

Another for the (hopefully reinforced) bench. ?

I've got out of the habit of exercising and need to lose weight for a wedding in November but the willpower has moved out.

Totally ? Although I then wonder whether I'm really that bothered as if I was surely I would do something? I keep trying and never get to the end. It is a right pita though so I sympathise.

I frequently feel like this <sigh>.

Ir need a swift kick up the behind to get myself into gear.

I hear you. ?

Me too! Though I find photos even scarier ☹️

I don't even know what to do. To start running again I need to start getting up at 6.30am on the days I don't already, and the early days are already killing me. OR I can run when I get in, at 8.30-8.45pm, but then I won't be eating until 9.30pm/9.45pm and I want to be in bed early to get up. It's crap.

Argh, am just having a really bad day in a really bad week

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I hear ya sista!! It's annoying, you feel like that and then you go and buy a cake, well I do.

Anything we can say/do to make things better?

I don't think eating late is a good idea. Is there any other exercise you can fit into your day a little easier? It sounds like you're pretty busy.

Yup. Energy and enthusiasm at an all time low.

You ok, Lois? xx

I've put on a fair bit of weight after having a stressful beginning of the year and I just can't get my arse back into gear. So I feel crap, eat to feel better, feel worse for eating (repeat ad finitum)

Argh!

? Though there have been no photos of me in the last decade as I can't face having them taken. The only photos that exist of me over this time are passport ones that I really can't avoid!

I hate the way I look, but obviously not enough to get myself organised enough to do anything about it

Lois, I don't think you're fat and disgusting at all. This is how I picture you, though with a fag in your hand.

Oh God yes - I seem to have hit my mid-winter energy slump 3 months early this year.

Yep, often. I say to myself "I'd do anything to have a flat stomach" and then I don't do as much as I could to get one. It's horrible feeling that way, you have my sympathy. Feeling disgusted with yourself is soul destroying.

I do find when I am exercising regularly, that the feelings are less though. It's definitely worth trying to fit it in - getting up at 6.30am isn't so bad, I do it most days and once you're in the routine, you actually feel quite energised (and smug) by getting your exercise out of the way early.

Emma that is because you haven't met me, though.

I sooo wish I had a fag in my hand, I am sure I would feel better if I still smoked ?

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Yes, that would be me.

I am semi trying to sort it though as we have agreed to get a cross trainer to go in the garage so I can get exercise (I get lazy when the weather is wet and don't want to run). The benefit of that though will be negated by the Dairy Milk I am currently troughing!

I feel like this too. I need to lose a stone at least but can't get motivated to do any exercise. I have said that I will start running again as of tonight but its been that long I just can't be bothered. I hate feeling like that too, I'm normally quite active but lately I've been losing the will to live lol

Do you get annoyed and depressed in a way you can't explain? Like today I have missed a hair appointment. It is waaaay too complicated to try to get H to understand that I had planned my day (which is supposed to be a day off but I have too much to do) around :

skipping breakfast meeting as am not getting sleep and this means I can have a lie in

Working this morning and then

going into town, doing the shopping I need to do then

having hair done (actual time for actual relaxing, I look forward to the hairdressers for this an absolutely unfeasible amount)

coming home and doing some more work but that's ok because at least my hair will look fabulous for the business club we are starting on Friday, and thus I will feel that tiny bit more confident.

Instead I am going to work all day and feel like sh it, ad also feel like as day is awful anyway I should have also gone to breakfast meeting which I now cannot skip NEXT week when I will actually be getting my hair done/having potentially non awful day

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Me all the time

i am too tired to do anything about it and i cant find the energy to go shopping etc let alone do any exercise , i run up and down the stairs in the shop so much i am knackered getting home and i am starting to eat junk again instead of decent meals ,

i finish at 2.30 today but by the time i get tom from school and go shopping and get home and do the wash all i want to do is sit down and not move with a drink in my hand , i dont feel like going out anymore i did on saturday but i was so ill on sunday i wish i hadnt then i had yesterday off and was going to go get hair done but ended up in work so i am thinking sod it i will leave it a week or so if i am grey i am grey

i know that sitting in the haordressers when i have so much to do wont help me relax anyway

i dont know if its the change in the weather or whatever but i am so tired all the time

I have to say that I felt like this at the beginning of the year as well. I was the biggest I've ever been (bordering on the weight I was when I was 8 months' pregnant with my first child ?) and could NOT be arsed to do anything except the necessary every day grind. Sadly, it took a very good friend dying (in April, aged just 40) from cancer to shake me into some sort of shape. I vowed to do the Race for Life for her and started running even though it is my most hated thing. Once I'd done the first few runs, I actually started to feel better and started eating a bit better as well. I still had the occasional treat but knew I could "run it off" if I needed to. I know what you mean about feeling down about yourself in a way you can't quite put your finger on and its hard to snap yourself out of it. I daresay if things hadn't been so crap in April I may have just continued and now would be the size of a small house.....

I would say, if you can, give the 6.30am start a go. I actually feel less tired after starting running than I did before. It sounds like tripe but it does actually give you more energy and you do feel a bit better about yourself.

I hope you feel better soon Lois (and anyone else feeling the same way).

Aw Lois, I can really relate to the hair appt. thing. I had one booked a couple of weeks ago and H chose that time as the perfect opportunity to have a row with me via text and it completely fcuked up my enjoyment of it.

Permanent state of being here. Am back on poxy WW in the hope that I will feel less fat and disgusting in a few months but I doubt it. I realise WW counts as doing something about it but I have spent years not doing anything about it.

Whilst I'm not overly fat I have literally just had my blood pressure tested and the outcome was not good. Pretty bad in fact.

You ok, Chookles? ?

Yeah - just a bit of a shock. I guess I thought I was pretty fit. Fanks dude.

I'm no expert but surely your blood pressure can be high for any number of reasons - fit people can have high blood pressure can't they? Mine was slightly raised last time I had it checked because I was talking whilst having it done lol!

I am the same at the mo and hear you! My sex drive has gone, I feel tired all the time and work is stupidly stressful. The work thing is my reason why I lack motivation, I am always too tired to go out and exercise after work now as it drains me! I joined the gym 3 months ago now, and have been 4 times that's it! Work got in the way I had to work long hours, usual suspects. When I do manage to leave work early, there is always something I have to do.

I am going running tomorrow come hell or high water to be honest, I have had enough of feeling so down all the time, and horribly fat.

Chicken, hug for you....didn't you recently need to stop exercising for an injury?

The guy testing scared me a bit. I'm sure it's cool.

Oh yes, far too well. ?

My mum was helping me put away some clothes today (including the 6 tops I went through before going out last week due to munter status) and I ended up bursting into tears as I had no idea what fits properly any more. Gah, it's rotten. I stayed the same size (20) for 2 years but since starting new meds, I'm getting bigger again.

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