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OK, thanks, I have looked around this forum a little, and some of the advice is conflicting, but at the end of the day, as everyone knows, its not rocket science. I am too fat because I eat and drink too much and don't exercise enough, and I put on weight because I consume more calories than I use.
I guess motivation has always been the hardest thing for me, I have started so many diets and fitness plans, writing down everything I eat and counting calories, and it just seems like sooner or later I always end getting really down, drinking and eating junk food.
I know being my size probably will shorten my life if I stay this way, and that is pretty scary to be honest; I'd love to feel fitter and better about myself, and be able to buy clothes that are normal sizes from regular stores - compared to the pleasure you get from eating fatty food or sitting around getting drunk on my own, the motivations to lose weight should be overwhelming...
I guess it can be a vicious circle, that my weight depresses me, and being depressed makes me want to drink (and eating junk food often comes from being drunk so often) ... but not breaking it just means I'll be here two years later saying the same things, and a heart attack candidate by the time I'm 30....
I'm really determined to make a better go this time, I dont know if I have the commitment or the will to really want a perfect body or look like a model or anything, I just would like to be a healthy weight, not feel that I look fat and ugly, and be fit.
I guess New Years Eve tomorrow isnt a great time to be trying to quit drinking, but I hope long term I can do better this time.
Basically, my plan at the moment is just to start counting calories again, and try to eat under 1500 and more than 1000 every day if I can (this has always worked for me for as long as I've stuck to it in the past), I'm joing up a gym, and I'm also going to start playing soccer (just 5 a side again) and squash with a couple of people at work... I guess I need to take the exercise easy at the start and just build up. I am not fit obviously, but I am probably fitter than most people my size would be, but I know I need to build into it slowly. I dont really have that much else that I do other than work and go online and go to the pub, so I dont really have a problem time wise getting exercise.
I guess, like you said, the trick is to keep in mind the goals and the point of why I am doing it.
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