Emotions - Did you expierence this?

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Thank you,

Mario

Very honest post.

When the emotion**** just use them to your advantage. IMO.

Hi Mario

Just read your blog -- very moving.  You have so much to be proud of!

Yes, I sort of get what you're saying.  Certainly not to the level you are, but then I'm not your age either LOL  When I'm doing my recumbent bike, I listen to Beatles or Beach Boy music -- those have good loud and fast songs to help me.  Every so often, it will hit me that a certain song was popular when I was a teenager..........and I think to myself "YES, you might be 65, but you're doing a minimum of 5 miles each workout just on the bike" and I feel emotional about that because there was a time a few years ago that reaching my age wasn't looking possible.  Now, I feel like I will become that cute little 95 old lady who is rockin' a pair of skinny jeans in her old time rocking chair!!!  When I do my machines or free weights, I get a similar feeling -- I'm capable of lifting or working a machine at levels I couldn't have done even 30 years ago.  I'm becoming strong and building endurance.

Yes, emotions are a big part of all this -- and often in a positive way.  As for tears, they are normal, healthy, and many times necessary. 

Keep doing what you're doing.  I think you're awesome and are rockin' your sleeve like the Warrior you are!

Ree

Thank you Ree! 

I always try to be honest with my post and like I said I am not ashamed to admit tht I shed a tear... I was not balling or anything! LOL 

It feels good to be where I am not and I cant imagine what it will feel like when I hit 225!

Yes Mario. I have been there where your emotions get so strong that you know you can push yourself even further & faster in your workouts. I don't know if it's part mental but it works.
I love reading your blogs & I think writing it down can be very beneficial to success.

Thanks Jenn! My blog started as a way for me to remember this journey... I hope now that it helps others who struggle!

I as well have the same emotions when I am doing my workouts. I did the c25k and these last couple workouts I have found myself tearing up. I say to myself while I am doing the workout you can do this and this will bring you closer to the Amanda you know you are inside and have always been. I am running in my first 5K this saturday and I am dreading the emotions that I am going to have that day. I am a very emotional person to begin with.

With me it is strange how I actually start sabotaging myself exactly at this point every time.Just when I start becomeing aware of ow well Im doing or how close Im getting I will have a really bad few days with food and (this has been my terrible go to for many many years) I will go and buy some sigarettes and smoke for about 3 days and of course the running will be super hard and the times much worse then.Then I will start the struggle to quit the smokes (and it is always a struggle for a few weeks in which I crave food and smokes and suffer a lot..lol)

I am of course much older and have been doing this to myself for much longer.The sleeve stops me from being too self destructive and helps me get right back on track again.Reading this back to myself I think some therapy seems to be in order here.

Mario,you are doing great.It is good to do your best,push yourself harder.You will have great success this way!

Mario, thanx for the post!!! I had been feeling a lil down bcuz I'm still over 350lbs n I kept thinking that my weight was holding me back from doing more things that i want to do. Reading ur post made me realize that I may be over 350 lbs but I've come a long way from 530 lbs in 6 months n only being 8 weeks post op!!!! So I'm going to start thinking like u, my weight is not gonna hold me back it's just slowing me down n I just have to work hard at getting to where I wanna be!!!! Thank you so much Mario!!! Take care n good luck to you !!!!!!!!!

WOW! Joey from 530 to 350 - my friend you are the true inspiration here! As you know the weight will continue to come off. I track my weight on a calender and on my blog and here... ( thats a lot of tracking) and it happens what seems to be slow, but in just one year the change will be significant, or at least thats what I keep telling myself.

I am very proud of you!!! 

Mario