After 10 years I'm throwing in the towel...

Ditto myfitness pal. Also, check youtube for seated workouts. Some are kind of silly and fun. For me, I also hit a breaking point, where it seems like people who do well end up having their whole life become weight loss. But I love my life (I have a great job, but it's on my arse, and several of my interests are also sedentary). So I go to the gym, which is fine, but I don't love it. Spend half my weekend shopping and cooking for the week, and get irritated and burned out. I recently started a pretty loose intermittent fasting plan, buying bagged or prepackaged salads, rotisserie chicken to add to the salads, greek yogurt, etc. and stuff to make an easy dinner on late nights at work. Food that keeps me in my budget easily, isn't horridly unhealthy and takes little time, but is still pleasurable. So I get to have my life and still lose. (Still working on adding in walks around places I already am and workouts I do enjoy on weekends--mostly swimming.) My water weight also fluctuates WILDLY which is hard on my motivation. I just got a fitbit Charge HR which I synced with myfitnesspal, which is really helping me keep an eye on my calorie deficit, and not get down when my water weight is randomly up three pounds, like it is today. (I have visual evidence that, even if I'm a little off, I know I'm not 10,000 calories--three pounds--off.) It also helps me know that, sometimes I'm more hungry because of hormones or whatever, but sometimes I'm more hungry because I've burned more calories and I can better balance the hunger and the budget. Find a plan that matches your life, not takes over your life. Some sacrifice is of course necessary, but additional suffering is not.

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