26/F/5’8 SW: 199 CW: 176 GW: 150
I’ve wanted to lose weight for many years but as someone whose battened anxiety and depression even thinking about it felt stressful. Especially when depression had depleted my motivation.
On January 4th I battened my anxiety of joining the gym by joining online, and then actually going late at night. Less interaction, less people.
What I didn’t realize was that by implementing healthy eating and meal planning I was battling my depression in an even bigger way than just “working out will make you feel good”
I’ve had a really rough 2 weeks with the gym. My 3-4 times has dwindled to 2 times. It occurred to me tonight though that in the last 2 weeks I have completely reorganized my kitchen, living room, laundry room, hall closet, dresser, bedroom closet, bedroom, and bathroom. I had roommates for many years and have crap stored and shoved everywhere. I’ve hauled out probably 5+ bags of trash/stuff to donate.
I believe I did this because after 2 months of a full on lifestyle change my mentality changed too. I realized in order to stay motivated I have to clean up other aspects of my life. Now I get to wake up in a home I’m actually proud of and not stressed out about.
I’ve really been wanting to start to getting up early enough to workout in the morning instead of night but it’s really hard for me to get up in the mornings. This was the motivation I needed to do that. It’s easier to wake up when the never ending list of things you want to do isn’t looming over you just by opening your eyes and seeing a cluttered house.
If you’re feeling depressed, and lacking motivation to do something as simple as re-organize your cluttered house and you’ve been lurking this subreddit thinking about making a change... DO IT. Everything else will fall into place in due time. Or at least it is for me so far.
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