Ready to Keep Moving Forward

[Dawni04]

Hello, everyone. I am a 21-year-old woman recently graduated from college. For the past three months, I have been jobless, broke, and poised to lose my apartment as the days go by. I've been feeling like a financial and emotional burden on my family and generally a huge disappointment to myself.

 

It seems like within the last two years, I have increasingly become incredibly unmotivated and self deprecating. My future dreams and aspirations have all become dimmer and more distant as time goes by. After a while, I had just about given up on everything. My room, which I'd go days without leaving, became a mess, my social life went to the gutter, my self care and hygiene had all but disappeared, and I gained a significant amount of weight in the process. My lifestyle had dipped so drastically that the clothes that fit me only two months ago no longer fit me.

 

It was only until a couple of weeks ago that I realized I was going through a form of moderately severe depression. And then it hit me. If I didn't make a change then and there, things were only going to get worse for me, and I was going to completely lose control of myself and my life. At that moment, I decided to move forward. I've since organized my room, gotten out the apartment more often, interacted with friends and family, and this past weekend, I got a new job.

 

As I'm slowly piecing my life back together, I wish to take control of one other aspect of it: my health. I have never been through the process of losing weight, at least not to any significant level, and the past few months have led to the highest weight amount I've ever been. This isn't how I want to live out the prime years of my life. And so, I am deciding to make a change in that area as well.

 

My first day of C25K will be tomorrow. My aim isn't to be a size zero, but just a weight and condition where I can be more active, healthy, and feel more comfortable with myself. As an extra incentive, I want to be able to run a 5k in October for my city's local cancer run.

 

I know this isn't going to be easy, but I am ready to take on the challenge and to keep moving forward. Thank you for reading. Wish me luck, and best of luck to all others starting or continuing this journey as well. We can do it

 

Onward.

[Cherylseptember]

I wish you all the best and I believe you can do this. It makes such a difference!

[Dawni04]

Thank you. Day one is complete, looking forward to day two tomorrow!

[dhens13]

Hi, Dawni04! I am dhens13. Well, I obviously have a real name but after reading all of their guidelines, I do not know if I can share it or not! LOL I am a 30-Something aspiring author and poet who also suffers from depression and I am at my near-heaviest, if not heaviest weight ever, at this point in time. So I completely understand you wanting to take control of all the aspects of your life your depression had taken from you (my social life, house-cleaning/organizational system, and personal hygiene have been known to fall to the wayside when I am depressed, as well, so I totally get you there) and I 100-percent can relate to wanting to lose weight and live a healthier lifestyle. One thing I think I can point out to you from reading all of the introductory material is that you are meant to take at least one rest day, if not two, in between the scheduled workouts since there are only 3 workouts scheduled per week. I believe it is so that your body can have rest and recovery time between workouts, which is essential if you do not want to injure yourself or over exert your body. Just something I gleaned from all of the introductory material! I would love to be Accountabilibuddies with you, as the My Fitness Pal Diet and Exercise Tracker app refers to the people in your life who support you on your path to a healthier lifestyle by offering you encouragement as they forge their own path to a healthier lifestyle. I think there might be a way for the two of us to chat within the C25K app or private message through the app, so we will have to see if we can figure that out! In the meantime, keep it up, my I-Hope-Future Accountabilibuddy!