struggling to eat healthy/workout

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  u/Possible_Kitchen1404 hi everyone, sorry if this type of post is not allowed here. in the past, i have gone through phases of wanting to make improvements to my health, eat healthy, workout, lose weight, but i found i could never stick to anything. i would stick to it for a few weeks, but eventually cave and go back to how i was before.

  i have been struggling with my mental health for a couple months now. about a month or so ago, i started focusing on eating healthy, exercising, and drinking more water, and i felt better temporarily. instead of forcing myself into the gym i tried to find workouts and foods that i liked and stick to those (ex: basketball, walking, yogurt & granola). and i genuinely did feel better eating healthy. since i was doing things i liked i thought i'd be able to stick to it this time! but i do like the taste of junk food, and recently i have been having cravings of fast food and sweets. i know unhealthy foods are okay once in a while but for me once i start i can't stop :(( i also have fell off track with exercising. and i have started feeling a lot sadder recently, and i think because of that i have lost the motivation to take any care of myself

  i also am medically considered obese , and have tried making efforts to lose weight over the years, but to no avail. i will admit i am very dissatisfied with my body and spend a lot of time (most of my time actually) wishing i was more attractive, and a lot of my motivation to lose weight comes from that.

  does anyone have any advice on how i can get back on track? and more importantly, stay on track? or do i accept that a healthy lifestyle just isn't for me?

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• u/No-Quantity584·1·Aug 1, 2026, 5:35 PM

  i went through something similar and what helped was just not keeping junk food in the house at all, if i have to get in my car and drive somewhere to satisfy a craving it's a lot easier to talk myself out of it also the all-or-nothing mindset is a trap, missing one workout or eating one bad meal doesn't mean the whole week is ruined, you just pick back up at the next meal or the next day the body image stuff is harder, that's a slower fix but separating how you feel about your body from what your body can actually do helped me a lot, like focusing on getting stronger or having more energy instead of just the mirror

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• u/Just-some-peep·1·Aug 1, 2026, 6:05 PM

  Slow and gradual changes. Take little things, realistic goals and once they're a habit add more. If you're out of shape, obese and addicted to junk food you obviously won't go from that to working out 4 days a week and eating healthy overnight. Go for a walk twice a week. Just force yourself to go until it becomes part of your routine. It can be a short 10min walk. Then you gradually add perhaps even only a few more minutes. If you eat junk food every day - add a day where you skip it. Do so for a month or two. Then try two days - no biggie if it doesn't work every week, just slowly move towards eating less of it. If you eat cereal full of sugar - perhaps start adding oat to it - little by little you increase the oat and lower the sugary cereal. Basically: set realistic goals and force yourself to do them. It takes effort to make changes.