What are the main reason behind your failed diet attempts?

HDBKLM

Resolutioner bump. Happy New Year everybody!

HappyGrape

things got really busy and I dropped the ball.

lgfrie

Every failed diet attempt I've had had the same cause: not getting back on the horse after a binge. Once I figured out it wasn't about the binging but what happened after the binge, I was all set. Nowadays, I get back on the scale first thing next morning no matter how much I don't want to see the number, do my cardio, and hit my calorie target. It's been smooth sailing ever since, complete with the occasional binge. Confining excessive eating to one meal or at most one evening once in a while has been totally transformative for me.

RelCanonical

I’m an emotional eater and tried for weight loss before I solved my emotional issues. I expected weight loss to solve problems it would not solve, and became depressed when I reached goal and nothing changed. I pushed myself too hard and was too obsessed with weight loss and didn’t even think about what maintenance would be like.

jlhalley7835

For me I just stopped caring. Got tired of the grind. Then I woke up one day and said “if I would have just continued then...” The regret was a lot to over come but I just kept making excuses.

I also binged out on junk food at night out of boredom and depression. I ate fast food 4 times a day out of convenience. But that was the past.

This year has been tough, but I’ve been able to keep focus and get results and it’s kept me motivated. I also keep my wife and kids in my mind as motivation. I know I won’t be able to be around and provide for them if I give up and balloon back to 320 lbs again.

nitalieben

A bad relationship with food, an all or nothing mindset, doing it for all the wrong reasons caused me to fail quite a few times. Much more successful now that my relationship with food improved, learned balance, and doing it for me!

geraldaltman

Thinking that denying myself of treats and the like would be key to weight loss. Under MFP calorie monitoring system, I have learned that needn't be so; indeed I can enjoy those things and stay happy, so long as I stay under my calorie goals and continue my exercise patterns. My result? I closed out 2019 43 pounds down (from 281 in May). There is something to this!!

PAV8888

Expecting that strong willpower, hard work, self sacrifice, and rapid results will lead to victory.

Making things as easy as possible (within the context of still getting results when they were evaluated correctly) resulted in being within the normal weight range for a bit more than 3 years now, starting from cat 3 obese in Jan 2014

FoodBodyChanges

Feeling hungry - either my stomach not feeling satiated (too little volume) or feeling "false hunger" as described by Dr. Joel Fuhrman.

Megan_smartiepants1970

Every time I do good ....something derails me ...like having 3 deaths close to each other in 2010 ..or getting injured like what happened in 2019....I am restarting my journey again and hopefully this time will be the last time I start ....

ReenieHJ

So many of the above....!! Giving up before I had hardly even gotten started. Being an emotional eater, stress drove me to eat 75% of the time. Now it's boredom which seems to be easier to fill without food than stress was.

KerrieA87

Being ill, I have multiple medical problems and when one or more of them flare it’s so much harder to keep on track. I get so fatigued that I end up eating/drinking fast energy high calorie foods/drinks just to stay awake (I need to stay awake as I have a 9 year old autistic daughter who doesn’t understand dangers and a hubby that works til 10pm), it also means my movement is reduced because of pain/nausea/exhaustion. When I’m well I can drop weight quickly and easily, just not do easy during a flare

missysippy930

Not being consistent with calorie deficit and or staying at maintenance calories. Eating more calories than I should be.

13bbird13

I get lazy and stop paying attention, and go back to what I call my "frat-boy diet" of pizza, burgers, and alcohol. This has happened several times after reaching my goal of around 140. This time, trying to come back down from an all-time high of 180, I try to remind myself how much easier it would be if this time I save those kinds of things for weekend treats and stay on the wagon with healthy foods for the majority of the time. We'll see how I do. I've got another 10 pounds to go until I'm back in the mid-140's.

busyPK

Laziness and boredom. Simple as that for me.