I hate to admit it but I failed myself!

nighthawk584

I was here a few years back with my weight loss journey and lost a little over 100 lbs in a year. I went from 285 to 182 and got into incredible shape along the way too by weight training and biking. I even had my own success story posted on mfp. I was so motivated!

Cut to the chase and I'm not going to make any excuse, I gained 80 lbs back and my labs went from perfect back to ugly. I started back up again a month ago and am down 10 lbs so far and the motivation is real once again. Hello all, I'm back at it again!

chris_in_cal

Me too.

AnnPT77

Welcome back, @nighthawk5. I remember you. You've got this!

Possible re-frame: You haven't failed yourself, you've found one maintenance plan that doesn't work for you reliably, which is useful insight. This time can be better, with a revised plan.

I'm cheering for your success!

CrazyMermaid1

The mindset of maintaining was for me quite different than when I was losing. Tough adjustment

MargaretYakoda

Welcome back!

I had a little break and gained some back too. I have no idea how much because I’m not actually weighing myself right now. But my pants got reeeeeeeealy tight.
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They’re loose again. More to go.

Keep on keeping on. Bumps in the road and all. You got this!

famasama09

Welcome back! I also lost a significant amount of weight (90 lbs) and then gained nearly 60 back. I've just restarted as well. It's such a shift in lifestyle and our modern day living doesn't support being healthy very well. However, here we both are along with many others on this journey learning to love ourselves enough to make changes. It sure is a journey! I'd love to connect as 'friends' - I don't have any on here ha! I'm so far down 6 lbs. I'm doing keto, martial arts, and rowing. Also a widowed mom of 3, special education teacher, graduate student, and newly a white belt in a style of kung fu. We've got this! Best of luck to you.

cmriverside

Been there, got the tee shirt.

I lost and regained a lot of weight before I found myfitnesspal and started logging food.

Game
Changer

Welcome back. Old school emoticon for you ~~> :flowerforyou:

lisakatz2

cmriverside wrote: »

Been there, got the tee shirt.

I lost and regained a lot of weight before I found myfitnesspal and started logging food.

Game
Changer

Welcome back. Old school emoticon for you ~~> :flowerforyou:

Welcome back nighthawk!

I join this club. Serial yo-yo dieter until I found MFP. I'm convinced that this behavior will be a thing of the past. No cravings. My latest yo-yo was 26 pounds lost and re-gained.

As a previous poster said, you can do this! Come on here for support if you feel like you're going to fall off the wagon. I find the community to be very positive and non-judgmental.

ridiculous59

I lost 90 pounds and then slowly gained back 20. I am a goal motivated person and seeing my weight drop during my journey was so rewarding. And then maintenance happened.and there wasn't that same excitement when I got on the scale. Throw in a couple of other weak excuses and yeh, 20 pounds were added.

So basically it taught me that I know how to lose weight, but apparently I never dealt properly with my overall food issues. Therefore I don't view this situation as a "fail"; I view it as just one more opportunity to learn more about myself in this journey we call life. And that's not a bad thing.

To quote Red Green "We're all in this together".

Guild4evr

I’m with you too. Originally went from 244 dropped to 161 and went back up to about 210. Today down to 194! I wasn’t really building any muscle back then so this time my hope isn’t to get that low. 180’s with strong muscle training focus is my goal. When I stopped logging food on MFP and also became very sick from Lyme disease, I put all that weight on.

Setbacks will happen. Keep a positive attitude that you’ve met your goal before and your new goal is attainable too!

nighthawk584

Thanks everyone for your welcome backs and encouragement, it means a lot!

nighthawk584

AnnPT77 wrote: »

Welcome back, @nighthawk5. I remember you. You've got this!

Possible re-frame: You haven't failed yourself, you've found one maintenance plan that doesn't work for you reliably, which is useful insight. This time can be better, with a revised plan.

I'm cheering for your success!

Hey Ann, good to see a familiar name! Are you still rowing?

AnnPT77

nighthawk584 wrote: »

AnnPT77 wrote: »

Welcome back, @nighthawk5. I remember you. You've got this!

Possible re-frame: You haven't failed yourself, you've found one maintenance plan that doesn't work for you reliably, which is useful insight. This time can be better, with a revised plan.

I'm cheering for your success!

Hey Ann, good to see a familiar name! Are you still rowing?

Yes . . . although the water's still too cold here to safely get our on-water season started. Soon, I hope. Doing a little machine rowing, and quite a lot of stationary biking in the mean time, just starting a bit of actual biking outdoors.

Looking forward to hearing more from you - positive progress, I hope - here in the Community!