Getting started again after succumbing to emotional eating

checkmatekingtwo

I started seriously on MyFitnessPal back on July 15, 2012. At 290 pounds, I knew I had to make major changes in my relationship with food. With the support of friends on this site, I did a good job of keeping to a new food lifestyle and logging every day. I even started going to a gym -- hired a personal trainer to get me going -- and started losing my fear of being thrown out of the club for being a fat interloper!

By Christmas of last year, I was down to 250 pounds. I especially wanted to continue because I had scheduled knee replacement surgery for my left knee in June, and I wanted to have as much weight off my knees as possible. By March I was down to 136 pounds, and then my life went to hell.

On one day in march, I found out I had lost my job in the morning, got into a car accident in the evening where my car was totalled, and then at the hospital later that night, while they checked for neck injuries, they discovered a growth on my thyroid. That was a lovely triple-whammy for one day. Recovering from the car accident put a crimp into my exercising.

As I was recovering I was growing more and more concerned about my 90-year-old father, who was having severe medical issues, and my mother, also 90, who was running herself ragged trying to care for him at home. I was very concerned what would happen with them while I was bed-ridden and recovering from my knee replacement. During that time I fell off the MyFitnessPal wagon. Aw, heck, I didn't fall off the wagon, I leaped! I wasn't reaching out for support here, or anywhere else. I just withdrew from everyone. By the time I was ready for surgery, i was back up to 250 pounds --- oh, and, of course, that was the week my cat died.

After the surgery, while i was in the rehab facility, i managed to gain another 10 pounds. Thought I would get back on the MFP, but then, just a couple weeks after my surgery, my father died. And, of course, i dealt with it by eating... and eating... and eating.

Anyway, by October 27, I decided I absolutely HAD to get control of my life back, before I found myself all the way back where I started. Hoping to be back down to 250 AGAIN by Christmas. But regardless, trying not to deal with my issues by going back to "comfort" food.

Would appreciate new friends and new support from my fellow MFPers.

mygrl4meee

Don't beat yourself up. You been thru hell and back. I will send ya a friend request.