Share your failures

mistress8956

Failure :Yesterday I ate 12 mini chocolate donuts and enjoyed every second of it!!
Success: todayI have 8 left, but I'm not going to eat them!

hoyalawya2003

Last night: I was having a pity party and face planted into birthday cake flavored ice cream. 500+ calories, straight from the carton.

On the plus side, I weighed it, logged it, and only went 30 calories over. The negative side--I have only lost 0.2 lbs in the last two weeks, which is pitiful.

hoyalawya2003

If I were to graph the past 2 1/2 years of my journey, it would look like this! I have had many binges and set backs, but the big picture is a great loss. I still struggle A LOT with food, and I have gained and lost the same 5 lbs for about 4 months now. It is so frustrating! This journey is not easy, but if we all just keep going, it has one amazing outcome.

I love this!

SalemBoSox88

Oreos! I can eat a bag... or three if presented to me.

deannc1

The past 7 days have been a failure. I haven't worked out in 5 days, I baked a bunch of cookies and cupcakes for a celebration, I have been stressed out becasue the place I'm supposed to have moved into 5 DAYS AGO still isn't ready, I've had to stall my present landlords from renovating, I've caught a cold, and I ate so many cookies and leftover cakes from the celebration becasue I've been angry at the new landlady for being a lying dou3he and making it sound like I'M the one responsible for HER stress when I'm only trying to move in. I've been on the verge of shrieking at this stupid woman for telling me I can move in on that day and this day and changing it every other day. So, PS, I've been using all that stress as an excuse to eat like *kitten* and I've not been working out and I'm all upset over it.

You want revenge on the landlady? Give all the cookies and cakes to HER! :devil:

fitnessenchanted

I agree that we fail to learn, after 10 weight loss attempts I finally feel like I learned what I'm doing wrong

aarar

My biggest weight loss failure was losing 67lbs for my wedding and then gaining almost every single one back in less than a year and a half.

I wouldn't change that experience for the world though (or any of my other weight loss failures). I now know what I need to do to succeed. I've also learned that a quick loss does not equal permanent loss and in the grand scheme of things, permanent loss is much more important.

kk_140

My failure came on my 21st birthday. I didn't celebrate and indulge just for one day, I celebrated and indulged for a week! And then for the entire week after that I couldn't get a handle on myself and ate at maintenance. Glad to be back on the wagon now! Two weeks and I didn't gain anything, but boy did I not lose anything either!

bethlaf

We all love success stories, but sometimes we need to remember that, every now and then, all of us SUCK. The journey to health is never without a pot hole or a detour, and I think it's important to take a break from comparing ourselves to the great things others have done and know that we are all just human.

So I'll start. I've always nomed more in the evening, but I wanted to spread out my calories into a lot of mini meals 'cuz someone on the internet said it was good. So I go all day feeling like I'm starving because I never got full on something, decided to go to bed early to sleep off the empty feeling and saw a five layer dip sitting on the counter. I tore that thing up so bad it looked like it had been attacked by wolves. I was ASHAMED. 600 calories in 15 minutes. Ugh.

It doesn't matter what time of the day you eat in regards to hitting your daily calorie intake. If you feel hungry on a night then save the bulk of your calories for then. Don't go to bed hungry & try filling up on protein to stay fuller longer.

Don't beat yourself up over the dip it happens. Maybe just concentrate on looking at if you are eating enough cals a day. You shouldn't be "starving hungry".

DIP HAPPENS!! (sorry it made me laugh)

bethlaf

ok , my failure, I moved from texas to Florida last summer, i let that be an excuse for not following my plan , which HAD been working fine!
for 8 months.....
8 long months, where i kept telling myself i cant now ... because... etc etc ... i started and stopped a few tiny day or two times.. but that was it ...
till last month when i finally said ENOUGH!!! and got back on track

AmelieMustLoseWeight

After losing 35lbs and working my butt off ( quite literally )
I ended up gaining it all back when I moved away. I was scared to go running because the new place i moved too was very remote and i watch way too much ID channel ( lol) I joined a gym but i had to drive over 20 mins to get there so i cancelled it.

Im sad but i know i did it before and not that long ago so Im pushing forward to work hard again.

Sierre120

I've been binge eating all week, so tomorrow I actually have to restrict and get myself back in the right mindset.

beautifulwarrior18

I got sick in the beginning of February and used that as an excuse to eat like **** for like 3 weeks. Gained about 6 lbs back and it took me the entire month of March to lose it again. Now I'm at the weight I was before I got sick.

jamie610811

All December and a little into January :-) had lost 13lbs even with my shoulder injury. But in 37 days I had put on 21lb due to drinking and eating takeaways :-( Not a lover of xmas because my children are 300 and 400 miles away . But have as of last week lost it all again :-) been hard work but onwards and downwards :-)

carrieg20

Last month, my daughter and I made 24 cupcakes. Over a two day period I ate 15 of them.

ezloshead

I think when we fail we learn, and I learned A LOT from my biggest failure in recent years:

A year and a half ago, I used MyFitnessPal and had lost 30lbs (and counting) in just a few months. Felt great, felt healthy: then I met a guy. I fell in love with him and off the wagon. He loved pizza and wings, so I ended up eating like him. I started smoking again, because he did. I basically gained back almost all of it. Last summer, he cheated on me and left me for someone else, out of the blue. After my weight dipped a bit from the sheer stress of it all, I ended up gaining it all back and then some. I felt horrible emotionally and physically, and I didn't care.

Now, I'm taking control back from him, and trying to remember that next time I fall in love, it doesn't have to be at the expense of my own health and happiness.

Holy crap, that's a good one! You go girl!! No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

ezloshead

It's amazing how many of us have let a partner interfere with our weight and self image. I'm glad most of these stories had a happy ending.

Timshel_

Geez. So much failure, so little typing space.

I guess lately my biggest failure is probably the same failure I always fall to. That is, being over 40 now I have a strange sense of entitlement. Somewhere in my head I justify over eating and making bad choices by telling myself I deserve it - that I have been doing 'okay' for so long that I can let things slip. But we ALL know where that slippery slope goes when you start sliding...down....down...down. So I've curtailed the free fall and centered myself again. I make sure I listen carefully to the thoughts in my head and those quite voices that might lead me down the wrong path again. I KNOW I can do better and be better. I just need to make the right choices.

So with that, I am exactly at the same weight I started at this time last year. I have improved flexibility, muscle mass, and my overall look, but not as much as I had, or would like.

I know this is a life long journey though and short term setbacks will happen.

Keep moving forward.

flyingbeta

WOW, did I blow it yesterday! I've had random treat days since the beginning of the year, but they were just little one-offs, like a snack-sized bag of chips or a couple of cookies. But the demon Fatticus, Eater of Everything possessed me yesterday and I ate...oh, I can't even write it all out. Some bright spots, though: I think I single-handedly bumped up the day's net profit at the local Wawa, I felt nauseated afterwards (in the past I would have felt satiated), and today I haven't had even the least desire to go off plan. I'm going to keep an eye on whether this was just a temporary slip or if I'm really in danger of going Full Bluto.

It's interesting that so many posters on this thread have been virtuous for a good bit of time, then had a meltdown. But yesterday's over, can't take it back, so file it away and get on track.

GummyHuman

I haven't lifted weights in 3 weeks. I am still eating right. I am still biking and kayaking but I just haven't had the motivation to lift anything.

kmbweber2014

I have zero motivation and have gained 6 pounds in two months. It's tax season and I'm stressed out (I'm an accountant) and I've been using that as an excuse. I hardly workout and haven't been eating well.

NicoleHJones

I used to weigh 130 before kids.After kids weight went up to 210.I went down to 130 again and have gained 30 pounds back.I am determined to lose this weight for good.

ks4e

I bought some mini rice cakes as a healthy snack. I ate the entire bag in one sitting! Over 700 calories!

MadDogManor

This is exactly what I needed to read today. I haven't been under my weekly goal in months, and I'm the same weight as November 10th. Logging has been a chore and quite embarrassing, and my running has pretty much stopped since I did my first 5k Turkey Trot last year. I've seriously thought, why bother, I just can't stop binging and eating.

Graelwyn75

Failure : - Moderation with certain foods is my failing.
I tend to emotionally overeat, or sometimes, simply feeling a bit too full can trigger me to full on binge.
I have always been an all or nothing person. It just seems to be my nature.
Along with a past history of EDs, which may not help me.
BUT, I am challenging myself and rather than simply banning these foods from my home(even though I only ever used to buy them when I felt emotional), I am buying them in, and learning to moderate them, and continuing to try, even when I mess up.

Success - Hit my goal weight last night, in spite of periodic, severe binges.

missyjane824

some days I feel the amount of time I've been on this weight loss roller coaster is a failure. I've managed to stick with it but I'm well over 18 months and not to goal yet.

On a more not so serious note - last weekend I failed to leave enough calories to eat more than one serving of ice cream. The other day I was intending to eat 11 (what came out of the bag on the first go around) dark choclate M&Ms and indulged in 27 (went back for a few more and didn't stop at just a few). Gasp!

TangoRojo

Hello all. I am new to this forum. Today is my first evening where I decided to take control of my weight and my eating. So, I had to log what I had today, what I am normally doing to myself, even if it totaled 2200 calories (I should only have 1200).

I realize this is an "over the top" day but, it isn't unusual. I have been averaging 1900 to 2600 calories per day which is why I am now 154 lbs. I am only 5'5" with a small frame so I should only weight about $128-133 lbs. I have never weighed this much without being pregnant. This is terrible! The minute I started thinking about dieting, I reach for food immediately like I just did with another piece of pumpking loaf (the mentality goes like this, "I better eat what I like because tomorrow I won't be able to. I have to eat whatever I like because I may never be able to have it again because I have to start dieting." I ate when I do that. It becomes a scarcity thing. This is what is causing weight gain more than anything.

I wonder if that's why the experts say diets don't work...because it's a normal human reaction to the fact that you are just about to take the pleasure of food away, to reduce intake which means you will experience hunger, etc.

aqualeo1

I binged on condensed milk, by the spoonful.... yep. It was a new low.

Omg I did that once!

monica_621

MOZZARELLA STICKS AND NUTELLA! get at me hahaha

getitamb

I ate a chilis flatbread pizza last night over 1000 cals wontbbe doing that anymore .