I Always Relapse Please Save Me!!

aloranger7708

I am totally with you! I have restarted and quit multiple times, it gets very frustrating. Finally a few weeks ago I threw all the junk in the house away. After eating healthy for a few days I'm not even craving the bad stuff anymore. And even if you relapse for one or two meals, don't take that as complete failure; pledge to restart immediately! Good luck!

Femmekid

Here are a few things I've come to read, learn, and understand about weight loss and the journey that follows:

1. It takes 22 days of doing something over and over for it to become a habit.
2. You have to find the right reason for you to lose weight.
3. You WILL have off days, but you have to just pick right back up and keep going.

Seaglass1123

Stick with it girl! You CAN do this. I will share my story with you: Hope it helps! :flowerforyou:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/920139-lost-over-106-lbs-and-almost-to-goal-weight-pics

marciebrian

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Hello Everyone,

My name is Rycka, and I have had no stickability in the past and I am SICK OF IT!! I am sooo ready to get this weight off (as if I have not said this before) but even more so now because I am fed up with quitting. I pray that I am able to stick with it this time, and hope to make some new friends in the process.

Thanks guys, feels good to be back.
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:flowerforyou:
what's that saying, something about it doesn't matter how many times you fall just how often you get back up again. Congrats and if you want to do it you will! You are welcome to add me if you'd like.

bushel

Slow and steady wins the race. It takes a couple of months to break old, bad habits. Hang on with all you've got for a month and you'll start feeling way more positive. Once you start feeling more energetic from eating healthy and exercise, you will also feel more motivated. Do not overdiet or over exercise expecting quick results. You're in this for life. My goal is 1 pound a week. (I am a TOPS member; weekly weigh-ins keep me accountable. Plus other members (now friends) provide great support.) Hang on! It's a great journey!

77tes

My guess is when you get motivated you start with a very restrictive plan. That is a hard plan to follow for a long period of time. You can make healthy foods that taste good (admittedly less tasty than junk) and will leave you full. If whatever plan you follow leaves you constantly struggling with hunger it is doomed to fail. I also think it is important to think of this as a lifestyle change. Whatever plan you follow must fit your daily lifestyle from this time forward. Its not a diet. Nobody can tell you what will fit your lifestyle, so it is up to you to do some experimenting to learn to cook things you like and find activities that you can tolerate. You might even find exercises that you will learn to enjoy.

Good luck

^^^^ excellent advice! Don't make it impossible and don't think of it as a diet.
One of my favorite quotes is, "If you're tired of starting over, stop giving up."

Good luck :flowerforyou:

tekwriter

I have been the same as all the others posting here. It wasn't until I quit weight watchers and found this site that I finally understood I am not on a diet. I am learning to eat healthy and get my body to move. You don't start your life over every Monday, when you have a tough day you just keep moving forward. Eating healthy is the same thing. You have to eat every day. If you make a poor choice it doesn't mean you give yourself free reign to continue poor choices until monday rolls around. You wouldn't repeat the same bad day till Monday. Just pick your self up and keep on moving. Make the next meal healthy. Committ yourself to logging in here every day for support and motivation.

Best of luck.

javagirl7pg

I can relate to your frustration SO MUCH !!!!! I know every trick in the diet book. I've gained and lost weight since I had my first child in at 29 in 1994. I'm now 48 and getting sick of the same yo yo pattern of dieting.

Last fall I lost 20 lbs during a 100 day fitness challenge. I was heading towards my first 30 lb goal (overall goal is 70 lbs.) when (60 days into the challenge) my gall bladder spazzed out. After emergency gall bladder surgery, I was hit with the holidays...and between entertaining family and taking things slow in order to heal, the weight started to come back on.

Not quickly. In fact, I KNEW perfectly well I could start back on the healthy track. But NO...I started to sabotage myself. But why? I had support, I was successful...why would I stop?!?!?

I'm desperate to figure out the "what's messing with my head" part. So here's a new trick I'm trying:

I like to journal. So myfitnesspal.com is my new go-to site at least once a day. I am not limiting my calories. I am allowing myself to "give in" to my cravings (for now). The only condition I'm putting on myself is to enter every morsel into my food journal every day. I want to see what time of day I tend to eat the least healthily, and to note what's going on in my head when I succumb to the comfort food.

I've set a minimal goal to lose one pound a week, though I'm not even requiring myself to stay under the calorie allowance - YET. But I do want to see when I go over my calorie count. This is an experiment to find out what is causing me to not want to succeed.

Do you want to join me in this slow, baby steps way back to health?

Peace :flowerforyou:

medicmermaid

Hello! I am Lisa. I KNOW what you mean! I have relapsed several times before. But i am finding that making the entries in the food area have kept me honestly REALLY thinking about what I eat. i am on a no MSG and Gluten free diet because of Chrones and Celiac's.. yes both. I had always eaten for comfort .. and made myself sicker.I was in the hospital a week in February and my dr said "time to change " So I did. Now I am paying attention and making better choices and feel much better after a week already. Hang in there!