Gutted :(

pluginchambers · September 2012

The last few weeks I lost 5 pounds just through cutting out junk food and eating healthier and exercising 3 times a week.
It made me feel great, I thought I looked great even though it wasn't that noticeable.

Over the weekend and this week I've ate so much crap, and I don't know why. I think it was because on Saturdays I always let go a little and eat what I want, but for some reason I carried this on to Sunday and the beginning of this week too, skipping my exercise too.

I've probably put the weight back on and I feel quite gutted that I've done this.

Has anyone else done this before? What helped you get back on track? Any thoughts or feedback would be appreciated.

makeupmuse10 · September 2012

That happens to me a lot. My biggest weakness though is late at night! I have awful munchies at night!!! However if I let it get too out of hand I try to just remind myself that tomorrow is a new day and a chance to be better than the day before. As far as the weekends I don't really "work out" either but my husband and I will go for extra long walks or take a hike, or go bowling with friends or play laser tag or something that is active and not food related.....I don't want to make it too impossible for me to stick with so I try to be reasonable! Good luck! Learning and changing is a process of lots of little failures and successes! You'll get there just keep your head up!!

BrianSharpe · September 2012

Unless you managed to consume a surplus this weekend of 17,500 cal it's a pretty safe bet that you haven't put back on 5lbs of fat. If you got on the scale your weight may be up but more as a result of the high sodium content found in processed foods and snacks.

Everyone falls off the wagon occasionally. The past is the past, there's nothing you can do to change it . Resolve to eat healthier today, not tomorrow, not next week.....today.

Arijaneen · September 2012

Yes I have many times. I used to put my diet off thinking I can "continue it tomorrow" but the trick is don't give yourself to slack off because you will start to lose the good habits you were forming. Just remind yourself the reason your trying to lose weight and how good it felt when you were doing great

I feel the feeling of losing weight is way more worth it in the end, food and junk/guilty pleasures only last a second but confidence and health last forever

good luck

eileenchristine · September 2012

Get over it! No really, I just read something that made me laugh.. let me find the website http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2012/08/16/get-over-it/

That is a pretty cool website. Someone had posted how they lost 134#s in 15 mo. and cited that page.

I had a crappy day yesterday, but I was awesome the 5 days before that. So it was 1 day. I am not going to let one day or 3 days or 5 days make me quit. I want to do this. I am going to do this. I am not giving up. So I feel crappy some days and I don't exercise or I have pizza with the kids and another slice in the middle of the night. Its ok, overall I am doing much better than I was before I joined MFP.

This weight took years to put on, hopefully won't take years to take off, but it will probably take a couple years as I want to lose 85 lbs.

Just don't give up and stop kicking yourself about yesterday. Nothing you can do about it. No amount of mentally flogging yourself is going to change the past. Today is a new day. And even if you blow it for lunch or after work, etc. you can change right then and right there to get back on track. No need to use the excuse, well I already screwed up today, what's the point? May as well have that bag of chips or ice cream or whatever. Gotta try to stay in the present!

Helps me to read other people's successes and struggles. Gets me motivate to move. Even if its just 40 min of mowing the yard or taking the pup for a walk for 20 min. Its positive. Rome wasn't built in a day. And with that am back to making my new patio.

Keep hanging in there!

Jackie80taylor · September 2012

i fell off the wagon and i had chip shop for tea on friday but its fine cos its just one meal. dont worry about one mad weekend just get back on the wagon. everyone has blips the important thing is dont stress about it x

HornsbyKL · September 2012

I do this a lot, unfortunately. It's not so much as I "let go" with my healthy eating on weekends, but I become busy with family or friend occasions which resort to eating out and not having time to exercise. (Unless I go 9 pm or after, and that keeps me up until the wee hours of the morning.) I really want to train for a half marathon, but every time I start it; I become super busy and find my self running late at night and staying up all night. Then being dead tired during the day. And I really just lose my motivational steam, especially when I exercise and end up eating out and not having anyway weight lost. So you aren't alone when it comes to this roller coaster of losing weight.
I do have a friend that is hardcore about being healthy and she looks amazing. But she doesn't watch television (due to not having time with a job then working out), eat out, and spends at least an hour in the gym, then runs. She is in bed by 9pm every night and she is a huge stickler to her routine. I think its great that she can do that, but our other friends tend to not include her in a lot of stuff because she is so dedicated and will not go to things that will interfere. And I have to think, is all that dedication worth it? Just to have a nice body?
So, I really don't have any suggestions on how to stay on track, because I am obviously struggling with that too. :frown:

eileenchristine · September 2012

Mine is bad at night too. Was HUNGRY. Got up around 2 and had cottage cheese and apple sauce. My stomach was growling. Wasn't too bad of a cheat. Am going to try to have dinner later tonight see if it helps and try melatonin to sleep thru the hunger? I really want to do this and keeping track is helping. Just gotta record daily and not give up. I can do that.

Gutted :(

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