How do I get back on board?

Just put it down! Look at your food for a few seconds before you eat it, think if you really want it. If you want it look at it more (of course do this for the food you dont need to eat lol) If that works, or doesnt, then just walk away and go workout. Lose yourself in music, walk for a while, do something where you are not in the vicinity of anything caloric!

one day at a time... im in the same boat.

Just started a challenge with a buddy- now i have to answer to her (and do burpees if i mess up!)

I almost posted the exact same post a few minutes ago. I've been doing great for almost two months, and yesterday and today I just want to eat and not exercise and not even think about what's going in my mouth. So I understand your difficulty and am so glad this website is here to help us push through. Maybe we can add each other and help each other along. Good luck! You did it before, you can do it again!

Can sympathize with your bumps in the road. I find if I want to comfort myself eating that drinking a pot of hot tea is very filling and soothing, so is a hot bath. Sort of short circuits that empty/cold feeling. I also find that keeping my home environment warmer, temperature-wise helps me stay on a more even keel and sleep better. I also pass along this Buddhist meal prayer, The Five Thoughts, to say before you eat, to help achieve a more mindful state in regards to food, which, I tell you, is my primary source of gratification.

1. We must think deeply about the ways and means by which this food has come.
2. We must consider our merit in accepting this food.
3. We must protect our minds from error by excluding greed from our thoughts.
4. We will eat this food lest we become lean and die.
5. We accept this food so that we may become enlightened.

If you take about a minute on each thought, saying it and thinking about each one, it slows the psychological hunger down and brings it up more for us to take a look at.

Good luck. Thank you for sharing your life with us.

Stop feeling guilty. You're still here, still trying. That's good.

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." ~Henry Ford

So sit down and think about what worked in March. Is there any reason you can't do it again? If there is, what can you do about that reason? What didn't work for you or feel right?

Without knowing you or more detail, it sounds to me like you may have stretched yourself too much. Did you do things thinking they were temporary or that you were making a permanent lifestyle change?

Take a short break. Don't try to get to your goal. Try to plateau. I know that seems odd, but give yourself a chance to consolidate what you've already learned and won. Take your breath. I don't mean stop exercising or trying to eat right, but don't try to do more. Act as if you were at your goal. Yes, you may gain back a pound or two, especially if it's the wrong time of month. But I hope you have learned enough that you don't expect to stay at exactly the same weight every day for the rest of your life.

Imagine you are in the middle of a goal range with 3 pounds of safe wiggle room on either side? Now take a deep breath. What will you do to stay here -- how healthy are you eating? how much exercise do you need to remain here? You can do this. It's easier than what you did to get here, right? You did that for months. Can you do this for two weeks? Of course you can.

Breathe, relax. And then decide are you ready to plunge in again? To Increase the exercise and maybe adjust the food limits again, but maybe not by as much... go slowly. Be kind to yourself. If someone you cared for did that well for months and then hit a hard spot and messed up a bit, would you be as hard on them as you have been on yourself?

You have done this, and you can do this.

And oh yes, CONGRATULATIONS on the progress you already made!