agh!

I know what you mean both my the self-disappointment and that nasty feeling after eating too much.


:sick: :sad:

If you think about it, you actually got what you wished for....immediate results. Next time you have the urge to eat beyond your food plan, remember how awful you felt when you made "tempting" but poor choices. Use that thought to fuel your willpower to stay the course.

Hang in there!!!

this is going to sound like a critisizm of you, but I assure you it's not. In order to sucessfully change your lifestyle you need to change your attitude (the general "your", not you specifically). It's what I had to learn how to do, it's what a lot of people on here did, and it's something you can do too. It's not easy, wanting it now is how our society has become in the last couple of decades. But changing your lifestyle means learning to accept slow, steady change in your body. Instant gratification just doesn't work with weight loss because if your body doesn't take the time to learn how to be healthy, anything you do to improve your weight right now, won't stick. You will just make your body think it's being denied something and make it that much more eager to store fat when ever it can. That's why we say not to try to lose too much too fast, because that's not how the body works.
There isn't a magic pill that you take and suddenly you realize that short term weight loss is nothing without long term committment. I wish there were, its all about will power, and setting your mind to it, digging in, and not giving up when you feel like you have stalled. That part we can try to help with, but in the end, it's all about how much you want it.

Best of luck to you!

-Banks

hi! Unfortunately there are no instant results when it comes to weightloss. It is a long (and for some grueling) process. BUT the long-term results are worth it. I've lost almost 20 lbs since march, I'm 2 sizes smaller than I was, and I never thought I could do it! You really need to set larger goals. Think of what you'd like to lose by the end of the summer, and make that something you work towards, be it 5, 10 or even 30 lbs! If you don't make it, thats ok, at the end of the summer set a Christmas time goal. Goals keep me going. Without them, it would just be one long struggle... 59 lbs (my overall loss goal) is a long way to go, but the smaller 15 pound goals I set help me to see that I'm succeeding. :flowerforyou: Good luck, you can do this, I know it!