I gave up.

There is always an obstacle we must overcome, especially when it comes to weight loss. Where do you go from here? You have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and get back into the routine of things that brought you as far as it did. Make TODAY the day you get it all back, you can't fix "yesterday", what's done is done. I used to say "tomorrow" I'll start, "tomorrow" I'll smarten up, but tomorrow never came then, on my 30th birthday, I told myself and anyone who would listen that "today" was the day I was getting me back, my gift to myself was that of health. You are human, you will falter, what makes you successful is getting back up when you fall. The worst thing, for me, is to be home with the temptation of food. You have to be accountable to yourself, nobody's watching. I heard a quote a little while ago..."Nothing tastes as good as healthy feels". If you must eat, eat healthy, eat things that are full of fiber, water, etc., and stay hydrated, drinking keeps you full and, if you're full, you don't have room for empty calories.

You can do it, I may not know you but I believe in you!!!

Diet breaks are good and good for you. They're better if you plan for them in advance, but it's not the end of the world if you didn't. You use the time to get in micronutrients that you might have been missing while restricting, repair your muscles a bit, reset your metabolism... all kinds of useful things. And then you can reevaluate - did you take the break because you were trying to restrict too much? Work too hard? Deal with too much stress?

Once you've done the physical part (eat... but hopefully not binge) and the mental part (figuring out what needs to change to point you back towards success) you go back to your eating and exercise plan, incorporating the stuff you learned while you were taking your break. I mean, you're going to have to learn to maintain sooner or later, it's not a bad idea to practice along the way rather than getting to your goal weight and going, "oh crap, what do I do now?"

Yea, get that *kitten* back in gear and you'll be fine......

There's no such thing as failure as long as you try again.

You didn't give up yet, since you're posting this here. Get back on it! You can go for a walk and eat as well as possible at home.

I will be in Guatemala for 6 weeks, and I'm sure it will be hard, but my mentality is not that it's a vacation from my lifestyle. Life will be different there, but I am a person who is trying to be dedicated to my health, so I will continue to be that person even when I'm not in my regular routine.

clearly you know what to do, 26lbs is not a small amount of weight. I fell off too, lost 12lbs, then went to Mexico with hubby and put 5lbs back on....has taken me a couple weeks, but yesterday i started again with what works and I am feeling better already let us know how you do in the next couple of days

I think you're looking at this backwards. You're saying that you exercised how you wanted to and eaten how you wanted to without tracking it for a few weeks. And now you're beginning to stress eat and gain again.

Before you started on MFP, how much would you have exercised, eaten and gained in the same period of time?

You KNOW how to get back on track, you KNOW how to be successful...and now you've learned what you'll need to have in place to stay on track after you've reached your fitness goals. I say that's an awesome thing to have done over spring break.