Fell off the wagon and this time brought company

This is my third time doing this hon! So I totally understand, I fell off twice before, gained every pound back. Somehow, so far, this time I've been able to stick with it. I think something clicked this last time around for me. I hope it does for you this time too!

I too have lost and regained more than I'd like to admit. I want you to know you are not alone and that I wish you the best.

Been there and done that. But you and your boyfriend will find a way to motivate each other. My boyfriend is a major motivator as we get into the harder weeks of the C25K program and stops me when I want to emotional eat. It helps to have fun in the kitchen together. I'm the main cook, and am super thankful for a guy who eats and loves anything and everything I cook, but I think he loves it even more when he's in there helping me.

Not sure if I'm a great person to respond to your post, because this is my 4th time around this block. Each has been after a pregnancy, but it makes no difference, because it always seems to take me about 2 yrs to lose what I put on in 9 months! I'm back at it again and have been struggling!! But all I can say is each day, each hour is a chance to make a healthy choice. We can't go back. Don't beat yourself up over poor choices that have already been made....push yourself foward with better choices, even the small ones count ;-) Those little, healthier choices lead to bigger and more consistent changes! Start now, be forgiving and get after it!

I had to get off the "wagon" and get on to the path of healthier living. If this is just going to be something I do until I reach a certain goal, then I am destined to fail miserably! I'm working on a lifestyle change...one day at a time...that I can carry with me for the rest of my days. No more diets --- I'm making a conscious choice about every morsel of food or beverage I put into my body. No more fad exercise routines -- I'm making a conscious choice to increase the movement I make every day. I have lots of willpower --- I don't have any won't power.

I have an easier time making healthier food choices if I don't keep the junk around the house that my hubby likes to eat --- he's going on a healthier plan and doesn't even know it. I'm sure he eats plenty of donuts and such when I'm not around, but if they aren't in the house then I don't have to turn them down. The more I cook good-tasting healthy food, the more all of us will learn to enjoy it. My daughter is a vegetarian and I hate veggies --- nevertheless, her healthy food choices are affecting my behavior

Make sure you set attainable goals. Don't cut everything out at once and you won't feel like you are on a "diet". Just take it slow. Try and achieve a new goal every week, but don't be too hard on yourself. If this is a lifestyle, you're going to slip sometimes. The whole point of this is getting right back to it the next day.

Be honest with yourself and your diet. Measure everything.

You're going to do great!

I think the most important thing is your approach - are you using moderation and learning to be healthy and fit for the rest of your life? Or are you trying to lose some weight the fasted way possible? It is typical for us (myself included) to want the weight off as fast as possible and we use unhealthy ways to get there. The result? we regain everything we lost and then some.

This time around I tried to learn as much as I could and get a routine with my food and with activity so that I could find a path I could stay on forever. THe weight has taken over 2 years to get off, but I know I can continue like this and maintain the losses and the newfound fitness I discovered weight training.

Take your measurements and use that as a tracking factor along with weight since just scale weight is not a true picture of progress. Use moderation and educate yourself on how to get and stay healthy in such a way that you can live with forever. You can do this and keep it off forever! Best of luck to you!

Advice from someone who battles with the same 7 lbs over and over again. In my experience during my times of rapid weight loss i was motivated by the scale. I would lose that motivation once I got to that place where everyone starts to notice and you buy clothing in a size you never thought you would be. I would than begin to "reward" myself and find excuses as to why I was too busy to continue the things that made me so successful. The heart of the problem is what I was doing was too extreme (for me) and I need to focus on making better decisions every day rather than always focusing on a number to determine my "success"

I guess there is no answer, but there are plenty of people here willing to help you find it :flowerforyou:

Wow! I'm copying this to remember later. Thanks for writing.

Minute by minute decisions are important, don't worry about 4 hrs from now just work on the next ten minutes.