Every time I go on a diet I put on weight

There are going to be A LOT of people posting to you to do these different "diets" but you should just take my advice, count calories, set a deficit, eat lots of veggies and protein, in the beginning when I started my weight went up a little at first but then dropped hugely throughout the months, don't set a calorie deficit to low because I'm stuck on that and it's a bad position, if you're an active person, set about a 1800-2000 calorie deficit a day with tons of veggies and fruits and good carbs and such, I promise you'll see results in weeks. Don't put yourself down because trust me it won't help, forget how you look now, look forward and start your diet as fast as possible things will get better, take a serious strict diet for a few weeks and that treat yourself a few weeks in, to start off only do a cheat meal and see if that helps you drop some pounds because it helped me, but be very careful and controlling about it because you don't want to over do it, I mean Im only 16 and you probably don't want to listen to me but I just have an experience with dieting and being overweight, I just got my dad to start a no-carb diet and he's dropping the pounds quickly and feels so much better, it'll all be worth it i promise! Hope this helped .

You are not alone in this, and I think its safe to say everyone struggles. I was told in my late 20s that I was prone for heart disease, type 2, infertility, you name it, I had it. I still struggle every day to exercise, but I have to admit, every day it gets a little easier to make the right choices.

I woke up this morning, got on the scale, and saw another pound gone. By the middle of May I should hit the 70lbs lost mark. Its an amazing feeling, and I would hope that would be enough to motivate people. It's not. You have to make the choice, you have to stay strong, and you have to be consistent.

I took it slow, made small changes, little amounts of exercise... In the long run it may seem like nothing is going on, but so much is changing inside, you'll never want to go back.

I also started on the Wii Fit... it didn't feel like exercise, but I lost my first 20lbs that way.

Step 1 - Use MFP to calculate maintenance calorie intake i.e. no weight loss... adjust eating and maintin this for a couple of weeks
Step 2 - after a couple of weeks drop this by say 250 calories.... maintain this for a couple of weeks
Step 3 - drop a further 250 so that you total 500 reduction in calories against you maintenance intake - maintain this until you reach your goal.

If you are putting on weight presently then it is beacsue you are eating above your maintenance intake so the default 500 calorie deficit from maintenance will in reality be a much bigger adjustment which will be harder to sustain.

Any more than 500 calories per day is a bad idea and remember to factor in any exercise you do so that you maintain a 500 calorie deficit. i.e. calorie goal = 1500 but you do 250 calories exercise. Let MFP adjust your goal to 1750 thus maintaining a 500 deficit.

Yeh, and don't think of this as a diet.... think of it as a lifestyle change i.e. a diet you will do for a few months, the changes you need to make are for life.

Remember you are playing the long game here so drop your calories slowly, increase your activity slowly and within a month or so you will start to see the difference.

No diet advice - except monitor those calories, drink lots of water, and take extra fiber supplement. But you know how to lose weight!

What you don't know how to do is to maintain it! What's REALLY important is you discover WHY you are in the cycle you are in!

Something keeps bringing you back to food.

Read "Women, Food and God" by Geneen Roth. ( Or one of the thousand books on mind-body medicine) And look inside your heart and mind - after that, the appetite takes care of itself!

And while you're at it - if you have stairs in your house - start with walking up and down them a few times a day - cheapest "gym membership" ever!!

Good luck!