gained 6 lbs just this week . thinking about quiting ..

It's possible for anyone. You absolutely have to have the right mental attitude though. It's every bit as much in your head as much as your body.

It is possible. Not easy, but possible. You have to want to do it.

I'm down over 40 lbs. since January. I don't have before and after full body pics yet, but my profile photo and its predecessor show how much my face has slimmed: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/photos/view/34527787

It also helps to figure out whether there's anything that food is compensating for. There may not be. In my case, I was simply eating a little too much every day, plus a lot too much at holidays.

Finally, I recommend looking at John Walker's "The Hacker's Diet" (http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/). He does an end run around guilt and shame by focusing on weight loss as an engineering and management problem. Plus I think he's an amusing writer.

Good luck!

Check out this guy. 175 pounds just since the start of this year.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1128856-from-420-2-pounds-to-243-4-pounds-in-ten-months-pictures

Just one more thing, Brandon. You're young. You're only 16 pounds overweight.

The other day my daughter asked me, gently, how I let myself get up to 150 pounds overweight. I thought about it and said, "Because I gave up when I was only 20 pounds overweight." And I spent my whole life being huge, when I could have just dealt with it way back when and lived a much happier life.

don't give up.we all go threw this stage.just start again new.its ok we are only human

Dont give up! I almost gave up last week, too!

I have 8 lbs to goal and I was just binging up a storm after how far I came and gaining it back before I even got to goal.

I started eating stuff high in protein & fiber every 3 hours and it keeps my binging at bay starting at the binging of this week and Ive lost a pound for the first time in two months. If you truly need more food, exercise!

I also stay up stairs away from the kitchen at night. So watching TV at night isnt an option for me because I grab food.

You have to find stuff that keeps you full, and stay away from & dont buy things you cant control yourself around

Don't give up and quit!!!!

Even if the scale says you are not currently being successful, you CAN succeed! Just ignore the last few days and get the mindset that you are going to make changes, permanent changes, in the way you approach food. Then each meal or snack time decide if what you are about to eat works for your goals.

Yes, you will have days when you overeat or you don't make the best decisions but as time goes by, those days become fewer and fewer.

I had a rough couple of months where I gained back 20 pounds. I decided to buckle back down and pay attention to what I was doing to myself. Those pounds came back off and now I am lower than I have been in probably 10 years. I still have a long way to go though. I know that the scale will not always be lower when I weigh myself but now I view that reading as an indicator - when it goes up especially for more than a couple of weeks I really need to ask myself before every bite if it will help me reach my goals. In the end, I lost 59 pounds in one year even with that large gain.

It is possible to succeed at this if you keep persevering and don't let setbacks cause you to give up completely!

Hope to see more of you on here. Good luck!

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The scale is a CRAPPY indicator of anything. It doesn't really give you a good indicator of how you are really doing.

You really need to care less about what the scale says .. and more about just eating healthy, logging what you eat and getting some exercise if you can.

Good luck.
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Just one more thing, Brandon. You're young. You're only 16 pounds overweight.

The other day my daughter asked me, gently, how I let myself get up to 150 pounds overweight. I thought about it and said, "Because I gave up when I was only 20 pounds overweight." And I spent my whole life being huge, when I could have just dealt with it way back when and lived a much happier life.

That's awesome. Other than the actual numbers, I that's my story, too. But you expressed it perfectly. :flowerforyou:

Brandon, a year from today you can either look back and be proud you stuck with it or be sorry you quit.

I've been fighting my battle for about 20 months now. Every day, every single day, even including the bad ones, is a day I am closer to my goal. What's cool is as you get further along the changes become more pronounced, and your increased fitness allows you to up the intensity even more. Once the largest stores of fat are gone, even small losses become super noticeable. My last 10 pounds really looks more dramatic than the previous 30 because of this.

Forget about yesterday. It's what you do today that matters. Stick with it and push forward.

I'm not telling it'll be easy, because it won't.

but I am telling it's going to be worth it.

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No one has the discipline right away to do anything long term; that takes patience. Just know that even the most disciplined people gain a little weight back every now & then. The most important thing to remember is that on average you will lose more than you gain. The most important thing to understand is that you are trying to DEVELOP the DISCIPLINE to stop eating any more food after you have reached a certain calorie limit.

Stopping yourself from eating whenever you feel like it is not difficult. Developing the discipline to stop the habit you've developed of eating whenever you feel like it IS difficult...ONLY IN THE BEGINNING! As long as you stick with it, you'll have the discipline to reach your calorie limit on a routine basis and think nothing of it!

BOTTOM LINE: Stick with it. Winners don't quit, and quitters don't win. Nothing worthwhile will happen overnight.