Your top reason(s) why you fell off track??

Fell off track reasons:
-Tired of not losing weight/plateau
-Cravings
-PMS times

Getting back up:
-Tired of feeling crappy
-Get back into exercise routine
-Think about long-term
-Make a few changes

Fell of track:
*Got bored with my workouts
*Stress/emotional eating

Reasons I'm getting back on:
*Really tired of feeling crappy
*Really tired of being the heaviest person in all of the exercise classes that I take
*Getting my stomach pain back on control
*Improving my mood (crappy foods make me a very cranky person)

Fell off track:
- That "time of the month"
- No support
- Lazy
- I loved eating late at night
- Portion control
- In a lot of physical pain
- Too busy

.. I can go on for a while

Back up and ready to go:
- I have support ( all of you fine people )
- I have a lot more time on my hands
- Extremely motivated
- I don't want to go another summer feeling embarrassed
- Bike season is coming and I'm not gonna be a whale on the back of a crotch rocket
- I want to wear a bikini and feel damn sexy
- Done feeling tired and sorry for myself
- BEING HAPPY duhhh
- I love hiking, I don't want to be heaving for air!
- I don't want to suck in my stomach 24/7
(I do it so much I don't even know I'm doing it anymore!)

I'm not letting my weight loss goal slip away again!

laziness
selfishness
living in denial
low self esteem
poor planning
wanting to fit in
wanting to "do what everyone else can do"
not keeping what's important in focus

Depression after a series of deaths in my family - and then being completely ashamed of myself for gaining back all the weight I lost
- Took a couple of years and therapy to deal with the grief and then some self work to accept I am where am I am and letting myself slide even further back wasn't going to help - moving back in the right direction now and feel 300% better !

After the kids were born, I wasn't making time for workouts. Then came lots of Canadian beer, German beer, eating at my desk, German beer, Canadian beer, cake, Canadian beer... Depression over clothes getting tight in the wrong places, depression over work, more Canadian beer...

Presto! Abraca-fatty!

Fell of track;
- 10 day vacation in Ont for my sons wedding
- Drank and ate too much the whole time
- Came back and had a big warehouse reno that lasted until Dec
- Drank and ate too much the whole time
- Always feel the need to bulk up in the fall
- Church of the NFL - I'm a seventh day horizontalist :happy:

Starting again;
- Hit 197 - hated the way I felt
- Pants were getting too tight
- Jan 1
- just seems easier in the new part of the year for some reason.
- I actually like exercising and am always surprised at how much after I finish and wonder why I haven't in a while.

Off Track:
Stress
Socializing

2014 has been an extremely stressful year so far. I have had to deal with deaths, cars breaking down, getting robbed, etc. In January and most February I did not take the stress well and would go out to eat or give myself a break whenever I had a bad day. But at the end February I decided to try and control my stress eating. I have not gone our to eat in three weeks and it feels great. My weight loss has been steady and I am so close to 50 lbs I can taste it. My weight loss is not only changing my body but my mind. My self control and emotional strength are getting stronger with every pound I loose.

Kids activities, Working fulltime while opening another business, went back to get my Masters, life...

I turn 40 this year and I refuse to be 40 and frumpy! I am going to finally do something for ME!

Happy to have more friends here on MFP to keep me motivated and hopefully so I can help motivate you!

Good post as I'm taking accountability TODAY for my falling off track. Right now, I can think of these two reasons as to why I'm off.

1. Biggest reason I fall off track is emotional reasons. When I get stressed, upset, anxious, depressed, etc., I eat to comfort myself. And I tend to binge eat (though no purging). There's been a heck of a lot of stress in my life right now, including physical issues that limit exercise.

2. I went back to my hometown to visit family a couple weeks ago, and that will almost always get me off track if I'm there for more than a couple days, because I slip back into old habits: no exercise, bad, bad food choices (fried cheese curds, fish fry, frozen custard, etc.). And now, once I've broken my healthy habits, the bad ones stuck. ETA: I find once I'm on a bad track that I start to give up. "Oh, I've already f*'ed up, what does it matter anymore? Give me more cookies."

This changes today. One step at a time, but I will regain my healthy habits.

Reasons why I fall off the wagon (repeatedly!):
- cravings
- lack of willpower
- pain/physical injuries
- i just plain love to eat

Reasons I keep getting back on:
- I hate feeling fat and bloated
- I need to prove to myself I can do this

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. And again. And again. And again... so that's what I'm doing.

*Emotional eating
*Stress - LOTS of stress
*Laziness
*Joint and back pain
*Alcohol and "other" munchies (especially in my college years)
*Dating men and eventually marrying one who are all REALLY good in the kitchen
*Demolished my left knee in high school, had reconstructive surgery and after that, hating the mandatory brace I am supposed to use when exercising…which no longer fits anyway!

Job change gone bad
No job for 2 months
New pain in hip
Marriage on the rocks
Overwhelmed with life in general

This was July to September...

New Job that I love
New diagnosis of hamstring tendonitis/hip arthritis, treated and pain free now
Marriage Rock solid...

This is January to current...back on track and happy with results I have seen...