Share your failures

Lol. TODAY. I was doing really well, but between class and work, I was raging and decided to take out my anger on a foot long BLT from Subway. I showed that thing who was boss. Now, the rage is gone and I am regretting consuming the majority of my calories of bacon/ranch deliciousness.

I think when we fail we learn, and I learned A LOT from my biggest failure in recent years:

A year and a half ago, I used MyFitnessPal and had lost 30lbs (and counting) in just a few months. Felt great, felt healthy: then I met a guy. I fell in love with him and off the wagon. He loved pizza and wings, so I ended up eating like him. I started smoking again, because he did. I basically gained back almost all of it. Last summer, he cheated on me and left me for someone else, out of the blue. After my weight dipped a bit from the sheer stress of it all, I ended up gaining it all back and then some. I felt horrible emotionally and physically, and I didn't care.

Now, I'm taking control back from him, and trying to remember that next time I fall in love, it doesn't have to be at the expense of my own health and happiness.

I had lost 167lb over the course of 18 months, and was doing amazingly well (South Beach diet, and then WW) but then got made redundant from my job, got a little bit depressed, got a really rubbish self-employed contract with the new owner of the business I used to work for and became demotivated rather quickly. Between June last year and March this I gained 39lb of my weight loss back, and then got gallstones. I haven't ever tracked what I was eating when I was made redundant (in this economy loss of job in the UK is a nightmare because even graduate starting salaries aren't enough to live on even excluding luxuries) but I have no doubt it would have been horrific.

I am being incredibly careful and look upon the months when I was losing as the point I need to return to. I am not going to forget everything that happened between June 13 and March 14, I am going to learn from it and prevent myself (somehow) from doing it all over again.

The journey is just as important as the destination, and this time the journey is from A 2 B without any detours (been taking far too many of them).

I had lost 167lb over the course of 18 months, and was doing amazingly well (South Beach diet, and then WW) but then got made redundant from my job, got a little bit depressed, got a really rubbish self-employed contract with the new owner of the business I used to work for and became demotivated rather quickly. Between June last year and March this I gained 39lb of my weight loss back, and then got gallstones. I haven't ever tracked what I was eating when I was made redundant (in this economy loss of job in the UK is a nightmare because even graduate starting salaries aren't enough to live on even excluding luxuries) but I have no doubt it would have been horrific.

I am being incredibly careful and look upon the months when I was losing as the point I need to return to. I am not going to forget everything that happened between June 13 and March 14, I am going to learn from it and prevent myself (somehow) from doing it all over again.

The journey is just as important as the destination, and this time the journey is from A 2 B without any detours (been taking far too many of them).

Good for you for losing such a significant amount! Even though you've gained some back, you should be very proud of yourself. I can relate to stress and depression being linked directly to my weight. One of my goals as I eat better and exercise more is to also address the emotional issues that made me gain all of the weight to begin with. Dealing with that is by FAR the toughest part. You're so right: the journey is more important than the destination.

Good luck on your journey, and I hope this year turns around for you (and I'm so sorry you've been having a tough time)

Been losing since August. My graph has a clear inflection point at Christmas where my loss rate leveled and then resumed in late January. Considering the challenges of holiday feasting maybe it wasn't a total fail. I do seem to have minor binge attack every 10 days or so, usually after hitting a new low--just a way to reward and release some tension I guess.

I was my heaviest at 240 pounds. I had started MFP (AGAIN) and I was watching carefully what I ate and my (now ex)hubby bought all the groceries at the time, so we had almost no healthy food in the house(but he kept telling me to try an lose weight because I was heavier than he would like me to be). He bought a pound of bacon. The good kind. Thick and hearty and I thought, one piece. Then I thought, no, two pieces. Next thing I knew I ate the WHOLE POUND in less than an hour by MYSELF. I hated myself so much for it. But my (now former) brother-in-law pulled me out of my misery and got me into Aiki for a bit and I went to work waiting tables and I lost 50 pounds.

I came back to MFP at 220 lbs after my divorce(sitting at 211 atm) and whenever I feel like a failure for eating a cookie(oatmeal w/raisins only 90 cals), I remember that any failure I make will never be as bad as a POUND of bacon in less than an hour.

Very well said!!

At Christmas time I indulged in too many pieces of my mom's peanut butter fudge...also in December, too many pieces of homemade caramel and See's nut chews...every afternoon at work I would battle myself not to have any, but almost every day I had 1-2 and occasionally 3 pieces. That's still not a crazy amount of calories, sugar, or fat...kept it within my macros most days but I still feel it was a slight fail because it was like FIVE DAYS A WEEK, seriously. I started feeling like 2-3 pm meant "time for delicious indulgent chocolate or caramel" and that to me is not a good habit to get into. I prefer to really savor my indulgences.

A couple of weeks ago I was really bad about logging my food--I'd do it intermittently or not at all and wouldn't really bother calculating my calorie intake. I ended up gaining about a pound back from my Monday weigh-in and had to work my butt off just to get a net loss of half a pound for the week (my normal loss is more like 2-3 pounds a week since I'm still in the fairly early stages of losing). Good reminder that a cheat meal/day is just that for a reason, and not an invitation to make it a cheat week.