Fallen off the wagon :(

right am here to give you a lift back onto that wagon!

I know it's really hard to get back into the healthy eating when you slip off - but you have done it before (your before and after pics are fab!) and you can do it again!! one day at a time - clean start and start it now!!!

clear those fatty goodies out from the cupboards and fill up on the healthy stuff you like and Boom off you go !! x

Good Luck, you can do it!

ps saw this on someones profile today and it really resonated with me - "Being fat is hard - losing weight is hard - maintaining weight is hard. CHOOSE YOUR HARD."

If you are craving fats, stick with healthy ones! Eat half an avocado or some nuts! Your body will need time to re-adjust after a stomach bug - and the weight you lost when you had it should be ignored!
Set a couple small goals today - water intake and tracking. Achieve those and feel good!

You are climbing back on....just a little dip and it is in the past. We will always have bumps in the road but it is the climbing back on that shows the dedication to a new lifestyle

Start now, clean slate. You can do this! It's not easy, the hardest part of eating bad is detoxing to eating healthy again. It may take a few days of struggling and fighting those cravings but it will get easier.
One of my favorite quotes is " just because you trip down a step in the staircase doesn't mean you should just give up and throw yourself down the rest". You will trip, you will stumble, but you WILL overcome!!!

Unfortunately these wagons have really uneven wheels and are always looking to throw you off whenever you are not able to concentrate on the road ahead, whether that be from illness, lack of motivation, loss of will power, fed up with dieting, had enough of counting calories, blah blah blah. My wagon is on a particularly bumpy bit of road at the minute, Avenue Maintenance, and I am being thrown off quite often..... and occasionally jumping off......... but I am climbing back on, with the knowledge that this is a bumpy journey for me for the rest of my life - I don't ever expect this to be easy.... too many years of bad habits, comfort eating and love of chocolate + chips.

Getting back on the wagon, dusting yourself off, sitting back down on the driving seat and perservering are the only way most of us are going to either lose this excess baggage of fat, or keep it off. The wagon will not win :happy:

There's a wagon? That's no good. You can't burn any calories cruising around in a wagon.

I feel like pretty much everyone goes through cycles like that during their journey. I did great for a month, and then last week I went on a crazy binge eating. I seriously could not stop myself from eating junk food/chocolate, I wasn't even hungry yet I still had the urge to eat. It felt good as I was eating but literally 5 minutes after they went down, I would get all upset. I even thought about trying to throw up but I'm not looking for any eating disorders so I didn't. I'm now back to normal again. The urge to eat faded today and altho I still have a huge basket filled with chocolate from Easter, I haven't touched it at all.

I would say it is natural, and totally okay as long as there's an end to it and you get back on track. Let it loose for a few days and let your body take what it needs. The urge will eventually go away.

Also I've read somewhere that it is actually a good idea to have a less healthier/bigger meal every once in a while just to increase your bodily metabolism. Not sure how accurate it is but it's definitely to something to read on.

Good luck