I'm a failure

First thing you can do is stop thinking your'e a failure. It's much harder than it sounds, actually, but feeling bad about yourself is.. well, not a good thing. Besides, it also makes it want to punish yourself, and not in a good way like '10 extra minutes of exercise'. Somewhere in the back of your head there can be that annoying voice saying 'I'm a failure so I don't even deserve to be healthy and lose weight'. Do you agree with that voice? If not, tell it to shut up, and tell it that you'll prove you can be healthy, and achieve whichever goals you set for yourself.

Get some friends to help you out as well!

Has there been any source of stress,emotional or physical recently?
Were you restricting calories toomuch or avoiding entire food groups?it is a long drawn out bsttle and life happens regardless.don't beat yourself up,but analyze and locate the triggers,good luck and be happy

a few days isn't a fail, and it's going to happen. Be kinder to yourself, you are human. See if you can figure out WHY you this behavior is happening rather than beating yourself up.

Myself, I do periodically this as well.
I call these periods "vacations from motivation"

If you're trying to tackle everything at once, it's no wonder the results suck. Try to figure out which is the most acute thing to change and focus on that. For good measure, add a simple one such as tracking daily glasses of water and you can build momentum from that.

Once you're on a roll, it's much easier to ask for more from yourself, but be realistic. It's a lifestyle change and the success stories are the result of usually months or years of hard work. Be patient.

Realise that 1+1+1 is the same as 2+1 or 3+0; you can reach the same result in many ways and for purposes of lifestyle change I'd say 1+1+1 is the most humane way to create permanent change.

ETA
Read this, by Kelly McGonigal for Yoga International:
http://yogainternational.com/article/view/how-to-create-a-sankalpa
Forget the "goals" and "resolutions".

Screwing up implies that you did something wrong or bad. This journey your on takes time, and some days will be better than others. Just because you have a bad day, or a few bad days, doesn't mean you've undone all your work.

Today is a new day, fresh, with no mistakes in it yet. YOU have the power to make it better than the last three days! Even if its something small like eating healthier today, or going for a walk. Small steps, one day at a time will help you get to your goal. We are all our own worst critics. Forgive yourself, brush yourself off, and continue on because YOU'RE NOT A FAILURE.

No one is perfect. Respond to the lapse by redoubling your efforts toward a positive step today. Every day is an opportunity to take a positive step forward. Big or small, make it a step forward and by the time you know it, all of the positive steps will have taken you somewhere wonderful.

What you cannot do, is wallow in self pity. When your friends see you progress, no one will care that there were some bumps in the road.

You are NOT a Failure! The only way to fail is to stop trying all together. Take baby steps. Set smaller goals. Make your goals measurable and obtainable. Ive been working on week 4 of c25k for 3 weeks now,,,, but i simply REFUSE to give up!

Just DONT GIVE UP, and you will make progress!

"We will eat the fruit of our words." That means we will get exactly what we've been saying. Joel Osteen
We must only speak what we want to see in our life. Teach your mouth to speak what you want to see. Faith is the evidence of the things not seen. By faith you are a winner, by faith you are delivered from the weights that bind you (physical and spiritual). We can only live one second, minute, hour and day at a time. Yesterday is gone, so just live today. Take it one step at a time. Continue to post and read the comments in this awesome community of people doing the same thing, getting healthier.

When I do that, I try to keep track mentally of all the crap I'm eating/drinking and log it the best I can even if it's at the end of the day. And write a note in the comment at the bottom "stressed out" "still on the booze binge" as a reminder of was going on.

I figure when I snap out of the funk and get my spunk back, I can look back and try to figure out what was happening and maybe learn something to try to change things for the future. The more we recognize the pattens of what got us unhealthy the better I figure. It's a process.

Ususally for me those bad eating periods will last about 4 days or so and I'll start feeling so physically crappy I have to change things around and get back on the wagon because I feel so sluggish.

I deal with this myself a lot. I try to remind myself that weight loss isn't a straight line. It veers off and comes back. It's a natural part of weight loss and is perhaps one of the hardest realities to accept. We're so used to hearing the end results of success stories, that it's easy to forget the struggles that are involved, the ups and downs.

I think you also need to celebrate the small victories, like exercising more days that not or going a whole day without soda, etc. Think of where you where and where you are now. On the surface it may not feel like you've made changes, even when you're falling back into those old habits, but I bet if you look closely enough even those bad habits have shifted some. I look back on my binges that I have now and compare with the past and even though I want to get down on myself for those bad habits, they have changed a little. I only binge on one bag of chips. I drink seltzer instead of soda. I don't have to binge until I feel like my stomach is going to burst. Those are all little bits of progress that are going to help me succeed in the long run. One of my weight loss matras is: 85% of the time is success. It gives me some room to breathe when I slip but it also keeps me focused on my goals.

Also, it sounds like you may have a case of absolutism like I do. Where I either need to be completely self-sabotaging or the perfect diet princess, both of which are not good and are just extremes. You're not a failure by any means, you just need to find the right balance thand tools that work for you, which takes some time and some patience. Perhaps instead of focusing on the numbers on the scale you make goals like trying to limit the days you take off from exercising or lengethening the number of days between junkfood overeating, etc.

You're only a failure when you quit.

Just because you haven't finished the race doesn't mean you never will- keep going!

Call me extreme but if you really want it, you'll find a way - If you don't, you'll find an excuse!

We all are vulnerable to blips. A long term solution may be an accountability partner that has been where you are and beaten the weight challenge or someone who is currently on a mission to battle the bulge themselves. Battles are best fought in numbers. I just started using my fitness pal and after three days so far so good, though no weight loss. I'm hoping to hang in there for the long haul.