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I don't know anything about your diet, lifestyle, or goals. However, I'd like to offer one piece of advice. I feel that one of the biggest reasons people fail is because they set their weight loss goals too high when they start. Try setting your diary settings to 0.5 or 1.0 pounds of weight loss every week, and DO eat back calories from exercise. I'm not saying this for scientific reasons (though some will), but rather because being able to eat more will allow you to not suffer from hunger, and to occasionally eat something fun without guilt. It makes the diet more sustainable in the long run as you will be happier.

OK...I'll add a second piece of advice. Eat chocolate sometimes! And a pizza occasionally. You'll go crazy if you don't let yourself eat your favourite foods.

You have to change something. When a craving hits what do you do.. distract yourself? if you're one of those people that can build in a treat meal or splurge then will that help? look back at what makes you derail and do something different. If you keep doing the same thing, you'll keep getting the same results.

is it a matter of you completely giving up the foods you love? if so then why not try working those foods in to your caloriue goals?

Ding ding ding...we have a winner!

Read all the links above because they have all the information you need to make a plan.

Most importantly - when you are ready to lose the weight you will . It's a decision. It's tons of daily decisions. You have to decide to do healthy things and have the patience to keep doing them.

We've all been there. Especially since Big Food has discovered how to hijack our taste buds and brain.

This is from Psychology Today:

Relapse is now seen as the rule rather than the exception in addiction recovery. And it is no longer viewed as a catastrophe but as an opportunity for learning more and better strategies for overcoming urges and for identifying the moods and situations that are likely to be difficult.

What is inappropriate is black-and-white thinking about success that turns a slip-up into a disaster and sees it as a sure sign of defeat. The fact is that it takes time to change all the mental apparatus that supports any particular habit-the memories, the situations that trigger craving, and more. Addiction changes brains, and it takes time to change brains back.

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This is one of those things that you can restart as many times as you're willing - so there's no limit! That's also the bad news.

You've already made the hard decision of "what" - to try to lose weight. Now it's the "how". So many people fail because they either don't know "how" or they lose their way. I have been both. I started on April 2011, and until March 2013, I had lost 115 pounds. Had Skin removal surgery, then lost my way for a bit, and am now back on track (finally) after about a year.

Things that have really helped me:

Getting a dietician. They can explain wha sorts of foods are better and why and help you develop a plan to do better. Mine told me to focus on protein and the fats/carbs would take care of themselves. I've found that to be pretty accurate.

Drink your water, drink less soda.

The more quality food you eat, the more of it you can have. We're talking about things like grilled chicken, ground turkey, having baked potato's with just a little bit of butter on it.....less fried things, less things swimming in sauces or dressings or cheese, etc. Less fast food, more whole foods.

Increase fiber.

Notice, I haven't said anything about necessarily counting calories....just making sure that what you eat isn't horrible for you.

I'm not talking about eating clean either. I allow myself reese's peanut butter cups and chocolate cake from time to time. I don't deprive myself, because the minute I declare I won't ever have something ever again, it's all I want. So I find ways to "get my fix" without having to have things in my house. I LOVE Barq's red creme soda. But it's basically liquid calories with no nutritional value whatsoever. SO, If I'm really having a craving for it, I can go to a White Castle and get it there - or go to a convenient store and get a bottle of it there.

Also, make the changes gradually. That way you'll be less likely to blow yourself out. Remember you're human, you will stumble. It's going to happen. Human's are fallible beings. Just remember that when you stumble....and put the it behind you and move on.

Hmm. I don't know if this could possibly be the issue:

Don't burn yourself out. Don't suddenly go from eating a bunch of random crap all the time to only eating clean, don't go from eating 2000+ calories a day to suddenly eating 1200. Don't go from not exercising to suddenly spending hours at the gym.

What happens to me when I do those things? I give up out of exhaustion from doing that. I get grumpy due to being hungry and I get tired from upping my exercise so much. I had to actually stick to 5-6 days of exercise a week at 30-45 minutes per for right now as opposed to what I had started doing at 1.5 hours per day, every day.