Do you ever look back and say.....

Oh yes, during the apple diet, the atkins diet, the salad only diet etc etc.

I remember thinking that if I wasn't hungry all the time I wouldn't lose any weight. Now I am hardly ever hungry and still losing, just a lot less painful for me to go through.

Eating 650 calories a day and losing 4 pounds a week. Yeah, it WORKED really well for the time being, but I always gained the 20 pounds back without fail.

I feel so much better now and maintaining has become something that makes a LOT more sense, you know, like actually EATING everyday. :P

Yes..
A long while ago eating 1200 or less calories and staying far far away from fat because i thought it would me me gain weight.
Now im eating 1900 calories and on a high fat diet :happy:

I look back at my oblivious weight gain, and acceptance of myself as an obese woman, and wonder WTF I was thinking. So, yeah. Totally.

the yo yo 1200 thing for sure. when I lost 30 pounds a couple of years ago I sometimes wouldnt go past 900 calories a day. That was from a lot of monkey see monkey do from my "best friend" at the time...

Yup, all the time...also I look back and go, why didn't I get into running sooner

Yes, but that ben and jerrys did taste good! lol

I thought that during and after my 2 days on the cabbage soup diet.

I'm enjoying cardio though, running is awesome.

ETA: Come to think of it, I used to think that I would never be able to run...

yup, as in why allowed myself to gain 160lbs, after fighting so hard to lose 80. I ruined all that hard work and gained double back, because I was depressed, heartbroken, weak. But it is a new day, new me,with a new attitude. And damn it I am worth the effort it takes to be happy AND healthy.

I had nothing to do with the guy behind walgreens. It wasn't me, I'll deny it until the day I die.
That said, I agree with everything else. I hate cardio but it did because supposedly it had to be done. I starved / binged / starved again and cried all along.
I did all the 'blabla diets' you can find. I was afraid of carbs and fat. Chocolate was like a drug triggering DAYS of overeating.
Now I lift heavy, eat plenty, feel and look better than ever.
There's no coming back. I was a fool. For 15 years, at least.
Upside: it's never too late

That one time I thought hydroxycut was a good idea, lost 15 pounds in a week, and promptly passed out at a softball game.

Hmmm.....In a word, I'd have so say.....YES. And I think everybody suffers from this too! LOL

There are so many things that both my husband and I would eat thinking we were being "reasonably healthy" and it SO WAS NOT!!

Thought salads were the "way to go" - would have an "OMG salad" (as an old WW leader used to say), bury it in cheese, salad dressing different forms of proteins (diced chicken or ham), croutons, etc. I remember seeing a "biggest loser" one night when the nutritionist took everyone to the store and talking about how people need to read the labels, particularly on salad dressings to see just how small a serving is, and how detrimental to the food journal it can be. One of the contestants said, "So by the time I add all that dressing on it, I might as well have just gone ahead and had the cheeseburger, right?" RIGHT!!

A friend at work made an OMG salad - just lettuce, a few "craisins", a few slivered almonds, and swimming in dressing. This was supposed to be her lunch. I looked over and said, "Where's the protein??" She said, "Oh, am I supposed to have that? Will it really help?" Ugh

Ugh...the Master Cleanse comes to mind. After 3 miserable days I snapped and ate a medium pizza all by myself. :laugh: