Lost it and gained some back Help!!!

I was 220lbs at my top weight. I got all the way down to 150 (may 2014) I have slowly put it back and I started this year at 168. When I couldn't button a pair of pants that was loose a year ago that's when I had enough. So I'm back. Weighed today...165. On the right track just gotta re-focus and do it!!

Small goals work. My immediate goal is to be 162 by the end of the month! No excuses!!!

I can relate! From 2013-14 I lost 50+lbs (close to 60) and from 2014-15 I slowly gained back 40 of it! SOOOO mad at myself, and I know I am the one to blame. Toward the end of 2015 I tried to get back on track but failed. Now in the new year I am 100% focused with my eye on the prize!! I want to fit my butt back into those jeans I fit into in 2013 with ease and other closes weren't as restricting PLUS I want to be a happier, healthier me! I have been faithfully logging daily and also exercising at least once a day (min of 20 min) but some days getting 2 routines in. And have even introduced some light jogging back into the mix. I am MORE then determined this time!

I am very similar to you. I lost 130 and regained 30. I am so irritated with myself. It seems harder this time around for some reason. It is my eating habits as I still exercise a lot. I enjoy that part. I am trying to go back to the basics that got me to lose the weight before and trying to eat like I did back then. Oh I miss the days when my personal trainer told me to eat more. He won't tell me that now. I got 1 pound off last week I guess it's a start.

I set up some fitness goals to work on along with the weight loss. That seems to be helping.

I keep making promises to myself, like not going up a size, but I did, not moving the big weight on the scale, but I did, etc. This year I will get back on track. I decided to train for another triathlon. This makes me do more cardio, which hopefully will help. I will still lift weights because I enjoy that more. Then there is food...I have weight loss deals with a friend of mine. So hopefully that will help us both.

We can do it, I certainly don't want to go back to 320 like I was.

I feel your pain, I lost 100lbs over 4 years, but in the past two I've put back on 50. I know I am solely responsible for this, and it is time to get things back in line.

For me to start, I am looking back over old food journals and pics to help with motivation, and to give me some guidelines on where to begin. Starting is always the hardest, so I know I have to start slow, and also that I won't just lose that 50lbs I put back on overnight. It took two years to put it back on, so I need to give myself some time for it to come back off.

Be patient, you know what works, just get back to what you were doing.

You've done the hard bit, you've decided enough is enough and it's time to start going in the right direction again before you back-track any further. I'm 128lbs down at the moment, but was 134lbs down at one point, haven't stopped logging here but was too lapse with my eating in December! Happy to support you if you want to add me? I'm plugging away at it and hope to lose another 44lbs this year. Rather than retreading old ground you may find it helpful to reset your weight so your ticker shows just this year's loss? But you may wish to leave it how it is and take pride in what you have achieved since your heaviest. Shame is a pointless emotion, we're all works in progress and will slip up many times!

Hey guys, I had a similar experience. I bit the bullet and lost 14lb last year to finally achieve my dream weight, but over a period of 3 months, I gained it all back. After all that effort, too. I know I can do it again, but it is just so hard to start. I feel like before, it was just a matter of willpower, but now I feel like I have less energy than before and reducing calories makes me feel extra tired and I'm afraid that I will be grumpy at work. I don't want to make the people around me have to suffer for my past greedy nature. Perhaps it will be even harder, and for that I'm very disappointed. So far I have been able to reduce my intake from 2300 a day by 50 calories per day for 2 weeks though, and I am starting to feel like I am gaining control over my intake again. Going straight to 1200 (or lower) like many of my friends suggested was just unrealistic for me at this stage, but small and gradual changes have helped. I hope I can keep this up and I hope you wonderful people can find the strength to hit your daily goal today.
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