Slipping up when I was so close :(

gswills
gswills Posts: 10 Member
edited November 29 in Motivation and Support
In the last 180 days I've lost 45 lbs and I'm 5 lbs away from my goal weight. It's been a pretty smooth ride, with no huge setbacks (except Christmas :) ) until now. My weight loss has dramatically slowed lately and I've been less aggressive on the diet and slowly letting myself eat a little more as I get closer to maintenance mode. But today, I binged in a way I haven't in 180 days. I ate an entire batch of muffins I had made all by myself in one day. I'm so sad and disappointed in myself and it feels like the final fall down a slippery slope I've been skidding down lately. Any tips for getting back on track? Especially when you are so close to your goal. Having trouble getting motivated for the final push and I'm so scared of erasing 180 days of work.

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  • hopeandtheabsurd
    hopeandtheabsurd Posts: 265 Member
    If you need to, take a maintenance break while you sort out whatever it is in your mind that might be holding you back. Keep logging, even if it's not pretty. Keep weighing (yourself and your food). When a person gets close to goal, it all of a sudden becomes more real that for the most part, the changes you make while dieting will have to become a permanent part of your lifestyle or it's back to where you started. This is scary stuff, especially when the scale is no longer providing constant validation.
  • Betsyk68
    Betsyk68 Posts: 8 Member
    Hello! I'm not quite to goal yet, I've lost about 70 and still want to lose another 40-50 but many days struggle with a large appetite. It's like I'm trying to screw myself over and all the progress I've made. I don't do big binges (all day grazer here) usually even when I was at my biggest but I got my drug-food of choice Friday, fantastic pizza and ate til I was sick. I haven't done anything like that in forever. I made myself log it the next morning, as hope suggests, when I woke up from my food stupor. I suspect there's some mental crap to break through or I'll just keep doing this. First six months, I didn't really have these issues. Now I want to constantly be nibbling.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    Congrats on your losses. Just because you slipped up one day doesn't mean all is lost. Log it then go back to eatimg according to your plan tomorrow. Do what you've been doing for 180 days
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,347 Member
    Here's the rub - even when you hit goal, it's not over. Maintaining is in some ways even harder than losing. You get to eat a little more, but you still have to be mindful of what you take in, and you no longer get the boost from seeing a new number on the scale. Not trying to be a downer, but it's the reality of it.

    See this slip as practice for maintenance. Life is life, and all going well, we all have a fair bit of it to go. There will be times we overeat, lose control, stuff up - whatever. It's what you do about it afterwards that counts.
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