Feeling a bit discouraged:

lorcanlllawliet
lorcanlllawliet Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I don't want to sound like a whining baby. Here goes anyway. Did anyone ever have those weeks where you just could not stop yourself from going overboard every night with your calories? I had that this week. It is the end of week 5 tomorrow and the scale will show a weight gain of probably 3-4 pounds. that is most of the weight I have worked really hard to lose over the last month. What do you do or more importantly How do you keep yourself from giving up and doing what I have done so many times in the past just stopped tracking and eating healthy. I Have worked so hard this last month and I feel like I failed myself. The only plus side right now that I see is that Tomorrow is week 5 Day 7 and Wednesday starts a new week and a fresh start. Any Advice on how to just move on and get back on track would be greatly appreciated.

Have a great night everyone

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  • Sheisinlove109
    Sheisinlove109 Posts: 516 Member
    Keep truckin' and make good choices. It will happen.

    Take a selfie daily to reference your loss, on days when you want to give up look back at them. It gets me back in that gym every single time.

    I'm 80lbs down and it is a by the minute struggle/effort but "we" got this!

    I can't speak for anyone else but I feel amazing and I still have a long way to go. People that have never seen me, see me. Clothes that I never thought I'd fit, fit. My attitude, completely changed. Hard work will pay off, keep at it!
  • icemom011
    icemom011 Posts: 999 Member
    I think every day is a fresh start, you don't have to wait for new week, new month, or a new year. Don't look for excuse to postpone a better day. Don't beat yourself up for slip ups, it happens to everyone, we are all humans and make mistakes or generally bad choices time to time. It's ok. Aknowledge it and move on, and try to do better for yourself, don't disrespect and don't punish yourself, just resolve to keep working on staying within your goal, and whatever you do, don't give up. It's going to be ok, not always easy, but doable. You've got this.
  • CynthiasChoice
    CynthiasChoice Posts: 1,047 Member
    It's important to learn how to recognize what triggers you to overeat. Is it stress? A celebration? A way to reward yourself for doing something difficult? Or maybe boredom? Did something happen that made you feel bad about yourself? Do you eat more around a certain person? Try to figure out what was different about this week. Write down some of your thoughts so you can refer back to it later. Keep adding insights to your journal on a regular basis. Just remember your "why" can't be "because it tasted good." The first two or three bites of something are the best, then the sensation diminishes and we continue eating for another reason.

    What you discover about your own personal "whys" of overeating will be profoundly important to you ALL your life, not just during this diet. Once you can look your "why" in the face, you can begin developing strategies to remain confidently in control of what you eat.

    I've adopted many different strategies for all my many "whys" and I'm working on them continually. For me, it's not enough to just hope or trust that my future self will be this ideal person who will never get fat again. I have to practice now what I want my future self to be accomplished with. Doing that gives me real hope, not that slippery fantasy-hope feeling that's shadowed with doubt.
  • jelly_potato
    jelly_potato Posts: 77 Member
    icemom011 wrote: »
    I think every day is a fresh start, you don't have to wait for new week, new month, or a new year. Don't look for excuse to postpone a better day. Don't beat yourself up for slip ups, it happens to everyone, we are all humans and make mistakes or generally bad choices time to time. It's ok. Aknowledge it and move on, and try to do better for yourself, don't disrespect and don't punish yourself, just resolve to keep working on staying within your goal, and whatever you do, don't give up. It's going to be ok, not always easy, but doable. You've got this.

    This. Don't beat yourself up, just accept it, let it go, and continue with your healthier life style. Also speaking from personal experience, if you follow your food & exercise regime well in the next few days and drink a lot of water, you should lose what you gained in this 1 week.
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    What sounds better to you? Giving up and gaining even more than you've already gained or be lighter and healthier this time next year? Take this as an opportunity. Not every day you get to learn things about yourself. There was a time when I regained 30 something pounds, and although I felt a bit deflated at the time I don't regret it one bit and I feel it was an essential part of my dieting process. It taught me exactly what not to do and pushed me to learn more about my overeating triggers. I feel my weight maintenance would be much harder without that knowledge.

    Dieting is a learning process where you filter out what doesn't work and filter in what works with the ultimate goal being to build a sustainable weight management toolset, regardless of how your weight behaved throughout the process. You haven't failed. You're just riding the learning curve. Why did you start overeating? Was your diet too restrictive causing a rebound binge? Are you burning yourself out trying to micromanage arbitrary rules that don't have much practical bearing on weight loss? Were there emotional issues you weren't handling well? Do you suspect hormonal issues?

    Side note: unless you've eaten 2000 calories over your maintenance calories every single day for the past week (which I know is possible from experience but not likely), it's very unlikely you've regained 4 pounds this week.
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