I gained ALL my weight back, starting from square 1!

Welcome back! When you get close to goal it might be worthwhile to hang around the maintenance board and come up with a plan to prevent regain again. Best wishes on your journey~

Ouch. I have fibro, sleeping disorders and Dr.s can't seem to decide if I have Lupus or not, so yeah, I know how depressong and hard it can be. It mighy be easier to break eveeything down into smaller habits, instaed of one big change. That way, when you backslide you are more lukely to only screw up one or two habits instead of derailing eveeything you've worked for.
I suggest logging for a while, even before making any serious changes to your diet.
Weigh (with a scale is best) everything you eat, and write why you are eating it (i.e, lunchtime, hungry, kind of bored, out with friends, watching tv) and how you are feeling right before, right after and an hour after (hungry, comfortable, normal, full, very full bloated, drowsy).
This gives you a baseline pattern for your normal habits and routine. From there, it's just a matter of experimenting. Are you very full after dinner? Cut back on a few things. Does lunch leave you bloated and gassy after an hour, try less or no mayo, and see if there's something you don't mind dropping each meal (fries, or cheese, or maybe only 2 tacos instead of 3).It's amazing how quickly these small and easily sustainable changes will add up to big calorie cuts. Only cut one or two things at a time, or make one or two changes, until they become habit instead if trying to do everything at once. That way they become individual habits instead of one big "diet". So when you backslide you won't drop everything at once, just one or two habits, that you can fix again more easily.

Read: The Diet Trap - Judith Beck It helped me..

Been there done that! The good thing is, you already know what to do since you've done it before. Maybe just make some tweaks so it sticks this time. It might be good to keep a food journal. Whenever you eat, how did you feel before you ate or something to that affect. If there's a pattern, you may be able to pick it out.

Welcome back, you got this!

Lost 38 gained 28 back lost 9 so far uggg

Ajam1115 wrote: »

About 2 years ago i lost about 40 lbs HALF way to my goal!! I messed it all up with my unhealthy eating habits I would eat because i felt bad and feel bad because I ate, its a vicious cycle. Having fibro, RA and hypothyroid ... it's a struggle, but determined to lose weight (again) 80 lbs is the big goal!

@Ajam1115 I did the same thing over and over for 40 years and the arthritis (Ankylosing Spondylitis) got the best of me by the age of 63. Now at 67 my health and health markers are better than when I was 37.

Since Oct 2014 I have taken losing weight off of my agenda period. Most of my pain has been long go as well as 50 pounds with weight staying under 200 now for about three years.

After a lot of medical reading personally now I have only two health goals. They are learning how to eat to get my Triglyceride level down to around 60 and to get my HDL cholesterol to 60+.

In the process it has resolved or improved my general health markers. The arthritis pain is mostly gone and I have joints moving that have not moved in the last 30 years. 30 years of life defining IBS has been totally gone for 3 years. Mental clarity and vision have improved. I can get in an out off cars unaided now but not real gracefully in some cars.

I can not tell you or others what Way Of Eating will work best for you. Over time I found my best WOE and yes it does change from time to time as to my Carb, Protein and Fats macros.

Consider reading up how one may work their Triglyceride level down to around 60 and HDL level into the 60+ range by diet only. Last summer my triglycerides were at 80 and HDL levels were at 63 after nearly three years of fighting off a premature death my moving to a better WOE.

At my age diabetics, stoke, cancer, dementia, heart attacks, etc are of a concern to me and my family. From my reading having a Triglyceride/HDL ratio of near 1 is about the most one may be able to do to prevent/delay these known sources of premature death.

I expect you are much younger than 67 so time is on your side. If you can find the best WOE for you over the next 5 years I think you will be fine down the road. I do not think it is likely I will ever be obese again as long as I eat to keep my Triglyceride/HDL levels near a 1:1 ratio.

I lost 145 and re-found about 55 of them after being diagnosed with an underactive thyroid but on the way back down again now - slower than I'd like - but I'm determined. Never give up!

you can do it!, log everything, stick to your calorie goal, make good food choices and move more I use to have so much pain in my hands and legs and it has been so much better since I lost 34 pounds now. I wish I found this app sooner it keeps me accountable