Help getting back on track

Slu13
Slu13 Posts: 44 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
So Iv just got home from a week away, and I’m already struggling to find motivation to get back on track - I haven’t weighed myself but I know Iv put my weight back on. I feel so guilty!!!

I know that when you eat bad food like McDonald’s, you crave it more, but I can’t shift the bad food craving!

I really want to loose a stone before July. Any help please! X

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  • Lillymoo01
    Lillymoo01 Posts: 2,865 Member
    Don't let an indulgent week become an indulgent month. Just put it aside without guilt and start again. You have done it before so you can do it again. Don't wait until tomorrow to start afresh, do it now. Oh, and wait a few days before you weigh yourself to give time for fluid retention from excess salt, food and flying (if you actually did) to settle down. You may be surprised by how little to damage actually was.
  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    Set a day 3-4 days in the future to weigh yourself and get back to your preferred loss routine immediately. Cravings don't mean *kitten*, you have a brain and two thumbs and are in complete control of what you prepare and eat. Your immediate goal shouldn't be weight loss, it should be solidifying the routine that leads to it, in all the small everyday ways that happens.
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  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    What was your attitude during your week away? Were you traveling, remaining mindful of your needs? Or, were you indulgent and cheating?

    Either way, you're able and responsible for taking care of yourself, so do so.
  • Slu13
    Slu13 Posts: 44 Member
    I was mindful of my eating during the day, but at night time I did go all out x
  • briscogun
    briscogun Posts: 1,138 Member
    If your desire to lose the weight by July outweighs your desire for a Big Mac, then you'll get back on the wagon and do what you know you can do. It's really that simple.

    Weight loss isn't an "all or nothing" proposition. You can be "bad" for a week and still get back on track. I ended up moving at the beginning of March rather abruptly, my whole routine got out of whack, literally couldn't buy food because I was staying with friends and had no place to keep stuff just for me when I was already imposing on others, so for like 3 weeks I was eating fast food and whatever wasn't nailed down when my schedule allowed. After those 3 weeks I said enough is enough and figured out how to get back on track and have done so ever since and I'm down over 5 lbs since the first of March even with a 3 week burger, frozen custard, beer and fish fry binge!

    As the great Yogi Berra once said, "Half of this game is 90% mental". Its not so much about how strong our bodies are, but how strong our minds allow our bodies to become. You can do this!
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    edited May 2018
    But what you might not know, is that motivation is overrated, that if your track feels so horrible you don't want to stick to it, it's not a good track, that guilt drives self destructive behavior, that there is no bad food, only bad amounts, and that calling food you like, bad, only intensifies your cravings for it.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    JerSchmare wrote: »
    Sometimes what I do when I’m in that situation is I set my calories at maintenance. So set it to lose 0 lbs. There are benefits to doing this.
    1) you get to eat more than if you’re in a deficit,
    2) it gets you back in the habit of counting

    Once you are able to track accurately for a week, then drop to lose 1/2 a lb. Then, a week later, drop to lose a lb per week. For me, this method works really well. It gets my head back in the game slowly.

    thats typically what i do. usually it only takes me a few days to get back into the swing of things.
  • briscogun
    briscogun Posts: 1,138 Member
    I never said that food was bad, I said you can be "bad". It was easier to say "bad" than to type out "making poor choices regarding the types of foods and amounts you are consuming". I think we all know when we are exhibiting "good" behaviors that support our goals and when we aren't.

    And how can motivation be overrated? It's what gets us started on our journeys. We become motivated to make a change. Without any motivation we would stay on our existing tracks and not be here in the first place. Whether we stay motivated or choose a good track is a different story.

    I never called any foods bad or brought up anything regarding guilt and self-destructive behavior, that was you. If you have some issues you need to work out that's fine but please don't superimpose your feelings about your path onto my comments. The OP asked for help getting back on track, which sounds exactly like someone who was looking for some advice and/or motivation. I gave a personal story about how I had recently gotten off track and back on with no damage done to my long term goals, and OP can do it too if they choose.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    edited May 2018
    briscogun wrote: »
    I never said that food was bad, I said you can be "bad". It was easier to say "bad" than to type out "making poor choices regarding the types of foods and amounts you are consuming". I think we all know when we are exhibiting "good" behaviors that support our goals and when we aren't.

    And how can motivation be overrated? It's what gets us started on our journeys. We become motivated to make a change. Without any motivation we would stay on our existing tracks and not be here in the first place. Whether we stay motivated or choose a good track is a different story.

    I never called any foods bad or brought up anything regarding guilt and self-destructive behavior, that was you. If you have some issues you need to work out that's fine but please don't superimpose your feelings about your path onto my comments. The OP asked for help getting back on track, which sounds exactly like someone who was looking for some advice and/or motivation. I gave a personal story about how I had recently gotten off track and back on with no damage done to my long term goals, and OP can do it too if they choose.
    I suppose this was for me? I didn't reply to your post, but to the OP :)
    I'm also behind one of the "likes" of your comment <3
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    Slu13 wrote: »
    I was mindful of my eating during the day, but at night time I did go all out x

    Sometimes you just gotta. Welcome back. You'll be ok.
  • briscogun
    briscogun Posts: 1,138 Member
    kommodevaran wrote: »
    briscogun wrote: »
    I never said that food was bad, I said you can be "bad". It was easier to say "bad" than to type out "making poor choices regarding the types of foods and amounts you are consuming". I think we all know when we are exhibiting "good" behaviors that support our goals and when we aren't.

    And how can motivation be overrated? It's what gets us started on our journeys. We become motivated to make a change. Without any motivation we would stay on our existing tracks and not be here in the first place. Whether we stay motivated or choose a good track is a different story.

    I never called any foods bad or brought up anything regarding guilt and self-destructive behavior, that was you. If you have some issues you need to work out that's fine but please don't superimpose your feelings about your path onto my comments. The OP asked for help getting back on track, which sounds exactly like someone who was looking for some advice and/or motivation. I gave a personal story about how I had recently gotten off track and back on with no damage done to my long term goals, and OP can do it too if they choose.
    I suppose this was for me? I didn't reply to your post, but to the OP :)
    I'm also behind one of the "likes" of your comment <3

    Oops. My bad! Sorry...

    As you were. Nothing to see here. Move along... :)

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