Starting Over, Again :/

I think I'm tired of trying different eating styles and all that jazz- I admit I have tried fad diets and miracle weighloss regimes in the past. Seems like the only thing that really works for me is diet change and exercising regularly.

You're not alone. You can do it!

That post above is great !!! I need the last paragraph to be hitting me hard every 3 hours, LOL.

Good luck with getting back in the swing of things !!

Same boat! Lost 35 lbs when I was 23-25 yo and now I'm 32 to and have gained 15 of it back and feel the rest could happen easily if I'm not careful. Determined to lose those 15. Would love to follow all of you and support each other!

Same boat here and my main downfall is stopping tracking calories combined with some injury that hindered me going to the gym. I cannot do any type of high impact or jumping workouts and each time I try them I end up with at least a week out of the gym. I am now just a few pounds off my original starting point after losing nearly 30 lbs using Mfp. I'm starting again doing one day at a time. Will head to gym tomorrow and aim for at least 4 days a week.

I'm so happy to see I'm not alone So yeah, bad relationship = weight gain. Post bad relationship I stood on the scale and gained back a whopping 14 kilo! Whuuuuut... I have now reorganized my jeans into - fits, almost fits, will fit in about 10 kilo and will fit if I reach my target weight. I did go to Primark and got me a few 3 to 8 euro pants a size up to be comfortable, because if I get stressed out I'm more likely to turn to comfort food. I'm back in the game nearly 70 days now and have lost 8 kilo, only 6 kilo more to be back where I was in july 2017! I'm 163 cm.
I also had a small surgical procedure last year which prevented me working out, but other than that I like to joke that my winter body is on point...

I am on the same “boat” not for bad relationship (at least now but for gaining and losing weights I started over 75 days ago and lost 12kg so far but still additional 15kg to go; therefore we can do it!! the diet I am doing now is pretty good and helping me a lot but for someone can be considered with too many restriction. What I do is to measure my weight only each 20/30 days and look only at recording calories and measuring success with dresses (those I could not wear anymore).

I have ridden that merry-go-round and the horses' saddles were worn smooth. The brain is the greatest mountain we have to climb. It's human nature to get to the optimum set point and think that our weight is magically fixed. Maintenance is a balancing act that someone like me will be working on for the rest of my life. There's no such thing as the finish line.

The brain really doesn't care if you stay at your optimum setpoint or not. It's more than happy to see to it that you eat it all back. It actually enjoys helping you eat it all back because the deep grooves in the brain are the resting comfort level. It's at peace when you take a trip back down memory lane by eating all the things. The brain is back in the saddle again. In charge.

Tracking food is easy. Willpower doesn't fix it. Willpower runs out. You have to find the greater cause that will catapult you back to the optimum setpoint. There's the brain weight vs. the dream weight. The two rarely agree. With each passing dieting excursion and eating it all back, the body's setpoint does some changing.

It doesn't matter if you keep gaining and losing the same 10 or 15 lbs over the course of lifetime or if it's 50 or 100 or 150, when you eat it all back there's metabolic blowback. That's why if you can get a grip on it sooner rather than later, you will have a much better chance of getting there and actually staying there for the rest of your life.

Don't think short term or when you get to the other side of all this. There's more work once the weight releasing is done. I had to throw everything out with the bathwater and reframe everything for my brain. I'm still working on the disconnects for the brain. Brain Training.

Restrictive food protocols define themselves as a lifestyle change. That's a disconnect. It's just another diet all gussied up by rephrasing old dieting terms with new ones. The brain knows the truth and it starts to rebel. At some point while we're asleep at the wheel on autopilot the brain sits right back down at the controls pulling all of the levers. Before you know what hit you, you've eaten it all back.

Not one single time... Not one single time during the eating it all back phase did the brain STOP you. No, it did not because it likes being in charge. Then you awaken and you take the bull by the horns.

You learn that the old approaches to dieting and weight loss will no longer serve you. You change everything UP. I threw the dieting books away, tossed out all of my before photos because those don't work for me. After so many befores and a few afters, they wash each other out. You get back up on your feet and you fight like hail with I can't fool myself realism.

This time, you know in your heart that you are not going to go through this again. You mean it will all of your being and you keep fighting. You refuse to accept the genetics or environmental cues that have caused those UP and down, wild swings with weight. When you're really through, no one can stop you. Let nothing deter you and tell the brain just to shut the hail up. You are back in the charge. The real you. The part of you that cares about everything and everyone. Your soul or your spirit. Body. Mind. Spirit.

The trifecta. When you pull on all three of them together there ain't nothin' gonna stop you now. Happy Trails. Let'er Buck.