HELP!!

I've lost count how many times I've "restarted". Am completely disgusted with how I've let myself go as well as my seeming inability to maintain motivation, determination and will power.

To restart, you have to quit first. Why do you think you quit?

Is it because you are dieting? Diets are designed for the folks who go “on” them to quit.

Try weight loss. It’s a process. If done right, at the end you’ve found a new way to live at your goal weight. Basically weight loss is a set of problem solving skills. When you encounter an obstacle that hangs you up, you keep problem solving.

Edison tried 100s times to get his light bulb to work. If Edison had been on a diet, after 3 days he would have declared himself a failure and had 3 hot fudge sundaes.

This time when you get stuck don’t quit. Just because you haven’t found a solution to the problem of the day (there seems to be one every day) doesn’t mean the solution doesn’t exist.

This time set yourself up to succeed. Start a food diary and commit to keeping a faithful account of everything you eat or drink that has calories. Even if you go wildly over your number, keep your diary going. When you encounter calorie counting gray areas, just do you best to put a number on everything and keep going. The process is more important than the numbers. Get and use a food scale.

Calorie deficit. Unless you are training hard, leave your calorie “burn” out of it. Calculate your number to lose 1 lb per week and try a test of 2-3 months. Always evaluate your progress along 2 lines. Is your weight on a downward trend over a couple of months? Are you satisfied with how you are living? In weight loss, as opposed to dieting, it’s perfectly fine, actually desirable, to not be suffering, or miserable.

That voice in your head telling you your losses should be bigger, or that it will take too long to get to goal, is the voice that has messed you up so many times. Don’t listen.