Please Help Me!

I know exactly how you feel! My problem is I start to see progress and then start eating badly and then gain the weight right back. Maybe we can try to help motivate each other. I am at the around the same weight and am trying to get to 145-150. Best of luck!

Find ways to reward yourself in a non-food way every time you hit a mini goal. You can make that mini goal 5 or 10 lbs. When you hit that goal, reward yourself. Then, make the next reward bigger and better! When you hit your final goal, REALLY reward yourself! THEN, to KEEP the weight off, reward yourself for every week you maintain your weight!

Well I think it's important to see this as something permanent, a lifestyle change and not think too much about how many pounds you want to lose.

Of course you may want a goal to get some motivation but try and pick out things in your life that you WANT to change.

If you aren't very active, try and find something active that you enjoy. Most of the times we try and do things by ourselves but it leads to a temporary thing. If you have friends, ask them if they want to do a weekly activity.

Go through your weekly diet and see if there is something bad that you're eating a little too often of. Maybe a snack that's not that great or soda every now and then.

When I was a kid, we used to have something called "Saturday candy". Candy/snacks was only to be eaten on Saturdays. That could help you set a mental schedule not to eat bad snacks whenever you feel like it.

It's hard to cut down on things completely, and sometimes doing things to drastic can make you lose motivation. Think long-term pleasure over quick instant pleasure.

EDIT: Plus what everyone else said :-P

EDIT 2: Activity doesn't have to be a sport, to add something to what some were saying about giving yourself a reward. I know some girls tend to like shopping :-P Walking around in stores for a couple of hours burns a lot of calories... When you've reached a set goal, buy something for yourself.

I don't know if this will help but when I first started MFP, I was tempted to quit because my eating habits were to restrict calories for a few days, then binge on a pan of brownies and anything I could shove into my mouth. At first, my final calorie count on MFP was hundreds below my recommended intake (in hindsight, bad). Then when I went on vacation and splurged, I was so embarrassed when I tallied everything I ate up at the end of the day, I wanted to quit. I didn't want to look at the numbers! And I kept going over my calorie total for several days! But I'm thankful I didn't give up on MFP even on the bad days and drop this diet altogether. My advice would be even if you slip, which I still do from time to time, DON'T stop recording everything in MFP. I think MFP makes it easier to motivate yourself - you can start over the next day, and take it day by day. And to be honest, using this does not feel like a diet but adopting a healthy lifestyle. I'm finally learning for the first time in my life how to balance healthy nutrition and exercise and I'm gaining more muscle tone and losing a little weight. I feel like this is something I could do for the rest of my life.

What type of exercise do you use? I do home workout videos and I like to run, but my cousin who has more pounds to lose than I is raving lately about Curves. Also, the good news is, the more weight you carry, the more calories you seem to burn while doing cardio exercise. Honestly, my biggest motivation to exercise more has been so I can eat more lol! And MFP makes me confident knowing exactly how much more I can eat.

You can do it. You have to plan for success. You must buy foods that are needed to be healthy. Next you must set up workouts like the are mandatory meetings. Make small changes along the way. That little person on your ticker is all the motivation you need. He needs you here, healthy, and happy.