Falling off the wagon

When I fall off the wagon, I find joining a challenge in the Challenges forum helps. Not something hard core, just give me 10 days, give me one month, 100 days of weighing.After seeing the same number for a week, I think that maybe it's time to get started again.

Restart your food diary. Don’t even put in numbers if you don’t want to. Build the habit of logging in your food.

Look back on what happened to disrupt your program. What happened? Was your exercise plan too ambitious? Was your calorie deficit too aggressive? When you’re ready, calculate your maintenance number and the number to lose .5 lbs per week. Can you make a plan to eat within those numbers that you can actually live with? Should get you some kind of loss. You can adjust the numbers later after you have a working process. Can you make a workout plan that you will actually show up and do? If your plan is about doing things, the only way off track is to decide not to do them.

If you find yourself resisting your own plan, is there a way to make it easier? I lost a significant amount and have been maintaining for years trying to find and follow the easy road. Sometimes I have to make deals with myself to go to the gym and do half of a workout. It’s a lot better than nothing. And it keeps my habit in place. Think it over and find things your are actually willing to do. Go for a walk. You’ll do that won’t your?

Last- keep your food diary no matter what and you’ll never be off track again. Oh, you’ll go over your number here and there. Lots of ways to go over- anything from lapses in judgment to simple math mistakes or a misread menus. But keep logging everything. The process is more important than the numbers.

I am in the same spot right now. I was doing great up until last month I completly fell off. I have been trying to get back on track but have had no success so far.