Have you had a slip and gotten back on track?

I am back as of yesterday! Hopefully its the real deal!! I just start exercising in May and totally stopped eating 'right' because I was exercising. I completely maintained but went into a bad eating zone and am ready to try to lose 20 lbs by Christmas!!

It's sounds so cheesy, but honestly the best thing you can do is be kind to yourself and forgive yourself for slipping up. Remember that you are human, and you're still doing a lot more for your health and future than you were in the past. If you blame yourself for slipping up, it's really easy to stay on that bad path. Once you forgive yourself, you can move on and get back on track.

we all have bad days or even a bad stretch of days. the key is to get back on track as quickly as possible. one thing that helps me to get back on track is re-reading lists that I have made for myself, including reasons I hate being overweight. for more information on the mental exercise, I recommend reading my will power blog below. it helps with the complacency creep.

Yes!! I have recently been going vegan and I was doing so good...BUT my godkid had a birthday party and there was cheese pizza for the kids and alcohol for the adults and I slipped up and ate a few slices of pizza after a few drinks I felt horrible but the next day I continued on my vegan streak and I am even more commited and understand that I cant put myself in those kind of situations JUST YET!! Sometimes its not the slip up but what we do after the slip, that determines how STRONG we are....

It helps that you recognize that you have fallen off track....
Recently I went on vacation... decided I'd eat what I want and rationalized since there would be crazy amounts of walking it would all work it's self out.... well it didn't... i gained 5lbs... I than beat myself up over said 5lbs and gained a couple more... so then I decided I needed to get back on track and get strict with myself... I had just been eating what I wanted and tracking calories only....
I wasn't worried about how healthy or good for me the food was... now I've changed my focus... in addition to the calorie counting... I'm currently doing a very restrictive diet plan... for the next 7-10 days... this will help me to gain some control back...

Figure out the best way for you to gain control and do it right this moment!

I did the same thing this past friday, I was celebrating my birthday and pigged out. Then I realized we had to go over budget so I just ate and ate. Finally I was like, "what am I doing?" I have been going strong all week ( yes only a week) and I went over board and just thought it was ok to keep doing it. I told myself it wasn't ok. It's not ok that I am as heavy as I am and having issues that older people have such as sore knees, I wake up tired every day and sluggish and the only time I have felt good over the past two years was last week when i was working out and eating. I decided I am not giving up, I can sit here and wish and wish for a better body and more energy or I could do something.

I've been there this past week. Last week my boyfriend's birthday included several foods I haven't eaten in months, pasta, wine, ice cream, and cake. I've struggled for the past several days to get back on track.

I committed to logging my food. Not to punish myself, but primarily to stay in the habit. Maybe as a bit of moral support too. I'm thinking, if I'm going to over eat, maybe I can stick to healthier choices.

I know that yesterday was a combination of emotional eating and trigger foods. (Ok, who came up with the idea for balls of chocolate cake with chocolate icing, dipped in white chocolate, and then rolled in chocolate sprinkles? That's not fair.) Yesterday's second round of interviews went fine, but I'm getting all sorts of negative signals from the group. Yesterday, the recruiter flat out lied to me about some paperwork I asked about. Later I went to a volunteer training event, and there were all sorts of goodies, including those dreaded cake balls. Right now, I just can't eat those. Refined carbs of any kind are my downfall. I cannot eat one. I've also had to add non-fat lattes to my list of trigger foods. I'm thinking it's the lactose sugar in the milk.

The food holidays are coming up, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, volunteer activities. They all involve food, and more often than not, my trigger foods.

I need to write more, that helps me actively think about what works, what doesn't work. I also need to come up with strategies to handle the food temptations. I know that going to events with a full stomach makes it easier to ignore food. Nothing beats a big bowl of oatmeal with raisins to fill you up and keep the calories down. Beverage options like ginger tea or licorice spice tea are satisfying alternatives for me and help me avoid the sugary drinks. I need to plan emergency snacks like beef jerky or soy nuts to ward off hunger when I find myself around foods I don't want to eat right now. It also means bringing food for me to eat at events. Apple slices sprinkled with cinnamon sounds tasty and appropriately festive.

I went back to my diary and looked at all my good food days. I think I need to do some more reading about successful strategies for keeping weight off.

I know how to do this, but it's work.

This time around I'm working on making getting back on track part of the long term strategy to stay at a healthy weight.

The old photo idea is good too.

It happens. 1 bad day became a week. I've learned that when that happens to put it in the past and move forward. I also don't think I was fully committed in the past.

What made me slip? Friend dying in horrible accident, having to put my fur-baby down as she was sick, my husband telling me he was being laid off for 2 months come Feb, being in the middle of teaching a course.

I am currently up 700 cal for the week.

What is getting me back on track? Tracking food despite being over. Not shi**ing on myself/feeling bad or guilt because I have slipped. Remembering that this is long term and one blip in the radar is nothing. Reading success stories on this site.