Biggest Loser Let-Down

At work last year, I lost 28 pounds in a Biggest Loser competition. I did not win and was completely deflated. Since last May, I have put on 31 total pounds from my lowest weight. I started the same competition at work, today, and I want to keep my incentive and drive going this time for good. I was so happy with my weight loss before, and now I'm miserable thinking of "what could have been," knowing that if I would have kept it up, I would have been even smaller.

How can I make it different this time? I know it's not all about winning, but my health. I get it. I've been overweight my entire life. I just don't know how to make a change for GOOD. I know how to lose weight, but keeping it off is another story...

You need to stop with the woulda-coulda-shoulda - you are making yourself part of the problem here.

You obviously DO know how to make a change for the right reasons because you just admitted to losing 28 pounds previously.... you have to keep those positive behaviors (both food related and not) going... dont make excuses, just keep getting back up and keep moving forward...

Dear Biggest Loser Let-Down,

Life lessons are always challenging to ingest, but the beauty of it all is as long as we are still alive, we get to try and try again. You only loose when you stop trying. In Dec 2010 I completed a goal and lost 70 lbs. Then life stepped in. I have gotten so healthy, I got pregnant. Ha! 40yrs old and pregnant....My daughter is beautiful, healthy fills my heart with love every day..... While pregnant I gained 65 lbs, and Im not even close to my goal weight, but Im still alive and I'll never stop trying.

So dont give up. Just start over.

Best wishes,

Bluberries.

now I'm miserable thinking of "what could have been," knowing that if I would have kept it up, I would have been even smaller.

How can I make it different this time? I know it's not all about winning, but my health. I get it. I've been overweight my entire life. I just don't know how to make a change for GOOD. I know how to lose weight, but keeping it off is another story...

Can you make an honest list--actually write it down on paper--of the steps you took to gain it all back? You know what you did day by day, and how this happened. If you have to face a tough, health-challenging situation in your life (and who doesn't?), then what's your plan for dealing with it? If you started picking up a candy bar every once in a while, then more often, until you ate 1 or more every day, what will you do instead?

You make a forever change by doing it forever. It would be great if we were "fixed" once we're in shape and can then eat anything we want, but that's not real. Decide that a smaller, healthier body or sexier body or whatever is what you want, plan ahead fo time for obstacles, and follow your goals every day. Good Luck!