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You all have such wonderful insights! Thank you so much! I do seem to have an all or nothing mentality. I measure and weigh EVERYTHING and have huge successes but then have days like that where I just completely throw in the towel. I know that being so strict is not sustainable and I'm setting myself up for binges. Just…

I'm late to this thread but If I logged on weekends...

I'm late to start but I'm in, no snacks after 8:00

Count me in! I used to drink Michelob ultras but have recently switched to Oktoberfest- which is so delicious but is a whopping 176 calories each!! I need to give up the weekend beers.

Ask yourself the reasons you wanted to lose weight in the first place. For me, my mom is very overweight and started having weight related health problems and I didn't want to go through what she is going through. One day after eating too much cake (my sons birthday) I felt so sick and tired from the sugar crash that I…

Insulin resistance. When I was growing up we were told fat was the culprit. Remember snackwell cookies? A muffin or a bagel and a glass of juice was a "healthy breakfast". Now it seems absurd that we thought that, but that's what we were told. Those habits are hard to change. I was undisciplined and uneducated about food.…

Thank you so much for commenting!! I feel so much better about it. I've been trying to fight it so badly but maybe that's the wrong thing to do. I just know it only takes a day or two of poor eating to undo weeks of hard work. It's nice to know there could be a real reason that it is happening!

Thank you. I needed this to be honest with myself. I already knew the weekends were getting in my way but just needed a kick to stop living in denial

It's definitely time to stop lying to myself about the weekend thing. I do use recipe builder and count every single item individually. I use grams with everything except meat just because ounces is easier for me to calculate 1/2 lb etc.

I'm really not sure how to set my calories because I have a physically active job and even my Fitbit shows I'm under calories during the week. Every seems to say I'm at maintenance though so maybe I do need to cut them. When I calculate online it says 2,000 to maintain, and then the calories go down based on how much I…

If I'm honest with myself, I know I'm going over calories on the weekends and not logging them allows me to lie to myself lol. It worked this way for me to lose the first 50lbs but I'm going to have to give it up.

I tried logging my weekends for a while but I found it was causing me to want to stop doing it at all because I get so sick of counting every little thing. I suppose I could try to automate some meals during the week and start logging better on weekends.

I considered that as well but my weight is 178 and my job is pretty demanding physically. I've tried researching that as much as possible and chose those calories based on what I found but I'm not against changing that number. I just don't want to under eat and kill my metabolism.

Any updates on how this ended up for you? I am dealing with it now and find it a bit discouraging.

My belly reminded me of how my stomach looked immediately after delivering my babies. A big, soft, deflated balloon. [/quote] Yes this is exactly what it is like!! Does it go away? Or is that the "new me"? Any searches I've done I find a lot of reference to the article about squishes and wooshes...but that may just be a…

Any updates on how this ended up for you? I am dealing with this now.