Hi guys. im shamefully coming back. i weighed 215 last night wich means i gained 15 back. i feel so sad and i feel like i cant pick myself back up again. i try to eat healthy or excercize and its only lasting a day or two. i was doing so good for like 10 months i lost 55lbs! i was eating healthy and excercizing. As soon as the first thanksgiving and christmas rolled around it through me off so bad. and now im to the next holidays and havent jumped back on yet. it makes me so sad i came so far and i cant seem to get back on it. i was losing so nicely to im a bit depressed. i feel like it will never happen.

i need some support or advice or something please. i feel like i know it all but just cant seem to stick to it. for like the first 6 months after falling off plan i could maintain but now in the last few months i seem to be packing on the pounds. i dont want this to happen i dont want to gain it all back. how can i get myself going again? and stick to it? some one anyone please share!!!

Hugs!!!

My best advice is tomorrow is a new day. A new day to start fresh, to forgive yourself for any mistakes and to start over. You can do this!!!

Good luck hun!

Your situation sounds familiar to me, I find that every time I've tried to lose weight and be healthy, I give up. I'm so not the type of person to quit at anything else, but when real life is happening, its easy to let eating and exercise go by the wayside.

Since I've never tried a diet plan or anything in the past, this time I decided I would join weight watchers. There is no doubt in my mind it works, I have just never committed to a plan. A friend of mine's mother lost over 100 pounds and that was the old original weight watchers, I can only imagine it has gotten better since then. So I joined online, its very affordable at 20$ a month and there are tons of resources. For me, its less about what I eat, and more about being accountable for what I eat, and how much of it. Portion size has always been an issue for me. Since I started on weight watchers, I have never felt more in control. I feel good and I feel positive and recently i found some other members on 3FC that also do weight watchers and have been so successful. That just makes me more motivated to stick with it!

I realize I might sound like a spokesperson for WW, but I'm really not lol. Just someone who is trying something new and loving it! I'm also not saying you have to do weight watchers, but try and find something that is easy for you to follow and will help you keep control and accountability. It's working for me!

I definitely understand how you are feeling! The holidays are a tough time for ALL of us! Don't worry! Be proud that you have lost 40 lbs! That is still a huge number! And w a 15lb regain in a year, that's really not as huge as you may think it is... trust me.

Now, since we are still in holiday season, maybe that's why you are having a hard time feeling motivated during the season. I suggest finding one thing that you will change toward a healthier you. Maybe give up pop (if you drink it) or vow to eat a healthy breakfast every morning or promise to go to the gym once a week. During this holiday season I recommend you ease your way back into your healthy living lifestyle and add on as you go! Sometimes it can be hard to go cold turkey all at once. Set a goal that you can accomplish and reward yourself for accomplishing that! Then set another, slightly harder goal until your back on track!

Awe...I went through the same thing. At the end of april I blew out my ankles running, stopped excerising for 2 months, and watching my diet, and gained 10 pounds. Its a crappy feeling but you still lost 40 pounds, and you should be pround of yourself. Life happens...gains happen..

Just have to find something that gets you modivated again. Any fitness goals you want to achieve that you need to be in tiptop shape for?

Get your butt back on the wagon because you did it once before and you can do it again. You got this. Dont let the holidays be a reason to go offtrack or slack. Eat healthy...stay in your calorie limit...excerise...you'll be back to 55 pounds lost before you know it YOU CAN DO THIS

We were in the Bikini Ready challenge together and I was and am still rooting for you.

I was gone for 2 years and gained like 40+ pounds in the process...it was hard to admit to myself that I had gained the weight I had lost. But I came back to 3fc, and I think that's what helped me. I've lost almost 90 pounds since coming back. There are days when I do bad and I don't lose anything. But I try not to be too hard on myself and I remind myself that I love myself and that I can do this. You can too! You've lost weight, you know how to do it. You've gained 15 pounds. But that doesn't mean you didn't lose 55 at some point. You can do this!! Good luck

don't think about where you've been but where you are going. That means to let go the failures of the past and look toward your goal with fresh eyes!

Don't feel so badly, I lost 50lbs last year and gained 30lbs back this year. For the life of me I could not get back on plan and practically just watched myself gain weight while stuffing food into my mouth of course. Don't be ashamed, life happens and we mess up.

As someone who had the hardest time starting up again (literally took a month) my best advice is keep on trying until you stick to it. Find motivation where ever you can and make little changes that you know you can accomplish. Maybe commit to eating healthy for one day after that day commit to one more day and then another etc. In the end you need to do what works for you.

It is hard, but its worth it.
Good luck!

This sounds so familiar! I am in a very similar situation, except I have gained back a full half of what I lost in the last 6 months alone.

Do you have anyone around to support you or at least not sabotage your efforts. I had to ask my husband to help me out and not have so much stuff in the house. Tried to bargain for a clean 2 weeks but we just ended up with the junk I don't like so well.

Best of luck and you can do it!

Thank you so much you guys! Now I remember why 3FC is so amazing. Your all here for support and love bringing comfort. Thank you. I have been on plan for a whole three days again now. i weighed this morning and was 213.4. so here is to day. Godwilling i can stick to it. Thank you all for your support.

I tried to pick up right were I had left after a long break and it didn't work at all. In fact, until then I had maintained and then I gained 22 lbs out of the 62 I had lost. Now I've lost 12 of those, simply because I decided to cut back on takeout so I could save money for a computer and one thing led to another. I think that this is what you need to do. Treat this like it's your first effort and if you really want this, you'll get back into it.

thats what i am trying to do now cutting out things slowly and just trying to make better choices.