Self Sabotage
 

I was doing wonderful on Atkins and then state testing hit!! I am a classroom teacher and the stress for my students to do well on the state test is horrible. I have went into a binge eating holiday and boy did I hurt my weight loss. It seems once I get to a certain weight I go the other way. I don't know, maybe I think I don't deserve it or maybe it is something else. All I know is that I hate the way I look and feel and I am back on Atkins induction full force. Wish me luck and no more Self Sabotage!!!!!!!! I am worth it.

Good luck to you!

I struggle with that too... I have been over 200 for years now, and I think it's this weird yearning to get below it, yet stay in my comfort zone of being fat. WHAT IS UP WITH THAT? :lol:

If only this weight loss business could be a straight shot to goal. Well, I guess it is for some people. Persistence, not perfection, eh? :)

I can't answer why, but me too.

I went from 218 to 146 - size 16 to a loose 6 in 2008 only to go back up to 189 at the end of 2009, a year and a half at a size 6 which I had never been in my life and I ate my way through some brutal stress and here I am again fighting with myself to lose it........I can see gaining 5, 10, 15 pounds but 45???? What was I thinking????

Live and learn I suppose, here's hoping this is our last time!!! :D

I do this too. I have certain weights where i'm obviously comfortable hanging out - I hover there forever. I'm in one of those ranges right now - won't be safely out of for almost 20 pounds... So I just keep on muddling through (or trying to - been struggling a bit lately)

I think it is quite normal to have disruptions when we are stressed, and finding non-food stress reducers is helpful, but doesn't do it all for people who have used food for comfort for their lives. So forgive yourself and get back on track.
I also think the key is to stop the overeating quickly. I have been going through some grief since my mother died 8 weeks ago today. I didn't stick to plan for a week around the death and funeral, and had some blips as I tried to get back on plan. I gained about 3 pounds back but was able to stop the long slow slide before it got too bad. I was really happy with that.
But last year, after some good weight loss, (finally below 170 after years of struggle) I gained it back with long term stress of my aging parents' illnesses. So I can't say I dealt with long term stress well, and want to get past that, it IS likely to happen again, and I don't want to undo the good I've done.

I think it is quite normal to have disruptions when we are stressed, and finding non-food stress reducers is helpful, but doesn't do it all for people who have used food for comfort for their lives. So forgive yourself and get back on track.
I also think the key is to stop the overeating quickly. I have been going through some grief since my mother died 8 weeks ago today. I didn't stick to plan for a week around the death and funeral, and had some blips as I tried to get back on plan. I gained about 3 pounds back but was able to stop the long slow slide before it got too bad. I was really happy with that.
But last year, after some good weight loss, (finally below 170 after years of struggle) I gained it back with long term stress of my aging parents' illnesses. So I can't say I dealt with long term stress well, and want to get past that, it IS likely to happen again, and I don't want to undo the good I've done.