I come here for that one reason. I was gone for 3-4 months and my eating was horrible. I came back just to keep myself in check. I'm not looking to lose weight, but I don't need to eat sweets and junk every day either!

I take breaks sometimes when I find myself getting grouchy about typing up the same advice and comments over and over again. It's not a newcomer's fault when she asks a question I feel I have answered 100 times, and so when I find myself feeling ungracious or snarky about hauling out my same old comments, I know it's time to go away for a while.

I don't post a ton but this is true for me as well!

Definitely this! Around New Years Resolution time it just helps for me to be scarce. I can't keep humoring people who diet hard for a week, post six times, and drop off the face of the earth. It isn't a wise use of MY time, which is limited anyway, and particularly if I have nothing kind or useful to contribute. Sometimes even when it is useful I delete it, because a fair number of folks aren't ready to hear harder truths about their choices and what it take to stay weight reduced.

It comes and goes for me. Sometimes I'm in a very charitable mood and post a rash, and other times I mostly check in on certain folks and lurk. That's the way of things :^:

Aww I didn't know people missed me! I disappeared because I had a lot going on and I wanted to concentrate my efforts on life (I'm single for the first time in years), and I was trying to go in the opposite direction of most people here! I was trying to see if I could gain muscle and strength and it kind of got weird to post in a weight loss forum when I was trying to go the other way.

I miss this place though, so I had to come back. Nobody except for one of my friends gets my quirks in real life. Much easier to come here and talk about this stuff ;)

Some days I am just too busy to post.

They are normally good days!

Me too!! I think of her and wonder where she disappeared to often.

Glad you're back... Sorry to hear about the life stuff. I'm in a similar position and I know it's rough. Hang in there!

Funny, just a couple of weeks ago I got to wondering about you and checked your twitter and blog, and just figured you needed a break from all this for whatever reason. And now you're back! :carrot:

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I've been wondering about BerryBlondeBoys, LockItUp, and ElvisLover as well. I know I'm not nearly posting as much as I had, but I've been lurking about with not a whole lot to say these days with just an occasional post here and there.

I guess I've been sort of torn . . . so happy to finally be pregnant, yet having it happen when I was only 12 pounds away from finally being overweight? I've never been just overweight, I've spent my entire adult life obese and beyond. While I am concentrating on eating healthy and low-impact exercise, I can't exactly focus on losing weight right now. :dizzy: I also feel that if I post a lot right now, it's going to be little more than a lot of whining and complaining when I've really been more blessed than ever. :(

I go MIA frequently, but never because I fall off the wagon per-say. I just have an insanely crazy busy life. I log in daily and read daily, but unless I have something of importance, I don't always write up a post. The weeks where things are low key I write like mad! Now that summer's here, my time is outside more than inside...and my business is starting to pick up, keeping me busier than I ever intended! :D

I've had a lengthy hiatus (Mfp). A lot of the ppl seem
to have been on it and might lurk here once in awhile.
Idk really. Just thought I'd chime in, just lurking about
today. :)

Since I've hit my goal, I notice that I've been lurking more and posting less. It's a combination of things for me. I find that since I'm not actively losing anymore, for some reason I'm not finding my "niche" here quite so easily anymore. Sometimes I see posts and think to myself "been there, done that" so I don't continue on if I'm in a hurry or if I see many other brilliant responses already written. Something keeps drawing me back here though. I know I don't have maintenance mastered (ha!) and there's still a lot for me to learn here.

I needed to walk away for a couple of weeks. I think partly because it's summer, people are busier - I know I have been! But I realized not posting was making it a little easier for me to justify going off plan, so I promised myself that even though I have an extremely busy schedule right now that I would at least check in every couple of days.

I've only been here for a few months, but I get the snarky feeling that goes along with some of the repitition.

Personally, I stopped posting because my life situation changed. I moved, and it was only me working so we didn't have the internet or a computer. Now, we do. :D There are a myriad of reasons, but suffice it to say that when they're ready/can, they'll come back!

Oh my goodness it sounds like you've been dealing with a lot. Hope you are hanging in there and doing well.