Hello everyone! I am a repeat offender to the whole regainer losing again thing... Last year I got down to 254, but slowly gained some of the weight back an was at 280 three weeks ago. I'm getting back on track yet again and hoping to keep it off for good this time. I struggle with staying on restrictive diets like low-carb or eat clean diets... I do well on them for a few weeks and then completely screw up and give up. So I'm returning to the calorie counting approach and fully enjoying my calories. Here's to a fresh start!

Hello shadowclaw, welcome! Good luck and good strength with resuming your plan.

I continue to chip away at this regain. I dropped to 170 today, 18 days after I dropped to 172. This process teaches patience if nothing else. These last few days have been rough. I'm battling a chest cold, lying around alone a lot, and wanting nothing more than to eat a pint of ice cream for dinner. I have white-knuckled through that and stuck to my on-plan meals and I'm very glad to be rewarded with a drop today.

I continue to feel my body returning to its trimmest state as well, which of course matters most, but I admit the scale numbers are still satisfying.

Starting off good had a yummy salad for breakfast. No swimming lessons today so we are home all day. I was thinking about taking my kids to a movie but it is really hard for me to leave the house. I just panic. A cross I bear and hate.

Welcome Shadowclaw. We are all working for that balance. I am doing calories too. I count and go over it seems everyday. But I am still counting and that is something I never did before keep track of my eating. Accountability is new for me and I am getting used to being a responsible eater. I have always worried about my weight but I am always the fat girl and I just accepted it. I am working on the guilt of eating and being accountable, a fine line for me. Guilt just makes me give up. Every day it seems I give up and start the next day. Always starting another day. Just working every day at a time. My life to accept.

Have a great OP day.

Hi guys, I am slinking back in here with my tail between my legs. I was a founding member of this little group, but last year I got very sick and let that derail all my progress up to now. I'm trying so hard to get back on the horse, but I keep falling off. I know if I start posting here again that it will help, so here I am, admitting to stumble after stumble.

I don't even know what I weigh right now. A lot. Over 200 for sure, though how far over, I'm scared to find out. I feel miserable and nothing fits and I need to make some serious changes, so I'm recommitting. Part of that is showing my face around here on a regular basis, so I'm really going to try.

Hello to anyone who may remember me, and it's nice to see so many new faces keeping this group going. I look forward to getting to know all of you.

Welcome back Thistoo. You are in the right place. I have been derailed too and I am not sure how I can get back going again. I just can not get things together. I am at a point where I just feel like I need to accept being fat and leave it at that. I am so frustrated with myself. Just at my wits end. TOM and am up 3 lbs, I just eat everything to make myself feel better. So unhealthy. And exercising is a joke with the kids home from school.

Swim lessons today so I am going to sit in the pool room like sauna for an hour. Have a good day.

Been doing good. Giving myself a little slack here and there and still heading back to where I was last year (194). Getting close! Good luck everyone, make good choices!

I'm still hanging out in the upper 240s, not much of a change since things have been super busy lately, however my husband and I are getting to go on our honeymoon to Florida on Saturday, so I will be gone for a couple of weeks but we are soooo excited! We couldn't take a honeymoon when we got married last year due to time constrictions and money, so this has been highly anticipated for the both of us!

I plan to eat healthy and get plenty of walking done (part of it will be in Disney World!) and hopefully the hotel we get at the beach has a gym. Either way I am stoked!

Congratulations Pink Hurricane! I hope you have a fantastic trip. I love Disney (used to live about an hour east on the coast) and get back there any chance I have. Eating healthy at Disney is a lot easier these days as well, so that's nice.

I have been there myself many times in the past couple months. I'm a horrible binge eater, and recent illness and family stress has led to me gaining back even more weight. I don't know how much because I'm avoiding the scale, but I'm probably somewhere around 220 right now.

This week I'm back on track, really focusing on eating only healthy foods and cutting out anything that triggers cravings, including diet soda and alcohol. I get tired of drinking nothing but water and black coffee, but I know what I have to do to lose weight, and I'm at the point where I either do it or just give up.

I really don't want to give up. When I was 150 I wasn't even at goal, but man, I felt aMAZing. I would be happy to get back there again.

Thistoo. You sound just like me. I binge. Guilt. Then work to get it off. Then binge again. But I never make it to goal.

Just 17 days until my kids are back in school then I am back on schedule. It is really hard staying on plan and exercising with the kids around all day. Looking forward to having some time to get my head together.

I've eaten all my calories for the day and I'm still hungry. Genuinely hungry.

Four hours till bedtime.

The house is clean. The laundry is done. I already exercised. I have no work to do. I feel too edgy to concentrate on anything.

Normally, I would snack my way through till bedtime. Really trying hard not to do that.

I still have water to drink. And some vitamins to take.

I must have a tumor...I think I smell chocolate!

Geoblewis. You are too funny. I must have a tumor too. Did you make it??? I hope so. Love your posts keep them coming.

Lose, I ate the chocolate! Fortunately, I only had a small amount and I only went over my calories by just under 100. Realized a loss on the scale this morning.

So, I'm trying something wacky these days. It's called the Shangri-La Diet. SLD isn't really a diet, but rather a practice that supports reducing unnecessary eating. Basically, the theory is that we tend to overeat when it comes to eating flavorful foods. So the more flavorless foods we eat, the more easily we are physically satisfied by the foods we are eating. There are a few things one can do to achieve this. One part is to take a total of 1 to 4 Tbs. (depending on how much weight one needs to lose) of a flavorless oil throughout the day, within a two-hour window (that is, at least an hour away from anything flavorful on either side of ingesting it). It seems to help people control their cravings throughout the day. Another thing that can help is to wear a nose clip while eating so that you can't smell the food you're eating. This greatly reduces how much flavor you're getting from the food.

For the first week, I drank the oil. I started with using flaxseed oil. I clipped my nose and drank 2 Tbs. in the morning and 2 Tbs. in the evening. It seemed to work, but after a few days I read that flaxseed oil tended to raise blood sugar levels, and since I'm a type 2 diabetic, I didn't want that happening. So I switched to extra light olive oil. It had a much milder flavor and I seemed to do really well with that for about a week. But then I got bored and distracted, and the oil was starting to make me gag, and I'd forget a dose or my meal timing was off, and before I knew it, I was craving fast food again. But while I was doing the oil protocol correctly, I had absolutely no fast food cravings!

So I'm well into week two of this SLD. Just thinking about taking another dose of oil is making me queasy. Frustrating! So now I'm trying the nose clipping thing for all my meals. This morning I had a paleo beef stick and an iced coffee with a Tbs. of heavy cream for breakfast, with my nose clipped. That's a total of 95 calories. And I feel full! Wha?! I'm just going to keep doing this with my nose clipped whenever I eat at home. As for the taking of flavorless fat, I might do that sometime in the afternoons when I'm most likely to overeat, and probably a smaller dose of oil or maybe grass-fed ghee. I tend to eat more fat anyway with my ketogenic diet to control my blood sugar levels. And I've actually been having problems eating enough fat.

I'll let you know how it goes in a week!

Georgia, I read about your Shangri-La experiment on some other thread. I fear I'd have the same reaction to trying to swallow plain oil, but my sister's done something similar and she's tiny now. Granted, she was never anywhere as heavy as me, but she's like a size zero these days. I wish I had her will power.

My weekend was more or less on plan. I had some alcohol, which was a mistake, but I didn't overeat as a result, and it was low-calorie rum with no sugary mixers, so it could have been a lot worse. I just drink too much when I'm drinking and I'm too old for that now. I still walked the dog twice a day and mowed my giant lawn, then yesterday I went to my sister's and swam with my niece and nephew, so I got some activity in.

Food-wise I was okay. On Sunday I allowed myself some rice crust pizza as my 'cheat meal', but I stayed away from gluten completely and I'm not having crazy cravings as a result, so that's a major success. I'm trying to stay grain-free, so the rice flour was a compromise, but I'm right back on track this morning and I'm ready for a solid week on plan.

Thistoo. No grains that would be so hard. What a champ you are. I am off to a slow start this week. I had a cheese sandwich for breakfast. I am counting calories and I have a good rest of the day planned. So I just need to get over it and move on. Swimming lessons with the kids today. I am reading Jane Erye so I am excited to get back into it. They are planning the wedding so it is getting good.

Georgia I too would have a terrible time getting the oil down. I did a lime and chili pepper cleans once and I gagged and threw up the whole time. It did not go well. How is the oil going???

Went to church yesterday and my dress was too small for me I have get my life together. It seems that counting calories is not working for me. I was on nurtisystem and lost but got bored with the food and fell off it. And now I am up to where I was. I just have got to figure it out what to do.

Thistoo, I noticed when I'm really low carb and gluten free I tend to have more thoughts about drinking alcohol, especially in the evening, like having a cocktail after dinner. Intellectually I really don't want it, because it kills fat loss until my body had processed the alcohol. But I do get brief cravings for it.

I'm doing much better with munching on the butter rather than drinking oil. I know that puts a lot of people off, but it works for me!