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Originally Posted by tarashoar
In the past year and half I have always given up after 3 to 6 days. The longest I have been on a diet is 10 days total and then I have given up and gone back to my old eating habits. What is wrong with me. Why can't I committ?
I don't know why - you tell us.
Why are you giving up after just a few days? Are you hungry? Are you surrounded by tempting foods you can't resist? Are you not planning ahead so that you find yourself with "no choice" but to eat off plan?
Think about what is going wrong, and set yourself up to avoid that problem.
If you are hungry, ask questions about what kinds of foods are low calorie but still satisfying, so that you can be hungry less of the time. (There is also a certain amount of discomfort you just have to will your way through, in the beginning. If you have a good healthy plan, I promise this gets easier.)
If you are surrounded by tempting snacks, think about how to remove them from your environment and replace them with on-plan snacks instead. Throw out your junk food, bring apples and boiled eggs to the office, etc.
If you are not planning ahead, start planning ahead, so you don't find yourself at the mall food court starving at lunchtime with "no choice" but to order a pizza.
These are just examples; without knowing more about why you are having trouble staying on plan, it's hard to give advice about how to get yourself past that stumbling block. So, take a look at
how you are stumbling, and try to set yourself up not to stumble in that particular way next time.