You might find this book helpful: The Beck Diet Solution by Judith Beck. It's not a diet. It's a book about how to develop dieting skills no matter what diet you are pursuing. She argues that we fail at diets because no one ever taught us how to do well on them.

If you try the book, there's a group of us posting about our experience with it on 3FC -- please join us!

Thank you everyone for all the great advice! I keep reading it over and over!
You are all so wonderful!!!:hug:
Discouragement does cause me to eat mindlesly! Thats it! Thats my problem!
And I do find myself not only consuming a whole meal while sampling while I'm cooking, then eating my "real meal" after I have cooked! Thinking to myself, well now, I have screwed up again, why bother, then I will try tommorow, and the same thing happens the next day!
I just need to stop acting crazy, and get back on track.
I'm so happy that i came across this site, I feel like there is hope for me

I am going to start the Ideal Protien diet. I found it on here and am very encouraged. Good luck to you!!

Go with whatever you think you can maintain for life. Low carb is hard for some people indefinitely but works wonders for others. So it really is a personal choice. Good luck!

I don't think you really have to choose between one or the other. Most of us who have been with it a while learned what works best for our bodies, and remember your body needs change. The most important thing you can do for yourself is to not look at your days as wins or losses, but as one more day you made it through. If you go over your carbs/cals/fat then get over it and move on. Never ever ever tell yourself you failed or criticize yourself!!