It's not that everyone is not interested, it's just that most have their own thoughts about this. I eat meat everyday. I do try to stick mostly to chicken and fish but I do indulge in beef without guilt. Talk to anyone who derives their diet from a paleo mindset and they'll tell you the same thing.

Growing up my mother used to tell me that meat makes you fat. She made me feel guilty about liking it and I'm so glad that it's been debunked that meat makes you fat.

For me it's all or nothing. So when I am good, I'm REALLY good, but when I decide to cheat, all **** breaks lose and good luck getting in between me and the fridge! Then trying to get back on track is the worst :(

My Biggest problem is when I decide to try & lose weight I constantly crave evrything I shouldn't have & just can't get away from the thought of junk food.

I do good all week, and than the weekends come...... =(

^ This.

It's why I can't buy Zone Perfect energy bars anymore. If I binge, instead of eating one of them I'll eat the entire box, easy, in 10 minutes. BAM!! - an extra 1000 calories right there. And since I've blown it, I look for anything else in the house to devour. (But I won't order a pizza - that would be going too far). :dizzy:

All-or-nothing thinking. I have a history of being all in or all out. I'm either super strict about my diet/fitness plan or I'm completely off my diet/fitness plan. Because of that, I haven't been on for 4 years. It took me that long to mentally prepare myself again. But this time, I have completely switched things up. I have a different diet plan (I no longer count calories), I only exercise as much as I really want to (which is much less than I've always felt obligated to do), and I take a cheat day once a week (in the past, I would have considered any cheat at any time as failure). This "meeting in the middle" way of doing things is a major step for me! I'm hoping the changes will keep me going this time and I really believe they will. I'm so ready to stop the on-again, off-again yo-yo dieting! No more all-or-nothing thinking! There really is a middle ground!

After reaching goal weight and maintaining for almost 9 months, I went home for 2 family reunions. Now I went on a tour through Italy and returned feeling pretty good about my choices. Two very short family reunions saw me bingeing on Special K bars and cookies. With both my family and his. I think that being around my family is the biggest challenge I've run into so far. And although I love them, I'm very glad I live 17 hours away from them.

Big victory for me! Today on my way home, I decided to blow my diet at eat jack in the box. By by the time I got to the ordering menu, I actually talked myself out of it. This is a victory because I've never been able to turn down tacos and curly fries. Especially not so close to having them. I just kept driving!

Congrats on the victory!!!

Falling back into old habits like eating out a lot and not exercising regularly. I'm trying to make less drastic and rigid changes this time in the hopes that I can stick with these changes more easily (and recover faster when I do fall off track).

Being out with friends, because I just can't control myself.
The second would definitely be night time bingeing.

I swear, sometimes I wish I had no friends so I would just stay home all day and sleep at night. I'd lose all my weight with no problem.

there are days (like today) where I falter, but I just try to and do better the next day without chastising myself too much.

This is odd, but mine is counting calories/planning!

Sometimes I just want something that is made in the crockpot, or a light casserole, but I end up skipping it, usually for some crappy TV dinner because it's easier to count. I just don't know how to divide up servings on things like that when I eat with my family. Often, I end up cooking everything of mine separately so I can measure and weigh it all, but that gets complicated when it comes to more complicated/meals and recipes!

Also, planning. One skipped trip to the grocery store can throw me off for days, because then there isn't anything healthy to eat.

me too! I love my crock pot and used to use it almost exclusively. and i'd cook some pretty healthy things in it but now i'm hesitant to do it. this is something i'm going to have to get past with winter approaching

Going out to eat too much. The last few months I have gotten very good with eating breakfasts and lunches at work. And very good at home with dinners, weekends, and snacking.

But still go out to eat too much. I make better choices going out to eat then I used to. And I am OK with my rate of weight loss. If I ever plateau for too long, though, I may have to curtail the eating out. I've eaten out A LOT since May 1, and some not too healthy meal. A lot being at least once a week and as high as 4-5 times a week, most weeks I'd say 1-3 times. But more towards 1 to 2.. I've probably left 5 to 10lbs, perhaps more, weight loss go away because of that given how much I am exercising now and eating well other times.

But until I stall for a long time it is an acceptable trade-off for me right now getting to say 220 a month or two later than I would have otherwise. And who knows? Perhaps I wouldn't keep to the good habits at all those other times if I wasn't eating out?