I am trying really hard to get back on the weight losing train after a lot of failures and then a long period of just completely giving up. I'm angry at myself too, but it helps me to look at why I overate. For me, a lot of it was that I was afraid to try to lose weight so I would always blow any chance of weight loss before I could mess it up. I was in a kind of scary free-fall where I had just totally given up on myself and was eating about as much as I could because if I'm not going to come in first I'm going to come in last, darn it.
But eating like that is not mentally healthy behavior. If you had a friend who really wanted to lose weight but kept messing it up, against her best interest, but then she started to try, wouldn't you feel bad for the mistakes she has made but happy that she is no longer making them? Who you are is what you do today, and as long as you are making healthy choices, you deserve to feel good about yourself. Weight loss is really, really hard, especially when you have as much to lose as you (and I) do, so honestly, I think you should be proud just for trying.
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