The "Get back on track for good" group

 I'm sure I am not the only one in this situation. I had been maintaing for only a week or so before the holidays and have fallen off the wagon ever since, gaining 3.5 pounds back (i only lost ten, so that's almost half!) So who wants to join me in shedding the excess pounds and getting back down to our maintenance weights (or just back on track to weight loss in general, doesn't have to be maintenance)?! We'll have weekly weigh-ins, but also any time anyone has even the smallest success in regaining control, post it here!

Maintenance weight: 100 lb.

Current weight: 103.5

Goal weight: 100

*small success: they didn't have the low-calorie whole grain cereal at the dining hall this morning, but instead of saying "what the heck" and eating the high-calorie sugary cereal, I grabbed enough fruit to equal the amount of calories in the healthy cereal. :)

Is it too late to join this group?

I lost 6lbs using CC before Christmas and then just fell off the wagon and gained all of it back steadily when I went on vacation. Since coming back I've lost 3 lbs but I haven't been as comitted as I used to be!

So... starting now I'm going to get back on track for good... thought this would be a good way to motivate me!

SW: 134 lb

CW: 131 lbs

GW: 118 lb

i have a question for everyone... do you think it is really helpful to have a "cheat day"? i am looking for any tips to help me take of this last few pounds! like i said before im staying between 1200-1300 calories and work-out 4-5 a wk with cardio and 2 days of intense weights... leave the carbs out after lunch(as told to by a trainer...) some days i notice a difference, but have not seen a significant weight change.. but maybe that is just expected because its my last few? ah just looking for any tips or advice because i love others perspectives. thanks! 

Original Post by jinderbitzen:

do you think it is really helpful to have a "cheat day"?

i think as long as you dont go over your maitenance cals, you're good.

That being said, I had a bad day yesterday. I really overate. 3000 cals in total or so! But it was not a binge, so i guess the success is that i didnt let it turn into a binge:P

Hey everyone, sorry I haven't been on in a while! I've been doing really well since my setback a few days ago

*small success: i managed to eat only 6 wheat thins. That's huge for me. a few wheat thins always turn into half a box for me so woo!

good morning! Well.. I snacked too much over the weekend :( but I have to start over; one day at a time! I KNOW I CAN DO THIS!!! No snacking today... period!

My weigh-in Sunday was 140.6 and I'm not too sad about that! I don't want to weigh again till next Sunday- hopefully with the non-snacking goals I'll be seeing 138 :).

What are everyone's plans for the Superbowl? I'm going to stop worrying about what everyone else eats and just focus on my non-snacking goals. I'll just have a serving of whatever is for dinner and TRY to follow the 3-bite rule if I want to try anything extra...

small success: I got all my planned exercise in over the weekend!! woo-hoo!!

my pre-determined small success for tomorrow: NO SNACKING TODAY!! :)

keep up the great work ladies! So many good things going on!!

I have no idea what I plan on doing for the superbowl but whatever I do it's gonna be tough (and i mean TOUGH) to not binge. I think I will do an extra workout that day and just try my best to control the snacking. gonna take lots of gum! and I normally don't drink pop, but I may bring some diet coke that way I feel like I'm treating myself and wont be as tempted with the food.

small success yesterday: went to potbelly with my family and for some reason they gave us two cups of soup instead of one. it was broccoli cheddar (my absolute favorite before i lost weight) and i didn't eat it! i sent it home with them! yaay for me.

krrpt, don't worry about the snacking, just move on! just remember how it feels to let yourself down and you won't let it happen again. I'm still only a few short days post-binge so I'm right there with ya

good luck today everyone!

Hey guys!~

I haven't gotten the chance to weigh myself yet today and I'm pretty nervous about it :( I ate like total crap over the weekend and all of it was due to me drinking. I REALLY have to cut back on drinking on the weekend so that I can have some self-control in the food department, otherwise I'm all "Hey lets go to Taco bell at 1am and eat everythingggg!" ugh

BIG success: registered for my college courses and I start back tonight! I'm kind of excited about it because it gets me closer to my goal of applying into the Nursing program and hopefully successfully becoming a registered nurse. Also my fiance has decided he wants to go into the Navy so that we can have a better life together....I'm proud of him for wanting a career but I'm BEYOND depressed about the thought of him leaving me for a few months to do bootcamp and A-School :(

Small (planned) success: I'm hoping that after college tonight at 8pm I will have enough motivation to hit the gym before I go home, I also bought a container of 100% whey protein powder and it's yummy so now I'll be getting more protein in my diet :)

hey everyone! yes i forgot to post my weight, but i did lose 1 lb! i am now 126... woohoo.. 

about the superbowl, just work out a little extra that morning or the day after, and then just RELAX.. i've found that is the hardest thing about dieting. but have some guacomole, because its when you deprive yourself you think you should just eat everything (or at least that's MY problem..) 

small success: stuck to my diet the entire weekend! this is very unusual, ha! anyways, good job everyone and keep it up :) ps go cardinals!!

oh yeah i forgot we are weighing in! i was 102 this morning. gettin there!

we're on the same team, jinderbitzen. woot!

small success today: went to mcalister's and got a garden salad. AND didn't have any tortilla chips or chilli con queso even though it was sitting right in front of me and all around me were devouring it!

-challenge tonight: i found out today that i'm going to be a model in a fashion show :D and my roommate bought me red wine. it's not the alcohol i'm worried about, its the huuge craving for pizza i get once i'm drunk that i'm worried about! i guess we'll see how it goes!

hey guys...its been a while. congrats on all the small successes, good luck with the challenges.

im having some trouble staying healthy at the moment. im having issues controlling my emotions, or rather controlling my emotional eating. its not been good. i dont want to use the word binge but yes...that too.

i might not be on for a while =[

Sk33ny, I understand where you're coming from. I think you should try to come on as much as possible though and even if you're eating unhealthily, log it. At least you'll know how much u've gone over by. I've also read with the bingeing you should find something else to take your mind off food like reading. I wish I could be of more help :( but I guess I'm just in need of some motivation too. I keep thinking what's the use? I'm not going to lose much anyway..I have no idea y I have that mentality at the moment but I do. I feel like I won't ever get down to my goal weight and I really want to eat junk right now. (I'm up doing an assigment).

Hopefully I won't let this get the better of me, I'm going to drink some water, maybe get a little nap and that would be my small success today. Fingers crossed :)

hey guys, i know how you feel...buuut...it'll happen in due time. I think right now we shouldn't focus on losing more weight, just not gaining any? I'm lacking motivation too.  Maybe instead of trying to outdo ourselves every day we should just focus on not letting ourselves get out of control again. we've been doing well and we've come too far to give up now, so keep logging on and tracking what you eat and we'll get back into the swing of things!

hi ladies!

small success: no unhealthy, out of control, snacking in 2 days! Last night I was hungry when I got home from class so I had a bowl of soup that my b/f made. I had enough to fill me up and then went to bed :)

I think I'm going to try to eat two small meals for my dinner rather than one large one.. I eat really early before class (4) and then I'm always hungry when I get home (10). So, maybe I'll have a salad or something before I leave and something else when I get home.. we'll see :)

alyssa- how exciting about the fashion show!!!!! just be careful with the pizza ;)

re: overeating and such... One thing that I'm going to try this weekend with snacking is I'm going to try to keep in mind how it's going to make me feel the next day.. whenever I snack too much I feel so guilty the next day even if my mindset is "why bother" while I'm eating. I'm also trying to focus more on eating healthy than weight loss so when I do eat something extra I try to make it nutritious and eat it only if I'm hungry... I know this is a huge struggle for most of us here, but we can eat healthy! We can control what we eat and make our bodies happy! Just gotta take it one day at time, one challenge at a time! Stay strong girls!!! it's tough but I know we can do it!!

hello everyone!

i had a small success today: got up and ran at 6 AM despite the snow! I really need to get back into running in the morning--so calm and I don't need to worry about traffic, so I can run in the street wherever the sidewalks aren't shoveled. 

Having trouble with motivation. Cravings are rampid lately! I'm eating a little bit less healthy than normal but I'm keeping my calories in check so that's all that matters to me right now, because as I see it, a calorie is a calorie no matter where it comes from (in terms of weight loss) so as long as the cals are under control, I don't care much about the value of them lol.

hope everyone is trying hard and getting there! night!

alyssa... i like your train of thought lol... im a runner as well! but this weekend im going home for my brothers birthday so i know there will be some temptations, and ive had almost no mess-ups for 10 days... soo as long as my calories are in check im going to keep exercising and have a cookie or two :). i think that is a good mentality? ha anyways, happy thursday, and you have snow? im in CA... its been like 70 here im jealous!

hello!

small success: I haven't snacked too much for 3 days!! Now, I do have snacks, if I'm hungry, but what I'm trying to veer away from is extra garbage when I'm not even hungry. and I'm doing it!! :)

I didn't exercise last night... I had a snow day at school so I decided to stay over for a few hours at work and by the time I got home I was pooped.. I'm feeling a little more motivated today so I'm planning on doing my weight lifting and some sort of cardio.. maybe something off of exercise TV... we'll see :)

alyssa- I think eating a little unhealthy at times is totally okay and normal :) sometimes you need a break!!

jinder- have fun this weekend! enjoy some cookies! :) I wish it was 70 here! It's 20!! :(

Hey guys! I finally weighed myself this morning and I was 131.00 so I lost .2 since last week, hey atleast it's a loss! lol

Small success: I haven't gone over 1300 calories in the past 4 days :) I only got to get my butt to the gym on Monday night because it has been snowing here so Tuesday and Wednesday the roads were horrible and everything was closed. But I tried to stay active at home by doing pushups, sit-ups, and dancing around in my room.

Challenge: Tonight is my first night back at college so after work I go to class from 5:30 to 6:45pm, so I packed a bag of gym clothes and hopefully i will be motivated enough to drive straight to the gym from college. Fingers crossed!

small success today: worked out TWICE! 3.5 miles this morning and 2 this afternoon. I feel so great! hope everyone is plugging along!

wow nice job! well today was my brother's birthday, and i realized i lost another pound, BUT then i had 2 pieces of his chocolate cake and 3 oreos... but!!

**small success, we went to chinese food for dinner and i just had hot and sour soup and steamed veggies for dinner! so i definitely over ate due to the dessert...(but did run 3 miles this morning) but i didn't turn it into a full binge.. so thats good! back on track tomorrow good luck over the weekend you guys :)