I gained my weight back .....GREAT.

gol dammit.

I am back up to 155.

I was down to 145.

I've just been eating TONS OF JUNK AND I CANT STOP. AHHHHHHHHH.

I eat fast food now and I never really have before until I recently started my new job.

I can't get motivated. I feel fatter and so unhealthy again. My clothes got tighter and I just keep saying I will start over, but I just can't get myself too.

I AM FRUSTRATED.

 

I know all too well how you feel. 

To make matters worse, I've been exercising like a crazy person (1 hour of cardio and 30 minutes of strength with free weights) for the past two weeks, as well as dieting, and haven't lost even 1 pound.

I started by limiting myself to one junk day a week. It gave me something to look forward to and a kind of "reward". 

Hang in there and don't give up! 

meeeeeeeeh.

Go to the grocery store and "waste" your food budget on good stuff. Force your own hand to make some healthy snacks for work time and just have them there. Maybe lunch is a social thing at your new job, but take the lead for healthy choices . . . others will follow. If it ain't a social thing, then you have control to make your own lunch.

I hope you can kick the junk, man.

It's only gonna get worse from this point on. Hope you're ready for the grim future.

I'm pretty much the queen of gaining back weight that I've lost. Since I was 15 (so, 6 years) I've lost a significant amount of weight, and then gained it back plus some approximately 4 times. Hopefully by continuing to keep track even after I've reached my goal, I'll be able to keep it off. It's tough, and it sucks, and it makes you angry, but don't sweat it too much...it happens!

I have done this so many  times I have lost count.  Its really important for me to track my food intake and my trick is I never take any cash to work.  I don't get a lunch hour to I have to eat what I bring no matter what.  I don't even bring any change  otherwise I know I will be hitting up the soda machine later and its not worth it to me.  I am now really keeping the weight off....you can do this!!!!!

schnooder, I understand completely, because I have just done the same thing!  I don't know what is wrong with me; I met my goal, got over confident and then began eating all of the bad things I hadn't been eating for the past year.  I am pretty upset with myself right now and it is only making things worse because I feel like giving up so I keep eating more and more bad food and I have stopped going to the gym too.  Do you want to be buddies and try to motivate each other to get ourselves back on track to lose that weight before the end of summer and then work together to keep it off since that is the hardest part?  Anybody else who wants to join this fight is welcome to join too!  We need to be supportive of each other here because negative comments from other CC members do not make us feel any better.

omg we are soooo in the same boat trust me lol.
at the beginning of the year i was at 145 also and i got back to 160 and just now got back to 150 lol. and ive been on MAJOR binges this year!! like eaten a whole cake and loaf of bread plus ALL the junk food in the house in one day lol.
dont worry and dont be discouraged! you can do it. you did it once, you can do it again. it sucks and feels like youve backtracked when you coulda been down to say... 140 instead or something but... eh. it happens! all you can do is say the damage is done... and do what you can to fix it again! good luck!

I find that personally it's better just not to eat junk at all. I used to say: "Well, if I just let myself have soda on Fridays, it will be okay." But as soon as I taste it I crave it and then it turns into a week long thing. Some people can allow themselves a cheat day on some things, some people can't.

Soda, cookies, candy, potato chips, I can't let myself cheat on or I crave it. Sometimes I'll let myself have a fast food chicken sandwich with a salad and that doesn't drive me back for more, but fries... oh man, I love me some french fries. ;_;

Although starting over might seem impossible, it seems like maybe that's because there are other new things going on in your life that are intimidating to you so you are having a hard time changing your eating habits as well. (IE New job your mentioned.)

Maybe it's best to get the intimidation of the new job out of the way. Say you'll give yourself a month of a "break" counting calories. Still try to keep healthy eating in mind, but don't make yourself feel worse counting. But once that month is up, and you feel more settled at your job, really kick it into gear and get back on track.

If you lost it once, I'm sure you can lose it again. Just don't kill yourself over it. You're human, ya know?

*hugs*

Yeah I am up to 130 from 116, in about 2 months. Thanks to cereal and ice cream raids!

after a wonderful 2.5 year maintenance, i screwed up this april and gained a lot of weight back, i don't know how many, but a lot.  been very depressed, frustrated, and unhappy.  thing is, i binge badly so i need to fix this before moving on with anything else.

Sometimes I wonder if our binges are because we have been depriving ourselves of too much.  IDK just a thought. 

I lost fifty pounds from Jan 2007 to July 2007 and I did pretty well maintaining it for about 7 months and then the scale started to creep back up.  I gained 15 pounds before I had to just take myself in hand and loose it.  The thing that helped me is telling myself that I had worked too hard for too long to throw it away and give into old habits.  It was hard to go back to counting calories and trying to lose weight and I felt humbled but you have to do it.  That is what a lifestyle change is about - persistence.  Take it one day at a time - you can do this.

When the time is right and you have the motivation you will do this.