UGH i thought i was doing sooo good

If you were able to get it off the first time I think you'll be able to do so again. I'm working on getting back down to a "manageable" weight, it's just a very slow process.

I feel your pain. I lost 12 pounds a few months back with a diet change. I felt so great, but now today as I sit I have gained half of it back. I am still lower then I was but I am losing ground on the progress I made. I am working out with my hubby tonight. He is helping keep me motivated. It really has helped to have someone to answer to. He is really into it and I dont feel up to it but he gently nudges me to workout with him. Whew, I hope it works this time. I want the energy I used to have before I put on this weight. Good luck on your wagon. I have been there a few times and is hard to realize that the weight you lost is comming back. Come back here and tell us how it is going and help keep us motivated.

I have not weighed in a week or so. I am finding that I cannot get some of my clothes on that I wore last year. I have gone up and down a lot for the last year. I just went a bought a YMCA membership. My insurance at work will reimburse some of the cost. Yay.

I've struggled with weight a lot recently. It's really hard to maintain and keep weight off once you make progress. Everyone says you have to change yourlifestyle to keep the weight off, but its so much easier said than done.

i have the opposite problem.. when i was having health problems and got deathly skinny i would think i was gaining weight and some clothes would get tight just to find out i lost more or lost what i had just gained! when i was over weight it seemed that i wouldnt lose any weight yet my clothes would get looser.. i swear its a mystery sometimes!

Hey saundyl! Don't feel so bad! I am pretty upset myself! I have a habit of losing and then gaining and going back and forth and up and down! And now I have gained again and am very upset about it because I am no good at dieting at all! I started eating again and now I can't stop! I go from one extreme to another! Either I am not eating or am overeating! There is never a medium with me and I just can't stay on a diet! So I am now upset with my weight gain and don't know what to do about it! And of course now it is summer and the wrong time of year to have to deal with the weight gain because there is no way to hide it! And I also gain it ALL in the middle as most women do!

Sandy, I have found that if I go on a diet I usually lose the weight, stop the diet and do the yo-yo thing. Since Feb. 4th, 2009, I decided instead of a diet I would make small changes to the foods I was eating and consider them as perminate changes. I have also set up an exercise regiment, six days a week. Workout with weights for 30 to 40 mins everyother day three days a week, and running everyother day for 30 min. I am up to 2&1/2 miles as of today, and have lost 17 lbs, about 1.5 lbs per week. Every two weeks I change my workout, its more like a circuit training thing now. I also walk for 30 mins., after my large dinner meal and have started eating three small meals a day, and three snacks (200 to 300 colories). Small changes over time in our diets change our concept of dieting which by itself seems like depriving yourself of foods you like over a set period of time. But if you make small changes and incorporate them into your life style as perminate you'll lose weight, and be able to maintain it. I also keep adjusting my meals and snacks and workouts to keep it interesting and to keep from getting stuck and stop losing weight. Good Luck and just keep on trying no matter what set-backs you have, you will reach and maintain your goals.

Aww...that's really a shame. I hope you can make your goals again! It's always so frustrating when you lose and get excited about it and then put it back on. I know exactly how you feel, though. Last year about this time I was so much more active and trying to lose weight and I finally went from a size 10 to a size 8 and I was extremely excited. With college and work this year, though, I exercised when I could, but had less time for it. I figured hey, I walk about 4-5 miles in a 4 hour shift at work alone plus all the other things I do during the day, so exercise when I can and I'll still keep the weight off since I don't eat all that unhealthily anyway. But no. It didn't work like that. I gained it back and then some, so now I'm heavier than I've ever been in my entire life (though working to lose it again). And I went from a size 8 to a size 10/12. :( Oh well, I guess we're both gonna have to start trying a little harder, huh? My HHP teacher did suggest trying a rewards system, though. Somehow, find a way to calculate rewards for when you do good in a day, but you don't get a reward when you do bad. For mine, I've started using color coded stickers (one for when I exercise well, one for when I eat well, and one for when I do both) and they all have "monetary value" (the last one is worth the most at $1 and the other two are $0.25 each) so that whenever I save up the money from doing good I can buy myself a little treat (I've got my eye on a book right now, in fact!). Good luck and feel free to send me a message if you need a couple words of encouragement! :)