If you lost weight and could feel it creeping back....

[Anonymous]

How do you get yourself back on track? I still exercise--a lot--it is food cravings that are doing me in.

[Anonymous]

start measuring and tracking.

Everything needs to be weighed/measured and then recorded so you keep track of what you are eating.

[Anonymous]

Helps me to (juice) fast a day. Then I feel less bloated, more motivated, healthy food is more appetizing and resisting cravings is easier.

[Anonymous]

Weigh yourself daily, give yourself some give for a pound or two but when you see the numbers moving on the scale - eat less.

[Anonymous]

MyFitnessPal app, for me 99% of the time, it is the food and booze that wrecks my weight

[Anonymous]

Allow yourself some indulgences. Definitely do not deprive yourself.

[Anonymous]

For the juice faster pp, what do you do exactly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Allow yourself some indulgences. Definitely do not deprive yourself.

Yep, this is the one rule I have no trouble following.

[Anonymous]

I'm with you - I lost 20+ pounds and am starting to see it creeping back. I weigh myself everyday, work out 4 times a week, but have gotten lazy on the food. What we need to do is to get back to the habits that were successful in helping us lose the weight. Measuring foods, keeping track of every bite, whatever it was.

I hear myself thinking, even if I gain 5 pounds i'm still 15 pounds thinner than I was before, which is setting myself up for major failure.

I'm also going to try a new workout or class, needing something to motivate my workouts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hear myself thinking, even if I gain 5 pounds i'm still 15 pounds thinner than I was before, which is setting myself up for major failure.

I agree that that is a dangerous way to think. Five pounds becomes ten and so on.

I am still moving down the scale, but when I saw my progress was slowing a lot, I went back to tracking. It helps keep me focused. I never want to go back to where I was before.

[Anonymous]

I will keep trying! Night time does me in...food just calms me down. I know other methods would too, but I go for the quick, foolproof (albeit temporary) "fix."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will keep trying! Night time does me in...food just calms me down. I know other methods would too, but I go for the quick, foolproof (albeit temporary) "fix."

Same here. Mine is creeping back. I stopped buying my worst vice (chips) and I'm trying to go a week without them. Next week I'll take out another vice, maybe chocolate... Maybe!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MyFitnessPal app, for me 99% of the time, it is the food and booze that wrecks my weight

+1000 on MFP. Great community too.