The one thing I’ve found the most difficult with trying to lose weight is dealing with a bad week (or month or six months) where I’ve gained weight. I feel like I’m horribly crappy at dealing with any sort of adversity because when a little weight creeps back on do I get even tougher with my exercise and eating plan to zap the weight right back off?
Yeah, only in my dreams where I’m also 5’10″ tall, have an amazing figure that allows to fit into single digit clothing sizes, am 27 years old, have a wildly successful career, a super cute and buff boyfriend, and have a raging metabolism that allows me to eat whatever I want without gaining an ounce.
The reality for me? When I gain weight I get so upset that I eat to console myself. Then I gain more weight and eat more food. See the viscious cycle I’ve got myself on?
Those inevitable weight gains are harder for me than the food pushers in my life, the delicious treats calling out my name from the bakery case while standing in line at Starbucks for my nonfat latte, my cravings for chocolate and all things salty at the special time of month human beings of the female gender have to deal with for several decades of their life, and my daughter bringing me a favorite treat on a day I’ve already consumed all my allotted Weight Watcher points.
The brain in my head knows that I should look at the overall downward trend on the scale and embrace the weight loss victories (no matter how small).
Even though it’s completely obvious to me that eating more food when I gain weight is not a good solution, it’s what I’m doing. Even though I’m completely aware of how hard it was to lose the 50 pounds I’ve gotten rid of, I’m still stuffing my face these days and slowly gaining weight back.
I’m in the the mode of “it’s too hard and I’ll never be able to lose the weight anyway so why keep trying?” (Yeah, can you tell I’ve got a major case of self negativity going on?)
I’m hoping for some feedback (in the handy comments section) on how you deal with a weight gain?
Do you fall off the deep end back into overeating like I do ( and I hope you don’t because it’s so horribly self-defeating) or do you have a more positive way of dealing with it and getting yourself back in the “losing weight” or “maintaining weight” mode.
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I used to, now I don’t allow myself to diet, nor freak about at noise on the scale, and if I see a small gain that’s not pms or salt, I cut back on indulgences, or eat smaller meals. You can outdo a weeks worth of “dieting” with a binge, it’s not worth it, not physically nor psychologically. This means weight loss is slow, but it’s one-directional. It doesn’t go up (not more than a pound or two, and that’s usually from high stress living), it stays the same, or creeps very slowly down.
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