I need HELP!!!!

[SHYJESTA]

Hello everyone, well since may of 07 I had went from 320 down to around 264 lbs. Then right around Thanksgiving day I started slacking, (yeah I know) I weighed myself daily it's become routine. Yet during the holiday I didn't put on any extra weight. Ok so now this past weekend I gained weight and big time! I am at 272! I gained 8 lbs? I also stopped taking some pills which I had been taking sine May. I am now thinking I need to keep taking pills. Could it be water? I started jogging again this week and have cut down big time on my calories around 1500 daily. I only drink diet drinks and water and have since may. I am getting really down in the dumps about this and I am so scared of gaining everything back and more when I still have so much to lose... I feel like just giving up, but I am trying to stay strong.

 

[maleficent]

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1500 calories for your current weight is incredibly low, considering you are working out...

Please spend some time reading the stickied threads iin nutrition and come up with a more reasonable -workable calorie range..

Are you keep a food d iary that would also track sodium, that's one sure way to know if it's water weight you've gained.. 8lbs in one weekend is a lot and doubtful it's fat gain.. it coould jsut be a scale fluctuation.

The reason Why Isuggest more calories is that it gives you more play... plus it gives you a lifestyle range and not a diet where it's too easy to flall off...

having a lot to lose is daunting and it seems l ike its never ending - when i started - And Im not bragging here -it just is what it is I had 230 lbs or so to lose... that number is now whittled down to about 35lbs to lose.. it can be done.. but it takes some patience and not giving up on your self and keep going forward...

but to go forward it's a heck of a lot easier when you've got reasonable calories...

there'vebeen a few weeks - ok months -where I got bored and frustrated and just tired but because my calorie range was reasonable - I didn't gain any weight -it held steady ..

One foot in front o the other -

 

[SHYJESTA]

Thanks for the comment, well I had to really sit down and realize what was truly going on. I came to the conclusion that I was dwelling on the problem instead of understanding the solution. Yeah I messed up and the effect was that I gained weight. However instead of getting my butt on the ball and doing something about it. I had chose to just act like a baby (depressed) and all it caused was me wanting to eat more...

So I have gone back to counting my calories and not drinking as much diet drinks, i've had 2 all week. I have also been working out and running! I had stopped doing that and now I feel great. The best part is I have already dropped three pounds since I posted this thread. I guess it so true " you only fail when you stop trying" thats what I did and I failed.

Long way to go but I am going to get there...