I am so ashamed of myself

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Registered: 04-14-2004
I am so ashamed of myself
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Mon, 05-10-2004 - 5:23pm
I did horrible this w/e! Absolutely horrid. I feel like I have probably gained 50#s. My deadline is coming and I am losing faith here. I really want this so bad, but I get around my mom and I always eat eat eat. What is up with that?

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Registered: 04-30-2003
Mon, 05-10-2004 - 5:37pm

Don't be so hard on yourself. I'm learning that if you're hard on yourself, you tend to give up. At least I do. So, take this weekend, throw it away, and grab that wagon today or tomorrow. I too wasn't that great, but I figure, I have today to start again and be good.


Also, I noticed with certain ppl I have no restraints either. Will power just is NOT there. But I'm trying.


You're doing great. And well, even if it's one step back, take two forward and you'll be fine. =)

~Cher




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Registered: 03-30-2004
Mon, 05-10-2004 - 5:43pm
Awwww...I'm sure you haven't gained 50lbs over the weekend, but I'm sure it must feel that way at the moment. It's easy to get discouraged but try not to be so hard on yourself. The fact that you're here and trying is something!! Start again, refocus on your goal ... we make that choice every morning. You'll get there!!! If you've seen any of the journals, you'll see how the rest of us struggle with not giving into temptations, or do ..and just kinda start again. I know I have days where I worry that I won't make my goal by the end of the challenge and for me, it just makes me more determined to do something to get there. And ya know what? Even if I don't make it ... I'm still less heavy than when I started 6 weeks ago...and that's progress (even if only a pound at a time).

Is there something that makes you "want" to eat around your mother (emotionally), or is there just a lot of food around that you wouldn't normally eat?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 05-10-2004 - 5:54pm
Please don't make me tell you all the things I gorged myself on this weekend. LOL

Don't be so hard on yourself, so you indulged a little, let it go, hop back on the eating right wagon and working out. Beating yourself up over it is a surefire way to get you to quit and give up completely on yourself. Pat yourself on the back that it was just the weekend and not the entire week.

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Registered: 04-14-2004
Mon, 05-10-2004 - 7:04pm
I think alot of times with my mom it is food I used to eat, back home. You can't get that stuff around here. But this time, it was just that I had been on this diet so long and we went to Country Buffet.....Bad choice. I said to h#ll with it and had everything I have been wanting soooo bad. Sunday, Mother's Day, today, just plain upset with myself.

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Mon, 05-10-2004 - 7:24pm

Michelle- look at it this way~ The weekend's over- you enjoyed it, you had fun, and perhaps overindulged a little. It happened at a good time, the end of one week, and now it's the beginning of a new one!! In the journal folder if you look at Steph & Miranda's posts you'll see that they have their own mini goals this week. Maybe do something like that for yourself to help have a great week and stay focussed!


Sorry to hear that you feel that it's being around Mom makes you eat, eat, eat....they do have a way with food, don't they? LOL


Head up...Stretch those arms...Kick those legs...Toss that extra portion...and SMILE :-)

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Registered: 01-02-2004
Tue, 05-11-2004 - 7:21am
OOhhhhh.. I got lucky this weekend!! My mom happens to be on the same diet I am. In fact, I cracked up laughing when I got home and she showed me "our shelf" in the fridge.

But remember, when you do have those days that you indulge, and you FEEL like you've gained 50lbs. That's because your tummy gets all this food it's not used to, throws the body outta whack for a couple days and RETAINS WATER!! THere's NO WAY you "GAINED" 50lbs (I know that's an exageration on your part) but even if it's 2 or 3, it's WATER. Drink up! Avoid the salt for a couple days and make MANY trips to the bathroom. Your fingers and ankles will lose the puffyness, you tummy won't feel so bloated and you'll drop that couple extra pounds you picked up. No bigge... in fact, I think I see that wagon right there...*whistle* TAXI...

~Pam

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Registered: 03-28-2003
Tue, 05-11-2004 - 7:32am

Oh sweetie I know how you feel about those diet sabotagers!

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Registered: 08-18-2003
Tue, 05-11-2004 - 8:57am

Oh honey... I know exactly how you feel.

~~ Steffy ~~
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Registered: 06-30-2003
Tue, 05-11-2004 - 9:14am
I am the same. The weekends are bad & my mom is no help. But the weekend is over so just get back on track and you will meet your goal.

Be well

Robyn

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Registered: 01-14-2003
Tue, 05-11-2004 - 11:41am
You just need to realize that you had a minor setback. I'm just like you i totally freak out when I do that but I used to say oh well I screwed and then i would just continue screwing up and go from there. That the reason that I keep losing the same weight over and over again up and down. Just move on and picture all you have done and your goal. I seem to be getting better at that. Heck I thought about it the other day as many times as I have lost the same 10 pounds this last two years I would have been at my goal weigth along time ago. Just keeping going you will get there.

Rainey



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