Thread: Getting back on track

Day 56/100
I went to the gym this morning and spent a little more time there than usual. I was feeling bad for not exercising for last 4 days (as I said, the school and work were killing me). I am camping in the library for the rest of the day today.
I am glad to state that I did not consume any caffinated coffee or carbonated drinks during the past whole week and I am so proud of myself for doing that.

Yesterday did not went well at all . I started the day in all high spirits. I had kept away from caffeine all week long. I made it to the gym early in the morning and I also joined the "Easter Challenge" early in the morning. I came to the library and it all started going down hill from there. As I started studying, I started eating as well. This is my bad habbit # 301, yes, I can not keep away from munching as I am studying. I think this habbit is with me since early years of my life. I feel like since I am being soo nice studying, I should keep rewarding myself with food. So some times the food is a reward, on other times it just keeps me awake, and on other times it is just mindless eating to combat the anxiety caused by an upcoming test or assignment. I think it is a self-sabotaging thing that I do to myself. Since, I do good on one aspect (studying), I need to sabotage myself on the other aspect (diet management), because how can I be good in all aspects, no that cannot be me! Sorry, about my rambling, but I am just soo frustrated with my self after yesterday. I knew what I was doing but I still kept doing it (stuffing my mouth up with food that is). Since I can not eat sweet carb loaded stuff or caffiene loaded drinks, I ate all salty stuff in large quantities and the result?? A 3 lb gain on the scale in the morning :crying: I feel bloated and unhappy with myself.
I know how hard it has been for me to loose the weight and keep it off, and still I do such stupid stupid things .
Day 57/100
Alright, trying to start a new day but still have a lot of negative effects from yesterday. Atleast, all the food that I ate yesterday was LC, otherwise I would have been back to day one. But it was all salt loaded and in huge amounts. Anyways, I have an assignement due today so need to get started on that. I plan to drink lots of water today and will try to hit the gym tonight. AND NO MORE MUNCHIES FOR ME!!!!
Alright, as they say it takes 3 weeks to break a habbit. I have a little more than 4 weeks till the end of my 100 day challenge and following is my plan of action during this time:

Druing the first 50 days:
- I started concentrating on eating nothing but LC food.
- Lost 10 lbs
- Joined gym and started working out 3-5 times a week
Plan for next 50 days:
- Tapper down and stop the consumption of carbonated beverages (I have already succeeded in stopping that during the entire last week)
- Tapper down and stop the conumption of caffeinated coffee (again, I have already succeeded in stopping that during the entire last week. I have only been taking decafe coffee and green tea)
- Stop munching through out the day, no matter if I am studying or doing anything else. I will only allow myself 3 snacks in between my 3 regular meals. I can have a snack between breakfast and lunch, another one between lunch and dinner and a third one after dinner (only if I am studying till late and need that to keep me up). Other than these, there should not be any food passing my lips.

I feel like I have made a number of good habbits during the past 50 days and if I am able to incoorporate the plan for the rest of the 50 days, I will sure reach my goal till summer and it will make me a very very happy person.
I have a lot of things coming up this summer and I really really sincerely want to reach my goal till then. All I need to do is to concentrate and work on my plan of action and reaching my goal would not seem impossible .

Studying Is a Munchie Magnet!! Hey...at least you stuck to the low carb stuff, so don't beat yourself up...just get busy flushing it all out with more water!!

Congrats on the 10 lbs lost... ...the last one's are so STUBBORN!! I've got my last 20 hanging on so tight that I'm gonna need the jaws-of-life to get rid of them...and I'm not working AND going to school!! Keep the faith, baby...

Thanks for your encouragement.
Day 58/100
Alright things are looking better. 2 lbs gone out of the 3 lbs gain I was soo frustrated about. You were right Nita, it was probably the water retention due to all the salty snacks. I am still 1 lbs over my signature weight though. I will wait and see for a couple of days before I up my signature.
I was able to do my 45 mins of aerobics atr teh gym yesterday. Today is the strength training day.

Day 59/100
Alright! another 0.5 lb gone from the gained weight. So now I am 0.5 lb away from my signature weight.
I did my strength training at the gym yesterday but had no energy to do it. I almost dragged through the whole thing. I was very sleepy too. However, I am proud that I did it and today I dont have guilty feelings.
Well I have been successful in keeping away from coffee, carbonated beverages and muchies so far during the week. I have also decreased my consumption of nuts, because once I start eating them, I cant stop.

Day 60/100
Just hanging in there. I have guests at my home during the weekend actually thursday to Monday and it will be challenging to stay on track. However, I have to tell myself that nothing is worth gaining all that weight back and wasting all that effort to get to this point. If only the scale was moving a little better, I would have been a little more motivated.

Day 64/100
I am hanging in there. Gained another few pounds and am in the process of loosing them. Nothing new to report

Day 68/100
Due to crazy work and school and the sick cloud over my household, I am not very motivated to go to gym now a days, but I am hanging in there.

Day 68/100
I have bad bad news to report. I have gained back 6 pounds of my lost weight. It all happend in past 20 days or so. I was kind of demotivated due to being stuck at 136 lbs for a long time and then my school schedule had a few major changes that prevented me from going to gym (I think I have not gone there since last 3 weeks now) and all of that topped with timeless and mindless eating has brought me to this point. I was not getting the time to sit and write on this forum and therefore, I stopped weighing myself too and when I weighed myself today Booom! a 6 lb gain. I am really really demotivated at this point. This is not the first time this had happened to me, and therefore I was warning myself since I reached 136 lb. I was telling myself that I probably will be stuck at this weight for a while and not to give in, but I did give in!!! I gained back the weight that I had worked sooo hard on loosing. I read about all the people loosing more than 50 pounds and maintaining it, and I cant even loose 20 or keep off the lost 10 pounds. I feel sooo bad, cant even think what to do next!!!!

I saw 140 on the scale yesterday which means 2 lbs lost out of the 6lbs gain that I had recently. HOwever, I am not claiming it yet since it was a sudden change and I am not sure if it will last.