I am so ready to just break down and cry. I went to Boston for work for 4 days and I blew it. The whole time I was eating and drinking and eating with more drinking. OMG! I gained back 9 lbs and I am back at square one! I feel absolutely MISERABLE.

Get right back on the program and start again. The 9 pounds will come back off and you'll feel a lot better. Just think of it as a new start.

I definitely had my eggs and bacon this morning, but it is so hard to get motivated again when I am feeling so mad at myself. GRRR

This is a lifestyle, so you are bound to make mistakes and succumb to temptation every know and then. The best thing you can do is pick yourself up and start over.

Let us know how it goes this week

You haven't failed until you don't get back on program and do it all over again--until you are successful according to your own expectations. Spend some time figuring out how to prevent this same thing happening again. As Dr. Phil says, " When you choose the behavior, you choose the consequences!" You always have choices and there will always be consequences. You just have to decide what you really want out of life.

Well said.

Now, on the gain. Hopefully most of it is water-I'd be surprised if it isn't. Stay low carb for the next few days and really push the water! Maybe take some potassium to help regulate your water retention...

You coworkers will be less negative of low carb when they see your health improve. My coworkers are asking me how this way of eating works, now that I have lost some weight.

Don't beat yourself up. Call it a lesson and dust yourself off. You aren't in a race-take your time and get to know what your triggers are.

Well said. What we usually consider as failures are really just learning experiences. Instead of beating yourself up ask yourself what you can learn about yourself and your woe from this experience. freckles

I always go off "the plan" when I go on vacation...I just get home and go right back on...You will lose it in no time at all...This IS a lifestyle, and a lifestyle includes "choices"...These choices are planned and your getting back to your normal way of eating is also part of the plan...This is certainly not a failure...Life is to be enjoyed...Vacation is a special time and eating off the plan on these occasions is not the end of the world...As long as you understand that these are your "treat" times, and you plunge right back into a LC way of life, you will be okay...

Well this not a sin........I have done it and so have many others, put it behind you and start over. You CAN do it.

Thank you all. You are all right. It didn't help that my coworkers were being negative about LC and then the drinking... I definitely chose my consequences and I know that I want to get back on track now. Thank goodness I work from home and don't have to be around the negativity except maybe once or twice a year. I will just take this time to prepare for my next "temptation" at our December meeting.

It's gets easier. I just got back from a week's vacation and other than falling off the wagon on the last day, I did okay. I promised myself one treat per day (dessert with dinner), and stuck with my plan other than that. But I've been at this for 2 1/2 years now. So really...it gets easier.

Your thread post uses the word "failed." NOOOO! You have not failed. You only fail if you totally give up on yourself and the program. You did the right thing. You posted here for support. So you are back at square one. You really aren't. You're really more like square two or three because you already have a wealth of knowledge to get you back on track. Use that to learn and go on from here. It might take a bit, but you will take off those 9 pounds. A lot of it is probably water.

DO NOT give up! You are worth every ounce of effort and care. Keep posting. Put one foot in front of the other and get back on track. You can do this!!!!!! We're here for you.

You are right and thank you all so much for your support. I CAN and WILL do this!

Next time just don't tell them that you are lc'ing. Just eat on plan and tell them, if they ask, that you are allergic to carbs. it's the truth, they make you break out in fat.!

Don't give up. The thing you have to do is get back in the saddle and quickly. I have found in the past that if I treated such a lapse as a "treat" and went back on induction, the weight came off almost as quickly as it went back on.
In a week I expect you to be back down 9! Hang in there!