terrible weekend!!!

Gosh!!! I am so ticked off at myself !!!! I purchased a new digital scale on Thursday. I have actually gained 5 lbs. I was doing so good, had actually lost 15 lbs since early april.  This weekend I got some bad news and stopped eating healthy, stop taking my vitamins and phentermine.  And ate like there was no tomorrow. I REALLY wish i had some self control. here I GO again.....

This scale is completely different from the last scale you weighed on. I'm sure it was at a different time of day. You were wearing different clothes and had probably eaten or drank already.   Wait until tomorrow morning and weigh yourself without clothes after you have urinated, before you have showered, eaten or drank anything.   Use this as your starting weight with the new scale and go from there.  Forget about the past and how you screwed up.  Only the future counts. Just be sure to learn what has triggered you to eat in this manner and what it has done to your body. Use that as your motivation.

A friend of mine has a great mantra... "You can't open a flower with a sledgehammer". Be gentle with yourself.  How do your close feel today?  Can you do more excercise today than you could yesterday?  Don't let the scale become your master.   Take Care, Kathy K

THANKS guys!! I feel better already.. I needed that.

Foxy...you forgot that scales play games!  One weekend of foolish choices will not net out 5 x 3500 calories = 17,500 calories eaten?????  C'MON! I know you felt upset, but pul----ease.  It's water weight, get back on track and find something else to do 'cept eat when the chips are down. Bad news will come to us all...find some other way to deal.  Walk out the door...slam it hard, scream into a pillow....write an ugly letter then eat that.  You can doooooo this.

Don't be so hard on yourself.  From the sounds of it you know what triggered the fall off the wagon.  Been there, done that.  It's time to dust yourself off and get right back on.  Also, highly doubtful you gained so much weight in such a little amount of time.  Like Chris said, get a baseline of your weight in the morning and go from there.  You can do this.