Why do I always seem to sabotage my weight loss acheivements?

[Ivegotaheadache]

I lost about 14lbs over a period of 10-12 weeks which was great!! I went to weight watchers and it wasn't easy to lose that weight!

But over the last two weeks, I've just ate and ate and ate, not counted points just ate what I've wanted, loads of chocolate and take aways and all sorts.
So I'm putting the weight I've lost back on, not all of it but enough so that the new jeans I bought in a smaller size are now tight.

I'm determined that today I'm going to get back on it but I have to now spend a few weeks losing weight that I'd already lost before.
I've noticed that I always do this, it's like I don't want to be slim or something (but I do, I do!) and I haven't reached my target weight ever in the last 8 years that I've been trying to lose the baby weight. Although I had 2 more children in that time so good excuse!

I try to think of it as 'healthy eating for life' but I just don't, for me I'm eating healthily to lose weight.
I try not to be too restrictive in my eating so I don't fall off the wagon, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.

I calculated that losing 1-2lbs per week would take me about 6 months to lose all the weight (just roughly) and all I thought was omg I can't do this every day for 6 months!

Does anyone else do this? Or is it just me......

[Kewcumber]

where is it sfx - only ones I've tried involved an hour of work an evening which isn;t really practical when I only have an hour an evening to eat and relax! Can you give me a link or an idea what to search.

my mum has been given a website by her doctor which I'm going to take a look at but ithink its more food based than mood based IYSWIM.

Headache - think I've hijacked your thread

[sfxmum]

maybe it is one of them here

[oggsfrog]

I recognise myself in so many of these posts.

At the moment I'm doing the Cambridge diet as a last resort and have lost 2 stone. I still have another 2 to go.

I'm currently reading the Paul McKenna book 'I can make you thin' (with cd) which is actually very good.
Only four rules to follow. Not a diet as such. Is about rethinking the way (and the why) you eat.

[Ivegotaheadache]

I hav ethe Paul McKenna book, but I just can't get my head around being able to lose weight and eat what you want.
I know that you have to eat when you're hungry and stop when you're full ect. But that seems to be a problem in itself, I eat not only when I'm hungry but also when I'm not and I don't seem to recognise my full indicator - well I ignore it I think.

But for me if I'm trying to lose weightI don't think my head can cope with eating that full fat lasagne, even though I'm supposed to stop when I'm full to me that's just not a 'lose weight food'.

Also I seem to have a problem with leaving anything on my plate.

I know, deep down, that diets don't work but I still go back to them time and time again only to 'fail' time and time again!
Adn I know that I must exercise (because atm I don't at all and I do worry about my heart) and rethink my attitude to food but it's not easy to overcome years of strange eating habits.

I'm not hugely overweight and I look slimmer than my weight is (well I think so and I've been told lots so that's good enough for me) but I still would like to lose 2 stone because I would feel so much better.
I'm actually much better than I was in that now I think at 33 yrs old and after 3 children there's so much more to me and to life than being slim - but you can't ignore the health thing and I do want to look a bit better in my clothes.