I tend to do the same thing once I cheat I figure I may as well cheat all day, then maybe all week, then i will maybe start the next week!

I have recently been motivated to really make a lifestyle change and if I cheat (i.e. Thanksgiving..the whole weekend) I have found that If I still have a goal and time frame I can get right back on track. I have to motivate myself with something real, in this case fitting into my summer clothes for a cruise in December. I know how much I want to lose before that cruise so I got right back on track after Thanksgiving.

Try setting small goals for every two or three weeks, that way you know if you keep cheating it's not going to work! Rewards for the goals help a lot as well!

Hope this helped!

I think just telling yourself it's ok. So what. You messed up at one meal. That's one meal out of what 21 for the week. Cut yourself some slack. Get yourself right back on track at the next meal.
Someone once told me if you had a close friend upset that they binged what would you say? Then why dont you do yourself the same courtesy? You would tell them it's ok. Just brush off that bad time and move on to the next good time.

Ohhhhh...I so know what you're talking about!! I can't say as I found the stop button yet but I can sympathize :)

the only thing i can say...is one wrong move does not ruin all the progress you have already achieved...if you slip pull yourself up by your bootstraps and continue in the posotive direction...YOU CAN DO IT!!!!:)

oddly I found that if I had one scheduled free day a week I stuck to my diet longer. My Husband and I used to go to a bar for trivia night once a week (before we had a kid), and since I knew that day I could eat anything I could be good the rest of the time. I knew that I could do the same thing the next Tuesday, so Wednesday, I was right back on the diet. Since we were also on SB at the time I would load up on carbs on my free day and I think it would actually boost my weight loss. I think we need to give ourselves permission to go off the diet every once in a while. Nothing like being forbidden something to make you crave it uncontrollably!

I think part of what you are feeling has to do with our emphasis on New Year's Day and Mondays. We always have to start something huge at the right time

hthomas is right you have to have a day maybye once a week were you allow yourself some of the things you like or you will go crazy. today and tommorrow I eat what i want but not overeating either. It helps for me. Sun-Thurs. it salads and no alc. Good luck

I know what you mean bout not stopping - if I have a slip sometimes I think that justifies following it by more bad food just because the day is ruined anyway I may as well ruin it good. you just have to get the mentality that the sooner you get back on the wagon, the better your chance of success will be. having a day off from your diet is a good idea too - I'm on a diet that has 11 days on and 3 days off - I'm looking foward to those 3 days!