Its ok.. don't beat yourself up about it. It does happen.. the main thing is to get your self back at it and push push push. You can do it! Its hard work, but sooooo worth it!

<3 Cassie

Hi Tara!  ok first, let me say this, do NOT beat yourself up! that is the worst thing you can do! it will make you feel even worse and can possibly make that fall continue on out of depression.  So, let me suggest that you chalk this up to a learning experience and take whatever positives you can from it. Do you know what triggered the fall off? are you under a lot of stress, TOM? what? what's going on? and how did you fall off, those are rhetorical questions unless you want to answer them :)

Now, 2lbs in the end, is not a lot. you can stop it in it's tracks right now and reverse it. PLUS some of it COULD be water retention from whatever you ate.  I myself am dealing with a HUGE gain right now because of almost TOM and am hoping I can get most of it off by weigh-in. so, i understand the depression and panic, but it's TEMPORARY, those 2lbs. do not let them defeat you. We all have to gain a little I think in order to appreciate it better. it's not that we don't appreciate it before, but when we lose and lose and lose and there's no set back,well, the human side of us sometimes begins to think 'oh this is so easy and maybe I can just eat....' and then we find out that no in fact we can't. So, as I said, try your best to use this experience as a positive learning experience. don't panic, it will come off. just get refocused and continue to do exactly what you did, come here, to your friends who will love and support you and try our best to guide you!

take care,

carla