Traci, I am also an emotional eater and have had a really hard time battling this. I did great my first about three weeks on the Medifast Program and then had a really hard time for about the next three due to issues with finding out one of our good friends has less than six months to live, a husband who was having a hard time dealing with this, and a daughter who was not sleeping well.

I started Medifast on February 19th, so I have been trying to do this for a little over two months. I lost 13 pounds the first 2 ½ weeks, and then my tough times started and I ended up fighting with my body because I gained six back and would lose two, gain one, lose one, gain two. I was in the same six pounds on the scale for that entire three weeks. Now I have lost those six pounds plus a couple more, and I figure that as long as I keep trying to succeed even if I do fail a couple times I will make it through this journey.

I kind of look at it as my own personal mountain, where I want to be is at the top of the mountain, where I am is at the bottom. I am going to keep climbing this mountain no matter what. So if a “storm” pushes me back down the mountain a little bit, I will recover that and more the next day. Don’t be so hard on yourself; losing weight is not an easy journey. It is a battle in which you are fighting with so many difficult obstacles. I firmly believe that although there are several others who are losing weight faster than I am, I am succeeding.

I have always lost weight extremely slow, so I wasn’t expecting a miracle with Medifast. I needed a program to help me succeed, to help me get through the tough times, and to give me something to lean on when I just felt like I wasn’t getting anywhere. I am not going to say that this is the easiest thing or that I haven’t had issues, because I have. Just know that each day is a new day, and even though you may have screwed up yesterday, that doesn’t prohibit you succeeding today. Just keep fighting and you will win.