By Sarah @Low Stress Weight Loss

This is a hard post to write.

I failed.

In order to move forward I have to acknowledge how much I failed.  Like many a diet blogger, blog silence meant bad news as far as my weight is concerned.

I could try to explain but wouldn’t that just be making excuses?  In the end, I chose to stop doing what I know I need to do to manage my weight.  At first I just kind of stabilized, but a big snowball effect of one bad habit after another got going, and before long I had replaced basically every good habit with a bad one.  And the weight was coming on even faster than the bad habits.

I gained 34 pounds in about 5 months, and I was no where near a healthy weight as the starting point.  I tried starting on dieting several times during... More...