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Hello!

I feel as if my journey is FAR from normal. I don't really know who else really has a situation like mine.

I've had a very bumpy start in my program and I thought I got cheating, and not doing well out of my system early on. But here I just find myself falling into bad habits. I'm not sure if its because I'm stressed, or because I have a lot going on in my personal life. Basically I had my dietitian appointment mid may. After that appointment I hurt my back, really bad, pulled muscle. I wasn't allowed to do any exercise due to where I had pulled my muscle, and the 'severity' of my weight.

Not being able to work out bummed my mood SO SO much. I wasn't able to focus, I had NO routine, I wasn't doing well on my diet, and frankly I don't think I even cared. I got into this huge funk because all I could do was sit around all day... It got to the point that I was back at my start weight after having a big loss. I figured that out June 10th, before that I stayed away from my scale like it was the plague!

So fast forward to today, I have a dietitian appointment in two days and I'm terrified. I'm so scared of disappointing anybody. What if they tell me I won't be able to get surgery because they don't think I'm trying hard enough, is that even possible??? I haven't even opened myfitnesspal since a week after my back injury, and I just started my work outs back up last week.

I guess I wanted to know if I'm normal in this? Did any of you ever just fall into old, bad habits and have to confront your dietitian? Should I be scared about the meeting tomorrow?

I feel like I'm too far into this journey to be having slip ups like this. My mother says to just ignore that, today is a new day. But I can't always go by that, and when I have my surgery I cant have slip ups. I also feel like I can go to her for anything, but she also isn't constantly being monitored by what she eats so she can't relate to anything?

I don't know how to feel, any advice would be mucho appreciated!

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  1. Just be honest about the injury and falling off the wagon. She will probably say the same thing as your mom. Just get back on, forget yesterday and move forward to today and then tomorrow. This is a journey! Keep your eye on the prize! She might even give you some helpful tips on how to get past this and how to deal with this sort of thing in the future. Everyone on this sight has gone through weight gain and not feeling motivated. That is how we landed here in the first place. Good luck, I hope your back feels better and keep on keeping on!

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You recognise the issue, now focus on correcting. You can't always be perfect. Start logging the foods and measuring again.

As my WW coach once said....if you trip down a step, do you catch yourself or throw yourself down the rest of the flight? If you have 1 bad meal in a day, don't throw it away. Get back on the wagon!

Good luck!

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