Working from home

[Love2Lose]

Hi everyone

I am on my 100th time around since the beginning of the year. My first time in 2005 I lost about 30lbs in 3 months. My second time in 2007 I lost 60lbs in 5 months.

In December of 2007 I quit my job to work from home to be here for the kids etc. etc. I fell off the wagon and I fell so far that I haven't been able to get back on. I have been on and off since jan. I lose a few and gain it back. I feel like being home makes it so much harder to stick to the plan.

My home office is steps from the kitchen and whenever I am bored I run to the kitchen and eat whatever I kind find. I feel so awful. I cant seam to get control over my eating. I am disgusted with what I have done to myself. I try and try but I cant do it. I feel like such a failure. I always look like crap I am always wearing old, baggy clothes with holes in them cause I have nothing that fits.

Being at home all the time really depresses me. I want to go back to work so bad just to get out of the house and socialize with other people but I can't after paying a sitter and gas prices etc. I will end up paying more than I make.

I have to find a solution. Please help me

[jimmie 48]

the best way i've ever found to help myself out when it comes to these types of feelings is to forget self, remember others. that's the major reason i am here on the board so much.

things you could do:
volunteer to visit with a neighbor
make treats for the neighborhood kids
get busy with a project
take up a new hobby
exercise by going for a leisurely walk

[choeve]

I know how you feel. I tried working from home and all I did was sit and eat. I was pregnant at the time and starting a home business so when the baby got here I could stay home. Unfortunatly I lost the baby and things got even worse. Then I was at home without a baby and no reason to start the business. That happened 4th of July weekend that year. By the first of the year I had to go back to work. I couldn't sit at home and think about the baby I lost all day any more At that job i got pregnant again and lost that one too. I gained up to my highest weight of 334. But then I found Atkins and lost 36 pounds in 4 months. But then I got laid off so back at home, and found our two weeks later I was pregnant again. This time we had our baby girl and she was perfect. I stayed home with her for her first 8 months before going back to work. I was going to stay home, take care of the baby, lose more weight etc... Well I took care of the baby anyway. That fall I went back to work with almost all the weight back on. I would go back on Atkins again and well again even though I was half *** doing it. Then came surgery, then another surgery, then I got back to work down to the lowest I had been in years at 293. Then guess what laid off again. Then back to work, then laid off again. Got the job I have now back up in the 320's. Am now after a year at this job back on Atkins. So you can see being at home for me was disastrous to say the least, but it was a lot of other things too. Some days I wake up just grateful to not be insane after all of that.

[choeve]

One of the times I was laid off. LOL I went to church and church functions alot because my daughter an I could go together no baby sitter needed and it was free, and I could talk grown up talk with other ladies. Just a thought if you are Christian. If not well....no offense intended just disregard.