My first job out of school had me traveling 100%. I was living in hotels and eating all my meals in restaurants. This led to lots of bad habits and started a long, downhill trajectory with my health.
The issue from there was pretty standard…a couple decades of too much food and not enough exercise. Things slipped out of control so gradually that I didn’t really notice. It was kind of like the frog in boiling water story.
I did have a few successful runs with weight loss, but something always derailed it: A vacation, a celebration dinner, a work trip, etc. Although the excuse may have been different each time, the constant was “stopping.”
Nothing I did was truly sustainable, so inevitably, the weight always came back.