I originally started in May at 205 lbs with Jenny and I did great and got to 188.2 in early July. I then went through a difficult time and was forced to move and a few other major life changes and just this past week, got back on track. I went back Jenny this past Saturday and I gained (gulp!) back up to 198. I bought a new supply of food and I have rededicated myself to a healthy lifestyle and eventually looking GREAT! Even though I originally started in May, becuase I strayed and came back this month, I would like to be in the August Alliance, if that's OK .
If anyone has any tips to keep me on track and motivated, let me know..THANKS!
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Get a book called Thin for Life by Anne Fletcher. It is full of success stories--success defined as losing weight and keeping it off for five years or more. It shows that success is possible, even after some false starts.
Another two that are good are Passing for Thin by Frances Kuffel and The Weight Loss Diaries by Courtney Rubin.

I am currently reading Thin for Life - and I will attest to its motivation factor.
I actually started in January, but fell off getting ready for and planning my wedding in June. Then I kind of went through a self pity phase in July. So, I started back in mid-August - I am right there with you.
I don't know if this will help, but I will tell you what is working for me - I am really taking it one day at a time right now. I am also looking at this as a lifestyle change, not a diet. I have not given myself any rules as to how much I lose week to week, or how long it takes me. I am focusing on how much better I am feeling. I am now in the middle of week 3 - I have lost 4 pounds in the first two weeks - which is great, but not the important part. The important part is that I am working out 6 days a week, that I am eating healthy foods, even when in restaurants. The important part is that my brain is in a different place this time. I am really focused on what I am doing - if I want to go off plan, I don't have any binges - I think long and hard about if I really want it and if I am willing to deal with the consequences. Then, if I decide to have it - there is no guilt the next day - I made the decision consciously and I am ok with the consequences. If I am not ok with the consequences, then I don't have the treat that night.
Other than that - it really is just getting back into the routine. I have my standard breakfast, snacks, lunch and dinner. I don't give myself time to think about how good a pizza would taste - I just make the meals. I don't give myself time to be too tired to go to the gym. I come home and change into my gym clothes, eat my dinner, relax for a 1/2 hour to let my stomach settle and leave. No discussion, no options - I just do it.
Good luck!!!

Jenn--that's what was different for me this time, too.
It has all become so much easier since I changed my mindset and accepted the fact that I would never be thin if I kept eating like an NFL lineman, and that I was going to have to make permanent changes to my relationship with food.
Once I stopped rebelling against the unfairness of being hypothyroid, hypoadrenic, and therefor prone to gain weight under even the best of circumstances, it took the pressure off. It will do me no good to rail at the unfairness of my friend being able to eat a half pizza with no effect on her waistline while I can only eat a quarter of what she can without a gain. It will do me no good to complain because I have to exercise for an hour to get the same result as a friend who only has to exercise for a half hour, or not at all.
This is my body, so I have to treat it like mine,not someone else's.