I restored my i p hone and lost everything, how do i get it back?, HELP

Hi All,
I am really frustrated, last night my phone decied to turn itself off and on again and when i looked at my messages they had all disappeared. :-(
So i took someones advice this morning and clicked restore, i was told this would restore all the stuff from my last back up which was two weeks ago, so great i thought this would work. But instead it backed up from today and restored from the back up today not the back up two weeks ago so now i have lost all my pictures and my phone has gone back to a new user phone. So all the settings have been restored the whole lot. I am very upset about this and I wandered if anybody knew how i would get all my things back
Please help and comments greatly appreciated
Thank You
Sarah

A simple answer to your question is "No".
For the future, make sure that "automatic sync" is un-checked in your iTunes and next time you want to restore from a backup, right click on your phone's name and select "restore from backup" before syncing your phone to iTunes.

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