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CrazyAunt72

Here's my enlightening story from yesterday (October 23, 2014) take it or leave it.

Yesterday I ate more than my share of calories. My husband and I ate dinner at Culver's. I enjoyed my dinner and a dessert (YUM) and I didn't exercise. I debated on putting my terrible meal/dessert into my food diary. I decided I had to because if I slip up like that it would probably become a habit that tells me when I'm having a hard day ignore it and don't record it so then it never really happened without a record right? So after I put in all those calories (the dessert alone was 984 calories - ahhhh!!!) I hit submit and saw that "in 5 weeks" my weight would be BACK UP to where I was when I had lost 5 pounds. It's amazing what that did to my motivation - put me right back on track!

Moral? I think it is if you slip don't negate yourself and say you just can't do it, get back on track. Seeing it in my app for potential weight gain made me realize how true this is. *I know many people share this bit of advice for a myriad of things but I never took it to heart and I definitely didn't realize how true it was.

Wronkletoad

totally. this is a marathon - good days and bad.

keeping honest track like what you did is also great for long-term success. you can check back and get a true gauge of what you've accomplished

shadowloss

I've done the same thing where I just bust my butt to log regardless and had the opposite affect. I log the horrible night of eating/drinking only to find out it wasn't as bad as I thought? It makes me realize that I'm learning to eat in a new way and I move on.