I wonder why ?

andysport1

Last week I did quite well, food intake was generally good, good enough to lose weight, exercise was reasonable, weight loss for the week just over 2lb's then the weekend came, 2 bottles of wine carb loaded dinners, a packet of chocolate's. up until this year I restricted my weight loss due to confidence of not be able to achieve as a thin ish person. So that restriction is no longer there I am at a loss to why I abused myself as I did this weekend.

Any ideas ?
Do others do this ?
How do you avoid weekend binging ?

Funniest thing is next week we are off to Tenerife most people dread holidays due to weight gain, I never gain weight on holiday so I'm so looking forward to going.

SnuggleSmacks

Could you have restricted yourself too much? Calories too low, missing out on some nutrients, cutting out foods that you love so that you feel deprived?

Could you feel "safer" as a larger person, and therefore be subconsciously sabotaging your own progress in order to maintain that shell?

Lots of people do this, for various reasons, but it usually comes down to using their fat as a crutch. As long as a person remains fat, they don't have to start on "the rest of their lives" and they have something they can point to for blame when things go wrong. Can't get a date? It's because I'm fat. Didn't get a promotion? It's because I'm fat. And some of that might even be true, but perhaps some people remain in that state so that they don't have to find out what other things might be true, what else they might achieve or might fail at without a ready-made excuse to blame.

As far as how I avoid it? I eat whatever I want, as long as I get at least really close to my protein goal. If I just really have to splurge, like now when I have a cold and the mint Oreo ice cream is the only thing that seems to soothe my achy head, I try to stay within a couple hundred calories of maintenance. That way, I know all I've done is wipe out yesterday's deficit, and delayed reaching my goal by a day. No biggie.

andysport1

SnuggleSmacks wrote: »

Could you have restricted yourself too much? Calories too low, missing out on some nutrients, cutting out foods that you love so that you feel deprived?

Could you feel "safer" as a larger person, and therefore be subconsciously sabotaging your own progress in order to maintain that shell?

Lots of people do this, for various reasons, but it usually comes down to using their fat as a crutch. As long as a person remains fat, they don't have to start on "the rest of their lives" and they have something they can point to for blame when things go wrong. Can't get a date? It's because I'm fat. Didn't get a promotion? It's because I'm fat. And some of that might even be true, but perhaps some people remain in that state so that they don't have to find out what other things might be true, what else they might achieve or might fail at without a ready-made excuse to blame.

As far as how I avoid it? I eat whatever I want, as long as I get at least really close to my protein goal. If I just really have to splurge, like now when I have a cold and the mint Oreo ice cream is the only thing that seems to soothe my achy head, I try to stay within a couple hundred calories of maintenance. That way, I know all I've done is wipe out yesterday's deficit, and delayed reaching my goal by a day. No biggie.

Wow you definitely understand where I am from, this week I will try to not restrict my calorie intake so much, see if that helps.