So you think you destroyed your weight loss plan yesterday

shmulyeng

For all of you that are beating yourselves up for going over your calories yesterday, please stop. The success of sticking to any weight loss plan (or any plan, for that matter), is being able to enjoy the journey. If you restrict yourself too much, you will start resenting it. Going over by a few hundred calories once a year, or even a few times, will not impact you negatively. Of course you can counter it to some degree with an extra long workout over the weekend but even that isn't needed.

Just saying.

PearlAng

^This. One day cannot completely ruin you or the success that you've had. It's a good reminder

gabbo34

I absolutely totally agree. But I was still stupid enough to get on the scale last night and this morning.

Mentally I know it's a just a temporary weight jump that'll likely ease off over the next few days, it was shocking to see the number above the 'worst case' number I had in my head.

I'm literally heading out of the door for a 6-7 mile run to try to put a dent calorie overage from yesterday.

llUndecidedll

I'm not worried about one day... I'm worried about having leftovers around for many days.

lorib642

Thank you. I am actually doing okay, but sometimes I have an all-or-none mentality that if I failed one day it is all ruined and why bother. It is just one day, time to get back on track

lorib642

llUndecidedll wrote: »

I'm not worried about one day... I'm worried about having leftovers around for many days.

^^^ and this

randomtai

llUndecidedll wrote: »

I'm not worried about one day... I'm worried about having leftovers around for many days.

I won't they will get eaten and then life goes on.

malibu927

llUndecidedll wrote: »

I'm not worried about one day... I'm worried about having leftovers around for many days.

The only leftovers we have are turkey and baked apples...I wanted dressing today

999tigger

Tbh my impression of the forums was that people were preparing in advance a strategy that would work for them. Not that id be beating myself up over anything, but id be disappointed if people were only hvaing a few hundred extra, id have been thinking 4-5 thousand would get you a decent meal and then theres the booze.

Eat it dont eat it, away from target closer to target, its all choice.

dashaclaire

Yeah I had a epic cheat day yesterday: I ate freely and enthusiastically, big traditional Thanksgiving meal and then desserts pumpkin cheesecake, Dutch apple pie, and banaoffe pie (which has 700+ calories in one slice) and then I did it all again around 11pm. I did a quick add 10,000 calories which is probably an under estimation. It said if every day were like today you'd gain 75 pounds in five weeks
i don't feel bad, I didn't weight myself this morning. It was delicious. I will be good today and all the upcoming days.

Francl27

The good thing after 2 years and oh so many overeating days... you know that it's not the end of the world.

shmulyeng

999tigger wrote: »

Tbh my impression of the forums was that people were preparing in advance a strategy that would work for them. Not that id be beating myself up over anything, but id be disappointed if people were only hvaing a few hundred extra, id have been thinking 4-5 thousand would get you a decent meal and then theres the booze.

Eat it dont eat it, away from target closer to target, its all choice.

True. Many people were planning more than beating themselves up. And IMHO, that's the right way to do it. I was responding to several comments I saw in my feed popping up that day.

IncredibleShrinkingSandy

shmulyeng wrote: »

For all of you that are beating yourselves up for going over your calories yesterday, please stop. The success of sticking to any weight loss plan (or any plan, for that matter), is being able to enjoy the journey. If you restrict yourself too much, you will start resenting it. Going over by a few hundred calories once a year, or even a few times, will not impact you negatively. Of course you can counter it to some degree with an extra long workout over the weekend but even that isn't needed.

Just saying.

YES! Food is to be enjoyed. I know that before it clicked for me, I couldn't get passed the mentality and feeling that I would be stuck eating only "healthy" foods for the rest of my life. Which made me only want to eat as much crap as possible as a final goodbye to that crap. This never worked and I was always stuck in a spiral of feeling horrible about myself and having a bad relationship with food. I now realize that while it is a life style change, that means I need to eat MORE healthy not ONLY healthy. I still enjoy my greatest weakness, fast food, weekly. Now, it is most always one meal a week and I make a better decision than I would have in the past, most of the time. As long as the number on the scale, clothing label and/or tape measure is going down, no matter the rate, you're doing it and WILL continue to do it. One meal or day is chump change in the bank of weight loss. It's when that change adds up to a higher overall amount and exceeds the amount of good choices that causes us to gain weight.