Can two days of overeating ruin all my efforts

cookieinbk82

I have been eating really clean and working out daily. However, yesterday was my friends birthday and today was another friends birthday. I overate at both their parties. Should I be worried?

NobodyPutsAmyInTheCorner

Log it, accept it, move on.

You still have to live your life.

Lasmartchika

Of course not!!

juxtapose1

Tomorrow is another day it takes time and we all have days like that. I have two little kids, eating healthy and only healthy is hard - I'm soooo tired! Today sucked for me, but I will drink lots of water and tomorrow will be better. We have to remind ourselves of that!

bulk_n_cut

even if you do worry, what will that do lol? it wont undo anything. just keep eating clean and workin out daily as you have

ncboiler89

cookieinbk82 wrote: »

I have been eating really clean and working out daily. However, yesterday was my friends birthday and today was another friends birthday. I overate at both their parties. Should I be worried?

You can do some simple math to see how much it set you back - if at all. It may not be as much as you think.

cwolfman13

really? two days...in the grand scheme of your life, you think two days is going to make you or break you?

Lasmartchika

Wait... you didn't even go over your daily calories... why would you worry? I thought you had overeaten in the sense of going over your daily calories. Dear, you'll definitely be fine.

PAV8888

You don't have a ticker and you don't discuss your goals, current weight, height, age. BUT, you diary for the past 5 days or so clearly shows under-eating, mostly due to low eat back of exercise calories.

So to your question about over-indulging and not being more than 300-500 calories BELOW your goal.

NO: it cannot ruin all your efforts. You didn't even hit maintenance calories!

YES: you may or may not see some water weight if you were to weigh yourself tomorrow.
(solution? spend three days on your normal routine before weighing yourself; or use apps such as weightographer or trendweight to look at trends as opposed to daily values).

As to the question you didn't ask: are you losing weight as fast or faster than 1% of your body weight per week?

AzWifenMom

Indulging for a couple of days may make us feel like a bloated toad for two more days, but it doesn't derail and destory all the effort we have done for weeks and months. It will be ok.

lesliereloaded

I ate over ate for four days this week

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SLLRunner

cookieinbk82 wrote: »

I have been eating really clean and working out daily. However, yesterday was my friends birthday and today was another friends birthday. I overate at both their parties. Should I be worried?

It's a weekend. Log it and have a great rest of the week!

By the way, eating "clean" and working out has nothing to do with weight loss.

arditarose

Don't worry. Did you wipe out your deficit? Possibly. With what I ate last Saturday it may have put me over maintenance for the whole week. But, it was delicious. And I'm young and have worked hard and in the grand scheme of things it's not going to matter if it took me until May, June, July or September to get to 130 lbs.

Carol_

There will be many days that aren't perfect. Just keep moving forward.

999tigger

err do the math how many multiples of 3500 calories did you exceed by?
If those are your logged calories then you did well to log and it says you didnt exceed your calorie allowance, even taking into account mfp calories, then it will make little difference, just may have slowed your weightloss for those 2 days. You log/ track your food and thereby the diary gives you information to confirm where you are in terms of calories.

jalarson23

I do this every now and then and still typically come out under for the week. I guess it works out because I eat fewer calories overall. I imagine it would be the same for you depending on how far over you went. I doubt you went that far over though.

atypicalsmith

cookieinbk82 wrote: »

I have been eating really clean and working out daily. However, yesterday was my friends birthday and today was another friends birthday. I overate at both their parties. Should I be worried?

Why is your calorie goal so high? You don't need to answer that; because even so, you haven't exceeded it. So you haven't overeaten at all according to that goal. Don't understand your post at all.

donjtomasco

Hit n run....