bad week to much cheating this week feels guilty

AsrarHussain

Hello iv been cutting and the diet has been going good I slipped up this week diet has been a mess this week.
I promise to myself to keep my diet better but do you feel guilty if you slip up

Ironmaiden4life

I think most people feel guilt to some decree but how you handle it can have a huge impact on going forward. Slip ups happen whether it be 1 meal, 1 whole day or a cascade effect into a whole week. You're faced with a choice... beat yourself up to the point it derails you completely or draw a line underneath it and start over.

Whenever I've not kept to my goals I try to look back at what was going on at the time. How was I feeling, my environment, stressors, illness etc so I can learn and have a better plan in place the next time I'm faced with a similar situation.

lynn_glenmont

No, I don't feel guilty if I eat more than the goal number in my MFP diary. I don't view them as "slip-ups"--unless it was some kind of mistaken assumption where I thought I was pretty sure about the nutritional profile of something and looked it up later and found I was way off. That doesn't happen much anymore after nearly two years of logging.

Otherwise, in each instance, at some point I made a conscious decision to eat things that would put me above the goal number for than day. So it's not a slip-up. Even if it was giving into an impulse or craving, it was still a conscious decision. I decided I wanted to eat whatever I ate despite what it was going to do for that day's goal. That's OK. I also make decisions to spend my time doing fun things or healthy activities rather than the 20 other things on my to-do list. As long it's not hurting someone else (e.g., breaking a promise to help someone with something, neglecting family or friends who need me), I'm not going to feel guilty about it.

Most days and weeks I'm under maintenance, and that's going to keep me headed in the right direction. Even if you find there's been too many days over maintenance and you're starting to head in the wrong direction, just correct course. You can't change the past. There's no point in stressing out over -- much less feeling guilty over -- every decision (especially if those "slip-ups" just mean that your deficit is smaller than you want, not that you're in surplus). (Unless you can somehow find a way to make that guilt work for in changing future behavior, but that doesn't sound like how it's working for you from your OP.)

Feel guilty about not calling your parents as often as you should, or hurting someone's feelings with unnecessary snarkiness, or hitting the insecurity buttons of your SO or others you know well in the heat of an argument, or spreading gossip about other people, or ignoring the elderly, pregnant, or disabled person on the bus during your morning commute. Or that murder you committed last week Don't feel guilty about food.

melimomTARDIS

I log it, make a note of whatever stress going on in my food diary, and dust myself off. Guilt is no bueno.

momar23

I log it and use my food notes to jot down what was going on. Since this is a lifestyle change I figure that there will always be days I don't make the best food decisions but if most of them are good then I feel like it's ok.