just went double my daily goal :-(

AskTracyAnnK28

rabbitjb wrote: »

cthakkar1985 wrote: »

Eat less calories or work out more the next couple days to get to the same goal for the week. In the future, don't go as overboard, but allow yourself 1 meal/week where you get to "cheat". You need to have rewards and tasty meals to look forward to and keep you going. Good luck!

Disagree ...tasty foods should be the bedrock of your diet...if it's not tasty why waste the calories

Also ...if you have to cheat there's no point...you can save up calories to splurge...that's not cheating,that's sticking to your weekly calorie goal...that's not cheating

I put a few hundred calories in the bank every week so I can have a nice Sunday dinner or a candy bar without worrying about going over my goal

Asher_Ethan

I'm a lot less likely to binge when I eat a little bit more. Switch your diary to lose 1 pound a week if this becomes a habit.

kimny72

kiddiebqueen17 wrote: »

vivmom2014 wrote: »

Maybe you're not allowing yourself enough calories on a regular basis.

How much weight do you want to lose?

To avoid the "binge eating" you are going to have to look at what drives it. Not the food - the behavior. You mention that "everything tasted so good"... there's a clue. Are you forcing yourself to eat 'diet' foods that don't appeal to you? Have you arbitrarily removed foods that you enjoy? Are you eating in a way that you can sustain for the long haul?

I have the program set up to lose 2 lbs a week. It allows me to have 1200 calories a day. I love (and am used to eating lots of) grains and cheese. I have been making my calorie count by little substitutions.... making fajitas minus the wrap or vegetable sandwich instead of grilled cheese, pasta sauce with garlic bread minus the noodles.

OP, 1200 is the bare minimum and I would be starving if I was eating 1200 cals. Unless you have more than 50 lbs to lose, 2 lbs may be too aggressive a goal. Set yourself to 1 lb per week for awhile and see how you do with that. Also, you should be eating some of your exercise calories back, are doing that?

I found the best way to avoid flying off the rails is to make sure I am eating small portions of the foods I love every day. Cutting out stuff entirely makes me miserable and sets myself up for failure. Some people can do it, but not me. It's also important to remember that one undisciplined meal is not the end of the world. Don't psychologically throw in the towel for the day just because you gave in and had a donut for breakfast or something like that. One meal didn't get you to your current weight, it was day after day of poor choices. So if you do go "off plan", accept that you are human and it will happen and get right back on plan. No big deal! :drinker:

Francl27

Eat more. I was your age when I started and I never ate under 1650 calories (did not eat back exercise calories). I'm 5'5" and I was 213 pounds. I would NEVER have stuck to it if I had to eat 1200 calories. I'd still be 200 pounds today, heck maybe 250...

Your binge? Even if you ate 2400 calories, you probably ate at maintenance. It's not a huge deal. Just move on from it... You won't gain any fat from it, it's just going to slow down your weight loss if you do it too often... so decrease your goal to losing 1 pound a week but stop depriving yourself.

kiddiebqueen17

Height/weight/age?
I am 5'10 and started at 185lbs.
In the few weeks watching my weight I am now at 178 lbs.

How much do you have to lose?
My goal is to get down to 160lbs by summer but set my goal to 2 lbs a week because we have a family vacation to Mexico in February and I was hoping to shed a few pounds before then.

How active are you?
I am not very active. I am a supply teacher (Two days a week) and home with my daughter the rest of the time. Our most active is grocery shopping and housework.

1,200 is too low for many, many people.