After you cheat on your diet, how do you deal with the guilt??

jawillia

distinctlybeautiful wrote: »

First of all, you delete the word "cheat" from your food-related vocabulary. Words shape reality, and the word cheat has nothing but negative connotations.

Then you remind yourself that one bag of chips and a single cookie among a ton of no-junk-food eating won't ruin anything, just like one salad and one piece of fruit among a ton of junk-food eating wouldn't make you lose weight.

And finally, I'd suggest making room in your regular routine for some of these less nutritious foods. If you do this and see that you can still reach your goals, it might help you feel better about eating them.

This. Exactly!!!!! Don't diet, make a change in your lifestyle. Dieting only forbids you from eating certain things and most of them are not sustainable for your life. You've got to build habits that you can live by. Having something not so good in moderation is ok, just not every single day. Don't give up. Denying yourself completely only builds up that desire for bad stuff.

JeromeBarry1

"A bag of Doritos". I wonder, was it a great big bag or a little bitty bag? Those little bitty bags are about 200 or fewer calories. Get you some. As for the occasional excess to plan calorie intake the realistic result is that I'm not going to run to the bathroom and puke, so I'm just going to have to live with the consequences for a few days. Guilt? For what?

sllm1

sllm1

Immediate U-turn. Forget it. It's done. Back on the plan.

Ant488

Exercise away the amount of food you ate.

ald783

In the scheme of things, eating (or overeating or indulging or whatever else) is not even in the top 100 shameful things people can do. You didn't kill someone or hurt someone's feelings or steal or run over a dog. It's just food. I know that sounds silly but really in the scheme of life, what you eat - especially in a single day or a single week - is so unimportant.

You will overeat again. You can call it cheating or just call it life. I know it's hard to detach emotions from food, but I think if you make that a priority it will help you a lot in the long run.

Cortneyrenee04

That wasn't bad at all! Food and guilt/shame have no correlation. Food is just food... Weight is just a number. It only has meaning if you give it meaning!

xmichaelyx

I deal with it by never having guilt.

I keep my calories very low during the week specifically so that I can eat and drink whatever I want on the weekends. No guilt.

Spliner1969

Pffft. Use the extra carbs/calories the next day and work out longer/harder. Look at food as energy for your body. If you don't use the energy it gets stored as fat. So if you eat it, use it.

dynochrome

I usually go to the gym. But I do that anyway. Then I feel bad because i know I am just breaking even that day at best. Maybe I push it a little harder to "punish" myself. I cope by saying, OK I just put a grain of sand back on my pile. Because that is how weight comes on and off a very small amount at a time eventually over time it becomes a big pile. Work your butt off at the gym and be good it all day and you just took a grain off, Eat more than your are supposed to and put a grain on. I try to eat the perfect amount of calories every day 5 meals. With the right Macros: 45% carbs (better carbs the better) 35% protein 20% fat(better fats the better). One day a week(sat) I allow myself to go crazy. And I do. 1,200 calorie Mexican meal after the morning gym workout, beers,pizza/Dennys that night. I'm 55 years old 12% body fat and just lost 10 pounds using my fitness pal. I am now down to 173. Before I started life style change I was 195 pounds and 23% body fat. What I'm getting at by all of this is if you are doing what you are supposed to 90 percent of the time I think you'll still achieve your goals. My fitness pal has made it easy to see problems and be better. Be honest with your inputs and activity level, and if you burn more calories than you eat you WILL loose weight. Simply calories in vs calories burned + proper macros. No matter what your metabolism, genetic makeup or drugs you are on this is all there is to it.

bchgrl8

I find that if I don't have that one thing that I'm craving..I'll eat everything else to compensate for it, in turn eating more calories then I would have to begin with. It's all about sensible choices.

RoxieDawn

I rub my belly and move on! My cheats are not cheats they are planned awesomeness and usually needed for a diet break! LOL

Need2Exerc1se

micca35 wrote: »

After 7 weeks of eating no junk food...I broke down and ate a bag of cool ranch doritos and a smores oreo cookie now I feel horrible. How do I deal with the shame...

Move on. Nobody's perfect. Just let it go and move on.

StacyChrz

I have come to realize that I am making a change that I must be able to sustain for good. That means that sometimes I am going to eat things that aren't all that healthy. I just have to remember that the overall majority of my choices are healthy and one meal or one day isn't going to undo all of the good I've been doing.

I do try to log everything so I can see where I stand on a weekly basis, but otherwise I feel no guilt.

amanda000002014

Hmmmm, if you know your going to feel guilty don't do it. What is guilt bit failure to live up to a rule or the law.

ald783

amanda000002014 wrote: »

Hmmmm, if you know your going to feel guilty don't do it. What is guilt bit failure to live up to a rule or the law.

It's not that simple, and that places eating or overeating in a way more important category than it deserves. It's going to happen whether or not you tell yourself it'll never happen. I think it's more important to get over it and not give it more weight than something so trivial deserves. It's food, not kiddieporn.

KetoneKaren

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indiacaitlin

By accepting that I don't live to diet.

You're human, sometimes we need some Doritos and an Oreo and that does not make us bad people or a failure at dieting. Your life shouldn't revolve around losing weight, balance is key! Just enjoy the little cheat day and get back on track, in a few days/weeks you'll forget you even had a wobble

wi_maint_man

I wish I knew, I have a history of mild depression, when I overeat I feel bad for a few days, being an "all or nothing " person I try to stay on track all the time, not saying it works well for me but I try and I feel good when I'm on track.

Rushbrook60

Oh bless you. Don't worry too much. A bag of crisps won't ruin all the effort you've put in so far. I had a Chinese and felt awful about it, but after a couple of days, I stopped telling myself off about it and told myself just to get back on the band wagon. I have and I haven't had any take aways since.

I don't see this experience as dieting but rather as a lifestyle change. I aim to keep this going for the rest of my life so that I stay as healthy as I can. My body needs an overhaul first, so loosing weight, then I'll swap to maintaining.

If you restrict yourself entirely from the odd treats now and then, this will become monotonous and unbearable. You need to let your hair down a little bit, just not every day. Everything in moderation hun.

It's only one little treat. Don't punish yourself for it, just carry on. Anything is achievable if you set your heart on it...yours being your overall weight loss goal.

Good luck hun