How to pick up the pieces after a few bad days?

TheFatLadyPortrait
TheFatLadyPortrait Posts: 21 Member
edited June 2016 in Motivation and Support
With the holiday weekend (and my birthday) coming up, I know that I am going to overeat. A lot. Because when my family gathers, we do food. A lot of it. And I am fine with that. I have lost 50lb and I am fine with putting back on a few pounds over the weekend. But my biggest problem is that after I 'fall off the wagon' I sometimes have trouble getting back onto it. Especially where sugar is concerned.

I am worried that after a weekend laden with cake, and ice cream, and wine coolers that I am just gonna spiral into failure. It has happened before. I definitely want to eat the good stuff, but any suggestions for getting back on the horse?
I dont know if I should have posted in the advice section instead, but it feels like its not so much of a technique thing (because I know all of the basics of dieting) but an emotional thing.

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  • vespiquenn
    vespiquenn Posts: 1,455 Member
    edited June 2016
    Just log it as best as you can and move on. The fact that you're okay that this might cause a fluctuation is already a good state of mind, because it probably will.

    Logging, even if it is 100% accurate due to the nature of it, will help you stay accountable. That way, it'll be like you never stopped, making it easier to jump back on the horse.
  • TheFatLadyPortrait
    TheFatLadyPortrait Posts: 21 Member
    vespiquenn wrote: »
    Just log it as best as you can and move on. The fact that you're okay that this might cause a fluctuation is already a good state of mind, because it probably will.

    Logging, even if it is 100% accurate due to the nature of it, will help you stay accountable. That way, it'll be like you never stopped, making it easier to jump back on the horse.

    That's a good idea, though I do cringe at the thought of trying to put those calories on my diary and how much red there will be.
  • distinctlybeautiful
    distinctlybeautiful Posts: 1,041 Member
    You haven't fallen off the wagon! You're still on it.. you just brought some less than healthy food along for a couple days! Ok, apparently I'm not very good with analogies, but what I mean is that as long as you're still focused and determined to make healthy choices a majority of the time, you haven't stopped anything by having a couple days of less nutritious food with more calories. It's just an inevitable part of this stuff if you're planning to do it for life. When I started looking at it that way, it became much easier to bounce back!

    I also second the advice to log, even if it's a ton of food and even if you have to estimate. It keeps you honest and committed, and sometimes I even find it's not as many calories as I thought it'd be. The mind can be tricky, so putting it down in black and white is helpful, for me anyway.

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