Anyone else feel bad after going over your daily caloric limit?

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  • natasyafrederika
    natasyafrederika Posts: 1 Member
    My calorie is 1200 per day because i want to lose 10kg in 3 month.. After eating too much and over my calorie i feel a little bit dissapointed with my self because i can't handle what i am eating and the next day i trying to eat based on my daily calorie and not doing over eating
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    Yes, but it's all part of the process. As for what I do about it, it depends. If it's early in the week, it's fairly easy to just exercise a bit more and eat a bit less to make up for it. However, there have been plenty of times where I had neither the time nor the strength, so I just went back to my regularly scheduled calorie deficit the next day.
  • missh1967
    missh1967 Posts: 661 Member
    edited July 2016
    In the past, going over a day or two used to totally derail me. You know, "Well, I screwed up, so I may as well throw my hands up and quit."

    Horrible thought process. Now I look at my deficit in weeks at a time. In other words, when I am consistent, I have built up a huge deficit in a week or two or even a month. Having a few days of going over my deficit, or even over my maintenance calories, does not cause me mental anguish anymore.
  • oolou
    oolou Posts: 765 Member
    zumbagirl2526 wrote: »
    If so how do you feel better about it?

    How do you counteract the guilt?

    I don't feel guilty, but instead annoyed with myself, if it's by more than 200 cals.

    If it's less than 200 cals, I'll look at the previous days to see if I have wiggle room from having previously eaten under my goal. If I don't have that wiggle room, I'll up my cardio a bit the next couple days.

    If I'm over by a lot, I'll do some extra sessions of cardio to help mitigate those additional calories so that I've at least reached the maintenance goal for that day, if not the deficit goal. (my cardio is the stationary bike which I use when watching TV so it's fairly easy for me to do extra)

  • RainaProske
    RainaProske Posts: 636 Member
    edited July 2016
    I feel bad, but I let it go. After all, there are some days when I don't feel hungry, so I eat hundreds of calories fewer than my limit.

    I've set my site up so that I have times rather than meals and snacks. My days, then, start at 12 a.m. and end at 11:59 p.m. Tonight, I really wanted popcorn, so I made some near midnight and ate it afterward. That, then, will go on today's foods.

    I want to be honest with regard to my eating.
  • jennypapage
    jennypapage Posts: 489 Member
    it doesn't happen often, but sometimes i do go over my calories.and yes i feel guilty. usually i compensate the following day by eating less.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Yeah I do. Which is a good thing, IMO, or I would never have lost the weight!

    Now I'm getting used to it as I keep a low goal on purpose though... knowing I will go over sometimes, but it still makes me plan my days better and decreases the chance that I will go for empty calories 'because I have calories left'.

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