When you're in denial!
TrishSeren
Posts: 587 Member
So I've been feeling frustrated as to why the weight isn't moving, so I decided to check out the past few months and I realized that it's because out of 68 days so far, I've actually only been under my calorie goal 26 of those days!
I only thought it was perhaps a day here and there, but no, some weeks the entire week I was well over each day.
It's coming into summer here and I wouldn't reach by goal by Christmas but at least now I can see that's my own fault the weight isn't moving!
I only thought it was perhaps a day here and there, but no, some weeks the entire week I was well over each day.
It's coming into summer here and I wouldn't reach by goal by Christmas but at least now I can see that's my own fault the weight isn't moving!
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Isn't the diary review a beautiful tool? At least you're tracking everything My denial days, I just don't track. Yesterday was my allowed "high calorie" day, and I was so proud and a little surprised when I wasn't as "over" as I thought, which normally would have led to more eating.
Good Job keeping with it! Now you know what to do moving forward!1 -
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well done for spotting it, so many people just cant see it and wonder whats gone wrong
good luck.4 -
data is one of your most important tools!8
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The ability to look back over 30 days and see where my calories had been that month was one of the things that helped me move forward with working harder to stay within my daily goal. The good news is, now that you saw your denial, you can move forward from it. Good for you for being honest with yourself.3
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Good for you for logging it in the first place, then meeting sensible enough to go back and look at it critically! That right there shows you've got the nounce to succeed at this.5
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It's been said "you can learn a great deal from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them".
good on you!8 -
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I live in denial on the days that I "cheat". I know that you should log your calories even on bad days, but I went so off the rails over the weekend that I'm honestly too afraid to see how bad it is. I'm afraid it will just make me feel worse than I do.0
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Accountability!3
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Isn't the diary review a beautiful tool? At least you're tracking everything My denial days, I just don't track. Yesterday was my allowed "high calorie" day, and I was so proud and a little surprised when I wasn't as "over" as I thought, which normally would have led to more eating.
Good Job keeping with it! Now you know what to do moving forward!
How do you see this review?2 -
Sure...it happens..."Oh, this or that couldn't have been that many calories..." but a. yes, in some cases it could have been and b. it adds up.
Have definitely done this.0 -
kschwab0203 wrote: »I live in denial on the days that I "cheat". I know that you should log your calories even on bad days, but I went so off the rails over the weekend that I'm honestly too afraid to see how bad it is. I'm afraid it will just make me feel worse than I do.
I think if you look at is as a learning experience and not as bad/good it can't effect your feelings. I'd also like to say it isn't really cheating, its just eating more than your goal that day. Taking the power away from food helped me tremendously. idk1 -
kschwab0203 wrote: »I live in denial on the days that I "cheat". I know that you should log your calories even on bad days, but I went so off the rails over the weekend that I'm honestly too afraid to see how bad it is. I'm afraid it will just make me feel worse than I do.
Very often I found it wasn't near as bad as I thought it was when I did overdo it. I would use it as a learning time and then move on.1
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