I ate 3,446 calories yesterday!!!

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  • MommaKit79
    MommaKit79 Posts: 852
    I'm NOT promoting binge eating, rather a healthy mindset about food. Yesterday was partly emotional eating,
    Sorry to burst your bubble but that's not a healthy mindset about food no matter what your trying to tell yourself

    I think her point is that sometimes, we get emotional. And is it better to learn from it and move on or to dwell on it, which may cause more emotions and more binging?

    We all have bad days. This chick is awesome and tough and she knows how to right a wrong with her body. Train hard, learn from mistakes and move on. That's the point.

    EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!
  • beachlover317
    beachlover317 Posts: 2,848 Member
    I'm NOT promoting binge eating, rather a healthy mindset about food. Yesterday was partly emotional eating,
    Sorry to burst your bubble but that's not a healthy mindset about food no matter what your trying to tell yourself

    I think her point is that sometimes, we get emotional. And is it better to learn from it and move on or to dwell on it, which may cause more emotions and more binging?

    We all have bad days. This chick is awesome and tough and she knows how to right a wrong with her body. Train hard, learn from mistakes and move on. That's the point.

    EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!

    I don't know anyone on my friend's list that isn't learning to deal with emotional eating. IF you are using this website, there's a pretty good chance you have had an unhealthy mindset about food. This post was important because it IS healthy to NOT freak out every time you eat over your daily calorie goal. If you are eating healthy 80 % of the time and moving every day - you're going to develop a healthy mindset about food and your body.

    This amazing woman has been through it all. She is making it through to the other side and continues to work every day to improve her life and her health.
  • BACKTOCHRISSY
    BACKTOCHRISSY Posts: 73 Member
    THAT'S AWESOME!!! I am going to copy down ur words and put them in front of me every day. because seriously one days doesn't undo all the hard work you did to lose, just like one day of great eating and exercising doesn't take off a ton of weight. Funny how we never think of it in reverse.

    Hope you don't mind, I'm going to friend you :wink:
  • megalin9
    megalin9 Posts: 771 Member
    I'm NOT promoting binge eating, rather a healthy mindset about food. Yesterday was partly emotional eating,
    Sorry to burst your bubble but that's not a healthy mindset about food no matter what your trying to tell yourself

    I think her point is that sometimes, we get emotional. And is it better to learn from it and move on or to dwell on it, which may cause more emotions and more binging?

    We all have bad days. This chick is awesome and tough and she knows how to right a wrong with her body. Train hard, learn from mistakes and move on. That's the point.

    BAM! Love this!
  • andresconejo
    andresconejo Posts: 264
    Is great that you finally dont feel guilty! Cause i havent got to that point yet! I still afraid :(
  • Hadabetter
    Hadabetter Posts: 942 Member
    That is 1,326 calories over my daily goal. And guess what.....I'm not starving myself today OR punishing myself with excessive exercise. In fact, I'm taking a much needed rest day today.

    I'm NOT promoting binge eating, rather a healthy mindset about food. Yesterday was partly emotional eating, and partly because my body needed it. I train hard, so I'm physically recovering from that and from a few other physical things going on. So, I ate. Life happens.

    I didn't gain back 74 pounds overnight. I didn't undo ALL of my progress. I did not board the guilt train that wanted to pull up to my curb and toot it's ugly little horn.

    Keep it sane and simple people.

    That is all. :drinker:

    74 pounds lost. End of story. SCOREBOARD!
    The point here is that these daily ups and downs are just random noise, not to be sweated over.
    The long-term trend is all that counts..
  • Superchikanthem
    Superchikanthem Posts: 362 Member
    You and I have the same mindset! I'm living life and loving it!!
  • kts3639
    kts3639 Posts: 188 Member
    I'm NOT promoting binge eating, rather a healthy mindset about food. Yesterday was partly emotional eating,
    Sorry to burst your bubble but that's not a healthy mindset about food no matter what your trying to tell yourself

    I think it is a great mindset! One day of a bit of emotional eating =/= an unhealthy relationship with food. If it were like that every day, then yes, that may be true, but that's not the case here. It is very healthy to accept going over your allotment for the day and not let it get the best of you. We're all human, it happens, doesn't mean you need therapy for it.

    And OP, you are a very strong woman, and I am proud of you :drinker:
  • SkinnyMel78
    SkinnyMel78 Posts: 434 Member
    you just made me hungry :smile:
  • pa_cornpone
    pa_cornpone Posts: 16 Member
    Just want to say that I am glad you are my friend.... Preach on sistah!!!!
  • Gee_24
    Gee_24 Posts: 359 Member
    Its nice to see your not like me and panic straight away! I hope in time I will manage to calm down about my intake. I must remember it takes me weeks or months of overeating to gain the lbs back, not one day!

    Gee, that's the whole point of this. I want to help people realize that. Obviously, this is not a desirable daily situation. I normally eat 2200-2400 calories, which is still under my maintenance TDEE. A 3k day here or there isn't going to hurt.

    I, too, used to freak out about going "over" by 50 tiny calories. I cannot imagine a life of being bound by imaginary super stressful boundaries regarding "staying under" or "going over." That's also why I normally don't log individual foods and only use the quick add feature. Less stress. :wink:

    Excellent attitude. And as I have just discovered I have been giving myself waaaay too many exercise calories and just rearranged my excise and have discovered I've went a couple of hundred calories over some days, I've now calmed the hell down and am ready to start again tomorrow.

    2 weeks and I've still lost weight. Not the end of the world when I have the rest of my life to work on good health choices.
  • mandles82
    mandles82 Posts: 31
    Thank you for this post. I had a bad day today, well, I had a great day, but bad with how much I ate. I ate 6 of these amazing sugar cookies :noway: did I need them? No, but I wanted them and I ate them. Stupid of me to do? Yes, but thank you to you I'm fine with it. I don't do this everyday, not even every week but it happened, get over it and move on :bigsmile:
  • lexoxoc
    lexoxoc Posts: 135 Member
    You are awesome! That is all.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    It's the right attitude. I think the main issue with people eating so much in one day and freaking out is that they're worried they'll go back to their old eating habits.
  • rm830
    rm830 Posts: 531 Member
    Dang you were grubbing! if I had 3500 calories to eat in one day I would:

    Eat bacon eggs pancakes for breakfast
    A fajita burrito for lunch or a big mac with fries and ice tea
    Rib, chicken, macaroni and cheese, greens, corn bread for dinner

    German chocolate cake for dessert!

    Damn you Ced...you're makin me hungry!!!
  • tabinmaine
    tabinmaine Posts: 965 Member
    :noway: OMG I freak out if I hit 2,000...I think I'd need therapy if I ate 3,000 because I'd hate myself that much. Thanks for a little perspective! :smile:

    Are you kidding me ?? The "average calorie" recommended consumption here in the USA is 2000 cal/day . That is a "diet" , if all American's ate 2000 cal a day and only that amount.....there would not be the obesity epedemic there is here in the States.

    2000 cal is NOTHING..... sheesh.....

    No one became overweight on 2000 cal /day

    Not if someone doesn't exercise and just sits around all day. If I ate 2000 kcals a day and didn't exercise, I'd be over 50 calories daily according to my TDEE, which would put on pounds.

    I can guarantee you that your TDEE is more than 2050. No one every correctly estimates their TDEE, they undersell it. I looked at your pic... your TDEE is more than that.... promise you :)
  • kittycatmeowmeow
    kittycatmeowmeow Posts: 90 Member
    Yes!! Great post!!! I am slowing shifting my mindset to this way of thinking too - a couple of days ago I zobmie ate a hedgehog slice.. I swear the thought popped into my head and then I had gobbled it down before I even had time to consider it would cost me 600 calories - usual reaction would have been "well, i stuffed my day, now lets see how much delicous food i can cram into my belly!" but.. I didnt freak out! I tracked it and then just hit the gym for a really hard workout that night. It feels really good not beating myself up anymore and I think it is why I am being successful at losing weight this time around.

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