How many day one's have you had?
chrissjourney
Posts: 121 Member
I swear I wake up in the morning and think, okay day 1 starts today. Next morning I think. ..day 1 starts here. Today I'm saying Monday will be day 1 again lol. I know I'm not alone in this.
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So.very.many.
Nothing you can do but get back up and start again though.5 -
every day is day 1 ,, even after a good day , one day at a time
good luck24 -
Day one? Had one of them. The next 570 are one at a time.4
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More than I keep track of. It's always "Eh, next monday" or "1st of next month"1
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I am giving it a week to see if my day 1 is good and if so and still a little less tonnage I will call it day 21
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Why Monday? You still have Sunday.7
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I don't look at it as starting over/day one, I look at it as getting back on track to keep going.5
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I had a ton of them. Then I changed my mindset. One difficult day doesn't restart the count, it's all an ongoing process that continually evolves. Do it, or don't. The time will pass anyway.13
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Well how can it really be day one more than once? its day 2, day 300, day 5830.. it doesn't matter how much progress you make. I've already lost 5 lbs even when i fall off track for months it's never going to be day 1 again. You might not feel like it but each time you try you're moving forward! you're one step closer to sticking to it.4
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Yeah I thought about Sunday but it's Super Bowl Sunday so in advance I said nah... haha. Monday!
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chrissjourney wrote: »Yeah I thought about Sunday but it's Super Bowl Sunday so in advance I said nah... haha. Monday!
....ok. Good luck.2 -
chrissjourney wrote: »Yeah I thought about Sunday but it's Super Bowl Sunday so in advance I said nah... haha. Monday!
Sounds like a whole lot of excuses to me. Your doing it to yourself i really hope you can one day change your thinking. Only person your hurting is yourself.1 -
JaydedMiss wrote: »chrissjourney wrote: »Yeah I thought about Sunday but it's Super Bowl Sunday so in advance I said nah... haha. Monday!
Sounds like a whole lot of excuses to me. Your doing it to yourself i really hope you can one day change your thinking. Only person your hurting is yourself.
For sure excuses...reason for the post.
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You might as well keep trying because the time will pass anyway.4
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1 more than necessary.
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I just started tracking and my first day was waaaay over my 1350 limit-- amazed to discover I happily eat 2100 cals a day! Next day was a bit better-- 1900 or 1800 I think. I don't think it's realistic to eat under your limit on day 1 or even day 3 or 4 or 5. I just cut back a little at a time until eating around 1400 felt comfortable. It's taken 3 weeks.6
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another chance, hope... good stuff. much better than giving up.0
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I did that as I was going through the holidays. Then on a Sunday I sat down and wrote out an entire weeks worth of meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner). I calculated all the calories and made a chart. That made it so much easier to start. Once I had a plan it wasn't hard.2
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Too many day ones to count. You just keep trying2
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How do you define a "Day 1"? I start logging my food intake, and staying under my calorie goal when I see my weight go up a bit ... and then when it's back down where I want it, I ease off the logging until it starts going up a little bit again.
Life is a series of these sorts of adjustments.
But is each time I log again for a bit to make a minor correction to my weight a "Day 1"?2 -
Zero.
Your attitude as in 'tomorrow is the first day of a long streak of days in which I will be disciplined to eat at a deficit' is perfectionist and unhelpful. If I was looking to eat at a deficit for the next two years, I would do everything to postpone this horror.
The right attitude is to only take it one day at a time and accept that you will eat without deficit every now and then and that means nothing. On the contrary, that is what will make it a lifestyle.
It is not important that you eat at a deficit every day. It is important that you ate at a deficit after a month, on average. That is the long run you should be looking at. And in this situation there are no first days. There are just days. Normal days in which you weigh your food and that's all.
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This is a journey. When I make a wrong turn on a real trip, I don't go home and start over. I just make a few adjustments, drive around the block, and keep going. I view my weight management and fitness the same way. No drama. Just keep going and make any needed adjustments.7
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Far too many so I stopped bothering with them. Life is so much easier if I don't guilt trip myself about failing what ever "plan" called for a day one.
(BTW I logged my first meal on a Thursday evening. Only times I don't log is on vacation. Otherwise I log the good the bad and the I-rather-not-remember. Especially the I-rather-not-remember)1 -
sherrifoster123 wrote: »I did that as I was going through the holidays. Then on a Sunday I sat down and wrote out an entire weeks worth of meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner). I calculated all the calories and made a chart. That made it so much easier to start. Once I had a plan it wasn't hard.
Good for you!1 -
This is a journey. When I make a wrong turn on a real trip, I don't go home and start over. I just make a few adjustments, drive around the block, and keep going. I view my weight management and fitness the same way. No drama. Just keep going and make any needed adjustments.
Love it! Thanks.1 -
one ... very easy to get hooked and don't want to go back1
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Yours is different for me though ... that one I call the "tomorrow"-complex, and everyday there is another tomorrow, and I have loads of them for things I do not like ... Tax Returns, Cleaning, calling people back I do not like ... too many to list
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I know exactly what you mean. I wake up with the best intentions but go to bed having consumed way too many calories. The next day is the same thing. And the next... Never give up trying and one day will end the way you wanted. And the next day will be day 2 and before you know it you'll be at day 14 or 20 and noticing results. Then it becomes easy.
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