I messed up...

zfitgal

tomorrow is a new day, I'll be fine, I was eating much more before this week and maintaining. I'll be fine. Thank you for all your help

CattOfTheGarage

A 180cal reduction in your deficit will not stop you losing weight.

Beating yourself up over it, wallowing in guilt, and trying to "pay it back", all threaten your weight loss. This is the mindset that leads to binges and yo-yo dieting.

This is your opportunity to spot and deal with a really problematic behaviour and start cultivating the ability to deal with overeating without drama or guilt. Just log it and move on. There is no payback, there is no moral sin in eating an extra protein bar. You just ate something. No big deal. Log it. Tomorrow is another day.

And by that means, you will gradually change your whole attitude to food, and set yourself up for long term success.

trigden1991

Life is too short to worry about one-offs. Log it honestly and move on. Tomorrow is a new day!

lennyt91

We've all done something like this... If you wanna see perfect days, don't look at my diary.. I've been 800 cals over some days at family gatherings, or oddball stuff like that, but then you'll see a few days where I've had 600-800 total cals for the day!
Brush it off and move on! It's gonna be okay.

indiacaitlin

You don't need to worry about that at all. Don't be so harsh on yourself

genpopadopolous

zfitgal wrote: »

Po_210 wrote: »

zfitgal wrote: »

would it be bad if I subtracted 180 calories from tomorrow?

If you did, what do you think will happen?

it's my first week, I wanted it to be perfect ..

Perfect doesn't exist.

It's life. It's also less than 200 calories- log it, move on.

Yesterday was my husband's birthday- I was like 600 over. In two days it will be like nothing happened. And I got yummy food and cake.

vanmep

Perfectionism is more of a threat to your weight loss than 180 calories.

deannalfisher

today is a new day...I give myself a lee way of 125 cal a day (+/- 10g carbs/protein; +/-5g fat)

Sunna_W

I am a recovered / recovering anorexic and I hate the thought of controlling my food intake by dieting. But, here we are and it's a scary place. I am now 59 and I happened to realize that my weight had crept up after menopause and I wanted to give you the benefit of my experience, by way of my husband who is a retired tennis jock, who says to anyone who will listen, "No body is perfect except for maybe athletes who train hard and do the same movement over and over and over again - thousands of times until the brain and the muscles are conditioned for that move." It's the same with anything - learning to drive, cooking a new food, using a new technique, roller blading (do people even do that any more?), applying makeup... you get my drift. It takes practice, trial and error, and hopefully you won't burn down the kitchen. Be here (at MFP) because you are trying to be MINDFUL of what you are eating, HOW what you are eating makes you FEEL, and LEARNING what you can do to "improve" your score at the end of the day for the RESULTS you are looking for. For me, it took months of trial and error to get "what worked for me" right. I fiddled around with calorie amounts (ratios of protein, carbs, sugar, fat), avoided the mirror and the scale (because that is what they taught anorexics back then), agonized over what to count as exercise or if I should even count exercise at all, and some days I just looked glumly at my numbers and my food choices and muttered. I recommend that you seek out different types of diets and different ratios of protein, carbs, sugar, fat and try them out for a week or two to see how you feel. Are you "hangry"? Are you light headed? Are you craving salt, sugar, crunchy things? It will take time to find what works for you. Don't agonize over each calorie - at the beginning -- it's just a "number". Good luck!