Cheat meal bloat

Candikickbutt

So I lost 3 lbs last week, which was great. I eat about 30-75 g of carbs a day, 1200-1300 calories a day and workout 5 days a week. Yesterday I had a cheat meal and didn't drink too much water. Now today I'm up 5lbs. I know I shouldn't have even weighed myself. I have a very unhealthy relationship with food. Lots of regrets about eating too much and such. I'm really beating myself up today. I'm looking for advice how to get over this. Obviously I didn't eat enough to gain 5lbs...right !?

Alatariel75

Check out this thread: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10575000/water-weight-gain-stop-panicking

Candikickbutt

Thank you

rmgnow

First of all losing 3 and 5 lbs is all negligible. Either one might be water weight.
2nd - I don't know your height and weight, but if you're working out you should be eating above 1200 Cals
3rd don't think of food as cheat meals. You imposed this strict rules on yourself and now you must "cheat"? You can eat anything you want. The only thing is the portions

perkymommy

CandiCulek wrote: »

So I lost 3 lbs last week, which was great. I eat about 30-75 g of carbs a day, 1200-1300 calories a day and workout 5 days a week. Yesterday I had a cheat meal and didn't drink too much water. Now today I'm up 5lbs. I know I shouldn't have even weighed myself. I have a very unhealthy relationship with food. Lots of regrets about eating too much and such. I'm really beating myself up today. I'm looking for advice how to get over this. Obviously I didn't eat enough to gain 5lbs...right !?

The weight should come off in a day or two as long as you stay on plan as usual. I have days like that too and I kick myself after.

TavistockToad

CandiCulek wrote: »

So I lost 3 lbs last week, which was great. I eat about 30-75 g of carbs a day, 1200-1300 calories a day and workout 5 days a week. Yesterday I had a cheat meal and didn't drink too much water. Now today I'm up 5lbs. I know I shouldn't have even weighed myself. I have a very unhealthy relationship with food. Lots of regrets about eating too much and such. I'm really beating myself up today. I'm looking for advice how to get over this. Obviously I didn't eat enough to gain 5lbs...right !?

probably not, but you should log your cheat meal...

or stop 'cheating' and fit treats into your weekly goal...

HeidiCooksSupper

I did not cheat. Instead, I did something lazy and unwise. I handed hubby the take out Chinese menu as my declaration that I was not cooking night before last. I assume I ate at least my usual number of calories -- probably more because I ate all the rice that came with my entree. I know I ate more salt than our usual low-sodium diet.

I wasn't cheating on some set of rules; I was making an unwise dinner choice given my desire to see a lower number on the scale, lose weight and feel better. So, yes, since that meal I have been sloshing as I walk across the room. The scale is reclaiming the number progress I was making. Still in all, the numbers are less than they were a couple weeks ago and I know they will go back down as I stick to CI<CO.

Using the dichotomy of "dieting" versus "cheating" prolongs the idea that neither of the behaviors we are experiencing are "normal." "Dieting" and "cheating" are actions we can start and stop whereas our diet is what we eat. Everyone has a diet.

I am not "on a diet" or "dieting." I am trying to make a more healthful diet habitual and change my "normal." My normal was too much food, arguably twice what I needed -- ergo I weigh twice what I ought to be healthy and comfortable. My old normal was not really working for me although it was habitual and easy to fall back into. Developing a new normal, teaching this old dog new habits, will be difficult but the game is worth the candle.