1 day in MFP and already blew it at lunch

MrsKeith94

Well I WAS feeling good about restarting MFP. Today I messed up at lunch. I have no calories left for dinner. Ugh! How have you handled a situation like this?

ladyhusker39

It happens. Are you in for 1 day or the long run. Review where you went off plan and get back on.

Tomorrow is another day.

Sheisinlove109

Try prepping your meals. Goof ups are going to happen, don't put too much into them.

Eat a spinach salad, some chicken and an apple for dinner and get out there and go for a walk/run/gym and you'll be just fine.

TeaBea

We all screw up from time to time. You don't need to be perfect for weight loss, you just need to improve. If you have more good days than bad.....you've (very likely) still made progress.

Rusty740

You eat your dinner and you forget about it. This kind of attitude (I messed up and now I'll never lose weight) is the kind of attitude that will get you to stop tracking your food.

It's ok to go over your goal, IT IS OK You just keep going and develop your persistency. It's about the process, focus on that. Focus on tracking your food well. I consider today a complete success, why? You successfully identified a problem (your lunch) and you are seeking solutions. Seriously, Old You wouldn't have done this. I think you deserve a pat on the back for doing the process well. We all go over our calorie goals.

The important next step in the process is to plan for these types of things to occur and see how you can do better next time, and the next time, and so on.

If you've got no calories for dinner, it sounds like to me your calorie deficit might be too large, just a thought. It really is important to be able to stick to your goals and sometimes we need to acknowledge that maybe we just need an easier goal. Perhaps you should reduce your deficit a touch.

dwood1231

Having done the same thing many many times, I eat a healthy low cal dinner, get a good night sleep and start anew in the morning.

RedSierra

Log everything and consider the logging a success. Eat a normal dinner and do the best you can tomorrow.

kokonani

Eat a smaller dinner. Or no dinner, if you can. Just a salad with some lean protein, then do a bit of excersise. Learn to balance it out, it will happen again.. we all do it sometimes. It's not a big deal.

MysteriousMerlin

It's a learning journey. It's ok to make mistakes, as long as you realize what they are, and strive to do better tomorrow. Maybe get a walk in before dinner, or stick with lower calorie foods like plain veggies for dinner.

usmcmp

Have whatever would normally fit your calories for dinner (like chicken and vegetables) and plan ahead better for tomorrow.

This whole thing takes a lot of learning. You'll make choices that could have been better, you'll completely blow it sometimes, and over time you'll keep working at it until you build better habits. Planning ahead is a good habit to build.

88olds

Finish the day as planned. Learn.

And be sure that lunch is in your journal. Dinner too. You started today. Eating too many calories is not a reason to abandon tracking.

Every loves tracking their good days. This is a important test, right now, day #1. If you're for real, it goes in the tracker. That's the best you can do for today.

MrsKeith94

Thank you all for your kind words of encouragement. I do have a workout scheduled for tonight, so that makes me feel better. I'm starting over with the next meal! ☺️

bazookajoe123

Don't worry. Just eat a healthy dinner and do some extra cardio. I'm staring at the pizza I made for my daughter. And I'm literally having a conversation w myself about eating it lol.

R4U1R0DR1GU3Z

The first few days are the hardest, this is not so bad. Get through the following days no matter what.

goldthistime

Is it possible that you've set your weight loss/calorie goal too aggressively?

I've eaten all my calories by lunch on several occasions, but then I'm not really hungry again at dinner. I'm hungry by bedtime, but I'm generally a little hungry at bedtime regardless.

PaytraB

No problem. It's only one day and we're all here to learn where we can make better choices and some changes.
Look over your diary and see where you could have made a tweak or two to bring your calories down and still be satisfied with your meal.
It's a learning process and takes time. Today you can learn something to try out tomorrow.

Also, remember that you would have to eat 500 calories over your calorie limit to reach Maintenance (assuming a 1lb/wk goal). You can still remain under maintenance. That's a win on a day like today.

BananaJoanna

Since this is an angle no one has mentioned: Was the lunch a special occasion? A restaurant you have been dying to try? Forget about it. Consider the tracking a success. My rule for special occasions is that I enjoy the food, even if it's higher calories than I would normally eat. To me, if I am going to order a boring salad at a place that specializes in pizza, I might as well have made my own lunch and not bothered. So, I eat the pizza and enjoy it, but maybe have a smaller pizza or just one slice. And I will do this maybe twice a month, instead of twice a week. And I will have something light for supper, instead of more pizza. This isn't a diet. This is the first day of the rest of your life. You need to live it. You are on track. You've got this.

Heather4448

Honestly logging your intake makes you a winner!

JeromeBarry1

MrsKeith94 wrote: »

Well I WAS feeling good about restarting MFP. Today I messed up at lunch. I have no calories left for dinner. Ugh! How have you handled a situation like this?

I know it's a bit late to help for today, but my today was also blown by lunch. Some generous soul brought too many bagels to work. The way I handled it was I used my home time to do enough cardio work to burn off all the bagels.

boredloser

Just get back on track tomorrow and don't sweat one day.

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AnaA78

It's ok doll, tonrw is a new day. Lil steps, you just have to teach yourself, calorie count, use a food scale, but all in time. Don't stop you'll get it.

JetJaguar

It's a lesson learned, just move on the next day. This reminds me of a story About Thomas Edison inventing the light bulb. He and his technicians tried something like 3,000 different filament designs before finally discovering one that worked reliably. Afterwards in an interview, a reporter asked if he were ever discouraged by so many failures. Edison replied "Not at all, we successfully identified 3,000 designs that didn't work."

TavistockToad

MrsKeith94 wrote: »

Well I WAS feeling good about restarting MFP. Today I messed up at lunch. I have no calories left for dinner. Ugh! How have you handled a situation like this?

eat a normal dinner, and aim for your deficit again tomorrow.

in future pre logging will stop this from happening again.