I just ate a donut

brother_j

I feel like I cheated on my wife. I just ate the most delicious donut, but now I am over my caloric intake for the day. Do I not eat dinner and wait till tomorrow, or do I have dinner and eat less calories tomorrow?

cwolfman13

You eat dinner and move on...look at the big picture...in the big picture, it's pretty irrelevant.

inertiastrength

have a lower calorie dinner and carry on. It's 200 calories

jjpptt2

Can you do some of both? Have a slightly smaller dinner tonight, and slightly fewer cals tomorrow (and maybe the next day)? Look at your cals by the week and see when you get it balanced out, then carry on as usual.

quiksylver296

Do you know what your maintenance calories are? I bet that doughnut didn't take you over maintenance.

I have my weight loss calories set at 1860. But maintenance is ~2300-2400 calories. So even if I ate over by a doughnut, about 300 calories, I'd still be at 2160 and under maintenance. Learning my maintenance calories has really helped stop the freakouts like yours.

Log it and get back on the original plan, including eating dinner.

nutmegoreo

Log it and have a slightly lighter supper tonight. Don't punish yourself for eating something that you enjoyed, even though it didn't fit into your plan today. Over time you will figure out that: 1) in the long run occasional treats are not going to stop progress and 2) you can enjoy your food and meet your goals too. Find a balance, but more importantly try to not let guilt play into this.

netitheyeti

I personally wouldn't skip dinner unless I wasn't particularly hungry and I knew it put me over maintenance for the day, at the end of the day it's just one doughnut look at it as a treat and move on

toxikon

In the grand scheme of things, one doughnut doesn't mean anything. The key is overall consistency. Get back to your regularly planned deficit tomorrow.

cmriverside

I'm taking a different tack since OP's diary is open.

If you're hungry eat. You already hit your fat and protein numbers, so maybe make it mostly vegetables - which are pretty low cal...and seem to be lacking in your day so far.

I would caution you that you are using generic entries which may or may not work in the long term. "3 chicken breasts" for 330 calories? You have no idea the actual size of them, or were they some preportioned thing?


Also...

I see TWO donuts!!!!!!




I've been known to eat a whole box in one day, so no judgement here.

cmriverside

Those frozen Kroger's chicken breasts, I buy those. They have widely varying sizes in those bags. You might want to start weighing them.

RoxieDawn

I see that you logged 1/2 a Krispy Kreme Cinnamon Apple Filled Donut (165 cals) & a Wegman's Coconut Cream Pie Donut (113 g) at 365 cals. My question ... were these good because I have not ever had either of these?

Its not quite a bad as cheating on your wife, you have ask her for forgiveness and hope she does not leave you in the process. This is just a donut (or 2?) you don't get to go to jail or have to sleep on the couch for enjoying a donut.

What you do for dinner will ultimately be up to you, this is not a failure, don't be so hard on yourself you are in this for the long haul.

quiksylver296

RoxieDawn wrote: »

I see that you logged 1/2 a Krispy Kreme Cinnamon Apple Filled Donut (165 cals) & a Wegman's Coconut Cream Pie Donut (113 g) at 365 cals. My question ... were these good because I have not ever had either of these?

I need. :sad: There are no Wegman's where I live.

cmriverside

Those Krispy kreme Cinnamon Apple Filled Donuts are the only thing I eat from KK. Da bomb.

Packerjohn

Must have been a damn big donut if the calories exceeded what you would normally eat for dinner

darrenbeckworth

workout... go for a walk, burn some calories and make today a success.

spiriteagle99

Go for a walk or to the gym. Eat dinner. Don't stress about it.

amgreenwell

go take a walk or do some other cardio and work that donut off. No reason not to eat tonight!

RoxieDawn

quiksylver296 wrote: »

RoxieDawn wrote: »

I see that you logged 1/2 a Krispy Kreme Cinnamon Apple Filled Donut (165 cals) & a Wegman's Coconut Cream Pie Donut (113 g) at 365 cals. My question ... were these good because I have not ever had either of these?

I need. :sad: There are no Wegman's where I live.

Me too. :sad:

jennabun101

Every Friday, the boss buys donuts for the office. I've not been interested, and had no issue in choosing my Special K over them. Until last week.... I knew on Thursday morning that I was eating a Friday donut. Sweetwater's Donut Mill calls it a Peanut Butter Cup. A fat evil thing, stuffed with fluffy chocolate filling, and topped with delicous peanut butter icing. Worth. Every. Calorie.

TroyWebber

Grab your heart rate strap and your jump rope! Put on some good music and jump enough calories to have a few donuts.

vmlabute

Eat dinner and move on. I'm sure that donut was amazing tho!!