Day 1 and I'm over by 80 calories already.

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  • TitaniaEcks
    TitaniaEcks Posts: 351 Member
    Celery, celery, celery! And Walden Farms makes pretty good no-cal dressings to dip it in. That's what I used to do if I went over, is just stuff myself with negligible-calorie vegetables until my tum was full. Or stick them in broth for a near-no-cal soup. Eat as much as you want of it.
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    80 calories over with such a big deficit already is hardly anything. And if you end up eating a few hundred more (like at maintenance) every once in a while you haven't done any harm - just slowed your loss a tiny bit. Not the end of the world. It's the overall trend of what you do over the long term that matters, not one single day.
  • 33Freya
    33Freya Posts: 468 Member
    Self-kickery doesn't burn calories.... Take a walk and burn those 80 calories off instead. Be gentle on yourself as you would a dear friend.
  • Nckr66
    Nckr66 Posts: 31 Member
    When you go over, take it as an opportunity to learn how to deal with the emotions that come with it. I say this as a serial starter who, up until this time round, was ALWAYS derailed by any 'bad' days - I'd just lose the motivation because I felt I'd failed already. Now that I've accepted I'm in this for the long run and that it's the big picture that counts, going over no longer bothers me unless I do it consistently.

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