Rebounding from restaurants

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  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,284 Member
    caras1982 wrote: »
    So here’s the update/clarification. Went to Lola Bistro, for anyone who knows restaurants, there could be a lower cal version of my brain wanted to go there, but I didn’t. Compared to the damage I would’ve done a few years ago though, I went above maintenance for the day but that was in drinks (which I forgot to add in when I was guesstimating as I ate 🙈) word to the wise- watch your drink calories!!!! I’m usually better on that but I was having a birthday lol


    Ah yes, drink calories can be a trap :)

    But sounds like you have a good handle on this - accept going over, that's real life, but don't go totally overboard and then just continue on after that......
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,284 Member
    Phoebe5164 wrote: »
    Ok @travistocktoad , questioning something is a normal reaction to something Ive never heard of , unlike following blindly , I’ll ask for the facts ...which I’ve not seen yet !

    If it works for you ?good


    Adios amigos, I’m not doing a weekly or monthly or yearly calories count because that just doesn’t make sense ,when you go to bed content and wake up hungry that’s a reset to me ....

    Good luck 🌼


    Well you dont have to do it, thats fine -like any strategy, it is not for everyone.

    But weekly calories makes perfect sense for many of us and is a good strategy and MFP provides the format to do this.

    Questioning new things is fine - not sure why you have the sarcastic attitude about it though :*

    Nor what facts you want? - it is a strategy or tool , not a scientific fact
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,261 Member
    A monthly goal for weight management would work . . . but the scale weight roller-coaster would be a little more dizzying, and that math a little more tedious.

    I was on a weight-gain plan that spread over many decades, some days under maintenance calories, but most days over . . . and it worked just fine to make me overweight, then obese. There aren't resets on the way up - the overages kept accumulating on my hips; there haven't been any on the way down, either (I'm in maintenance) . . . though there may be some minor short-term differing effects related to homeostasis effects, water weight, digestive contents, nutrition and what-not.

    Weekly banking/balancing works, as does fitting in some extra exercise in advance or day of, or eating lightly day of.

    I don't recommend trying to "catch up" by working out more or eating less after an over-goal day: That can set up the denial phase of an undereat/binge cycle, whereas reducing the days beforehand by a bit will leave the bigger day standing in for the "catch up" binge.

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