ice easily eaten over 3,000 calories. have i ruined everything

trulyhealy

kfc, drink and mint ice cream is to blame and i was thinking let’s take a break tonight (a get together) but that will mess up the small progress i’ve made

lalalacroix

Not really. Just log what you've eaten and move forward. Your weight loss may slow a bit this week but big deal. You may see a little bump on the scale but that would just be water weight from extra sodium.

paperpudding

Yes the title had me bemused for a bit - how can ice have 3000 calories??

Obviously you meant I've.

Seriously, just continue on from here - or if you want to, eat a little bit less/excercise a little bit more for rest of week to even it out.
Looking at weekly calories actually helps you do that in a sustainable way. Try setting your app to weekly calories and build these variations into your weekly allowance.

RunnerGrl1982

Hey @trulyhealy. Sorry to hear about your struggles. Listen, the honest truth is - the journey of weight loss is not fast nor necessarily easy. There will be bad days, bad weeks, maybe even bad months, but the key is to continue on attempting to create better habits and not give up.

Don't beat yourself down so hard. You understand what you've done. Just begin again with a more positive mindset tomorrow and continue forth. You can do this, but you have to be the one to believe in yourself that you can be better than the day before. Believe that you can and will accomplish your goals.

Take a deep breath and start taking things one day at a time. Logging one meal at a time. And before you know it, you will hopefully be finding yourself in a better place mentally and physically.

Wishing you well!

HeliumIsNoble

Step back. So you've eaten 3000 calories. Is that all together? What's your current estimate for your average maintenance per day, including exercise calories?

This is probably the equivalent of eating for a couple of days at maintenance for you.

I don't want to make you feel attacked, but classically, big splurges on food follow a period of harsh dieting. Or it means you're premenstrual and need a few more calories that day.

What kind of deficit have you got yourself set to, generally?

trulyhealy

HeliumIsNoble wrote: »

Step back. So you've eaten 3000 calories. Is that all together? What's your current estimate for your average maintenance per day, including exercise calories?

This is probably the equivalent of eating for a couple of days at maintenance for you.

I don't want to make you feel attacked, but classically, big splurges on food follow a period of harsh dieting. Or it means you're premenstrual and need a few more calories that day.

What kind of deficit have you got yourself set to, generally?

notmally i trunto eat 1,300 calories a day Ma

HeliumIsNoble

trulyhealy wrote: »

HeliumIsNoble wrote: »

Step back. So you've eaten 3000 calories. Is that all together? What's your current estimate for your average maintenance per day, including exercise calories?

This is probably the equivalent of eating for a couple of days at maintenance for you.

I don't want to make you feel attacked, but classically, big splurges on food follow a period of harsh dieting. Or it means you're premenstrual and need a few more calories that day.

What kind of deficit have you got yourself set to, generally?

notmally i trunto eat 1,300 calories a day Ma

Okay, that's a sizeable deficit. Don't you do a lot of walking as well?

trulyhealy

HeliumIsNoble wrote: »

trulyhealy wrote: »

HeliumIsNoble wrote: »

Step back. So you've eaten 3000 calories. Is that all together? What's your current estimate for your average maintenance per day, including exercise calories?

This is probably the equivalent of eating for a couple of days at maintenance for you.

I don't want to make you feel attacked, but classically, big splurges on food follow a period of harsh dieting. Or it means you're premenstrual and need a few more calories that day.

What kind of deficit have you got yourself set to, generally?

notmally i trunto eat 1,300 calories a day Ma

Okay, that's a sizeable deficit. Don't you do a lot of walking as well?

yeah but not since wednesday and will get back from being away next wednesday

HeliumIsNoble

Have you ever seen this image on mfp? It's an illustration of how a strict diet plan can push you into a cycle of compensating for the previous day's deficit. You end up having eaten at maintenance, in effect, and feeling guilty.

Something to think about.

greensky777

Wow, that chart is pretty sobering. Could be my calorie log from last month. It is so hard to trick our bodies into dropping weight! Slow and steady seems to be the name of the game for a lot of people, probably myself included. I want so badly to see results and almost need to in order to keep up my motivation but the binge/calorie makeup days can be real.

HeliumIsNoble

MachreeMcKenna wrote: »

Wow, that chart is pretty sobering. Could be my calorie log from last month. It is so hard to trick our bodies into dropping weight! Slow and steady seems to be the name of the game for a lot of people, probably myself included. I want so badly to see results and almost need to in order to keep up my motivation but the binge/calorie makeup days can be real.

Yup. I've done it as well.

For me, an isolated day of irresistible hunger is probably just pre-menstrual hunger, but any pattern like this means I need to reassess my current activity levels and whether I'm eating too little.

Phirrgus

@trulyhealy - hey good morning. Picture your weight loss and fitness journey as a country road through the hills. Long and lots of ups and downs. Just like the chart that HeliumIsNoble posted.

Your goals are going to change too. MFPs estimates are a great place to start, but while those estimates might work for some long term, they may need to be adjusted for others. If you are steadily putting weight on over a 1 to 2 month period, you are eating over what your body needs for maintenance.
If you have constant cravings, feeling constantly hungry, are having days where you just can't seem to stop snacking and are constantly obsessing about the next meal, then you aren't eating enough.

The weightloss isn't a race to a finish line, it's an endurance walk for life. That's something most if not all of us have to learn somewhere along the way.

I hope this helps. Be patient with yourself.

amfmmama

nope. just get right back to logging, and what you were doing. Life will throw you curve balls... you can do this!

pinuplove

greensky777 wrote: »

Wow, that chart is pretty sobering. Could be my calorie log from last month. It is so hard to trick our bodies into dropping weight! Slow and steady seems to be the name of the game for a lot of people, probably myself included. I want so badly to see results and almost need to in order to keep up my motivation but the binge/calorie makeup days can be real.

You already know this, I'm sure, but we don't trick our bodies into losing weight. We get the results we earn based on our input and output.

Libra weight trend app puts my weight loss average for the past year at 0.53 pounds per week. 0.50 for the last 6 months. I'm not fast, but at least I'm consistent I figure I have to be able to live with this for the rest of my life, so I'm not doing anything right now that I can't see myself doing from now on.

rachelpelucca

Just make sure you don’t get stuck on it. It will only ruin your progress if you allow it to. You got this!

perfetto19

No. Today I have eaten the same, and I just know that I need to cut a lot more calories tomorrow, and work out a little harder! We all have those days where we drink a big glass of fucitall. We just have to get back on the horse and remember this is a uphill journey, not a walking path. We will get there!

tinkerbellang83

perfetto19 wrote: »

No. Today I have eaten the same, and I just know that I need to cut a lot more calories tomorrow, and work out a little harder! We all have those days where we drink a big glass of fucitall. We just have to get back on the horse and remember this is a uphill journey, not a walking path. We will get there!

Trying to compensate for it the next day is actually one of the worst plans. Better just to get back to normal logging. Otherwise you tend to drive yourself quicker towards a binge/restrict cycle, like that shown in the graph image posted further up.

savithny

You sound like you want people to say "Yes, you've ruined it. Its all over, you might as well quit."

That's not what people are going to say.
It was a bad day. Tomorrow is a different day.
Treating ANYTHING in this world as all or nothing will get you nowhere but miserable.

I tell my kids, when they come to me with mistakes they've made, "Okay, you messed up. That's done and over and you can't change that. What are you going to do now to start making this right? What are you going to do tomorrow to get back on track?"

jlynnm70

Just pick yourself up and start over again today. That's all you can do. Don't beat yourself up - learn from it - and move on. MOST of us here have done it - don't let one bad day turn into a bad week or bad month.

Good luck!

Danp

Have you sought out help or professional advice with your relationship with food? I've seen a number of what come across as quite panicky threads you've started.

Speaking with someone might help to come to grips with the issues and anxieties you seem to have in regards to eating.

G'luck