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I was doing so good for two weeks and I just overate so much oh my gosh

cloudymeble9
cloudymeble9 Posts: 1 Member
edited March 21 in Health and Weight Loss

my mom bringing home King pollo Peruvian chicken was my last straw. I’m so easy.

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,694 Member

    It's just food. It's not sin. You've logged it. That's good.

    If you wish you hadn't eaten as much, give it no more than ten minutes thought about why it happened - what the triggers were, that sort of thing. Think about how you want to behave differently next time in similar circumstances, facing similar triggers. Consider how to revise your overall weight-management plan to make it less likely to happen again, if that's part of the picture. Rehearse the solution in your head vividly a few times, like a mini-movie, so next time that memory kicks in and helps you.

    Then let it go. It's water under the bridge, can't be changed. Trying to make up for it would be counter-productive. Feeling bad about it - guilt, shame, etc. - doesn't improve anything, and feels icky . . . so don't do it. Let it go.

    I want to loop back on one aspect: If one of the triggers was telling yourself you could never ever have that sort of food again so you feel deprived, or cutting calories so deeply that you feel deprived, change your plan. High odds you can't live the rest of your life depriving yourself, probably can't even live with it long enough to lose a meaningful total amount of weight.

    Change your plan to be more achievable and realistic. Have some treats sometimes, within calorie goal. Lose weight a little slower by having a bit higher calorie calorie goal . . . but let that make it possible to lose a larger total amount of weight in less calendar time than following some silly-extreme "lose weight fast" idea that causes bouts of deprivation-triggered over-eating, breaks in the action, or giving up altogether because it's just too hard.

    Maybe that's not part of the cause, in which case ignore that part.

    Also, if the extra food total felt worth it, consider the impact. You're about 1647 calories over goal. If you're shooting to lose around a pound a week, you've delayed reaching goal weight by a little bit over 3 days, as long as you go back to your previous calorie level. That's really not the end of the world. In that arithmetic scenario, you'd still expect to lose weight this week, just more like half a pound. Is that so doom-y awful? I don't think so.

    Sure, you probably don't want to do this once every two weeks, let alone more. But don't give it more power than its true impact. Like I said, log it, make a better plan, and get back to it. Everything will be fine.

  • elisa123gal
    elisa123gal Posts: 4,368 Member

    look at your stats and try to learn .. sometimes seeing it.. a connection happens. I noticed the 67 calories of exercise. if that was 800 calories for exercise…you would have been just 700 over.. or if you ate a bit less you'd be just 400 or 300.

    You could make that up by staying on plan and exercising extra the next day.

    really .. no big deal. just jump right back on plan.. forge ahead.

  • ddsb1111
    ddsb1111 Posts: 941 Member
    edited March 21

    I don’t see anything unusual here. You ate a meal, logged it, and now you’re probably not hungry and set for a while. Maybe looking at your calories over the week instead of just daily could help? I do OMAD (one meal a day), so what you did is really just choosing to eat most or all of your calories at once. Sometimes that’s what we need to do to hit the spot. It’s all about perspective.

  • totameafox
    totameafox Posts: 1,080 Member

    Live and learn. Each moment is a choice. Leave the past in the past even if it was just a moment ago. I've had family wreck my calorie plans for the day before. They are learning (at least my aunt is) not to surprise me with food. But I am also learning. Monday I was sent surprise left overs. I chose to eat it and skip what I had planned for supper. Today was surprise left overs. I took two bites of the food and put the rest in the fridge for my boyfriend.

    Communicate with your mom. You can ask her not to bring it over or divide what she brings into servings that fit your plan before you sit down and eat. But things are going to happen. I went out to eat with my mom. I knew I was making bad choices and ended up making 2400 of them. I did enjoy the time with my mother and the day is gone. The weight will be gone at some point too. It must may take me a couple extra days to get rid of it.

  • poodle_whisper
    poodle_whisper Posts: 40 Member

    dont blame other people for what you decide to eat. you are responsible for yourself.

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