I broke my healthy streak and I feel bad :(

JesterMFP

There's nothing to "get over" other than trying to be perfect. :flowerforyou:

CantonMan1234

What helps me move forward is the fact that I am not perfect and I'm not dead yet. As long as I can move and breath I have a chance to do better today than I did yesterday. I am a work in progress and if nothing else I get to determine how i feel about my progress so i choose to feel good about my progress, even when I have let myself down. I don't feel good about letting myself down, but I feel good about the progress I've made so far and the potential for positive progress tomorrow.

Learn from it, put it behind you and let it go ... otherwise it will eat at you every time you slip. This moment is all we have, not tomorrow and not yesterday ... enjoy the present

4homer

I just want to add op you should try to improve your relationship with food.

BrendaLee

500 calories? I don't see what you did wrong. There is nothing wrong with having a snack of chips and chocolate milk. You're fine. Just carry on.

JojoEffeckt164

I went over my limit on new years eve as well... and I went over it a lot! I can only guess but what I guessed was 3622 at the end of the day :sad:

I felt bad right after eating it, because I was so full :sick:

I´m trying to make it up with more cardio exercising untill next weighting day. So my advise is that when you went over your limit do some sport at the next day untill you have recieved it all back. Even walking works That way you get the feeling that you made it all right again and you know how hard you have to work for these calories, so next time you will think twice about breaking your rules

In contrast to many I believe that exspecially at the beginning you should stick very accurate to your own goals and rules. At least that is what works for me right now. I know myself. If I start thinking "ohhhh it was just one day.... just move on" I will go over my limit more and more often. I want to keep it that way untill my new lifestyle became a habbit. It also gives my body the time it needs to adjust to my new lifestyle.
Another plus of this is, that you will keep receive results and that is my biggest motivation! To walk on the scale and see that I did good and right last week! That makes it all worth it :bigsmile:

edwardkim85

I had like 250 calories of chips and the same for chocolate milk. I feel so bad and I wish I hadn't done that. Has anyone had similar experiences? How did you get over it?

Well I have 5000kcal - 6000 kcal worth of chips, cookies, ice ream, pizza 3 times/month.

I don't feel bad because I eat clean and exercise the other 27 days.

For people like us that 'diet' and log calories, we only have a set number of days/year where we an drink alcohol, pig out, etc.

36 times/year seems like a lot but it's not really if you know you eat clean 329 days out of 365.

Hell, even if I eat clean 280 days and have 85 days of drinking/binging, I'm still eating clean for more than 2/3 of the year!

think of it that way. We live once.

edwardkim85

I´m trying to make it up with more cardio exercising untill next weighting day.

Do doctors tell you to take double the dose of antibiotics the next day if you 'miss' a day? no.

I don't think there's any point feeling 'guilty' and working out 2x as hard or dieting 2x as hard the next day because you binged one.

Just go back to normal eating where you maintained your weight and that weight gain you think you gained from binging will come off. (since your maintenance calorie is for your pre binge weight, it will naturally decrease to that weight... even if you have gained wegiht from binging. Just takes time.)

JesterMFP

I´m trying to make it up with more cardio exercising untill next weighting day. So my advise is that when you went over your limit do some sport at the next day untill you have recieved it all back. Even walking works That way you get the feeling that you made it all right again and you know how hard you have to work for these calories, so next time you will think twice about breaking your rules

Using exercise to "make up" for breaking eating rules... that's a really good way to fuel disordered eating patterns. It's also a good way to start viewing exercise as punishment. You don't have to atone for eating more than you intended, just make better choices next time.

babydiego87

250 calories is a binge? The ****?

OP, I had well over 250 calories of soda, ice cream, and beer last night. I didn't feel guilty in the slightest because it fit into my day and I was under my calorie goal. My guess is that your calorie goal is low and you are making this far more complicated than it has to be. You can still lose weight eating chips and chocolate.

Here is a link for you:


http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/819925-the-basics-don-t-complicate-it

Read it and implement the information there, you will be grateful you did.

Chill out, she didn't say it was a binge.

TS - No one's perfect and it's unreasonable to expect anyone to be so. What you've worked out is that sometimes chips and chocolate milk isn't worth it. You may be craving it, but it's more often the thought that's more pleasurable. You learnt a lesson and you can now move on.

sweetiecake

I just have my 'cheat time' and move on. No need to beat yourself up it happen.

JojoEffeckt164

I don´t feel punished. I have a good feeling afterwards.
And it just becomes a pattern and disordered eating if you keep breaking your calories-goal. I´m quite sure I have a pretty good eating behavior right now. Way better than before I have started, that´s for sure!