Do you try and 'make up' for bad days...

shakybabe

Today I had sausage and chips so I just went on exercise pedals whilst watching telly later for an hour and thats just over 600 cals so more or less covered the extra cals (the sausage was oven cooked and chips were oven chips, not fried.

Usually I'll try and get back on track the next day.

ssdivot

I forget about it and move on. Otherwise it just turns into a binge/starve cycle in a lot of cases I have seen. No thanks! We are all going to slip up, but just have to look at the big picture

Had 4,000 calories saturday. Ahhhh i new week

Wow, this binge/starve cycle explains perfectly what happened to me last week. For about a month I'd been pretty consistently having a much larger deficit than is recommended "biggest loser" style (although not to that extreme lol). Last Friday I felt lethargic and then later in the day starving and lay around all day and ate WAY too much. I was 700 calories over maintenance which was 1700 more than I was supposed to eat. The next day I felt not that hungry and quite energetic so I went all out on exercise and only ate 600 calories...I recorded a record burn on my Bodymedia Fit of 4600...I thought I was "making up for it". Thats all well and good (well not really) but the next day guess what, bam, I was again lethargic and starving. I almost had another binge and went to the grocery store to buy something sinful but somehow I walked out with only lettuce and strawberries :ohwell: .

I am now upping my daily calories to my BMR and if I fall off again will not try to "make up for it" by eating below my BMR the next day, although I might up the exercise if feeling spunky. Thanks for the advice in this thread!

enchantedbunny

I think we all have cheat days, but for me, it's hard to fight the feeling of guilt the day or two afterward. It just motivates me to exercise more. If I really feel the need to "make up" for it, I might eat back only some of my exercise calories but I don't go below my daily goal.

muddyventures

HI i work to a weekly average, so yes if have a day when i go over i will adjust the rest of my week accordingly. Seems to be working so far for me.

I really try to even out over the week, and when I've had an especially bad day, I'll add and extra workout within the three days following. I think it is important for me to be able to have an over day and know that I can make it up.

lisst87

bump

Koldnomore

I don't have 'bad' days, just 'days' . I weigh once per week, I eat between 1000 - 1900 calories daily..some days less, some more It's not a conscious thing, just depends how I feel. If I'm sitting around doing nothing chances are I'm not feeling really hungry. I will carry forward calories over/under for a week and try to average it out but I don't stress if it doesn't . If anything I have a hard time eating enough rather than going over.

Honestly I have more important things to worry about than if I ate a few hundred calories over/under on one day..I went over by 1k a couple weeks ago and hit my biggest loss week since I started - and it was ToM also. As long as the scale is trending downwards over time and I feel good I don't stress about it.

Princess41463

Push some extra water.

Wow your loss is AMAZING! Does the water help? I'm awful for my liquid intake, I know I need to have more but just never want it (unless I'm at the gym) x

WATER is essential. I'm not a water drinker either so I had to make myself drink 8 ounces at a time, all at once. I do this once every hour until I get my 8 glasses in for the day, and then I sip on water or unsweetended tea the rest of the day/evening. It's the only way I can make sure I get enough water.

cwolfman13

I don't really look at this as "dieting" (as a verb)...I've made this a long term lifestyle change in RE to what I'm putting in my body and just happen to be at a caloric deficit at the moment to achieve a healthy weight. If I go over a particular day I just move on...it's just one day of many, many days.