Breaking the trend.

jfilon

So, last night I had a the binge of all binges. Massive. Epic. I felt horrible about eating all of that food, sitting in an apartment by myself when I could have been out doing something on a Friday night. It was a sad sight. Definitely not what I had planned on.

But I came to a realization - just because that one (though rather large) mishap in my diet happened doesn't mean I have to give up on my entire plan. Why let myself lose sight of something I've wanted for so long just because of this? This morning I woke up and decided to make a list of mini-goals for the upcoming week. I will keep track of my progress in my journal everyday until it becomes time to make next week's goals. Hopefully, this micromanagement method will be a lot more successful that my lofty, abstract goals that I have a huge difficulty keeping in mind when I open the fridge.

I guess my questions for all of you are - have you had epiphany moments like this after . . . let's say, unwanted deviations in your fitness plans? What changes did you make in order to not let them happen again? Any advice?

Enjoy this beautiful Saturday, wherever it finds you. :flowerforyou:

agarlits

I usually go out once a month and just eat until I'm full. I just eat slow and drink alot of water and I fill up faster But I'll usually go pretty well over on that day but then I'll follow that up with hard workouts and staying well within my allotted calories for the rest of the week. its worked so far and I've lost an average of 4 pounds a week for the past month and a half.

mfinney

i think everyone has been there before. as for me, understand the concept that it's what i do 95% of the time, not 5% that determines my health and fitness.

once every couple of months, i have to miss a workout -- and once every couple of weeks, i allow myself one meal of absolutely anything i want. i plan it out and make sure that's what i stick to it. but i understand where you come from, sometimes we find ourselves determining that we "blew it", when in fact, we didn't "blow" anything, we just gave in to something once.

how awesome of you to recognize it for what it is and nothing more.

congrats and keep up the good work!!! :drinker:

jjoyg

Just keeping going. Tell yourself no matter what I'm going to keep going. Giving up is way worse than one night of binging.

Interestingly enough, eating too much once in a while is better for you than not eating at all or starving yourself. I have lost weight even after an evening meal that went way over my calorie limit. The other day, however, I was fasting for a day for religious reasons, and it took a week for my metabolism to kick back up and my weight to start going down. Thats crazy!

Anyhow, keep it up and don't give. Don't just exercise to look good, exercise feel good and to prove to yourself you can do something you want to do.

mskellyw

I actually just had an experience like this yesterday. While I didn't completely binge, I did go over my calories for the first time yesterday by going crazy with the chip bowl at a Mexican restaurant. In the past I would've just not logged what I ate and then maybe given up on the entire weekend. Instead, I can home, logged my dinner and was surprised to find out that I actually only went over my calories by about 200.

When looking over my day I realized that I had had essentially NO protein since my egg for breakfast. No wonder I was craving carbs and sugar all day! Now I'm so happy that I actually faced what happened because it gave me some really good info about what I need to do to prevent an even worse mishap in the future. Also, I now have a really solid feeling that the thing that will be different for me this time is not that I'll never fall off the wagon, but that I can be honest about it, learn from the experience, and get right back into the swing of things.