I fell off the wagon too!!!

PammyB3130

I started out the weekend really good and I did the kick-my-butt ultimate Tae-Bo bootcamp. so I ended up having like 1200 calories left AFTER dinner!! so I got a craving for ice cream. My husband is such a sweetie/enabler and he walked in a snowstorm down the road to the store and got me double fudge brownie ice cream (with whip cream on top). I think it was more for him than it was for me!! so stupid me, I ate three times the serving size!! but it was soooooo good. so I was still under on my calories for the day, so I didn't feel too bad about it. but sunday was just a disaster. I had a pancake breakfast before church. then a slice of sausage breakfast pizza at church after the service. then I went to kill time at my in-laws house before going to a baby shower. at my inlaw's house they had donuts sitting out and I had 3!!!! and then I ate healthy at the baby shower...just snacking on veggies....I avoided the chocolate fondue, but I did give in and have a piece of cake. then I came home and had another serving of ice cream. then I had vanilla wafers. (then I felt really really really bad) so I went and did another kick my butt tae bo workout before church. but then after church I had a piece of pizza in our church cafe and a bottle of chocolate milk!!!

so I felt like such a failure....and I didn't even record anything I ate yesterday....I just felt too guilty and knew it would be too bad!!

but today's a new day and I've already exercised for an hour and I've had a healthy breakfast and snack. I made my husband finish off the ice cream last night and made him take the cookies to work with him!! ( I really had to twist his arm about that!!! j/k)

~Pam

PammyB3130

I started out the weekend really good and I did the kick-my-butt ultimate Tae-Bo bootcamp. so I ended up having like 1200 calories left AFTER dinner!! so I got a craving for ice cream. My husband is such a sweetie/enabler and he walked in a snowstorm down the road to the store and got me double fudge brownie ice cream (with whip cream on top). I think it was more for him than it was for me!! so stupid me, I ate three times the serving size!! but it was soooooo good. so I was still under on my calories for the day, so I didn't feel too bad about it. but sunday was just a disaster. I had a pancake breakfast before church. then a slice of sausage breakfast pizza at church after the service. then I went to kill time at my in-laws house before going to a baby shower. at my inlaw's house they had donuts sitting out and I had 3!!!! and then I ate healthy at the baby shower...just snacking on veggies....I avoided the chocolate fondue, but I did give in and have a piece of cake. then I came home and had another serving of ice cream. then I had vanilla wafers. (then I felt really really really bad) so I went and did another kick my butt tae bo workout before church. but then after church I had a piece of pizza in our church cafe and a bottle of chocolate milk!!!

so I felt like such a failure....and I didn't even record anything I ate yesterday....I just felt too guilty and knew it would be too bad!!

but today's a new day and I've already exercised for an hour and I've had a healthy breakfast and snack. I made my husband finish off the ice cream last night and made him take the cookies to work with him!! ( I really had to twist his arm about that!!! j/k)

~Pam

DianneLynn

The beauty of falling off the wagon is that at the very next meal you, again, have the opportunity to climb right back on up there.

Congrats! It's hard to admit it, but at least you are honest enough with yourself to be accountable. Ultimate Accountability lies within you and towards yourself.

If you really want something, you just "do it"; if not, you make an excuse!

Dispense with the guilt as it's a negative emotion and this is such a positive step, I applaud you.

Keep up the great work!!:flowerforyou:

diannholland1965

With the stress of my Dads illness I PLOWED through 6 STALE rice crispy treats. INSTEAD of tossing them out. I HAVE NO IDEA WHY!
and then yesterday I had Bar B Que at Mom and Dads house and ate more of that then I should have. THEN, when I got home my wonderful man had made me Sushi and Artichoke. with his mustard mayo dip. and I ate that too. I went to bed with a hurty tummy and STILL have one right now!
So, I will say, Leason learned,
I will NEVER eat like THAT again, at least not witout remembering that eating like a Hoover vacume makes me feel. :blushing:
Needless to say, I am feeling your falling off the wagaon too dear. and I hear your pain!
--Diann...

skinnydreams

No worries......I had a weekend off to! I made some good decisions, but definitely not within my limits:ohwell: Life happens, at least no we are in a stage in this journey that when we fall off we know all e have to do is get back on!!! Take care Pam!

happygrumpalump

My weekend was a disaster too. My husband and son had a cub camp to go to on the weekend so my mom stayed over at our house and my daughter, my mom and I had a girls weekend. My mom went grocery shopping and came back with a lot of treatsand they weren't so healthy. And she bought a bottle of nice wine so we had that at supper time (not my daughter obviously, lol) and I'm sure that had a lot of calories as well. Thankfully I did my Tae Bo Bootcamp Maximum Power workout BEFORE she showed up on Saturday!

Sunday breakfast was bacon and eggs, and toast. I only had two peices of bacon and ugghhh it was definitely not filling for the 260 calories it racked up! Let's say that I was really over both satuday and Sunday and today has been a great day, and this week and weeks ahead will balance it all out!

I've heard that occasionally going over calories helps jumpstart your metobolism! So we didn't fall off the wagon, we were trying to help our body out! :flowerforyou:

DianneLynn

"Emotional Eating" thwarts many a good program.

A good approach to dealing with it is to prepare for it. I mean who goes through life on such an even keel that they never turn to some good ole comfort food to take the hurt away? What really needs to be addressed are the triggers for emotional eating and a better solution to deal with the craving. Search out lower fat alternatives that might just satiate you or go for a walk before you eat anything (hopefully the craving will pass and the fresh air & exercise made things a lil better)

Diann I am not trying to center you out...you just provided the easiest example to understand...you ate STALE food...forget the amount at this stage...you ate STALE food!! Next time you reach perhaps some Thinsations Oreo cookies in the 100 cal pack might be a good reach with some Cammomile tea to settle your nerves. In a roundabout way I am saying make sure you are prepared for those times...have the food handy because I understand the GRAB & GO when I get super stressed out.

Once you succumb to the first GRAB ~ its hard to stop ~ I mean we are only human.

The highlight to this post is that with each new mealtime, you have the opportunity to hop back on that wagon.