What to do after a terrible day?

ReyneDrop
ReyneDrop Posts: 68 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
So, yesterday Boyfriend and I had a huge date night- we went to see a local production of Avenue Q [my favorite musical ever that I knew he would love] and he decided to take me out to a nice dinner before hand (and then pie after for who knows why).

Anyway, I don't do stuff like this very often, so I figured it was fine to splurge- we shared bread, calamari, fried zucchini, and goat-cheese stuffed tomatoes, I had some of an chicken caprese entree (didn't finish even half of it), and then we had shared tiramisu... We basically just enjoyed the food and each other, and though I knew I was eating a LOT of calories, I didn't mind because again, it only happens once in a while. I did a rough estimation on here and it put me at 2,700 calories, but I bet it was around 3,000 really.

Well, I have a fat digestion problem, so today has been... interesting, to say the least. I don't think my body was able to absorb all of the calories from yesterday, and I've been so full I haven't really wanted to eat a lot. I'm considering going under my calories today because I don't want to *force* food down my throat. Maybe do a little bit more activity. I have a history of eating disorders so I'm trying to not be obsessive about the numbers today, but I'm worried about how this is going to impact me- both if I don't do anything to adjust for yesterday (I really do not want to gain weight) and if I do something and start me down on saying it's OK to eat too little again or it's OK to use exercise simply to purge myself.

My daily net goal on here is 1300 and some odd- and truthfully that's for weight loss and I'm not exactly AIMING for weight loss. My typical average to TDEE is around 2000 kcals/day. As I'm not very picky about needing to lose the full 1% of my body weight a week, do you guys think it's best for me to just follow my eating intuitively? I'm not ready to give up intake- calorie counting most days (I can't do more than one day in a row or two days in a week of not counting without feeling really off- I'm just not there yet). And as far as exercise, maybe just find some extra activity to do sometime during this week but don't count it?
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