I overdid it. : (

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  • RobynMWilson
    RobynMWilson Posts: 1,540 Member
    Just get back on the horse today and don't beat yourself up about it. I'm gonna overdo it this week...my 40th birthday is Tuesday and I'm sure as hell gonna overdo it with a steak dinner and strawberry shortcake bday cake but the next day I'll be right back on the beam and I'm sure my tummy will hurt lol.
  • mandydanyele
    mandydanyele Posts: 121
    I see that you are fine with your diary but even if you weren't, it's one day. Sometimes everyone needs one day to keep from going totally crazy. There is always tomorrow.
  • RobynMWilson
    RobynMWilson Posts: 1,540 Member
    Hi Brenda

    You said you had a craving for meat. The reason for that is your muscles are torn and are in need of repairing after doing exercise. The only thing that repairs muscles is protien. When you described what you ate after the fruit smoothie and based on what you did. I wasn't too surprised on what you ate.

    Your body is craving protien so the best way to really deal with this is something high in protien after a work out like that. I'm thinking a couple spoons of peanut butter or nuts, beans is a good source or just have an egg sandwich. But based on what you just said, I'm not surprised. You're body is telling you what to feed it.


    Not the end of the world, today is a new day :)

    edit I just took a peak at your diary. By lunch you consumed the majority of your protien. When you burned those calories, your protien was doubled so technincally by the end of your exercise you consumed only half of your protien intake. I'm not too surprised at this point.

    YES!! ^^^^^^ listen to your body, feed it what it needs regardless of the "rules" and then you won't binge! Look at my diary...I feed it well throughout the day, which is why I never binge...I'm never hungry enough to binge lol
  • oregon_nicole
    oregon_nicole Posts: 10 Member
    Maybe you could not buy chocolate millk anymore. There really is no point to drinking that with all the sugar. Also, keep refrigerator stocked with healthy lean meats, and if you have kids and.or hubby, you can all eat healthily as a family. No need to have junk food in your hosue.
  • sleight2
    sleight2 Posts: 1 Member
    Found this in a fortune cookie; it keeps ringing true:
    "Good judgment comes from experience. Experiences comes from bad judgment."

    1) I have a lot of experience
    2) My judgment is getting better because of it

    Folks here are right. It happened, you recognize it, that's the important thing, smile about it and move on to tomorrow. Best wishes.
  • RaeN81
    RaeN81 Posts: 534 Member
    Really, eating your exercise calories make sense, so why beat yourself up about it? The workout you describe is something typical for me and I eat them back and do not gain weight. I am on maintenance, so this means that at around 140 pounds, I eat 2500-3000 cals on training days! Relax.
  • Anastasia0511
    Anastasia0511 Posts: 372 Member
    Today I ran for an hour (in two different gym visits) and swam 500 yards right after the first run. I feel ok, and I'm glad I exercised so much bc i am running my first 5k run in 3 weeks. I'm bummed because when I got home I wasn't even hungry, but I had a shuge fruit smoothie because I thought It would be good for me. I followed that with an ear of sweet corn, two chili dogs on buns, and 2 cups of chocolate milk. This, added to my huge salad and multigrain Cheerios leaves me with NO calorie deficit- even though I worked so hard to burn off 1001 calories exercising! :sad: I am so bummed, I don't want to even work out tomorrow, but I need to prepare for the 5k run. Help me feel better?

    My primary reason for doing the 5 k is to lose weight.:noway:

    Life goes on :D You yourself probably didn't feel hungry but your body was starving. Happens to me all the time when I do HIIT workouts. I am not the least bit hungry after hardcore workouts but I make myself either drink some P90X Results and Recovery formula or I make a Shakeology shake and just deal with it because I know that once my heart rate and my body temperature come down I'm going to be starving my a s s off. Evidently you were hungry and you ate. Can't beat yourself up for eating.
  • marycmeadows
    marycmeadows Posts: 1,691 Member
    so what if there was no deficit. remember, there is such a thing as overtraining. and not eating the RIGHT things will make you want to eat stuff that probably isn't so good. try less sugar (and by the way, the corn is a grain not a veggie, so watch out for that - and lots of sugar in the fruit I'm sure) and more protein!

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