disappointed in myself

Look don't worry about it too much, we all do it at some point. The main thing is to make sure you don't let it spiral, just jump straight back onto the horse, which is what you have done. Just draw a line under it and forget about it. Happens to the best of us! :flowerforyou:

I ate an entire box of Junior Mints last night, like 520 calories. I didn't let it get me down. I was only slightly over my calorie goal.

I find it's okay to indulge every now and again. You shouldn't "give up". It was one instance on one day, that's all.

By the way, I eat pancakes often.....still losing weight.

Don't feel stupid, we have ALL done it, it's part of the journey to changing your mind set, which is what you need to do to make this permenant. It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle change, don't ever forget that...And if you do stuff up, which you will do from time to time, just dust yourself off and start again, don't keep kicking yourself because that is how you fall back into old habits......

At least in wasn't 6,000 calories in chocolate! Log it and move on. There are successes ahead!

This is a long road. There are bound to be a few pot holes. Don't let them send to spiralinng toward the exit ramp.

How much do you have your deficit set at? If you have it set to 500, you are real close to maintainence. If you set it at 1000, then you are still under you maintainence. If you give up, it will have won. If you keep fighting, you will win. I think you will win in long run. Just remember, what is 10 days to the rest of the days you have to live.

This.

At worst you 'just' maintained yesterday - if you are set at a 500 cal deficit. Maybe try and get a handle on why this happened but then move on and start again. Good luck.

Plus 1200 is very hard for some to stick to, I exercise a lot so that I can eat more. I'd be starving on 1200. So maybe uping your activity level might make you less likely to binge or up your calories a bit (1350 perhaps) - it could be easier to stick with.

So you ate some chocolate. It's not so bad. Just don't get into a binge cycle of doing it everyday.

Log it and move on. Don't let it ruin your journey to getting the body and fitness that you want - the key is never giving up no matter what.

It takes an extra 3,500 calories to gain an extra pound so you havent gained too much from it. Just work it out and keep moving.

Take a breath and start over. Remember, you're in control, kick cravings BUTT! x

Hey that happens to all of us at some time or another. Today is a new day!! Start again; I have been battling the worst case of PMS ever and have eaten everything and anything. OH well can't take it back so I will start again today. Good luck to you.

"Don't let a bad day, turn into a bad week"..... I look at this everyday... If I slipup, I just start again, I don't let it get me down....
Good Luck and keep up the awesome work....

Please please don't be hard on yourself! I started to try to get off my rollercoaster weight loss ride back in Jan. I stumbled. one day back in May I ate a WHOLE case of dates,almost 10 bananas in one sitting and ONE jar of peanut butter.

Talk about a bad day.

I could have just thrown in the towel and decided that the day was SO screwed I might as well give up. But my misstep was a huge wakeup call. It made me more determined to do better. And better I did.

Now there have been tiny missteps too. Eating two cupcakes for breakfast(Cupcakes from Crumbs bakery at that! Those suckers are about 500 cals each!) That happened about two weeks into a weight loss contest I decided to do. I almost gave up then. I decided to carry on and think about those cals fueling me through my next workout and talking to myself, talking to those calories(I know, sounds weird!) and telling them i'd use them to build me some muscle!

You know what? I realized I strung up way more positive days than those cupcake kindof days. My postive days outweigh the cupcake days and my physique changed.

I can now fit into a cute lil bikini and that's because I didn't let those bad days veer me off path.

Don't let it veer you off yours.

Good luck in your journey!

Wow. All those bananas and dates would have had me in the bathroom for a week! lol.

Let's just say I had problems with binging and I decided if I was going to binge..I may as well do it on healthy good.

Uh...nope. It was still awful!

I vomited those dates up right there in my bedroom. A HUGE wakeup call! Never again!

I did this. I was eating 1,200 calories a day for a month, nothing happened - didn't even lose half a pound. I didn't want to completely give up, but I was consistently over for two weeks, eating around 1,500 calories each day. It was the best thing that ever happened to me, because I started dropping weight, noticed it, started doing some reading, and then realized that 1,200 was just too little for me at the time. Since then I've been quite successful.

That aside, I still have days where I just say "screw it" and go over with something I shouldn't. I don't worry about it much anymore. One little binge on chocolate seems to do far less damage for me than overeating for two days. It might be the same amount of calories over, but my battle is quantity more than quality.

At least you admitted it. We all have our moments.
Once every few months I'll hit a couple weeks when the scale will NOT move but eventually it does, just have to keep up the hard work.