Not doing that well...

Add me, I would love to help motivate you.

Go for a nice long meditative walk.

Well, today is not over. You can exercise to counter some of the calories you ingested. Try and exercise away half (or more) of what you ate over your calorie goal. Then, and tomorrow do better. ) It's just one day. Don't give in to one day of poor choices. You can do this!

I make myself accountable. If I choose to go to happy hour and drink 360 calories worth of crown and diet coke, I have to exercise roughly 36 minutes to make up for that, and that is if I am running at 7.0.........

I also measure things in weeks. If my allowable calories are 1500 a day, then I have 10500 for the week. If I reassess on Thursday and I am going to be over, I either have to exercise more, or eat less than the allotted. Makes it easier for me to know I can overboard one day if I want to or I have a special occasion.

One of the things that I've found in using this website/app is that cleaning is actually a way to burn calories. I had just never really thought about it before I guess but it does make sense. After even half an hour of scrubbing, sweeping or tidying I find I can feel my heart going! Today I had a piece of pizza from a restaurant thinking it was healthy and it totally wasn't at all. Had an underlying garlic cream sauce - who knew! But you know, the extra calories that I'm now over, I can go home and clean - which, let's face it, I really should do anyway. Two hours of cleaning burns a fair bit. No, it doesn't substitute as a complete cardio workout but considering how lethargic I feel from eating such fatty and carb heavy food it's definitely better than nothing. If you're not into working out too much yet just start with that. Doing household chores or even just walking faster than you normally do when you're out running errands are great ways to get started, or have that extra calorie burn when you do mess up!

what are your current calorie goals?? having gone over by such an excessive amount leads me to believe that you probably have them set just way too low.

http://www.quickbmr.com/what-is-tdee.html

go here to find out your tdee (total daily energy expenditure) and that'll help you find your BMR (basal metobolic rate). BMR is what you would need to consume, at MINIMUM, if your body were just laying in bed all day.

you should be eating in between you TDEE and BMR. unfortunatly some people get confused and eat below their BMR, which causes their weight lose to suffer.

and some one else said that until you really want this, no amount of rewards will matter.

one of the things that helped me focus on the journey not the goal, was doing races. things get easier when you can focus on doing a spartan race or a 5k or a triathlon, instead of freaking out over a number on a scale. and if you think you aren't fit enough to do a race i mentioned, i'll tell you that i've done all three and i have seen people of all shapes and sizes do them, even men and women bigger than you.

First: throw away all the junk food. If it isn't in the house, you can't very well eat it, now can you?

Second: Plan all your meals the day before. That way, if you are hungry you won't just go foraging around for any old thing, you'll have your next meal already planned. All you have to do is just eat from your menu.

Third: On the 7th day, rest. Take one day a week to eat whatever, whenever you want. Of course log it, but nothing is off limits on your free day. Weight loss is hard work, and you need to give yourself some time off so that you have the strength to make it long term. Also, the "Free Day" is good for social gatherings where you have very little control over what is being served.

not just picking on you, but pointing out that i never really liked rule one.

first: i have a car, i have feet, and i have cash. i can drive or walk to anywhere that sells junk food.

instead: keep only your one or two most favorite junk foods in the house (mine are peanut m& m's). if you really start to crave them, tell your self, "okay i can have SOME, but in thirty minutes. i control the cravings, the cravings don't control me." my thing with peanut m&m's is that i would also measure out a 1/4 cup, and mix it with a 1/4 cup each of nuts and raisins.

rule number two... i like a lot. preperation is the key to success. cook a lot of good healthy food in the house. my favorite is chicken breast. i'll make like, four pounds a week. it's great for lunch, snacks, or even dinner. pre-logging your meals for the day is a great way to tell yourself "i have a plan, and i can stick to it." i liked to over log a few things too, as sometimes my appitite would change and maybe i wouldn't want to eat one particular thing that day. and it felt good to delete something off the list... because that usually meant room for a glass of wine at night.


now rule three... the cheat day. well, i don't call it a cheat day because it implies a certain disregard to the rules of healthy eating. this is not a day of reckless abandon. maybe in the beginning it can be a cheat meal where you can allow yourself an extra serving of your favorite dish or whatever. it doesn't even have to be on the weekend! maybe you and the girls are going out to dinner on thursday. enjoy it! life is for living. but you need to know and tell yourself that it is one meal, you are not going to get derailed and that tomorrows breakfast is going to be good and healthy.

good luck!

I agree with the post about getting rid of the cookies, in that if they aint there you can't eat them. But where do you store the cookies? If you have fruit in the same place then you can eat that instead. The good thing about it is you can probably eat 3 apples to the equivelent value of 1 cookie. Now one cookie won't satisfy you, but you will start to feel full on 3 apples wont you!

I am a service engineer, so I don't know (or rather didn't know) where the next meal is coming from, so I used to pull over into a services buy crisps and chocolate, and just snack on that, around dinner it would be a Burger King or KFC. Now I have a bag of fruit and healthy snacks in the car, to nibble on when I get peckish, and the only thing I buy at the services is bottled water.

Eating the crap I used to put over 2 stone on me, thankfully I am now well on the way to losing it again.

So the answer is take away the temptation, use MFP all the time and record everything, you will soon be able to control how much you eat, and understand just what is in certain food types. After all that is what we are all here to learn, and people on this forum are fantastic teachers.

Cut the crap out, and when you get the cravings reach for some fruit, or water, rice cakes, in fact anything that can remove that 'boredom' urge - most people eat when they are bored.

If you do have a slip - just have a bit of a walk to burn it off, walking is easy, and if you have some stairs run up and down them a few times, it will soon burn off those guilty calories.

But most of all remember it wont happen overnight, I've been on my program now since 22nd June, have had a couple of blips, but then I look at the photo that started me off, and I am back on track again. I am still learning about new foods and the best healthy option, this site is invaluable for that learning process. Like the water thing, never knew just how important it was to drink plenty of water to help weight loss, until this site came along.

But the biggest thing of all is to never give up, you may not feel like it, but there are plenty of people who are willing to help, complete strangers, and family and friends alike. Chin up and good Luck!!!