The day after you have fudged up your whole diet.
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Totally not.Today, was a bad day. Last night my car broke down on me(hence looking for exercises at home) and today I found out it's gonna cost $300 just to get it running again. Also yesterday, I put my last $30 into my gas tank. Big bummer right?
I am an emotional eater. Being sad led to a pint of Twix ice cream, 2 cupcakes, and 3 donut sticks. Totally not what I have been eating for the past 2 weeks and totally ruined my goals of eating healthier.
My question to you all is: When you have messed up a whole day of your diet, do you start from scratch the next day? Or are you like me, and now that you've messed up, you kind of feel like "What's the point?".
You might need to grasp your parameters more.
What I mean is, do you know what your TDEE is?
http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm
Find your TDEE. You have to eat past TDEE on a daily basis to begin to gain weight.
And you would have to do it regularly.:happy:
3600cals in a pound, so you would have to eat WAY past tdee to be gaining pounds.
This is a fitness effort, which involves changing your habits.
So it's not about perfect performance, but about improvement and progress.
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Nope. I start at the very next MEAL. If I screw up lunch... I just make a better choice at dinner. If I screw up royally... I just don't EAT dinner. The point?!? The point is... eventually, you will feel better. Physically and mentally. You will eventually stop punishing yourself through food because of disappointments in other areas of your life... you will begin to feel proud of your accomplishments. You will be able to do things you haven't done for years because you couldn't or were too ashamed or afraid to... The point is you will begin to live again... really live the way you were intended to live and you will find happiness within yourself and your choices.0
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”Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.”
Good thing each sunrise wipes the slate clean. Tomorrow, plan to eat the healthiest meals you can. I had a meltdown last weekend and dove off the wagon headfirst into the deepfryer and the next day had a green smoothie where I tried dandelion greens. If you can swing hard to the bad side, swing just as far back to the good
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I'm an emotional eater too! My problem is I eat a little bit of everything that's in front of me when I'm upset. I fudge it up every weekend too! My family has tons of women who are great chefs...when we're all together, all we do is eat. Now I'm short so for every ONE pound I gain, it's the equivalent of TEN (or at least it looks like it). Every day I tell myself I'm going to get back on track...so now, I eat before I head over to the family barbeque that way I don't have an excuse to eat when I'm there. Plus I drink tons of water. And when I'm upset, I make sure that there's tons of fruits or veggies near me instead of a bag of Andy Cap's Hot Fries! :laugh:0
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If I have a bad day, I usually punish myself in the gym the next day. Or try to. Please don't think that there's no point trying anymore now that you've had one bad day, ALWAYS get back on the wagon! One bad day is ok and isn't going to ruin weeks of hard work. Many bad days one after the next IS going to ruin weeks of hard work.
How did you get all the bad food if you didn't have any money!??0 -
I am so jealous of what you ate today.0
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Once you've had a taste of the Dark Side (and yes, we do have cookies), it is hard to go back. Shame on you.0
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Get right back into eating clean the next day. One day won't set you back too far, even a really bad day. Just try to be active, eat nutritious foods and drink plenty of water the next few days. You might not lose as much as you had wanted this week, but chances are you won't have a big gain either (unless the binge involved lots of salt which can cause water retention).
If you say screw it, next thing you know it will be a month or two later and you will have undone some hard work.
Exactly this. I had a monumental !!Way Over!! day before, and I was quite panicked. I posted here trying to figure out what to do, and the advice was consistently: dust yourself off, and pick it right back up, because it's going to be okay. And it was.
Try looking at your deficit over a week's time, or even over two weeks... even with a day like you had, over time it probably evens out. It might slow your weight loss for that short time period (if your goal is to lose a pound a week, for instance, you might not see that loss) but one awful day isn't going to make that much difference -- and it doesn't erase the nutritional gains from eating healthier all the other days, and doesn't erase any fitness gains if you've been active. You're still on the path, and you're still improving every day. A day full of bad choices doesn't negate any of that, and it's not even really a setback. It's a bad day. Dust yourself off, and pick yourself right back up, because it's going to be okay. 0 -
Every day is new day. We're human, which means we aren't perfect. There will be days where you stumble, and fall.
I've done both, honestly. I finally stopped giving up after one mess up when it finally clicked that I wasn't perfect. One day of messing up isn't going to kill me. All I have to do is plan better the next day.
It helps to journal, especially if you are an emotional eater. I'm a boredom eater, myself, which is difficult to overcome as well. I keep my major temptations away most of the time, for that reason.0 -
Every single week my husband and I have a cheat meal. We've been doing this since March and he's lost 103 lbs. and I've lost 87. We just get right back on the straight and narrow the next day. You can do it! Don't give up!!!! :flowerforyou:0
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well hell, good to know I aint the only one that up and fell off the wagon. I fell off a couple today. Over ate, got good and drunk and bought smokes. So, today is a er you see kay it day. Some of us just wake up one day and are all of a sudden freakin human. It happens. Dont stress about it, tomorrow is a brand new day. And the wagons move slow so it's easy to climb back on em.0
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I have found that the single most important part of losing weight is to get back on track if you fall behind. Nothing will ever change if you give up based on one bad day. You're going to have more bad days, but tons more awesome days if you just get back on track tomorrow. 0
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^this to the 2end power^well thats an epic cheat day...
one day isnt going to kill all your progress...getting fat, along with losing weight takes time...its not overnight....have a cheat day now and again...go to find heavy things to pick up and put back down if you have a bad day instead of eating...be constructive and stay motivated0 -
Wow, pray first for a lot of strength, and then get up and go for a walk. You know what to do or you wouldn't be here, now get-er-done!
It's up to you!0 -
I heard this recently (Jillian Michaels) : If you get a flat tire, do you change it and move on or do you slash the other three tires?
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Don't give up. You feel bad now but you will feel worse if you quit. So you messed up 1 day - we have all done that. Just shake it off and start again right now!!!0
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I do neither. Starting from scratch implies that any progress you made so far was eliminated. Instead I just continue on.
Falling off the wagon is something that happens to us all. The thing with fat gain is that I've found it only happens from constant binge eating. If your willpower fails once a week, and the scales tell you you've gained all lost weight back, ask yourself 'how much of that is water weight?'. 'Have I learned any lessons?'.
Losing weight isn't just a physical journey - its also a string of mental lessons and lifestyle changes. Therefore, progression can be measured in quite a few different ways.0 -
You could be a good candidate for the spike diet 0
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Don't sweat it, think of it as a "free day" just pick back up and continue on your journey, i think everyone has those moment, the question is, what are you going to do about it? don't drown in your sorrows, life has too much to offer, and this is call living. look at yourself in the mirror and gain that motivation and self control that you had before, pray and seek your goal0
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Please don't let one bad day turn into two or three , because before you know it the weight is going on
Just get straight back on it 0 -
I heard this recently (Jillian Michaels) : If you get a flat tire, do you change it and move on or do you slash the other three tires?
QFT!0 -
You had a bad day and ate delicious junk food. You didn't get drunk, use drugs, gamble life savings, kill someone, kill yourself, hurt anybody, steal or be malicious in anyway. You ate some food that made you feel better.
[eta - I have no proof that you didn't do these things]
You'll live. Just don't do it every day.0 -
Start again tomorrow. One day's slip up isn't going to undo all the work you've done.0
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Get right back to it the next day. Don't beat yourself up about a bad day. We all have them and much deserved Today is a new day; don't even think about yesterday! 0
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Don't do that! Trust me ... I was 250 then got down to 189 ... I was doing really good as far as eating ... then I felt like I had lost all of the weight mayve its okay to have that slice of pizza or piece of cake ... next day felt guily did it again and every day after that saying I was just getting it out of my system ... im sitting here now at 243 trying to lose it all over again ... but this time once I lose it all ... I will make sure I take good care of my self!0
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I heard this recently (Jillian Michaels) : If you get a flat tire, do you change it and move on or do you slash the other three tires?
This is GREAT!!!!!!!0 -
Today, was a bad day. Last night my car broke down on me(hence looking for exercises at home) and today I found out it's gonna cost $300 just to get it running again. Also yesterday, I put my last $30 into my gas tank. Big bummer right?
I am an emotional eater. Being sad led to a pint of Twix ice cream, 2 cupcakes, and 3 donut sticks. Totally not what I have been eating for the past 2 weeks and totally ruined my goals of eating healthier.
My question to you all is: When you have messed up a whole day of your diet, do you start from scratch the next day? Or are you like me, and now that you've messed up, you kind of feel like "What's the point?".
Hold up - they make TWIX ICE CREAM!?!?!?! Whyyyyy has the world been holding out on me about this for so long????
In all seriousness, though, sorry to hear of all your hardship! Just take a deep breath and move forward. One day doesn't mess up your entire weight loss journey. Move on and make better choices tomorrow 0 -
We ALL have those days where we screw up. But you just start fresh the next day. I used to use it as an excuse to stop eating healthy and would fall off the wagon, so to speak, for months or years. Anyway, I am an emotional eater too. What has helped me when I have gotten really stressed is to not have those comfort foods in the house or office. That way when I am stressed I have to look for other ways to comfort myself.0
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