I messed up

One, it's ok to make a mistake IF you learn from it. It's ok to indulge- heck I still eat chocolate and brioche!- but earn through a burn

Second, you just need to find something that motivates you! Why are you loosing this weight? I know alot of people are on here as they want to lessen health related issues, get pregnant, or just feel fit! Personally, I want to cosplay! Collect images, bits of music or clothes to motivate you and keep them close- I have a selection of images on my laptop to flick through when I'm on a low.

You always pass failure on your way to success!! <--- quote i live by! DON'T give up, 3 days compared to six weeks? which is bigger? not getting back to your normal routine now would make all the hard work you have done mean nothing. you can do it!

You've probably put on a couple pounds of water weight. Unhealthy food tends to be high in sodium. Drink a whole bunch of water (or green tea) to flush your system.
I weigh myself daily to keep myself on track. If I see an increase it sort of works in a "scared straight" sort of way. If seeing a small increase will freak you out and give you motivation to get back on the straight and narrow, do that. If it will just depress you, give yourself a couple days of good behavior to recover first.
Either way, take a deep breath and get back to your good habits. The occasional weekend won't completely derail you. On Saturday I had a tuna melt and fries for lunch, then popcorn for a snack, then pizza, 3 beers, a coffee drink (with Irish cream and whipped cream), a rum and diet coke, part of a cheese plate and a piece of German chocolate cake. It was worth every calorie. And with the amount of walking and laughing I did, it probably wasn't as bad as I thought. I just kept the madness to one day and got up and spent Sunday cooking and cleaning and just generally being active. I'm a little heavier today than I was on Saturday morning but I'll be back to normal by Wednesday.

just start over. This is why I don't have any cheat days or meals. I would not know when to stop.

If you can't have a fun weekend with no regard to your fitness goals once in a while, you're not going to stick to this long-term anyway. When you have a wild and crazy few days, you get back to routine on Monday, hold your head high that you CAN have 'bad' days and recover, and keep on truckin'.

So I've been eating very balanced, exercising well for the past six weeks and binged Friday night and kept up an unhealthy eating pattern Saturday and Sunday. i feel awful. I feel like I've worked so hard and just threw away a lot of hard work. I know it's not logical that I undid 6 weeks of great work, but it's how I feel. Now I'm trying to jump back on and I feel unmotivated and a bit hopeless. I need support and encouragement right now. Is everything going to be ok? I'm terrified to weigh myself bc I'm afraid of the damage I've done. How do I keep going when I feel like I've messed things up?

Sometimes that's a good thing. It helps break plateaus and your body will start losing again. Last time I did that, I broke a weight plateau that I was stuck at for over a month. Within a day or two of eating well again after my binge weekend, I was already down a pound from before the weekend and have been steadily losing again.

Hahaha no, I suppose I was being a little melodramatic but that's honestly the way I've been feeling. I'm taking this as a learning experience. Actually though, reading your post made me laugh and makes me realize that this is not a huge deal. I tend to catastrophize in my head.

Happens to the best of us! The most important thing you can do is get started back with the good eating and exercising a.s.a.p.! Step two is to put a little thought on why you let yourself go so overboard and how you could handle it better next time. If it's not a learning experience, what's the point?!

Also, I love that word - catastrophize.

you only mess up when you give up

^^^ I'm going to remember this one - you have motivated me, and I didn't even really need any at the moment!

Hey don't even worry about it. There's no way you should feel like you've undone any of your hard work. You've a bit of a cheat weekend but now it's time to keep doing what you've been doing so well. This past weekend I too got carried away and I actually still ended up losing weight! Your hard work isn't going unnoticed by your body, don't let your mind bring you down!

A healthier way to look at it is a "weekend off". The wagon circles back around every morning, just hop your butt back on & hold yourself accountable!

Just get back on track. I end up having a lot of less healthy stuff for a day each weekend, and exercise like a maniac over the weekend to give myself that freedom. I then am ready to eat healthy the rest of the week. Of course, I would rather be the sort of just have a little each day in moderation, but I tend to want a bit of everything at once, so I am doing it this way for now. Even those not trying to lose weight, have meals out and occasions, or they go to a cafe and fancy a slice of cake and thus have it. Remember, this is about your future, not just about losing weight. You want a lifestyle you can comfortably sustain.