When to say "Screw it!"

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  • Rmbleasdal21
    Rmbleasdal21 Posts: 36
    Just because you fell down half a flight of stairs, doesn't mean you should fling yourself down the other half.

    <3 this!

    Exactly!
  • obsidianwings
    obsidianwings Posts: 1,237 Member
    Your theory is basically equivalent to dropping your phone on the floor, picking it up, seeing that its ok, and proceeding to smash it to pieces because it didn't break on the first drop.
    Yeah, but a broken phone is a broken phone. I'm thinking of today as an already messed up day. So I dropped my phone and broke it, and in anger I want to smash it to pieces.
    Your body doesn't know whether it is today or tomorrow. You've messed up your meals so far, doesn't mean your whole day is messed up, it could get a whole lot worse depending on what you do. Saying your whole day is already messed up so might as well go nuts is not really far off saying you've screwed up one day so now your whole week is messed up, might as well start again next week really. Get a handle on the situation now.
  • obsidianwings
    obsidianwings Posts: 1,237 Member
    Also curious, what is your calorie limit if that stuff has put you that far out of your calorie range?
  • KatyCrum6969
    KatyCrum6969 Posts: 124 Member
    My target is 1200, but my BMR is only around 1600.
  • icimani
    icimani Posts: 1,454 Member
    I know what you mean - sometimes I'm tempted to just say **** it when the day has gotten away from me by lunch. It's one of the things I'm trying to train myself to do - to get right back on task right away and not make the day even worse.
  • obsidianwings
    obsidianwings Posts: 1,237 Member
    My target is 1200, but my BMR is only around 1600.
    You shouldn't be eating below your BMR anyway so you will be fine, just get back on with eating well for the rest of the day, and maybe look at reevaluating your calories for the future.
    Possibly if you are not inadvertently starving yourself you might feel the need to binge less anyway?
  • mockchoc
    mockchoc Posts: 6,573 Member
    My target is 1200, but my BMR is only around 1600.

    You are supposed to ALWAYS eat over your BMR and below your TDEE. Maybe this is why you are now bingeing, you were starving yourself!
  • maryjay52
    maryjay52 Posts: 557 Member
    i had a double sized brownie today and readjusted my daily plan so i didnt go overboard.. i been good for three days and couldnt take it anymore ..but i was careful not to eat the whole tray and gave it to roofers doing my roof so i wouldnt be tempted beyond what i had

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