Uh no... I did a bad thing :(

I can't salvage a day once I've ruined it. If I'm over calories at lunch time, I'm eating what I want for dinner. I just start fresh the next day. I refuse to feel guilty about it. It isn't permanent, it's not how I eat every day, and it happens. Get it all out of your system and start fresh tomorrow.

OMG, I am laughing so hard!! Thanks for this. I wasn't even looking for inspiration and I found it.

dont ever give up!!
for christ's sake this weekend i drank in excess, i ate brats and brownies like crazy, and i have not worked out.

yeah i feel like crap for doing it.
but i have no plans on giving up on my diet.

i did good earlier in the week to make up for it.
losing weight/ changing your lifestyle/ dieting is not easy - there will be several great days and just as many bad days. just take them in stride and remind yourself of why you want to lose weight and get your *kitten* back on track.

It happens to everyone. I don't think you need to try and "undo" what happened...but what you need to focus on is why you did it and to have a game plan when you are in this situation again. You can't change what has happened but you can be prepared if it happens again. The numbers mean nothing. Just realizing that you are an emotional eater is a victory in itself . We all come up against challenges with everything in our life...it's important to not beat yourself up over it. Good luck!

500 calories is only one-seventh of a pound. I wouldn't sweat it.

This happened yesterday -- I binged and ended up eating close to 3,000 calories in total. Eeek way over my limit.
Anyway, I told myself to shake it off, learned from the experience (honestly I've never experienced anything so painful or uncomfortable, it was my first binge in almost 3 months so my body didn't like it!) and wrote about it. I thought about the trigger (stress, thinking about food ALL the time, also I have an eating disorder) and what I could have done instead.

Today I woke up, went to the gym for an awesome cardio session and now I'm ready to eat healthily today :]

Don't restrict the next day after you binge because that can lead to another one. Make healthier choices, like today I am not going to have any dessert unless it is small and I feel up to it because my poor stomach is bloated. I'm choosing lots of fresh vegetables and fruits and good protein sources.

Also, DON'T weigh yourself! You're going to be heavier because of bloating and water weight, so there's no point. In the long run this one binge will NOT affect you at all. If you get right back on track it will be fine :]. I always try to drink lots of water the day after a binge and definitely exercise a little more -- more walking, etc. Don't over exercise to compensate for the binge because that can lead to a cycle of binge-purge through exercise.

Basically just keep following the routine you followed pre-binge. I was eating very healthily and exercising regularly before I binged, and that's what I'm doing. You're always going to have little slip ups along the way and it will be fine in the end. In the long term this binge will be meaningless. It's only when you binge repeatedly that it becomes a huge problem and weight is really gained.

lol - I did the same thing tonight. Only, if makes you feel any better, I went over my day's calorie limit (1640) by a whopping 1,828! :embarassed:

Tomorrow's weigh-in marks 4 weeks of eating healthier and using the MFP app. I only had to lose .25 lb more to reach an 8 pound loss in 4 weeks. But... tonight's dinner ended up being 14 maui waui (pineapple) chicken wings & 2 bacon/cheese potato skins (from wild wing) and 2 jos louis vachons. Yeah... after 4 weeks I lost it. I blame it on spending the afternoon with my teenager daughter shopping for clothes. :laugh:

Ah well, I still lost a good bit of weight in 4 weeks and tomorrow's a new week. I'll just climb back in the saddle and be really good for another 4 weeks! :happy:

lol - I did the same thing tonight. Only, if makes you feel any better, I went over my day's calorie limit (1640) by a whopping 1,828! :embarassed:

Tomorrow's weigh-in marks 4 weeks of eating healthier and using the MFP app. I only had to lose .25 lb more to reach an 8 pound loss in 4 weeks. But... tonight's dinner ended up being 14 maui waui (pineapple) chicken wings & 2 bacon/cheese potato skins (from wild wing) and 2 jos louis vachons. Yeah... after 4 weeks I lost it. I blame it on spending the afternoon with my teenager daughter shopping for clothes. :laugh:

Ah well, I still lost a good bit of weight in 4 weeks and tomorrow's a new week. I'll just climb back in the saddle and be really good for another 4 weeks! :happy:

I went over by about the same yesterday. In fact, I regularly go over by 1000 or so, but it seems to all balance out in the end and I still manage to keep my weight within a reasonable range. 500 calories is nothing. Most people have days in life where they overeat, though they probably only know from the feeling in their stomach and don't count calories, thus for them, it is a simple matter of thinking 'oops, I think I ate too much, better eat a little less tomorrow to give my belly a rest'.

Yeah, you've done it.

My "indulgence" turned into a binge because I ate while I was emotional, causing me to go about 500 calories over my daily goal. Whenever I get like this I just feel like I might as well give up, and that's where it always stops for me. I don't want a bad night to turn into completely falling off the wagon. What do you do to avoid a "snowball effect" when you've gone over your calories?

If you were driving let's say, from New York to California but got lost in Indiana...would you go all the way back to New York? No, you would stop,perhaps ask directions and then get back on the highway and continue your journey.

Same thing. you took a detour. Get back on the highway. Ok, perhaps you won't get there exactly on time but you will get there. YOU JUST have to get back on the highway and keep going.

Think of the weight loss journey that way.

What's more important is you string a whole bunch of good days together. Bad Days will happen. It's life. Don't let them push you off the highway.

Detours will happen on this journey. Heck, maybe you will take a detour again when you hit Colorado...but the thing is...find the onramp. Keep Going. Do not stop.

You can get back. Maybe a little late to your destination but keep heading forward. You will get there. California(insert goal here) is waiting for you!

Happened to me just today too. I know it feels bad, but you cannot let it hinder you. The more you let it hinder you, the more it will continue to hinder you until eventually, it's going to take over your life and you won't ever lose the weight!

Forget about it.

Brush it off and don't do it again! Allow yourself one cheat day (that's not letting you go overboard, 200cal over your original budget is acceptable on a cheat day) is one way to reward yourself consistently for your self-control.

Don't let this bother you!

Keep your head up and your self-control higher. This takes time.

I can't tell you how many times i've let it get to me. BUt you can't let it conquer you.