Can't get my mind off it!

Melis25Fit
Melis25Fit Posts: 811 Member
edited September 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Last night, I went to Red Lobster for dinner with my wonderful husband. I ordered the jumbo grilled garlic shrimp, with steamed broccoli and baked potato with sour cream and butter on the side.
It came with 2 skewers of shrimp, so I only ate one. I did eat all the baked potato with only a small dab of butter and small dab of sr. cream. and all the broccoli.

I was through the roof with my sodium that night after I logged my dinner. I am sooo soooo sooo worried now. My weigh in is tomorrow morning, and I did Wonderful!!! through out the whole week, and I feel like I screwed myself for my weigh in Saturday.

Today I am planning on drinking water like it's going out of style, but I just need to get this off my chest, because I can't stop dwelling on it. :(

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  • keith0373
    keith0373 Posts: 2,154 Member
    Really? It was a healthy meal, You will be fine! One bad meal does not make a week. I have a Bojangles sausage egg and cheese biscuit just about every Friday morning and still lose 3.3 lbs a week or so. If you are really worried about it, hit the gym heard and make sure to sweat a lot . . . the sodium will go away with the sweat. I eat more just about every day than you did yesterday. Look at my log.

    Today I even had a small order of the Bo rounds. Breakfast food is my guilty pleasure.
  • mom2boyzinaz
    mom2boyzinaz Posts: 32
    I think you will be fine, if its bothers you so much work out a little longer today and that should make it better. I do think if you did good the rest of the week and all will be good.
  • Elokyn
    Elokyn Posts: 448 Member
    Lots of water, and try a natural diuretic like watermelon or something of the like. You should be okay depending how far you went over, just remember you've been working hard and doing great so if it doesnt move this week dont get discouraged it was probably just the sodium. That stuff is evil! Don't feel bad :) It happens to all of us!
  • RoadDog
    RoadDog Posts: 2,946 Member
    Don't sweat it. Life's too short.

    You can send me the other skewer if you want to avoid temptation today.
  • Melis25Fit
    Melis25Fit Posts: 811 Member
    LOL It's in my fridge. You can have it! :)
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    Last night, I went to Red Lobster for dinner with my wonderful husband. I ordered the jumbo grilled garlic shrimp, with steamed broccoli and baked potato with sour cream and butter on the side.
    It came with 2 skewers of shrimp, so I only ate one. I did eat all the baked potato with only a small dab of butter and small dab of sr. cream. and all the broccoli.

    I was through the roof with my sodium that night after I logged my dinner. I am sooo soooo sooo worried now. My weigh in is tomorrow morning, and I did Wonderful!!! through out the whole week, and I feel like I screwed myself for my weigh in Saturday.

    Today I am planning on drinking water like it's going out of style, but I just need to get this off my chest, because I can't stop dwelling on it. :(

    yes the sodium will make the numbers go up, but YOU know it is water not fat. The first time I had the epiphany that I had to eat 3500 EXTRA calories to gain a pound of fat, and that the 3 pounds on the scale could represent fecal matter/ water retention/exercise edema..........OR 10,500 EXTRA calories............I no longer worried about those numbers!! :wink:

    I too had the Red Lobster experience :grumble: pissed me the heck off :angry: BUT it was def an AHA moment for me.

    Next time you want to eat out, ask the waitress to hold all salt-ask the cook to put OTHER herbs on the skewer. The last time I went I had the same meal and it tasted so much better. I swear the 1st time my mouth tingled for hours!!

    :flowerforyou: chock this up to learning!!
  • SylvieJacques
    SylvieJacques Posts: 113 Member
    You did very very well with your meal. When I go out and I know it's going to be more salty than normal I always make sure to order water so I can flush it out ASAP. So just make sure to drink extra water.
  • LotusF1ower
    LotusF1ower Posts: 1,259 Member
    Last night, I went to Red Lobster for dinner with my wonderful husband. I ordered the jumbo grilled garlic shrimp, with steamed broccoli and baked potato with sour cream and butter on the side.
    It came with 2 skewers of shrimp, so I only ate one. I did eat all the baked potato with only a small dab of butter and small dab of sr. cream. and all the broccoli.

    I was through the roof with my sodium that night after I logged my dinner. I am sooo soooo sooo worried now. My weigh in is tomorrow morning, and I did Wonderful!!! through out the whole week, and I feel like I screwed myself for my weigh in Saturday.

    Today I am planning on drinking water like it's going out of style, but I just need to get this off my chest, because I can't stop dwelling on it. :(

    The main thing about weight loss programmes is that you still have your "outside" life to live and that includes a meal with your husband. If it bothers you that much, leave your weigh-in day for another two days, bung in another exercise session if you can, be good with your eating and drinking and then see what the scales say, two days later than normal this week. It's not as if you are eating sodium packed meals every night of the week.

    Whatever you decide to do, do not regret going for the meal or what you ate. This is supposed to be a life-changing eating plan, but not an obsessive "can't have this, can't have that" thing, because if it were, you would never be able to keep that up for the rest of your life xxx
  • Melis25Fit
    Melis25Fit Posts: 811 Member
    Good Point Lotus! :) Thanks so much, I appreciate it. I try not to be obsessive about this new "lifestyle change, " but sometimes, I do become a bit obsessive and it gets the better of me.

    I feel better after reading your responses. Thanks for taking the time to reply! :)
  • katlou2
    katlou2 Posts: 199 Member
    You're doing great girl! Don't sweat it, or actually go sweat it haha it will make you feel better! xoxo
    kat
  • Nina74
    Nina74 Posts: 470 Member
    Forgive yourself (in your mind) and look forward, not back.

    The scale might go up, and it's all salt/water. I was feeling annoyed by this a few weeks ago until the trainer at my gym explained that when you eat excess sodium, and then drink a ton of water to flush it out of your system, it can take a big of time (day or 2!) to get out of your system because your body "holds" that water. Now I don't know if this is true or not, but it made sense to me. After a couple of days of drinking more water than usual, my body finally let go of the excess salt.

    Hope this helps your mind. Be kind to yourself. You ate great. Look forward now. :)
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