I ate 1000 calories for dinner!!!

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  • michelegurr
    michelegurr Posts: 55 Member
    Here's another thought..... Why not make up your day's menu ahead of time? Be sure you fall into your allowed calories. Then when you want to add something throughout the day that you did not pre-plan, you will have to eliminate something to make up the difference. Kind of like sticking to a budget!!!



    Yeah now THIS is my survive turkey day without overeating strategy! Will be the first turkey day I don't GAIN weight!
  • rosemary98
    rosemary98 Posts: 632
    My evening meals quite often get upto 1,000 calories.... so without knowing what your daily caolrie goal is and knowing what else you ate, i'm kinda failing to see the issue!

    I am 400-600 cals over my maintenance... I've gotten used to eating 400 cals below my maintenance though.....

    one day of eating 600 calories over maintenance means nothing. once any water retention (likely the meal was high in sodium) and the waste passes...i doubt you will see any changes on the scale. if you do...it will be normal fluctuations.
  • NaoyukiTai
    NaoyukiTai Posts: 39 Member
    I ate restaurant take-out for dinner today. It was a Chinese-style bento kind of thing (not American Chinese though) and basically it had meat (I had a little fish and fatty pork), white rice, cabbages, dark green leafy veg, aubergine, seaweed ALL COOKED IN OIL. That's not bad, but I ALSO HAD toast + peanut butter + banana before this. I didn't realize that what I ate ranged from 800-1000 calories! PLEASE WHAT DO I DO? I am freaking out so much. And don't say 'it's good to have a cheat meal every now and then.' I am freaking out because for the past 2 weeks I've been splurging a lot and I have pretty much gained weight.

    After this meal, I am 1kg heavier, putting me at a new milestone. I know that this is water & food weight but I have splurged as badly before and yet I was never this heavy. It honestly freaks me out so much. How do I even make up for this? I feel awfully discouraged...

    A. Put the science on your side. 1000cals = 0.128Kg. It's not possible to gain 1Kg.
    B. Restaurant food is salty. The rest of weight is mostly water weight.
    C. Most important thing is, enjoy the food. Get back to good diet. Keep working on the workouts.
  • ruffnstuff
    ruffnstuff Posts: 400 Member
    Stop wasting your time writing paragraphs of serious responses. OP already deactivated his/her account!
  • PennyM140
    PennyM140 Posts: 423 Member
    User deactivated.

    Meanies!

    Wow, Kinda like you murdered the OP?
  • drefaw
    drefaw Posts: 739
    WOW, people are still seriously answering this post .....LOL.... user DEACTIVATED .......lol.....
  • wannabpiper
    wannabpiper Posts: 402 Member
    Tomorrow is a new day - make better choices. Only you can control yourself and make decisions about what goes into your mouth. That's what my therapist says, anyway :blushing:
  • PennyM140
    PennyM140 Posts: 423 Member
    WOW, people are still seriously answering this post .....LOL.... user DEACTIVATED .......lol.....
    Wait! Didn't YOU just post here too? :tongue:
  • IronPhyllida
    IronPhyllida Posts: 533 Member
    User deactivated.


    Troll
    Could have stayed around a bit longer so we could have some fun.... :noway:
  • loriq41
    loriq41 Posts: 479 Member
    :laugh: I love this kind of funny posts!!!!
    Ditto....wait til a 6 week plateau comes...oye
  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
    My question is-was that dinner good or what????? :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :drinker:

    Tomorrow is a new day. Unless you at 3,500 calories over your total daily energy expenditure, you didn't gain weight overnight, it's probably water retention from all the darned sodium they put in the that wonderful restaurant food.
  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
    Oh. I understand the user went away.
  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
    WOW, people are still seriously answering this post .....LOL.... user DEACTIVATED .......lol.....
    Wait! Didn't YOU just post here too? :tongue:

    Double ditto. :laugh: :laugh:
  • drefaw
    drefaw Posts: 739
    YES I did, but I did not ANSWER the post ..... I just found it amusing so many people post and NEVER read any replies first......
  • JewelsinBigD
    JewelsinBigD Posts: 661 Member
    I eat that for dinner at least once per week. I save up all day to eat a nice dinner and it is fine. Make it work over your week and don't sweat it!
  • Phildog47
    Phildog47 Posts: 255 Member
    I hate to disappoint you, but you were probably closer to 3000. The "lite" meals at restaurants are almost 1000.
  • ccburn5
    ccburn5 Posts: 473 Member
    Me? Yes and then some and loved every bite!!! Thats what the "good" days are for. As long as those types of meals are few and far between, you can afford one every now and then.
  • johnnifast
    johnnifast Posts: 23 Member
    You prob wouldn't want to see my Instagram food pictures. I eat over 1200+ calories in one sitting. Lol.
  • kennie2
    kennie2 Posts: 1,170 Member
    whats your point?
    I can easily have that in a meal and be pretty chuffed with myself
  • Mantha18
    Mantha18 Posts: 25 Member
    well people are still obv reading it....some people could be reading it worried about a similar (real) overeating slip-up and benefitting from the responses. just because the OP is deactivated, it doesnt mean others arent interested.

    damn it, this meant to be a reply to the "i cant believe ppl are still ansering this" post.
  • browntracy72
    browntracy72 Posts: 24 Member
    LOL, I had chicken noodles and mash tatters last night with a dirty martini. Leading me to want to be extra good today and I failed.. It happens. I get up at 5am every morning and workout, I had my breakfast early and by the time I got to work I was starving I have my chicken sandwich and an hour after that I was hungry. I drank water lots of water and it so happened that Pizza hut landed in my mouth.... LOL I guess it will be some cardio tonight with a good low fat/calorie dinner for me..LOL
  • musicboxes
    musicboxes Posts: 133 Member
    I know exactly where you are, we eat out a lot but I have learned to eat half & take home half. Just forgive yourself for yesterday....for today is a new day, you haven't made any mistakes when you got up today. You can do this....so don't beat yourself up or be discouraged. Set new goals & exercise or walking.
  • NYCNika
    NYCNika Posts: 611 Member
    You can't gain a kilo of fat from this meal. Kilo of water - easy. Chinese meals are notoriously high in sodium.

    Exercise more.

    I find that if I eat badly for a meal but do exercise, I usually don't gain weight. So even if you can't possibly burn off anywhere close to what you ate and it feels like your exercising for damage control is an equivalent of trying to get water out of the Titanic just using a tea cup... it is more than that. It really does help.
  • Cletusbob
    Cletusbob Posts: 2
    Just try to make up for it next time
  • Lleldiranne
    Lleldiranne Posts: 5,516 Member
    Just try to make up for it next time

    Thread is 5 months old and OP has deactivated account ... but thanks for trying to help :flowerforyou:
  • mistiblake08
    mistiblake08 Posts: 80 Member
    You see the issue. Now you must correct it. You have to learn some self-control.
    What I did was put up on my fridge all the reasons why I want to be healthier and make better choices (health, my boyfriend, my dogs, etc). It helps me to stay on track.

    Now, to add in my experience: I usually have a dinner that is 500-1000 calories because during the day, I don't get even halfway to my calorie intake. I have to make it up somehow since I can't while I'm at work.
  • Achrya
    Achrya Posts: 16,913 Member
    I had 1065. I win



    IDK, I got nothing else, considering how old this thread is

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