First rest day. WAY OVER CALORIES!! HELP!!!

only you can control that. This is a sign you're not eating right on the days where you're working out. Track your calories, eat smaller meals, eat more veggies to fill you, and drink at least 1/2 your body weight in water.

What's your TDEE? On my "cheat" days I just try to make sure I don't go over that. I figure I'm not losing, but shouldn't be gaining either at that rate. Mine is over 2,000 calories. If you have MFP set to lose 1 lb. a week, your TDEE is probably about 500 calories more than your daily calorie target. Even if you're just a little over that, it's one day. Not the end of the world.

Personally, I think if you're hungry, that's your body telling you something. Might be a little too aggressive on the other days.

Maybe you shouldn't eat so much on rest days.

I wish I could stop.. but I was HUNGRY! I was literally hungry and ate I think whatever I had in sight.. I ALWAYS experieced that on rest days

Hunger doesn't mean you need to eat more, it means you need to find foods to eat that will keep you feeling fuller longer at a lower calorie total. You know it's coming, calculate ahead of time. It is a learning process.

will power - just try to control your desire to over eat. Or eat something that's filling and nutritional.

Maybe you shouldn't eat so much on rest days.

I wish I could stop.. but I was HUNGRY! I was literally hungry and ate I think whatever I had in sight.. I ALWAYS experieced that on rest days

Exercise helps to decrease appetite...

You need to have more self control and maybe fewer 'rest days.' Or instead of a cheat day, maybe do a cheat meal or so to help stay on track.

Maybe you shouldn't eat so much on rest days.

I wish I could stop.. but I was HUNGRY! I was literally hungry and ate I think whatever I had in sight.. I ALWAYS experieced that on rest days

Hunger doesn't mean you need to eat more, it means you need to find foods to eat that will keep you feeling fuller longer at a lower calorie total. You know it's coming, calculate ahead of time. It is a learning process.

I just hate myself right now It's already monday and screwed up the entire week :(

That's a pretty foolish way to look at it, it's just one day. Eat better the rest of today and then move forward again starting tomorrow.

I have heard that you can be really hungry if you are in fat burning mode. Have no idea if it's true or not....but I do find that I'm hungry and terrified that I've gained weight and I will see a loss.

One more thought: Developing a healthy relationship with food and exercise is more important than seeing the scale move. I can go in the neurotic perfectionist mode if I'm not careful. I've noticed this tendency in some of my MFP friends too. Do not beat yourself up if you go over or eat some sweets or, or, or... Look at the whole picture, not an individual choice. If more often than not you're making good choices, don't beat yourself up to the point where you say screw it and binge eat or torture yourself with a super strict diet and borderline abusive exercise. Be a little more flexible with yourself and your diet and try to make more "good" choices than "bad" ones.

What's your TDEE? On my "cheat" days I just try to make sure I don't go over that. I figure I'm not losing, but shouldn't be gaining either at that rate. Mine is over 2,000 calories. If you have MFP set to lose 1 lb. a week, your TDEE is probably about 500 calories more than your daily calorie target. Even if you're just a little over that, it's one day. Not the end of the world.

Personally, I think if you're hungry, that's your body telling you something. Might be a little too aggressive on the other days.

Hunger isn't necessarily your body telling you anything about nutrtional or energy needs. It's more likely that it's misinterpreted thirst, or that OP ate too much sugar at once and had a blood sugar spike, then a crash and had a hunger spike from that. It does create a spike. OP needs to find a way to eat foods that are more fillling over longer periods of time without loading up with calories like protein and vegetables that are high in fiber.

Sorry if I was unclear. I *completely* agree with you. Hunger is telling you *something*. Perhaps, as you suggest, that you're thirsty, or have eaten some things that are setting you up to fail. The sugar example you note is a good one. That one used to get me badly. You make a very, very good point and I couldn't agree more. What you eat is important. And personally I think it's recklessly misleading to post things, as some here do, that could easily be interpreted as suggesting otherwise - a point I tried to make in another thread that didn't go well.

Look for free foods that fill you up with no calories , I have been eating Jicama with is very good and very low calories and it is like eating apple if you get a sweet one

This happened to me on my first few rest days. My friends on here told me that it happened to them, too! What you have to do is save some of your exercise calories so that you can eat them back on your rest day.

Sometimes this is easiest if you choose to eat the same # of cals every day, (assuming you do the same # of exercise every week).

OR, you can just mentally/manually remember how much to add to your rest day. Your body is repairing and needs food, but if you feel restricted you're going to lose control. So don't restrict yourself. Sometimes I give myself more to eat on my rest day than on days when I burn a TON of cals. Because that's just when my body feels hungry!

It'll get better! Just keep trucking along and making improvements as you go!