Ate 1500 calories for breakfast today. What should I do now?

I vote for the exercise option. And don't beat yourself up too much...just get back on track and keep pushing ahead

Don't worry about it - we all slip sometimes Don't fast, it's not healthy and will just cause problems. Eat as healthily as possible (without starving yourself) today and exercise if possible to help make up for breakfast. Think of calories when they're averaged out over the week. Be uber healthy over the next few days to make up for it

Skipping meals really messes me up. I vote for some exercise and if you go a bit over make it up tomorrow or the next day. I look at the week more than one particular day.

It's that time of the month again and I've been craving so much chocolate and sweets. I ate half a bag of coconut chips, chocolate and 2 cookies along with breakfast. This is all around 1500 calories. Should I fast for the rest of the day? Or would I be better off burning 400 calories through exercise and eating 200 for dinner? I feel super duper guilty for eating so much. Help?

No, just eat smaller meals in the day and get some exercise. I would also make sure to log all that food for accuracy. It may be less, it may be more, but it will help you plan the rest of your day.

Remember, you have control over food, it does not have control over you.

Don't skip meals today. Try to eat healthy for the rest of the day and get in some exercise. Fasting for the rest of the day could throw you off track even further. When you finally do eat, you'll end up with another bender. Start fresh tomorrow with a healthy, low calorie breakfast and chalk it up to a learning experience.

What they said in the quote. Changing your lifestyle is like learning to ride a bike. You're going to fall now & then. Just don't stop working towards your goal.

Just move on like a regular day focus on healthy meals and water intake, get some exercise in. what matters is you have a weekly deficit inline with your goals. I blew it on sunday by a fair bit but have still kept on track for the week for example

It's not a big deal, just log it and move on, don't skip or even skimp on meals the rest of the day, you'll be fine.

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In the future, you might want to get some sugar free chocolate pudding mix from Jello, and keep a couple boxes in your kitchen. If you use 1% milk it's only 90 calories for half a cup, and most of that will come from the milk.

Or if you drink 8oz of milk with breakfast or dinner normally, just turn your milk into 1 cup of pudding instead, and consume it that way. 1 cup of chocolate pudding, for only 70 more calories than the milk has on its own. That way you can get your chocolate on without eating way more calories than you intended.

Make sure you get to the gym!!!! Don't skip meals just be more aware about what you eat the rest of the day...

Ditto everyone else. Eat salads and veggies the rest of the day, and try to get some protein.

I've been there. It's not the end of the world. You have to eat 3500 calories over maintenance to gain 1 lb, so don't worry if you go over by a few hundred today. Drink some hot tea the next time you get cravings, it always helps with my insane TOM cravings.

Next month plan ahead and have some craving food set aside in Ziploc baggies that are pre-measured. That's what I do. Then I pull a bag out and already know what I'm eating, when the bag is gone and I'm still craving more I exercise and that usually helps to kick the craving. If it does not I go for the hot tea, then more exercise, then a protein shake, etc. I keep myself busy until the craving goes away. Usually allowing myself the said food does the trick and does not derail my day.

Log the food. Someone on another thread said they log everything before they eat it. I think that's a great idea. Sometimes seeing it in the log, before you eat it helps a lot. Do I really want to eat this? Answer this question before you eat. it.

Now about today, if you aren't already someone who has fasted in the past or you have EDs, then no, no fasting today. If you are hungry eat. What I found when I ate heavy hitting nutritious food, that I also liked, was the desire for less nutritious food went away.

If you are a juicer/smoothie person, start the day with one.

The local juice bar charges $7.50 for a drink, but I figured out my own version and it is delicious and comforting, even on a cold morning. It's 1 banana,(129 g/4.5 oz) 16-20 grams of pitted dates, 2 oz. of TJ's unsweetened coconut milk(the kind you would use instead of dairy milk so it doesn't taste particularly coconutty), and 1/8 c./11 grams of TJ's organic rolled oats, a splash of vanilla extract, and a sprinkle of cinnamon on top after pouring it into a glass.

I bet something similar for you with a bit of cocoa & perhaps coconut extract would do the same trick and come in under 300 calories for you.

Good Luck! And don't sweat the 1500 calories today.

It's that time of the month again and I've been craving so much chocolate and sweets. I ate half a bag of coconut chips, chocolate and 2 cookies along with breakfast. This is all around 1500 calories. Should I fast for the rest of the day? Or would I be better off burning 400 calories through exercise and eating 200 for dinner? I feel super duper guilty for eating so much. Help?

Okay for one: start your workout by getting a sweat on and emptying out your cabinets of that empty calorie junkfood. Then go work out for real. You can not starve yourself for the rest of the day. Just do the time at the gym or wherever you work out and move on. Eat apple slices if you get hungry or another low cal snack idea and drink a lot of water. Go to bed as early as you can and then just start over new tomorrow. That is all you can do. Take this as a learning process and make a plan on what you could do better next time. YOu like sweets? try sugar free cocoa for that fix and make yourself have an apple BEFORE you reach for a junkfood item. It will be okay, we all have slipped.

Although I am for fasting from food or something specific and believe it to be a healthy tool that creates discipline and confidence, it should be a planned event not a spur of the moment quick fix. If you want permanent results, you need to make permanent changes. Don't live in the past, learn from it and move on. Learn a sustainable and healthy balanced lifestyle. I removed those trigger foods from my house. If you are an alcoholic that is sincerely trying to quit drinking you don't fill your shelves with vodka. I gave up the trigger foods until they stopped calling my name, retraining my taste buds. The brain has the same type of reaction to sugar as it does to cocaine. When I indulge now it is planned out so I don't go overboard. I get one specific amount of one specific thing and it is not called a treat. Don't treat yourself with food, make treats a real reward to a hard fought goal like buying smaller clothes. You can do this.

Although I am for fasting from food or something specific and believe it to be a healthy tool that creates discipline and confidence, it should be a planned event not a spur of the moment quick fix. If you want permanent results, you need to make permanent changes. Don't live in the past, learn from it and move on. Learn a sustainable and healthy balanced lifestyle. I removed those trigger foods from my house. If you are an alcoholic that is sincerely trying to quit drinking you don't fill your shelves with vodka. I gave up the trigger foods until they stopped calling my name, retraining my taste buds. The brain has the same type of reaction to sugar as it does to cocaine. When I indulge now it is planned out so I don't go overboard. I get one specific amount of one specific thing and it is not called a treat. Don't treat yourself with food, make treats a real reward to a hard fought goal like buying smaller clothes. You can do this.

^^THIS. :drinker:

I would recommend eating normally for the rest of the day. Exercise more if you want, but otherwise put it behind you and move forward as if it never happened. Remember the awful feeling you have now and use it as a deterrent for the next time you feel the need to binge on sweets. Though honestly, during TOM that’s not always going to help. Hormones can be a mighty force.