Feeling Bad About Myself

Don't feel guilty don't dwell just move forward. You may have just been stressing too much and it caused you to have the late night munchies. Today is a new day forget about yesterday.

If your just starting out I would recommend allowing yourself like 1800 calories a day. This way you don't feel guilty plus you won't get those binge urges. Also add some more protein and fiber to your diet it will help you feel full longer.

Best of luck honey we are all there with you from time to time. Today is a new day.

Can you make your diary 'public' so we can see what it is your eating and maybe what's missing?

Hey Diana,

Don't be ashamed of yourself! If this was easy, everyone would be healthy. But it's not, it's a struggle. It's a long war that you're only in the beginning of fighting. The thing about it being a war, is that sometimes, you're going to lose battles. You're going to have good days, not so good days, and just plain terrible days. The key is that when a terrible day happens, to just understand that they happen sometimes, and that tomorrow is another day, and to never stop fighting. If you never stop fighting, no matter how many bad days you have, you will eventually win.

This gets easier with time. The longer you try at it, the more good days you will have, and the less bad days. We're all here to support you through your successes and your trials.

:flowerforyou: Don't feel bad. Everything you do good for yourself is better than not doing good. So, you were good all day!

As far as you calorie intake I think that is way too low, are you exercising? If you up your exercise you can up your calorie intake and then you won't feel like you are starving yourself!

I think we all have up days and down days - try not to beat yourself up about it. One trick is not to have any snack foods in your house to start off with, that way the likely hood of you bingeing is almost zero.

Dust yourself off and try again, you can do this :-):happy: :happy: :happy:

Keep it out of your house. I have kids so I have had to learn self control and trust me-it is hard for me. So the things I really love I keep out of my house.
When you start losing you start wanting the stuff less, because-it is much better to feel good about yourself then the way any food taste.

I can totally relate to the late night binge. It's a struggle...but today is new. Forget yesterday and move forward!! Stick with it and in the end you'll win not the late night cravings...or slip ups

It's a new day!

Don't beat yourself up. What happened yesterday is over. And out of your control now. What is in control is: today. Make sure you get back on track and get a good workout in. I've had days like that as well. We all have.

Good luck to you!! I know you can do it!

-Melissa

It was your SECOND day! This is all new to you. Cut yourself some slack and go on from here. It gets easier, it really does. Start adopting the idea that this isn't a "diet" but a lifestyle change. Something you are doing "extra special" for YOU!!

This weight loss/health thing is a whole process and it took me months to change my mindset.

The good news is that you are starting to recognize what is beneficial to your health. It's like being broke allows you to know how to save and appreciate money in a bank account.

After I started this health process, I had to fail several times. For me, I had to go on my pizza binges to realize that it makes me feel bloated, heavy and kills my weight loss progress before I gave up pizza. Without that failure, I wouldn't know what success feels like.

Stay in the moment and take note of how it made you feel then move on. It's a process and you're making progress!

I go through that, too. I know where you are coming from. The fact is: You are human, you are going to makes mistakes, you are going to have a binge now and then. But I have been trying to plan ahead for these bumps in the road. I don't have much junk food available at my house, and I make sure any junk I do buy for the kids (and I'm trying to keep it healthier for them, too by buying granola bars, which I hate but they make decent snacks for them when they are sick of fruit) is stuff that is reasonably healthy and/or something I don't like. I also have learned that I can't tell myself that I can't have anything bad. I can have anything I want, I just have to work for it first. I can have a whole, real, sugar and caffeine loaded pop and even have a candy bar to go with it, but I had better be lovin' me some treadmill and bumping up the incline for a LONG time first. And by then I am usually too tired to leave the house and go get it (the perks of living in the middle of nowhere!). Throw out the junk, and be proud of yourself for making the effort to get better!

Good Luck and today is a new day. You will get there!

I agree with the others. Today is a NEW day! Don't look back on the past ever for anything! Just learn from your past. Don't beat yourself up. I also agree with your calorie intake goal, it may be too low for just starting out. But if you eat every 2 to 3 hours and count your calories, such as 300-400 for breakfast, 100 for snack #1, 400 for lunch, 100 calories for snack #2, and 500-600 calories for dinner and have 100 cal. snack with a warm cup of tea. Don't forget to workout! We have a saying in my house to not say the word 'can't'! You CAN DO THIS!! Take one day at a time...remember everyday is a new day and don't look back. Stay positive and focused! We are here for you!! :-D

Remember healthy foods to make you feel full, like lean protein and whole grains...fruits and veggies are always nice : )

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I think you dropped your calorie max too low. Going from 2800 to 1400 is a huge jump. I can't even eat 1400 or less per day, I get too hungry. I would suggest cutting out calories slowly, like going from 2800 to 2200 or 2000, something like that.

Don't feel guilty. Of course eating healthy is not easy. If it was we would all be skinny. Just learn from your mistakes and plan your meals wisely where you don't need to biege. Stay focus and remember MFP is here to help. I am over 200 as well and it was hard for me to get into the routine. now that i am seeing reesults and knowing that other triumph is on it is way -- I am looking forward to onederland. BTW you are comng with me and you will be fine.