I ate a half cake.

leonakortessy
leonakortessy Posts: 10 Member
in Motivation and Support
It was like, ok, I have to use up all these fruits, I bake a cake to my fiancée. And then I just tasted a little, and after that ate the half of it. It felt really good and I was thinking about considering it a cheat meal or something. Then I looked up the calories, and realized that it's about 1500.
I don't feel physically bad, but I'm so sad now, and I feel like I will always have those ugly love handles and that ugly ab because I'm a lazy piece of crap. Do you know this feeling?How do you get over it?

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  • Nojoke81
    Nojoke81 Posts: 131
    Everyone does this every now and then I suppose. No one is perfect. I mitigate negative feelings with the fact that i'm a DAMNED hard worker in the gym, not many work harder than I do there and that I'm 90% consistent in my diet / fast otherwise.
  • spfldpam
    spfldpam Posts: 738 Member
    Today is a new day. Just get back on your program today. You can do it!
  • QuietBloom
    QuietBloom Posts: 5,413 Member
    A short memory is how I get over it. Dwelling on perceived short comings is never helpful. Every once in a while I have an epic binge. I do my best to thoroughly enjoy it, and they have not hurt my progress.
  • gypsy_spirit
    gypsy_spirit Posts: 2,107 Member
    Thinking those thoughts, while many do, are not productive. Start now and just continue on with your day. Eat when you are hungry today and then get back on your program tomorrow.

    Thinking about the reasons that you ate 1/2 a cake may be beneficial. Are you restricting your diet too much? Are you an emotional eater? Mindless eater? Whatever the reason - work to figure it out. You don't have that much weight left to lose (according to your ticker).

    Mindset can be a killer. A killer even if you lose all the weight. Good luck!
  • farmers_daughter
    farmers_daughter Posts: 1,632 Member
    What can you logically do about it. Within healthful reason.

    Nothing. Realize it was a super big cheat "item" and you enjoyed it but you can't do it again.

    Move on. Eat whatever you had planned and make tomorrow just as good too.


    Or so I'm told. LOL.
  • robin52077
    robin52077 Posts: 4,383 Member
    Can I have the other half?
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    Today is a new day. Just get back on your program today. You can do it!

    This!^

    Just pick yourself up and continue on. This is the rest of your life. You don't have to have consistently "perfect" days when dieting....you just need to have more good days than bad ones.
  • pkw58
    pkw58 Posts: 2,038 Member
    I would record it, go for a walk, and get back on my nutrition plan. I have eaten worse at Pei Wei Calorie wise without realizing it.
  • delicious_cocktail
    delicious_cocktail Posts: 5,797 Member
    That reduces to a rounding error this month. It's not that big a deal in terms of calories. Psychologically, I can see how it would be disheartening. The difference between successes and failures is persistence. If you give up, you will fail. If you do not give up, you will succeed.

    So you ate some cake. Today is a new day.
  • VeryKatie
    VeryKatie Posts: 5,961 Member
    I've been considering for days about baking an angel food cake and eating it all myself. Definitely hoping I can make cupcakes instaed... But 1400 calories... maybe if... maybe if I eat it on a Saturday between multiple cardio workouts... and just eat fish and veggies for dinner...

    lol but I know that is not a great plan.
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  • whovian67
    whovian67 Posts: 608 Member
    Today is a new day. Just get back on your program today. You can do it!

    Yep.. everyone falls off the wagon.... it was only 1 day...... hell.. if I ate half a cake, it would be a carrot cake with cream cheese icing or a double fudge cake and it would be about 3000 calories !!!

    Get back in the saddle !
  • besaro
    besaro Posts: 1,858 Member
    half? amateur.
  • Cheeseburger85
    Cheeseburger85 Posts: 63 Member
    That's awesome. I love cake. Log it and move on.
  • 6ftamazon
    6ftamazon Posts: 340 Member
    1500 isn't that bad for half a cake lol. Best you can do is not dwell on it since it's done, eat decently the next few days and maybe get in a little bit of extra exercise.
  • skullshank
    skullshank Posts: 4,323 Member
    you cant go back in time and change it. so move forward.

    i ate 75% of a box of cookies in one sitting over the weekend. it was roughly 1300 calories.

    my response when i calculated the calories was "oh damn....i ate me some cookies!"
    i didnt beat myself up or even get annoyed at myself. i only decided that it would be awhile before i do that again.

    this process is not linear. you will have peaks and valleys.
    chin up, and get back to kickin *kitten*.
  • Archon2
    Archon2 Posts: 462 Member
    Nobody is perfect. Look at it this way, you enjoyed it, and now you are going to make up for it. Use the incident to steady your determination instead of letting it weaken your resolve! :)

    Also 1500 kcal isn't all that much. If you are eating at a weekly deficit of 3500 for a 1lb/wk loss, then all the cake did was delay your progress by a couple days. If you don't like that little delay, you can also make up for it (if you want to) by walking for 30 min a day for the same 2-3 days. Thats it! No big deal since this is a long term process!
  • mygnsac
    mygnsac Posts: 13,413 Member
    I just remind myself that the transgression was just a blip in the overall trend of eating wisely. I've yet to meet a perfect person, and deriding ourselves for not being perfect serves no purpose. :smile:
  • leonakortessy
    leonakortessy Posts: 10 Member
    I've got so many positive energy and motivation after reading your replies. Thank you! <3
  • Alsvic
    Alsvic Posts: 93 Member
    Seriously 1500 hundred calories aren't no thing. Geez Saturday night I had a bacon cheese burger Fries and three beers. Woke up Sunday and said to myself.....Self you need to get back on the program. Then I promptly drank a gallon Growler of a local craft beer and then had cake and ice cream with the kids for my brother in-law's birthday. I stepped on the scale Monday morning and I may have gained a half pound.

    Lets be honest with our selves here if being afraid to celebrate with friends and family causes so much angst, we need to reexamine our reasons for getting healthy.Do you want to be Healthy and Happy or Healthy and Miserable.

    Everybody has a bad day once in a while 1500 calories is not even a bump in the road to a long term weight loss program.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Been there done that. Now I only make very small portions, lol.
  • ElliottTN
    ElliottTN Posts: 1,614 Member
    I think you would be hard pressed to find someone who hasn't had a recent experience such as this. Yet, the sun is still shining and life is still good. Time to move on to our next adventure.
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    missdibs1 Posts: 1,092 Member
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