i feel disgusting i feel horrible

We ALL make food mistakes .......just take it that you now know the nutritional values for it and can avoid it in the future! I had a treat of a take away curry the other weekend and nearly flipped when I saw how many cals and fat etc was in it :sad: but once in a while does no harm at all.
Chin up and start again, :flowerforyou: do some extra exercise if you feel that bad, at least you will be doing something to combat the extra intake and are being positive about the situation
Tomorrow is another day . . . . .

That feels so familiar. I'm completely disgusted with myself after a weekend of junk food. I was so focused, eating so healthily, but it was my birthday on Saturday and my few little treats turned into a binge of chocolate brownies, popcorn, ice-cream.... etc.etc.... I don't even want to think about it. I didn't put it into MFP yet. I just don't want to know!!!!! :frown: I'm absolutely sickened with myself. I went to put on my gym gear this morning and found a top I used to wear to work out last year.... I couldn't wear it cos of the newly acquired "love handles" on my sides... :frown: I hate feeling like this!!!! I just want my body back!!!!:sad:

280 calories per shrimp seemed like a lot so I looked it up. The information I keep getting is 280 per WHOLE SERVING, not per shrimp.

Popeye's Seafood-Popcorn Shrimp
Serving Size 1 whl srv
Amount per serving
Calories 280 Calories from Fat 0
Hide Daily Values % Daily Value*
Total Fat 17g 26%
Saturated Fat 0g 0%
Cholesterol 0mg 0%
Sodium 0mg 0%
Total Carbohydrates 22g 7%
Protein 0g
Vitamin A 0% Vitamin C 0%
Calcium 0% Iron 0%

I don't think you did as bad as think.

Yeah, that figure jumped out at me as WAY high! I'm glad others took time to look it up for you and found out it's PER SERVING not PER SHRIMP!

So, see, it wasn't that bad!

Plus, I've heard many say that every now and then you should give your body a "jolt" by eating some stuff like that just to keep it guessing--sooooo, figure it as that. You've jolted your body, now jump back up on the wagon and keep eating healthy!

OH, and please! Don't refer to yourself as "disgusting" My gosh! YOu look great now!

--and you say you only wish to lose 20 pounds. Have you tried some toning exercises/weight training to see if that helps. You might not need to lose as much as you think/wish to lose.

And, if you do something like that again (with the popeye's), just go for a walk or bike ride and work it of.

The whole point of being here is to learn and to handle food better. This is something many of us struggle with, but I'm finding it isn't helpful that we tie so much emotion or self worth around our food decisions. In fact that often seems to give us permission to continue to make poor choices. I honestly don't know why that is. When I get a credit card statement in the mail and realize that I was out of control this month I don't say, I'm worthless and don't deserve to be wealthy, so I'll just go spend more money and start again next month. I just say whoops, I'd better put on the brakes for a while and I do. I want to work toward getting that same relationship with food. I don't handle it perfectly, but I can balance things out and still acheive my goals.

I have done the same, and I have felt the same, but my questions are: do you love yourself? do you think you are lovable? was it as good as you remember it tasted? doesn't that stuff make you feel like junk?

Whatever anyone says, you NEED to be hard on yourself when things like this happen. Yes, you are human and you make mistakes, but if you put horrible (yet tasty) things into your body you already know how you will feel afterward. Taking a day out of your week to eat over your regular daily allowance is OK, and when we put ourselves through this dayindayout exercising/calorie counting, it is worth it to indulgence. But make that ONE day of your week, schedule that day and STICK to it. You won't be sorry.

How much do you care for yourself, though? Do you love yourself? I think you want to, just like everyone else here. I used to weigh 80 more pounds than I do today just over a year and a half ago, and I hated myself. I saw a fat slob that didn't take care of myself when I looked in the mirror. I drank excessively, did drugs, binged and purged then binged more. The day I gave that all up was the day I started to love myself. Girl, we aren't all supposed to be size zero's on the cover of Vogue. That is life....

Loving yourself takes more than looking better....it's about feeling better about who you are, what you've accomplished, helping someone else in the process when they've gone through the same things you have. You are dying to love yourself...food has taught us for so long how to self-medicate, or comfort ourselves, through it's taste. Food can't love you back. It doesn't sit there begging you to eat it. That little deepfried shrimp was perfectly content swimmin in the ocean, I'm sure. So why try to love yourself with food? Love yourself by appreciating yourself, by being strong and a woman of your word and your committment to lose weight/be stronger/live longer/or whatever it is you are committed to. When you commit to loving yourself, you will be amazed at what you can do.

My suggestion to you, when mom brings that stuff home, grab a plate, take a shrimp or two, half a biscuit, and make those little morsels last as long as your mom's entire meal. Savor those little boogers, make every chew count. What does this do? It gives you that little taste without depriving yourself. It shows you that you are stronger than you think. It will prove to you that you are worth NOT putting tons of disgusting food into your body and that a TEENY TINY taste is all you really want...it's all you really desire...because eating an entire serving, an entire biscuit of that deepfried, processed, HFCS toting garbage is not as important as you, the love you have to give yourself, and the love you will show those around you when you find your lovable self.

Plus, you'll burn off a couple of shrimp and half a biscuit running around campus!

Anyhow, sorry bout the editorial...I hope your day goes better...you're much stronger than you think...

Cici

I have actually read in a few different places that you actually should have one day in the week to just splurge and go crazy on whatever you want. (One of these authors is Joyce Vedral, writer of workout books like "Definition" and "Bottoms Up!")

Part of the reason is so that you don't go feeling like you're depriving yourself of treats or foods you love, 100% of the time. Another reason is because if you don't, you eventually become too thin and your body starts eating up muscle as a fuel source.

Your body needs a certain amount of fat. I think it's important not o be afraid of it, otherwise it just controls you.

Hope that helps.:flowerforyou:

Hey, just make it your self from now on. I use a low burning oil, mainly olive oil, and make my pop corn shrimp with soy flour, heavy cream and a egg white. I usually bake it, but prefer to fry it. It's a lot better for you this way.