Rough Weekend HELP!!!

Sounds like you have done really well leading up to this weekend ...everyone comes off the rails sometimes - the important thing is not to think all is lost but to get back to healthy ways as once the weekend is over. See this weekend as a mini treat or reward for yourself and don't beat yourself up.

Look at last week overall and not just over the 2 days

Good luck

Me too! I had several family occasions over the weekend, plus visitors, plus Mother's Day here in the UK. I tried to moderate what I ate but don't think I did very well. BUT today is another day and I'm back on it now. You can't stop life happening, and just because you slipped for a couple of days that doesn't have to turn into another day/week/month of unhealthy eating. Just draw a line under it, pick yourself up and start from scratch. You can do it!

Hi! The fact that you are on this site is a positive move, well done! The past is just that, the past. Each day is new, so don't beat yourself up over a day of weakness, look to today to reach your calorie goals, go for a walk if you can, you'll feel better for it!

best regards, David

Ah. Don't stress yourself. We all have these days and adding extra stress on yourself from a little guilty eating is not going to help put your body into the right mode. All you can do is not give up because I guarantee you, there will be more days just like this. It may ease your mind and your body a bit if you add a little bit of exercise every day this week. Nothing too extreme, but 20 minutes or so of extra exercise can slowly make up for the calories that you packed on. Try to pay extra attention this week to the things you put into yourself.

If you are used to the full tummy feeling and find yourself constantly hungry, fasting teas help for me. Even if you aren't actually fasting, they have ingredients that help take away some of that impulsive desire to eat.

I went a little overboard this past weekend too, you're human, it happens!!! As long as you can be determined enough to work on today and the next to do better, that's all that matters. I felt a little guilty too this past weekend, then I thought, I've been doing so well, I needed that little breather If you can find some sort of positive out of this, the better. If you think this is too hard and you can't do it, you're right, but if you think that you can do better, you WILL! Today is a new day, treat yourself with a bowl of fresh fruit

Tara Leola*~

I had a bad Sunday and I just didn't log my food as well. I knew I did bad, I didn't need to see the calories. HOWEVER, up I got this morning at 6:00 am to do my 30-day shred DVD and I'm back at it again today. That's what you have to do...realize what you did and go on...don't continue to have bad day after bad day after bad day.

LIFE is about events and celebrations and on those days, you allow yourself the treat, but you keep going with your weight loss goals. Don't kick yourself repeatedly for what you did yesterday...pick yourself back up and move on sista! You can do it!

Hey, it's Monday!! Start over!!! Let go of the weekend, you can't change it and beating yourself up over won't help either. Recommit yourself to making better choices. Goodluck!!:happy:

Hi amydanell,
I totally am right there with you. I woke up today feeling really guilty about my food choices over the weekend. I didn't track all weekend either because I was ashamed of what I ate. This morning I told myself I was going to track everything and stay in my calorie goal for the day. I'm also going to make sure to get my excercise in today and really try to let go of the negative feelings I have about the weekend. If we beat ourselves up about them, we're only going to make ourselves feel worse, and I don't know about you, but when I feel bad about myself its like I just continue to make bad chocies. So with that being said, today is a new day. Acknowledge the bad decisions that were made, learn from them, and move on. Take one day at a time. Follow your plan today and tomorrow you'll wake up feeling great....and that is what will get you back on track!

Don't think of it as a failure. Think of it as a detour. Things happen. We make wrong turns. But we're still going to get where we're going. It just might take a little longer.

And you should make an effort to log your food, even when you're embarrassed. Remember that it takes about 3500 calories over your MAINTENANCE calories, not your daily allotted MPF calories, to gain one pound. So you'd have to go over by about 4000 calories to actually do damage. And since you've stuck to your calories all the rest of the week, you'd still probably break even for the week. And that's assuming you went over by 4000. I doubt you did!

Pizza and ice cream and big home cooked meals aren't the enemy. That little voice in your head that tells you you've failed is the enemy. Tell that voice to shut up!

Granted, your scale might show a gain because of the sodium in the food, but it's not a real gain. Drink lots of water, and avoid the scale for the rest of the week.

I know what you mean about not wanting to track what you ate. But -- I encourage you to consider doing it anyway. Here's why.

You're gonna get back on track now, right? Being able to look back on those I-wish-they'd-never-happened-days is a GREAT reminder that you can DO this thing. A couple of bad days will not -- and DID NOT -- defeat you. Tomorrow or the next day or next week or next month, you can look back on this weekend and realize that it was just a momentary lapse. And you'll know that you got back on track, and YOU WON. For me, that's pretty empowering.

The weekend is history now, and today is a bright new day. Go for it!

Thank you all for the kind words. I think that I'm in such a hurry to lose weight that any set back just feels a million times worse than it should. Being newly single makes me that much more anxious about the weight. You are all right. I have to start anew today. So far, I have done well!! After a rough weekend, is it okay to cut back and be under my calorie mark today or is that just counterproductive?

It should be ok to cut your calories back slightly.... but not too much..... still have your 3 main meals as usual. Also, you could do a little bit extra exercise than normal over the next few days to balance it out....