Ate bad over the Easter now going threw with draw !

I have a hard time getting back on track after a hard night of drinking.
You just have to get back to logging your foods and make yourself make the right choices.

I took a week off and gained 7 lbs!!! When I stepped on the scale Monday morning, I wanted to cry. I do this to myself at least once a month. The same 6-7 lbs. comes and goes SO quickly. After two days of eating healthy/working out/pounding water, I'm now back down, but it's so frustrating to think of where I'd be if I would have just kept working that week. Ohh well! Can't change it now.

Don't worry, just take it one step at a time. Remember that you are in control of what you eat. Every time you make the healthy choice, you are a little bit closer to your goals.

Perseverance, not perfection!

Im struggling!
Yesterday i went out and bought another easter egg to help...
but i just seem to be eating less and less healthy the more i try to stay away from chocolate.

Chocolate is the one thing I refuse to give up! I buy a bar of expensive, high quality dark chocolate and just have a few squares. It usually is only 50 calories or so.

Just try not to buy the (cheap) high sugar chocolate.... it is very easy to overeat it and it's not as satisfying as the high quality stuff.

I did not do very well over the weekend also!! I still manage to stay under my calorie count. Man, I can feel the difference between eating clean and not eating clean. I am going back to eating clean without a shadow of doubt. It was fun while it lasted but we have to remain focused. Shake it off and try again. Don't beat yourself up!

You know, chocolate isn't even the enemy here. I talked to a woman from Russia who really loved to cook and bake (one of those naturally thin and healthy blonde mid-forties types - I'd hate her if she weren't so nice :-D ) and she called most of the chocolate on the shelves here in the states "cow fat chocolate". Another friend that went vacationing in Europe said that even the stuff we hold in higher regard like Ferrero Rocher is the "exported garbage". Milk chocolate is junk. The barely sweet and very dark chocolate is the good stuff. Our crap is a small bit of decent chocolate diluted with fat and sugar. Eat enough dark stuff and milk chocolate starts to taste waxy.

Then there's the food. Ham is low in calories - high in sodium (like most smoked meats). There are studies about the evils of smoked meats in general, but I don't know if they hold any validity. I know for me that smoked meats leave me tired. There are a few fingers pointing to erectile dysfunction, but that could just be because of the lifestyle of the average guy that sits around eating sausage and bacon all day.

Then there's the low-cal guilt trap. "I'm going to eat this small bit of high calories here, but I'm going to cut my cals in half by sticking to diet dressings/toppings/etc." Those foods are *also* high in sodium. They lowered the calories by adding salt to retain some flavor.

I fall into all this crap, too. I managed to keep my calories under and still exercised - but I'm hurting from the weekend. Age (and I'm only 33) makes the food hangovers *worse*. Live and learn. :-D

I agree with t8miller. I did that Monday night (reese egg and robin eggs) and now do not even want to see it. Twisted but whatever works!

I had the Easter blow out and had planned to get right back on track but I'd hurt my foot and can't workout for a little bit. Then I started feeling mopey and pouty over it and revisited the Easter leftovers and have really just eaten like garbage all week! I don't think I've been under by goal even once this week! Bleh! I'm hoping the foot will be healed enough by Monday that I can carefully get back to working out. It didn't help that one of my kids had a birthday this week and we went to Cold Stone to celebrate it! Sheesh. I do think my husband may finally buy me the bicycle I've been asking for so our family can go on bike rides! At least that won't hurt the foot.