HELP HELP HELP.

gabrielleelliott90
gabrielleelliott90 Posts: 854 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Right, so I eat 1615 cal, my tdee. I don't eat calories back. I just realised, as I had BK for lunch, that I only have 116 cal left. So now I've got to eat dinner, which I've been eating, which I didn't necessarily want when I only had bk an hour ago. I don't want to use the rest of my cal on dinner. And, I have been out volunteering in the charity shop 10-2 and picked up at 3. I would of burnt cals walking. Usually 500 odd I think. I've no idea. I didn't track it. How am I able to have more than 116 cal and not gain weight? For me to gain weight, I have to eat 1700 odd.

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  • noexcusesjustresults2014
    noexcusesjustresults2014 Posts: 212 Member
    If you are not hungry, skip dinner. If you are hungry eat it and don't worry about going over your calories target. You can make up for it tomorrow if you like. Your average consumption over time is of far more importance than any specific day. Don't worry!
  • gabrielleelliott90
    gabrielleelliott90 Posts: 854 Member
    Well, I feel bad because my mum cooked it for me, and I could only have two of the pieces of chicken. She went to that effort and I hardly at any. I never even asked for dinner. So that's blown the calories.
  • SnuggleSmacks
    SnuggleSmacks Posts: 3,731 Member
    One meal isn't going to determine whether you gain weight. If it makes you feel better, cut 100 for the next few days. It's the averages that are important.
  • gabrielleelliott90
    gabrielleelliott90 Posts: 854 Member
    I might do that. But I want to eat some chocolate or something, have a sodastream, which is low cal anyway tonight. I'm a night owl and I go to sleep 12-1am. I don't want my blood pressure to drop but I don't want to gain weight. MFP says for me to gain 0.5lb a week it is 1970. This is not my full TDEE I eat, I believe. I think it's 2000 odd. But for me to lose weight I was advised 1615 and not to eat back. I only just got to my longterm target weight (temporary). 143lb, for my height of 163cm. But my target goal weight now is 130lb.
  • SnuggleSmacks
    SnuggleSmacks Posts: 3,731 Member
    edited November 2014
    A pound is 3500 calories. That's how many extra calories you'd have to eat to gain a pound of fat. It doesn't matter if it takes one meal, day or week or even a month, if the amount you eat over the amount you burn equals 3500 calories, you gain a pound. There's nothing wrong with eating a bit more one day and a bit less the next to keep things even.
  • gabrielleelliott90
    gabrielleelliott90 Posts: 854 Member
    Ok, that's settled then. I'll overeat a bit and then just have less tomorrow. Thank you.
  • gabrielleelliott90
    gabrielleelliott90 Posts: 854 Member
    Thanks peeps for sticking up for me. Just a troll. Oh and btw troll, I had planned on a lower calorie burger, they did not have it. And the only other beef burger they had which wasn't chicken happened to be the double whopper, which unbeknownst until I got home, is quite high in calories.
  • gabrielleelliott90
    gabrielleelliott90 Posts: 854 Member
    I came here for help, which many people gave me, thank you so much. Please ignore the troll. Sure, in this precise moment I don't eat healthy- it doesn't mean I won't in the future. And as said previously, treats can be included in a healthy lifestyle. I do a lot of exercise. I did volunteering, which I chose to do, out of the kindness of my heart. I don't see you doing that Mr Troll with no picture. Lol. Please, ignore this troll from now on. Not worth your time or mine.
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    116 calories - you can have a hot dog and some beans or some fruit and cottage cheese. It's not a ton, but it's something.

    You could also exercise more and pick up some calories.

    Or just suck it up and overeat. It's one day.

    Now you've learned that you can't have fast food and stay in your goal easily, so if you're over today, you learned that lesson. Losing weight and eating healthier are two different things, but the latter will help with the former. We learn as we go. :)
  • gabrielleelliott90
    gabrielleelliott90 Posts: 854 Member
    Kalikel wrote: »
    116 calories - you can have a hot dog and some beans or some fruit and cottage cheese. It's not a ton, but it's something.

    You could also exercise more and pick up some calories.

    Or just suck it up and overeat. It's one day.

    Now you've learned that you can't have fast food and stay in your goal easily, so if you're over today, you learned that lesson. Losing weight and eating healthier are two different things, but the latter will help with the former. We learn as we go. :)

    Well, tbh I can have fast food and stay within my goal normally, I do it often with Mcdonald's. Unfortunately, BK just did not have the burger I wanted that I had fitted into my calories. In the end, it was not really my fault. However, I will make sure next time I go to have a back up plan. They do go hand in hand, but it really does not matter on MFP, as it is all about calories only. Eating healthy is good for the body, but I struggle eating healthy on 1200 let alone 1615 lol.
  • gabrielleelliott90
    gabrielleelliott90 Posts: 854 Member
    I've decided to overeat by 200 cal possibly 300, and over the next three days I'll just deduct 100 from my calorie amount, eating 1515.
  • logg1e
    logg1e Posts: 1,208 Member
    I think you have to take responsibility for your own actions. Nobody forced you to have a burger. Even if you chose to eat at Burger King, you could have chosen something else.

    I agree with the advice just to take this in your stride. You've learned that what some would consider a normal meal actually uses up loads of your calories. I remember learning the same lesson :)
  • gabrielleelliott90
    gabrielleelliott90 Posts: 854 Member
    logg1e wrote: »
    I think you have to take responsibility for your own actions. Nobody forced you to have a burger. Even if you chose to eat at Burger King, you could have chosen something else.

    I agree with the advice just to take this in your stride. You've learned that what some would consider a normal meal actually uses up loads of your calories. I remember learning the same lesson :)

    Yeah, no one forced me. But at least I still preplanned the day before even if they didn't have the burger. I wasn't going to be an idiot after asking what burgers there were and then say ''Oh sorry, actually I won't have one'' and give off a rude impression. That's not what I'm about. It was a treat and a well deserved one after the huge amount of stress I go through, which a 22 year old should not have to. End of. That's beside the point.
  • logg1e
    logg1e Posts: 1,208 Member
    I don't think it's rude to say, "Thank you, I think I'll skip that today". I'm not familiar with Burger King (don't like their chips!) but I presuming there was a menu that offered a "lighter option" like chicken nuggets or a veggie burger or you could just have eaten chips.

    Also, it's important to stop seeing eating as an emotional crutch. You need to learn to comfort and reward yourself in other ways. Another lesson I have learned as an adult.

    Finally, you have to accept your own choices. Perhaps today was a day you decided, "Eating a burger is more important to me than losing weight"?
  • JLCrunch
    JLCrunch Posts: 46 Member
    My question is why didn't you pre-plan? and then to want to further the damage with chocolates. It sounds like you've derailed. Although I agree with those above, it is just one day out of many, if you continue with the destructive pattern you're setting yourself up for failure.
  • TossaBeanBag
    TossaBeanBag Posts: 458 Member
    Eat the dinner. Then, exercise more. It is much healthier to increase your activity levels than it is to try and starve the fat off.
  • gabrielleelliott90
    gabrielleelliott90 Posts: 854 Member
    logg1e wrote: »
    I don't think it's rude to say, "Thank you, I think I'll skip that today". I'm not familiar with Burger King (don't like their chips!) but I presuming there was a menu that offered a "lighter option" like chicken nuggets or a veggie burger or you could just have eaten chips.

    Also, it's important to stop seeing eating as an emotional crutch. You need to learn to comfort and reward yourself in other ways. Another lesson I have learned as an adult.

    Finally, you have to accept your own choices. Perhaps today was a day you decided, "Eating a burger is more important to me than losing weight"?

    I'm not a comfort eater though. I just wanted to treat myself to it as usually I would have subway (healthy) or bring in my own lunch. I'm still going to lose weight burger or not. I have a plan as stated above.

  • gabrielleelliott90
    gabrielleelliott90 Posts: 854 Member
    edited November 2014
    JLCrunch wrote: »
    My question is why didn't you pre-plan? and then to want to further the damage with chocolates. It sounds like you've derailed. Although I agree with those above, it is just one day out of many, if you continue with the destructive pattern you're setting yourself up for failure.

    Hahahaa! Nope not derailed. Trust me, I've lost 30lb over 2 years, gradually. And I always come back fighting. And I have been known to get back on plan the next day.
  • logg1e
    logg1e Posts: 1,208 Member
    gabrielleelliott90 wrote: »
    I'm not a comfort eater though. I just wanted to treat myself to it as usually I would have subway (healthy) or bring in my own lunch. I'm still going to lose weight burger or not. I have a plan as stated above.

    Goodo :)

    Does that mean that the "HELP HELP HELP" feeling has passed?

  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    gabrielleelliott90 wrote: »
    Kalikel wrote: »
    116 calories - you can have a hot dog and some beans or some fruit and cottage cheese. It's not a ton, but it's something.

    You could also exercise more and pick up some calories.

    Or just suck it up and overeat. It's one day.

    Now you've learned that you can't have fast food and stay in your goal easily, so if you're over today, you learned that lesson. Losing weight and eating healthier are two different things, but the latter will help with the former. We learn as we go. :)

    Well, tbh I can have fast food and stay within my goal normally, I do it often with Mcdonald's. Unfortunately, BK just did not have the burger I wanted that I had fitted into my calories. In the end, it was not really my fault. However, I will make sure next time I go to have a back up plan. They do go hand in hand, but it really does not matter on MFP, as it is all about calories only. Eating healthy is good for the body, but I struggle eating healthy on 1200 let alone 1615 lol.
    I'm not placing blame. It doesn't even matter whose fault it is. The only person who could possibly be affected by your choices is you.

    I'm glad you found a way to work it out for yourself. :)
  • yoovie
    yoovie Posts: 17,121 Member
    go get a quick workout in.
  • BarbieAS
    BarbieAS Posts: 1,414 Member
    Right, so I eat 1615 cal, my tdee.
    For me to gain weight, I have to eat 1700 odd.
    This is not my full TDEE I eat, I believe. I think it's 2000 odd.

    You posted three different estimates of your TDEE, ranging from 1615 to 2000+ (even if you meant BMR/RMR instead of TDEE in the first quote, you still referenced that you'd need to eat 1700 to gain - you gain when you eat more than your TDEE, so that's still very different from the 2000+ you mentioned later). That's a HUGE swing - close to a pound per week's worth of calories. I think it would benefit you immensely to get a better idea of what you're actually burning in a day so that you have a better idea of how exceeding your goal will impact your weight.


  • KylaDenay
    KylaDenay Posts: 1,585 Member
    yoovie wrote: »
    go get a quick workout in.
    Exactly this
  • RavenLibra
    RavenLibra Posts: 1,737 Member
    RELAX... one day.. one meal... won't be the end all... take a longer view of your efforts... so long as you have a net deficit over a 7 day period... YOU should be just fine... PLAN ahead... IF yo know your diet is going to be off... adds ome extra exercise before or after.. or cut back on those calories in advance... THE ONLY rule.. is caloric deficit... stick with it. YOU will be who you choose to be
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