Birthday guilt

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  • jane837
    jane837 Posts: 68 Member
    I agree with the majority of folks here -- don't worry about it, just pick right up where you left off. I have been losing and/or maintaining for almost four years, and every year I have taken my birthday "off" from tracking. It's worked out just fine. :smile:
  • AskTracyAnnK28
    AskTracyAnnK28 Posts: 2,817 Member
    hummingbirdhope wrote: »
    I'm tempted to do a castor oil laxative to clear it all out & the then fast for the day...that's what I've done in the past...

    Laxatives don't work that way. You'll just lose water weight mostly and the minute you rehydrate the scale will be back up.

    I know this from experience.

  • tulips_and_tea
    tulips_and_tea Posts: 5,749 Member
    SonicDeathMonkey80 wrote: »
    BZAH10 wrote: »
    Kruggeri wrote: »
    hummingbirdhope wrote: »
    I'm tempted to do a castor oil laxative to clear it all out & the then fast for the day...that's what I've done in the past...

    That seems like a terrible idea and potentially disordered thinking. You've gotten good advice here. One day eating over maintenance does not need to completely derail your progress. However, thinking that you have to overcompensate for every slip up could indeed completely derail your progress because slip ups are going to happen. Or not even slip ups. It was your birthday. You enjoyed it, right? Now get back on track but you don't need to dramatically change what you were doing up until your birthday. Your body will reset itself on its own.

    It IS a terrible idea and I think this is the 2nd thread by the OP on the same topic; different catagories. I'm not picking on you, OP, but I just had to comment because I've seen some very benign comments get flagged recently, yet one about using laxatives doesn't get flagged??! Doesn't make sense.

    If you didn't flag it, you're part of the problem

    No, I'm not "part of the problem". My point was that too many posts are getting flagged unnecessarily. If I don't agree with a post I just skip over it. To each their own. I don't get all this flagging stuff. Seems so elementary to me.
  • 111YoYo111
    111YoYo111 Posts: 213 Member
    allanakern wrote: »
    my birthday is today and it will be impossible to track since my work got me a cake, and then tomorrow my husbands family is having cake for me... so i'll try to eat everything else healthier and just have a piece :)

    Another Remembrance Day baby! Happy Birthday! I did the same, my staff just gave me my third piece of birthday cake in as many days. I would not dream of not eating it. Off to the gym for me.
  • hummingbirdhope
    hummingbirdhope Posts: 101 Member
    welllllllll update: after having a very low calorie day yesterday i'm down to 106.5 today... hoping i'm back down to 105 by monday
  • Flookbird
    Flookbird Posts: 81 Member
    Don't worry about it. Just don't let it become the start of slipping back into old habits. I put on 5lbs after my birthday - I enjoyed every bit of food and drink that passed my lips! A week later I was only 2lbs up. Now (5 weeks later) I'm 8lbs down! It's annoying because we work so hard to get every single one of those pounds off. But in the grand scheme of things it really doesn't matter as long as you get straight back on track.
  • hummingbirdhope
    hummingbirdhope Posts: 101 Member
    Flookbird wrote: »
    Don't worry about it. Just don't let it become the start of slipping back into old habits. I put on 5lbs after my birthday - I enjoyed every bit of food and drink that passed my lips! A week later I was only 2lbs up. Now (5 weeks later) I'm 8lbs down! It's annoying because we work so hard to get every single one of those pounds off. But in the grand scheme of things it really doesn't matter as long as you get straight back on track.

    It just seems like it takes so long to get the weight back off!
  • rererangi03
    rererangi03 Posts: 27 Member
    i had a farewell ate a gazillion then some was really good 4 days to follow and i lost 4.5kg dont give up just because you slipped up - expect you will sometimes -and do what ever it takes to get back on the wagon
  • Train4Foodz
    Train4Foodz Posts: 4,298 Member
    stuffinmuffin wrote: »
    Don't worry about it. I don't count calories on my birthday or Christmas day - it's the law!

    ^^ This ^^

    The sun really does rise the next day.. :)
  • pikselinka
    pikselinka Posts: 154 Member
    edited November 2014
    Don't sweat every few days I eat anything beyond 4k+ calories and don't gain anything, I wouldn't worry for one day if I were you, don't sweat, just get back on track, that's all.

    EDIT: spelling
  • michellemybelll
    michellemybelll Posts: 2,228 Member
    i don't know about birthday guilt, but birthday sex is pretty awesome :smiley:
  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,590 Member
    who the hell flagged me for spam because I mentioned the brand name I use? Pick any damn brand you like, ffs. I don't work for them.
  • cliffodom1
    cliffodom1 Posts: 57 Member
    I'm back to my old adage about pounds. Look at your goal and try to see how this makes a difference. Unless you are a wrestler your weight is probably not your goal but a means to reach your goal which I will bet is to look a certain way or reduce cholesterol or some other health metric. Did that weekend make you get closer or further way from that goal? If not just carry on.
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