Easy to give up after a bad day or two

vicky_rigg_milner
vicky_rigg_milner Posts: 7
edited November 12 in Motivation and Support
does anyone feel super depressed if they have a bad day or two and find themselves thinking oh sod it I've already don't the damage I may as well scrap this day/week. I could really use some advice as to how people avoid this or make sure they bounce back and get back on track!

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  • snowflake954
    snowflake954 Posts: 8,399 Member
    I just don't ever let myself do this^^^^^^^^^^^. You bounce back, and try, try again---that is success. B)
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,326 Member
    I used to be SO bad at that, but then someone said to me "If you were driving from LA to Vegas in a sweet convertible and you got a flat, would you slash the other 3 tires and walk back to LA?" HELL NO! You'd chuck on the spare and keep on going! Why would you give up and make worse something that is so easily fixed?

    Now I have a day or two where I go right off track, but I get right back on it because I didn't gain it all in a couple days, I haven't lost what I've lost in a couple days, and so throwing it away because of those days is completely illogical!
  • vicky_rigg_milner
    vicky_rigg_milner Posts: 7
    I just struggle to re-motivate if I don't keep moving in the right direction, if I have a gain it is such disappointment. Of course I know that it's just a little set back but the temptation to think screw it is a real mental battle
  • Mistapholeezkat
    Mistapholeezkat Posts: 80 Member
    I totally over ate yesterday, yes I am totally mad at myself. However, I am going to have a good rest of the week or die trying. A couple of months ago some of my co-workers wanted to trim down. It just so happens that it was right before the holidays. They decided to scrap the diet and wait until after the holidays. I watched what I ate and didn't put on any extra pounds over the holidays. I didn't lose any either. That being said, the gals that ditched the diet put weight on....like 10 plus pounds. I would rather work to lose only 10 lbs than throw my diet away and now have 20 to lose. It would take me a long time and a lot more work if I just ate my holidays away. So working to lose 1 bad day of calories is a heck of a lot easier than a month of utter disregard.
  • runJIBrun
    runJIBrun Posts: 18 Member
    ive found that logging EVERYTHING every day helps- when you get to that point where it tells you in 5 weeks youll be 10 pounds heavier? you don't fall off the wagon...you run back to it!
  • mfp2014mfp
    mfp2014mfp Posts: 689 Member
    No, it's just another excuse not to do the right thing. Using 1 or 2 days to sabotage a whole week. Negative emotions are part of life, don't let a small disapointment be yet another excuse not to be responsible for your actions....
    Or do and stay as you are, your actions, your choice, your outcomes.
  • enterdanger
    enterdanger Posts: 2,447 Member
    No. For me, the negative self talk leads to failure. I just keep reminding myself that it took me 7 years to gain the 70lbs I put on, and its not going anywhere over night. I lost 40lbs in the last 11 months and occasionally I have a week where I eat at maintenance.

    Let's face it, 11 months is a long time to eat at a deficit and no one is perfect. It would be an unrealistic expectation to think you can always have perfect, under your goal, days for the rest of your life.
  • JSurita2
    JSurita2 Posts: 1,304 Member
    These are great responses!
  • w0den
    w0den Posts: 84
    I load myself down with guilt whenever I slip up :) I have to get myself back on track quickly or it'll all be downhill
  • cheshirecatastrophe
    cheshirecatastrophe Posts: 1,395 Member
    I've struggled with eating issues and especially compulsive exercise in the past, so the "bad days" now are actually really important to me. They remind me that I wake up the next morning or sit down to the next meal and--what's this? You mean my life isn't over? I didn't automatically gain 20 pounds because my total on MFP was red and negative one day? ZOUNDS!

    And I remind myself that the life I want is a life where I can do things like eat cake for breakfast all week after my birthday and have diary entries like "Franzia, one box" and go on vacations where counting calories is impossible. Every "bad day" I have is more practice for the days I will choose to go over, and every next meal or next day is practice for why I will get to have those special days.
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