Can two days of overeating ruin all my efforts

cookieinbk82
cookieinbk82 Posts: 320 Member
edited November 16 in Health and Weight Loss
I have been eating really clean and working out daily. However, yesterday was my friends birthday and today was another friends birthday. I overate at both their parties. Should I be worried?

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  • NobodyPutsAmyInTheCorner
    NobodyPutsAmyInTheCorner Posts: 1,018 Member
    Log it, accept it, move on.

    You still have to live your life. :)
  • Lasmartchika
    Lasmartchika Posts: 3,440 Member
    Of course not!!

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  • juxtapose1
    juxtapose1 Posts: 6 Member
    Tomorrow is another day :) it takes time and we all have days like that. I have two little kids, eating healthy and only healthy is hard - I'm soooo tired! Today sucked for me, but I will drink lots of water and tomorrow will be better. We have to remind ourselves of that!
  • bulk_n_cut
    bulk_n_cut Posts: 389 Member
    even if you do worry, what will that do lol? it wont undo anything. just keep eating clean and workin out daily as you have
  • ncboiler89
    ncboiler89 Posts: 2,408 Member
    cookieinbk82 wrote: »
    I have been eating really clean and working out daily. However, yesterday was my friends birthday and today was another friends birthday. I overate at both their parties. Should I be worried?

    You can do some simple math to see how much it set you back - if at all. It may not be as much as you think.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    really? two days...in the grand scheme of your life, you think two days is going to make you or break you?

  • Lasmartchika
    Lasmartchika Posts: 3,440 Member
    Wait... you didn't even go over your daily calories... why would you worry? I thought you had overeaten in the sense of going over your daily calories. Dear, you'll definitely be fine.

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  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,292 Member
    You don't have a ticker and you don't discuss your goals, current weight, height, age. BUT, you diary for the past 5 days or so clearly shows under-eating, mostly due to low eat back of exercise calories.

    So to your question about over-indulging and not being more than 300-500 calories BELOW your goal.

    NO: it cannot ruin all your efforts. You didn't even hit maintenance calories!

    YES: you may or may not see some water weight if you were to weigh yourself tomorrow.
    (solution? spend three days on your normal routine before weighing yourself; or use apps such as weightographer or trendweight to look at trends as opposed to daily values).

    As to the question you didn't ask: are you losing weight as fast or faster than 1% of your body weight per week?
  • AzWifenMom
    AzWifenMom Posts: 26 Member
    Indulging for a couple of days may make us feel like a bloated toad for two more days, but it doesn't derail and destory all the effort we have done for weeks and months. It will be ok.
  • lesliereloaded
    lesliereloaded Posts: 29 Member
    I ate over ate for four days this week :(
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  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
    edited April 2015
    cookieinbk82 wrote: »
    I have been eating really clean and working out daily. However, yesterday was my friends birthday and today was another friends birthday. I overate at both their parties. Should I be worried?

    It's a weekend. Log it and have a great rest of the week!

    By the way, eating "clean" and working out has nothing to do with weight loss. :)
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    Don't worry. Did you wipe out your deficit? Possibly. With what I ate last Saturday it may have put me over maintenance for the whole week. But, it was delicious. And I'm young and have worked hard and in the grand scheme of things it's not going to matter if it took me until May, June, July or September to get to 130 lbs.
  • Carol_
    Carol_ Posts: 469 Member
    There will be many days that aren't perfect. Just keep moving forward. :)
  • 999tigger
    999tigger Posts: 5,235 Member
    err do the math how many multiples of 3500 calories did you exceed by?
    If those are your logged calories then you did well to log and it says you didnt exceed your calorie allowance, even taking into account mfp calories, then it will make little difference, just may have slowed your weightloss for those 2 days. You log/ track your food and thereby the diary gives you information to confirm where you are in terms of calories.
  • jalarson23
    jalarson23 Posts: 62 Member
    I do this every now and then and still typically come out under for the week. I guess it works out because I eat fewer calories overall. I imagine it would be the same for you depending on how far over you went. I doubt you went that far over though.
  • atypicalsmith
    atypicalsmith Posts: 2,742 Member
    cookieinbk82 wrote: »
    I have been eating really clean and working out daily. However, yesterday was my friends birthday and today was another friends birthday. I overate at both their parties. Should I be worried?

    Why is your calorie goal so high? You don't need to answer that; because even so, you haven't exceeded it. So you haven't overeaten at all according to that goal. Don't understand your post at all.
  • donjtomasco
    donjtomasco Posts: 790 Member
    Hit n run....
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