How to bounce back from two weeks of bad eating and no exercise?

Francine_rivas
Francine_rivas Posts: 77 Member
edited November 20 in Food and Nutrition
I was doing so good and then I plummeted. I binged the past couple of days. I need to bounce back but I feel so blah helpppp

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  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    You just get back to it. There's no miracle solution. Just stick to a reasonable deficit, one that is sustainable and won't make you want to give up, so it doesn't happen again.
  • felblossom
    felblossom Posts: 132 Member
    Only you can get back up on that horse! What's in the past is in the past, just make healthy choices - one at a time. You might make mistake, the secret is to not let it stop you from making the next healthy choice. You just keep looking forward, and MOVING forward. You can do it!!
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    The thing is, most of us will slip up. I know I do... That's why I log everything, even the ugly, and just do the math. Like, for example, yesterday I ate 1200 calories over my maintenance calories... but I had a 1000 deficit already this week, so in the end, it's only 200 extra calories for 5 days (and I'll try to keep a small deficit this week end to make up for the last 200). I'm maintaining now though, but even for people who typically keep a 500 calorie deficit, even 1000 extra calories is just undoing two days work... which isn't the end of the world.
  • Rhiannonpwj
    Rhiannonpwj Posts: 17 Member
    It seems like you've already done the hard bit which is getting the motivation to get yourself back up. Find/make a diet and exercise plan, stick to it, and you'll be absolutely fine.
  • triciab79
    triciab79 Posts: 1,713 Member
    I have been semi bad all weekend. Tomorrow I will get up and hit the gym and maybe up my pace a bit or lift a heavier weight. I think everyone is a bit different. When I misbehave I feel the need to give myself a little physical punishment so that I can stop giving myself emotional punishment. I don't mean hurting myself, just pushing a bit harder for a few days so that I can feel like I made up for it. Its like penance but instead of Hail Mary its sweat currency.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    Francine_rivas wrote: »
    I was doing so good and then I plummeted. I binged the past couple of days. I need to bounce back but I feel so blah helpppp

    your past does not your future make.

    or...

    tomorrow is a new day.

    weigh your food, count your calories, log your food and exercise and move on.

    i ate at maintenance all weekend (and loved every minute) but back to the ho hum i must go LOL
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  • BJG7_UK
    BJG7_UK Posts: 61 Member
    Forget about it, tomorrow is a new day!! You can get back on it easy
  • Spice1973
    Spice1973 Posts: 83 Member
    I plan on plummeting in a few days. Going to Lake Powell for our annual family vacation for two weeks and I am going to enjoy every second of it and not worry about anything. If I gain 5lbs oh well. I will hit it hard again once I get back. Two weeks is nothing compared to the rest of your life. Your still better off than when you started. Just pick yourself up and move on.
  • mabug01
    mabug01 Posts: 1,273 Member
    Revisit your goals; try to remember why you are doing this; why you started; why you want to get healthy. Throw away the rearview mirror, stay positive and believe in yourself.
  • socioseguro
    socioseguro Posts: 1,679 Member
    Think about it as a flat tire. You do not slash your other 3 tires. You fix the flat and move on.
    Good luck in your healthy journey
  • zdyb23456
    zdyb23456 Posts: 1,706 Member
    I didn't do so well this week either - the in-laws visted. We went out for Mexican the first night, I cooked the next three nights for them, which meant I couldn't properly weight out my portions - I had to eyeball and guesstimate what I ate. I got Subway for lunch at work, then went out to lunch with a friend to a Chinese restaurant, the movies with my daughter (popcorn), then awful greasy Chinese takeaway from the food court... sigh.

    There's nothing to do, but move on. I logged all of it and guesstimated high. I'm sure the scale is going to read high this week, but I'm going to get back to doing what I know works!
  • Karenka2012
    Karenka2012 Posts: 19 Member
    socioseguro wrote: »
    Think about it as a flat tire. You do not slash your other 3 tires. You fix the flat and move on.
    Good luck in your healthy journey

    What a great thought to keep going!
  • Karenka2012
    Karenka2012 Posts: 19 Member
    Francl27 wrote: »
    The thing is, most of us will slip up. I know I do... That's why I log everything, even the ugly, and just do the math. Like, for example, yesterday I ate 1200 calories over my maintenance calories... but I had a 1000 deficit already this week, so in the end, it's only 200 extra calories for 5 days (and I'll try to keep a small deficit this week end to make up for the last 200). I'm maintaining now though, but even for people who typically keep a 500 calorie deficit, even 1000 extra calories is just undoing two days work... which isn't the end of the world.

    I am new to MFP. How do I see what my weekly deficit of calories are? Exercise is pretty easy. It shows whether I am meeting weekly goals.
  • PrizePopple
    PrizePopple Posts: 3,133 Member
    I ate like 3,500 calories yesterday. Today I'm back at logging under my goal because I honestly felt like pure crap after stuffing myself.
  • ElviraMarieCerri
    ElviraMarieCerri Posts: 31 Member
    In the words of a bad old Italian movie, whose hero kept ripping off the rear view mirrors of the cars he was stealing as he raced away from cops or the bad guys, "What is behind does not mat-ter!" (spoken in an Italian accent).
    I adopted that as my motto and have lived by it ever since. All that matters is from now on. The binge has been digested. The day of the exercise has passed. What is behind does not matter. What are you eating today?
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