Ate 3200 cals in Sunday oh MY!

Surprisingly, I did not. When I'm in maintenance I usually eat light during the week so I can eat at least 2500 on Saturday. If I got up to 3200 it wouldn't be that hard to fix up.

Actually for me it's been like the past week or more. I was under 3 days, but over on 4. It's been bad enough that the math equals a 0.3 lb gain. I blame my hormones and stress. However, I am pre-logging the up coming days and hoping that I will have the will power not to deviate from it. I'm going to try and eat at a slight deficit up until Sunday. Sunday I'm going to Six Flags with my husband for the day and I want to have plenty of available calories so that I at least maintain for the week (it will be even better if I end the week with enough of a deficit to cancel out this week).

Oooh did I ever. I was at a destination wedding. Between the alcohol, the food and then the food I ate when I was hungover... I think I was about 600 calories over maintenance for two days. I logged it as best I could.

I'm back on the horse though. I've back to my standard gym scheduled, stacks of water etc. My appetite is all whacked out and my stomach is still upset. I'm actually not hungry but I'm eating. I also put on 2lbs of water weight. *sigh* I'm upping my fibre, eating my usual foods etc. It'll come off again.

I didn't even track this weekend, it was a fun weekend and I am back on track today. It will all be fine.

I had a 3500cal day late last week. It happens. My body demanded more food and I obliged. If you know that you have a good hold on your hunger signals, it's just business as usual...

When I was losing and had a tremendous drive and dedication for the first 6 or so months during which NOTHING could take me of course, I read posts like these and thought "pfft, they are weak, suck it up, stay the course"

But, I'm so glad I read these posts because now I know that going over your budget will happen, just a matter of time. Coping with going over budget on your own not necessarily easy and could easily push someone over the "*kitten* it!, I'm done" line and cause to fall off the wagon, as they say. Posts like these provide so much motivation and encouragement - it will happen, be ready, own it, log it, life goes on.

MFP app has a great weekly report of the last 7 days under Nutrition->Calories which shows "Net Average" - an average daily calories for the last 7 days and unless you binged for the entire last 7 days, that number is not affected much by one day of overeating. I use this report to "calm me down" and just a few days of small deficit or extra cardio workout gets it back into the range.

I wish I finally determine what causes me to be ravenous sometimes so I can plan accordingly. I think it might be my extra cardio from the past 2-5 days.

That's why I keep a deficit. Usually 400, often 200, but either way that's the way I make up for the days when I eat too much (which happens every week, frankly).

MasterVal wrote: »

When I was losing and had a tremendous drive and dedication for the first 6 or so months during which NOTHING could take me of course, I read posts like these and thought "pfft, they are weak, suck it up, stay the course"

But, I'm so glad I read these posts because now I know that going over your budget will happen, just a matter of time. Coping with going over budget on your own not necessarily easy and could easily push someone over the "*kitten* it!, I'm done" line and cause to fall off the wagon, as they say. Posts like these provide so much motivation and encouragement - it will happen, be ready, own it, log it, life goes on.

MFP app has a great weekly report of the last 7 days under Nutrition->Calories which shows "Net Average" - an average daily calories for the last 7 days and unless you binged for the entire last 7 days, that number is not affected much by one day of overeating. I use this report to "calm me down" and just a few days of small deficit or extra cardio workout gets it back into the range.

I wish I finally determine what causes me to be ravenous sometimes so I can plan accordingly. I think it might be my extra cardio from the past 2-5 days.

Yeah 100% this. I was so good the first 9 months, then I started having some 3000+ days. Still lost 80 pounds, still been maintaining the loss for a year. The difference is that I'm a woman so the last part of your post is easily explained LOL.

Francl27 wrote: »

That's why I keep a deficit. Usually 400, often 200, but either way that's the way I make up for the days when I eat too much (which happens every week, frankly).

MasterVal wrote: »

When I was losing and had a tremendous drive and dedication for the first 6 or so months during which NOTHING could take me of course, I read posts like these and thought "pfft, they are weak, suck it up, stay the course"

But, I'm so glad I read these posts because now I know that going over your budget will happen, just a matter of time. Coping with going over budget on your own not necessarily easy and could easily push someone over the "*kitten* it!, I'm done" line and cause to fall off the wagon, as they say. Posts like these provide so much motivation and encouragement - it will happen, be ready, own it, log it, life goes on.

MFP app has a great weekly report of the last 7 days under Nutrition->Calories which shows "Net Average" - an average daily calories for the last 7 days and unless you binged for the entire last 7 days, that number is not affected much by one day of overeating. I use this report to "calm me down" and just a few days of small deficit or extra cardio workout gets it back into the range.

I wish I finally determine what causes me to be ravenous sometimes so I can plan accordingly. I think it might be my extra cardio from the past 2-5 days.

Yeah 100% this. I was so good the first 9 months, then I started having some 3000+ days. Still lost 80 pounds, still been maintaining the loss for a year. The difference is that I'm a woman so the last part of your post is easily explained LOL.

Agree with this also. I wish I could get myself back to being so dedicated and "on" all the time. It was a lot easier for me then. I think the excitement of seeing the scale move every week made it easier

sometimes I have an extra hungry day. Happens. Log and move on.