Calm me down

you didn't lose an expected 0.002lb of fat from that splurge, you better do an extra hour of cardio today.

Also, if you have problems with scale flucations use trendweight.com to visualize the data differently. (if you don't have a Wifi scale, link trendweight to fitbit, and MFP to fitbit and you can enter your weight on MFP and it'll show up in trendweight) Many people freak out over the scale increasing while the overall trend is downward and the higher reading is still under the trend. Being able to visualize it really helps.

this post made me chuckle. I mean this is a nice way - chill out. LOL.

8 calories and some red print is nothing, wait until you have your first stall or weight gain that's when the fun really starts.

You need to have a good sense of humor and some thick skin to succeed at this

It helps me to look at long term patterns. I always get a little bummed when my period hits because it can take me 2 weeks some months to get back to losing again. I don't gain usually, but it just sits there, mocking me
Looking at my average over the last 13 weeks though, even with monthly hiccups like that, I average 1.907lbs lost a week. It definitely helps me take a step back from obsessing.

Geez, my weight bounces around all over the place! I also eat over my goal quite frequently (I take a weekly view of intake). You need to get a grip or this will get out of control. You didn't gain a real 1lb, it's just one of those fluctutations, could even be down to the salt in the pizza.

Honestly, this is more than just irrational.

glitzy196 wrote: »

I don't have a weird relationship with food, o have a weird relationship with myself. Like i expect better blah blah blah. Does that make sense? Im one of those if i say im going yo do it, i am..and i feel like i failed myself.

Yes, it makes sense. You have a perfectionist "all or nothing" mindset which is a great predictor that your weight loss efforts will ultimately fail (it is a mindset shared by many dieters.)

You need to address it - perfect is the enemy of good.

Be consistent, be patient, look to the long term. You will smash it.

Now calm the hell down!

um, take a poo and weigh again?

glitzy196 wrote: »

ndj1979 wrote: »

glitzy196 wrote: »

I don't have a weird relationship with food, o have a weird relationship with myself. Like i expect better blah blah blah. Does that make sense? Im one of those if i say im going yo do it, i am..and i feel like i failed myself.

It was also the first time i ate dinner before i logged it. My husband made dinner, and had thrown all the trash away..so he dug it out.

ummm, what did he dig out of the trash?

Yea, I am thinking you need to seek out some professional help ..

or, this is not a serious thread….

The packaging. Lol nothing exciting. We made homeade pizza. And im not like seriously upset. I just kept telling myself 8 calories..no big deal. And for me so far my weight seems to go down an oz or 2 every day. I rarely go up. So to have it happen on the one day i went over pissed me off

Salt = weight gain.

ndj1979 wrote: »

glitzy196 wrote: »

ndj1979 wrote: »

glitzy196 wrote: »

I don't have a weird relationship with food, o have a weird relationship with myself. Like i expect better blah blah blah. Does that make sense? Im one of those if i say im going yo do it, i am..and i feel like i failed myself.

It was also the first time i ate dinner before i logged it. My husband made dinner, and had thrown all the trash away..so he dug it out.

ummm, what did he dig out of the trash?

Yea, I am thinking you need to seek out some professional help ..

or, this is not a serious thread….

The packaging. Lol nothing exciting. We made homeade pizza. And im not like seriously upset. I just kept telling myself 8 calories..no big deal. And for me so far my weight seems to go down an oz or 2 every day. I rarely go up. So to have it happen on the one day i went over pissed me off

so you dug the packaging out of the trash to check the calorie count…?????

There is nothing wrong with pulling the packaging out of the trash to check the nutritional information. I do it if I failed to log the item beforehand and matching the right database entry is messy (many DB items are incorrect and by a lot).

I hate the red too! In the past I lied to keep it green. Now if I go over a little, I usually do not have to go back very many days before it averages out to green. Yesterday I was in the red by -294 but the day before I was in the green by +415, two days before in the green +286, and three days before that in red again by - 590, four days before green +82, five days before green +35, six days before green +12, and seven days before +386=a seven day total of green +344. The week before that all days were in the green. I lost weight. When I see red, I look at a slightly bigger picture and soon I am in the green again, Whew, no need for me to freak or give up or be anything but encouraged. Make sure you don't get so focused on the trees that you don't see the forest.
Edited because of poor math.

I went over by about 1,000 calories yesterday. I had as many calories at dinner as I would normally have in an entire day. I did not, however, go over my goal by **7,000** calories (the rule of thumb number of excess calories needed to gain two pounds).

So when the scale showed a two pound increase this morning over last night, I said, "Huh. I had a lot of food yesterday, a lot of grains (which I don't normally eat), a glass of wine with dinner, a lot of sodium (fettucine carbonara, and I could taste the salt in the bacon), and not much water, plus I took my (diuretic) medication two hours later than typical." *Plus* the caveat with weighing every day - even if you are consistent about weighing at the same time every day, in the same state of dress - is that your body weight fluctuates.

So today I will drink a lot of water, and eat a lot of protein, and limit my grains and know I should limit my fat.

Actions have consequences, but correlation is not causation and going over the goal by 8 calories is not the trigger for the weight gain.