Binge help!!!
rlprice1231
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So I have been eating healthy and treating myself sometimes for about 3 months but on Friday I went to a Halloween party and from then until today I have been eating junk food nonstop, going way over my calorie limit for each day, and I have gained 5 lbs. I'm really upset with myself and I feel like I've just ruined my whole weight loss because I this. I don't know what to do!
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You know exactly what to do. You're just not doing it, right?
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I don't think you can gain 5 pounds of fat in two days. It's probably fluid retention. This won't ruin all your hard work if you get right back on your program.0
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SergeantSausage wrote: »You know exactly what to do. You're just not doing it, right?
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Saddle up and move forward.0 -
Exercise or go for a walk and get back on track.0
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To gain five pounds of fat, you would have had to eat 17,500 calories OVER your maintenance. It's likely water retention. Log what you ate and move on. You're human so don't let a few days derail you from all the work you've put in over the last few months.0
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One weekend of binging does not a weight loss plan derail. Look at your diary for the rest of the week. Notice the days you didn't go over? Or came in quite a bit under? Weight loss is not made or broken by the days, it's won and lost on the battlefield of MONTHS. You will recover from this. And you almost certainly didn't gain five pounds of body fat in one weekend, it's water. Probably the immensely high sodium in candy and other treats did it to you. Just take a deep breath, acknowledge what's happened, and do better today. Then do better tomorrow.0
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+1. Dust yourself off and get back on your horse0
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Thank you everyone for your advice! I'll try and get back on track !
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We had a pizza party at work on Friday then we worked late and they brought in dinner too. I was ready to create a meal called "z pizza party & more-blew it" for 5000 calories. I didn't want to miss a day logging. Silly MFP said this meal already exists, lmao. Of course it recognized "z pizza" so I entered what I actually ate and and at the end of the day I was only about 250 calories over my goal. I had skipped breakfast knowing I would need the calories for lunch which started early at 11:30am. Count this as a "cheat weekend" and start eating healthy at your next meal. Drink lots of water. I can almost guarantee this won't be your only set back in a life time of living healthy. Most of us have done it. That's why we have short term and long term goals. You did the right thing by reaching out for words of encouragement and support.0
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I actually don't recommend any fasting or very difficult measures to 'make up' for it. That can turn dysfunctional, so it's probably safer to just move on. Clean slate. Just keep on doing what you've been doing for 3 months, and you already know the drill there 0
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So you had a weekend blowout. It happens. Start over with your extra five pounds. Start losing again.
But let go of the guilt and shame over this setback. It's unproductive and cannot help in any way.
Get back to work. Don't waste time and energy on regret and all that jazz.0 -
I have really bad issues with binging (as you can tell by my username) and my advice is just start over, and move on. Don't eat barely anything the next few days to make up for it (been there done that) it doesn't work cause you just can't take it anymore and get majorly hungry and the binge starts all over again. I'm trying to build a healthy relationship with food and to do that you need to get out of that cycle of things. Don't beat yourself up over it 0
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Log it, own it and stop it.0
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You didn't gain 5 pounds, as it's most likely water retention. Log it and move on.0
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what ever you do DON'T beat yourself up- you are human- just try again and KEEP going!!!!0
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SergeantSausage wrote: »You know exactly what to do. You're just not doing it, right?
This.
I went to a Halloween party too. I ate around 1200 calories *OVER* my maintenance. The next day? Back in action. My goal is way too important to let continued junk-food eating win.. I enjoyed my halloween but it is absolutely not necessary to keep overloading my body. I 'cut back' slightly the following day to balance things out but my advice to you from now onwards would be - get strong!0 -
Forget about what you ate over the weekend, it is done and there is nothing you can do to change it, except learn from it. Today is a new day start it the right way and make sure you don't fall of the wagon again this weekend, we all have done it at some time or another. Just keep moving forward and you will be just fine.0
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Log it and move on.0
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My Halloween weekend this year just so happened to also be my best friend's wedding. ...quite a lot of red wine was drunk by yours truly, not to mention the three course meal and countless entrées. And if I'm honest, I regret nothing. It was wonderful and memorable and delicious. What can you do but wipe the slate clean on Monday morning and start afresh? Good for you OP, you're taking the first step by acknowledging your actions. Log it and carry on.0
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This might be redundant but I am going to post it anyway. I think if you call any day a cheat day it might trigger your brain that you are doing something wrong. I don't think of cheat days anymore. There may be days when I want to eat something that is not healthy or I may eat too much, but I just make sure I enjoy it and then I go back to my regularly scheduled program.0
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I agree. There is no way you have 'really' gained 5 pounds. Sit down, wipe the slate clean & start over. 3 days is so tiny in the scheme of things. Just let it go & start over. NOWlthames0810 wrote: »I don't think you can gain 5 pounds of fat in two days. It's probably fluid retention. This won't ruin all your hard work if you get right back on your program.
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Nothing you can do about the past, so stop worrying about it. Tomorrow you will start all over with a bunch of calories and you know how to use them!0
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Read up on all-or-nothing thinking, common with yo-yo dieters. You are neither a "saint" when you manage to stick to the diet, nor an utter "failure" for having a couple bad days. It was two days out of your life. You are the same person you were before the blowout, and this "failure" does not define you.
That's why you can safely dust yourself off and start fresh. What you have done is delayed your weight loss plan by a couple days. That's it. Easily recoverable.0 -
Log it, own it and stop it.
Harsh reality. Im in the same place as you right now. Actually Saturday was great, went on a hike, enjoyed great food under my cal goals, then I wanted a rest on Sunday, just eat what I wanted and track it. I ate pancakes, but pancakes turned into a dinner of just mac and cheese (a lot of it), then I let it carry over into the next day where I sat at home eating just about everything, had DQ for lunch, pizza for dinner.
I could have let it continue. I usually do. Two weeks ago I did. But today, I chose to end it. I wasnt much hungry for breakfast today (guts still recovering) but I ate a filling lunch (when I was hungry) and I have planned a well rounded dinner of foods I enjoy. I spent 3 whole days feeling sick two weeks ago, I had just eaten myself sick and my body was soooo upset. I just cant do that to myself over and over anymore. You really make it as simple as: move forward.0 -
clgaram720 wrote: »One weekend of binging does not a weight loss plan derail. Look at your diary for the rest of the week. Notice the days you didn't go over? Or came in quite a bit under? Weight loss is not made or broken by the days, it's won and lost on the battlefield of MONTHS. You will recover from this. And you almost certainly didn't gain five pounds of body fat in one weekend, it's water. Probably the immensely high sodium in candy and other treats did it to yoTu. Just take a deep breath, acknowledge what's happened, and do better today. Then do better tomorrow.
This. The bolded part. So beautiful. So true... It should be a meme!0 -
rlprice1231 wrote: »So I have been eating healthy and treating myself sometimes for about 3 months but on Friday I went to a Halloween party and from then until today I have been eating junk food nonstop, going way over my calorie limit for each day, and I have gained 5 lbs. I'm really upset with myself and I feel like I've just ruined my whole weight loss because I this. I don't know what to do!
No one perfect and you're not perfect. What will help you is that you cheated, ok you did. Time to move on and start again. A weigh loss is a journey and a process. I always make mistakes but I learn from it. I think your problem is your limited yourself for so long that once you have it you don't want it gone. Have a cheat day once a week or every two weeks.
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pennystaplessnyder wrote: »clgaram720 wrote: »One weekend of binging does not a weight loss plan derail. Look at your diary for the rest of the week. Notice the days you didn't go over? Or came in quite a bit under? Weight loss is not made or broken by the days, it's won and lost on the battlefield of MONTHS. You will recover from this. And you almost certainly didn't gain five pounds of body fat in one weekend, it's water. Probably the immensely high sodium in candy and other treats did it to yoTu. Just take a deep breath, acknowledge what's happened, and do better today. Then do better tomorrow.
This. The bolded part. So beautiful. So true... It should be a meme!
Aaaaaaand now I know what my new profile pic will be, I'm on it! Heads off to meme generator.....0 -
pennystaplessnyder wrote: »clgaram720 wrote: »One weekend of binging does not a weight loss plan derail. Look at your diary for the rest of the week. Notice the days you didn't go over? Or came in quite a bit under? Weight loss is not made or broken by the days, it's won and lost on the battlefield of MONTHS. You will recover from this. And you almost certainly didn't gain five pounds of body fat in one weekend, it's water. Probably the immensely high sodium in candy and other treats did it to yoTu. Just take a deep breath, acknowledge what's happened, and do better today. Then do better tomorrow.
This. The bolded part. So beautiful. So true... It should be a meme!
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