Fail Week. Share your shame?

This has been a good week, but I did eat an entire large Domino's pizza about two weeks ago. I managed to "absorb the damage" though, and go away with it

Love this thread...particularly because the last few weeks have been like this for me and I could really do with a kick up the bum right now. I had sticky toffee pudding for dessert yesterday, apple crumble on Saturday and Jam Rolly Polly on Friday and generally ditched counting the cals.

My excuse? Work has been awful and I feel really down. I usually bring my own lunch in (or if not, I have salad or sushi) but last week, I couldn't be bothered with the lunch I'd brought in and went out for a salt and fat-laden Pret sandwich instead nearly every day. I have to separate feeling down and eating. I know in the long-term its not going to make me happier (it'll do the opposite) but when I'm in the misery, woe is me zone, it's all about instant gratification. I'm starting to bore myself now with it. Time to buck up.

Last week I was all over the place with my calorie goal, but ended up doing okay and lost a half pound. Then came Sunday and all hell broke loose. A day of eating out of boredom, and had a weak moment buying a treat at the grocery store without looking at the calories first. I really wanted some chocolate milk and cake. I put the chocolate milk in the cart, looked at the piece of cake and saw 510 calories, so I put that back. I drank the chocolate milk and when I looked at calories, it's 440 for one small measly bottle!!! I shoulda had the cake (or really, none!)
From that point I was like, "whatever" and ate what I wanted the rest of the day - going over my calorie goal by at least 800 calories.

I haven't exercised in a month, last night was the first night in 3 weeks I didn't have at least 2 glasses of wine, I had takeaway multiple times on the weekend, I'm bloated, greasy, salt-ridden and yuck. I've been using a hectic work schedule as an excuse, but really I've just been letting stress get the better of me and letting myself go hogwild. I need a slappin'

Last week I was 300-600 calories over my goal the first 3 days because candy and cupcake and cookies (but somehow still managed to keep a small deficit for the week).

Then on Monday I had an early dinner because my daughter had a girl scout meeting and I was hungry, and I was at my goal. All good... but while we were gone, my husband ordered pizza for dinner (instead of eating leftovers, some of which I had made especially because he had requested them, which I ended up throwing away yesterday because they had just been sitting in the fridge for almost a week). By 7.30pm I was getting a bit hungry again, and couldn't resist and had two pieces of pizza when I got home. Learned later that they were actually extra cheese pizza too (argh), and my husband complained yesterday that I had thrown the leftovers away.

Just another week at my house I guess.

Still exercising though!

I've taken to binge eating at dinner about 4 out of 7 nights a week and have been doing this for about a month then over compensating on other days. I'm in a nasty cycle of bad behaviour and punishment. Not healthy I know but really stuck in a rut. I need to find a way out of this current cycle and connecting through community has helped before and I thought I'd start here. Confession is good for the soul or so they say. So now forward momentum please!!

Not really ashamed but last week I had take away nearly every day and had two large pizza hut pizzas across a day and a half, plus garlic bread and cheese triangles washed down with lots of booze. I'm shocked how I don't feel that bad about it , I just needed to get it out the system >_< Last week I was pretty much thousands over my goals. Havent been to the gym for a fortnight either but tomorrow I go back.

I bought ALL THE CHOCOLATE AND ATE IT

I have had a rough week at work and turned to food at night. I am so dissapoint ed in myself. Starting fresh today. I have my stuff to go to the gym tonight and have my food plan for the day. To ight I will not eat in the kitchen with the tv..that is my danger. I also have my journal with me. The nights I did not journal I overate..taking just today and not focusing on the 40 pounds I need to lose..rather my food, exercise and gratitude for today. The weight will come off if I take it one day at a time !

Haha. Totally been there. This past 6 days I started eating carbs, and it made my appetite through the roof! It seriously made me so unnecessarily hungry and I ate everything in sight for 4 days. My husband was shocked, ahha.

It just goes to show that when you spike your insulin levels like that you don't actually stay full. Veggies are the way to go. Trying to get back on track now...

I just ate birthday cake for breakfast.. . .and we are having pizza for lunch. . . dinner might have to be soup.
I don't really call this a fail, but I don't want to make a habit of days like this

I did have a house guest last week, and we did some eating out, but I managed to stay within goal for 4 out of the 5 days.

Its nice to hear I am not the only one struggling with a streak of too much food and not enough exercise. My "bad " days started around Halloween and have lasted through my Aunt's funeral on the 7th when I did'nt log anything for four days straight. Now I am back to logging but can't seem to get motivated to exercise as a result I have had a calorie goal of 1700 for the day and have been eating about 700 calories above that enough of a calorie surplus to make the scale go up instead of down. Reading the threads have been motivating on mfp though. We can get back on track and do this!

mommyof4cpa wrote: »

Half my calories today were from halloween candy....wth??????? Oh, and 1/4 of them were from pizza....wthx2???????

proudseal wrote: »

I bought ALL THE CHOCOLATE AND ATE IT

Ha ha, love it! I was beating myself up for having cake and ice cream last night, but I think it's going around. Proudseal I love your unapologetic attitude! I need to get over my self flogging.

I was so focused on hitting my biometric goals for my health insurance at work and so ecstatic when I exceeded the goals I had set so that I could get the lowest tier of payments for my insurance that I have eaten absolutely everything in sight for the past 3 weeks. Seriously, if it was fried, dipped in chocolate, or covered in grease, I probably consumed it. Surprisingly, when I hauled my scale back out of the closet today, it did not reflect nearly the damage that I was anticipating and showed a 1 pound loss for the period rather than the 5 pound gain that I deserved. Time to get back on track!