Does a few days ruin it all?
lisasp4
Posts: 73 Member
Hello all!
It was my 30th birthday on Friday and i was taken out by friends and family for various meals and given presents of chocolate.
I felt like I couldn't say - thanks kind family for baking me this lovely cake but I'm not going to eat any.
I've had 3 days of not great eating and I feel super guilty about it as id been doing so well. Then again, if you can't celebrate your birthday, there's something sad about that.
I'm scared that my 3 days of bad diet will ruin my weeks of hard work.
Thoughts/opinions?
It was my 30th birthday on Friday and i was taken out by friends and family for various meals and given presents of chocolate.
I felt like I couldn't say - thanks kind family for baking me this lovely cake but I'm not going to eat any.
I've had 3 days of not great eating and I feel super guilty about it as id been doing so well. Then again, if you can't celebrate your birthday, there's something sad about that.
I'm scared that my 3 days of bad diet will ruin my weeks of hard work.
Thoughts/opinions?
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Why would three days ruin weeks and weeks?
It was your birthday. Enjoy it, get back on the bandwagon, and happy birthday.0 -
You might gain a couple pounds... but you know how to lose them.0
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Its ok to have a little bit of fun with eating. It will not hurt. You know you are going back to workingout again. Just dont constantly eating bad0
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Log it and move on. Life happens.0
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Thanks guys. I think I just needed to hear it from someone else.
Back to it!
Good luck for all your own goals x0 -
No.. and that goes for almost everything in life. Just get back to it!0
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For the entire month of December, I had a free-for-all. Actually, from about Thanksgiving until my birthday last week. THIS week, I'm back to logging and back on track. I'm 2 pounds up from where I should be. That's it. Just 2 pounds, and I did what I wanted for 6 weeks. A few days won't do too much damage. It's when you don't check yourself and stop the madness that things spiral out of control. You've got this. :flowerforyou:0
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Look at your data. Did you eat enough to put you in maintenance for the week? Or maybe just a few days with a smaller deficit for the week? Or did you eat enough to put you in a surplus for the week? Either way, you won't undo weeks and weeks of losing.0
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As others said, log it and move on. Even if you gain a little bit, it's likely a shift in water weight. And if it's a true gain, you can have it off again in no time. You only turn 30 once. I hope you enjoyed your birthday!0
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The problem is when those 3 days turn into 30. Which is exactly what I did. I gained 10lbs. Eek!0
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It doesn't ruin everything, but it can feel like you have and you can end up getting into a downward spiral where you think it's all undone.
But it's not. Just dust yourself off and get back on track.0 -
partys over. back to real life. no biggie0
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OP, by the way-I had my 30th birthday in November. I ate WHATEVER I wanted. I made myself those slutty brownies with a layer of chocolate chip cookie, oreo, brownie, and then chocolate frosting...with reeses pieces. I had thousands of extra calories. I knocked out my deficit for the week or so. No biggie.0
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These replies are why I love this place - support and knowing that you aren't alone in this.0
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Hello all!
It was my 30th birthday on Friday and i was taken out by friends and family for various meals and given presents of chocolate.
I felt like I couldn't say - thanks kind family for baking me this lovely cake but I'm not going to eat any.
I've had 3 days of not great eating and I feel super guilty about it as id been doing so well. Then again, if you can't celebrate your birthday, there's something sad about that.
I'm scared that my 3 days of bad diet will ruin my weeks of hard work.
Thoughts/opinions?
Yeah. These days (birthdays, Christmas, and special events in general), really are so few, we may as well enjoy them!
It's possible that those few days could "ruin it all", and they sadly do for some, but if we get straight back on track, we're golden. At the most, we'll have slowed our progress a bit, but this will be nothing in the grand scheme of things.0 -
I am having the same issue. I have been doing well and slowly losing, For two days I ate horribly, when I got on the scale this morning, I am up 5 pounds, in just 2 days! It is so hard to stay positive. Suggestions?0
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msdianan65 wrote: »I am having the same issue. I have been doing well and slowly losing, For two days I ate horribly, when I got on the scale this morning, I am up 5 pounds, in just 2 days! It is so hard to stay positive. Suggestions?
Unless you were eating only butter or something like that when the calories would huge, you are not up 5 pounds of fat. Maybe a pound of fat at most and the rest is water weight. This is why scales are so unhelpful as a measure of progress. Water weight is not the same as fat weight. Get back to it.
To everyone who struggles with this, you didn't get fat in one day, it took years more that likely, you are not going to get fat again because of a day or two. Just get back to logging.0 -
msdianan65: just give it a day or who, you'll most likely be back down.0
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arditarose wrote: »Look at your data. Did you eat enough to put you in maintenance for the week? Or maybe just a few days with a smaller deficit for the week? Or did you eat enough to put you in a surplus for the week? Either way, you won't undo weeks and weeks of losing.
Oh, what a great way of looking at this.Thanks!0 -
Look at your data for 30 days - I keep an eye on the rolling 30 day average (thank you FitBit for the little graph that tracks CICO).0
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Did my weekly weigh in and I maintained! Extremely happy!0
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It took more than a few days to gain the weight. It will take more than a few to ruin your progress. It will only ruin it if you decide that it will. Just get back to staying under your goal and it will be ok in the long run. Everyone has the occasional special events. Just don't let that be every day.0
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At worst, something like this is only a delay, as long as you return to your healthy routine. And as you found, any gain is mostly water weight.
If you logged the days you went over, and want to estimate your impact/delay, you can do it. I posted an example here: Is This How You Think About Over-Goal Days?0 -
Not unless you let it! Time to get back on track and not dwell on past bad choices.0
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Those single day or even week events don't ruin things. It's the pattern of letting them become the majority that hurts things. Find the balance that works.
I could show people days or even weeks that look fairly bad. But they didn't derail me.0 -
Well if you let that kind of thinking stop you, yes. Life is going to continue to be life-y... Roll with the punches. Restart right where you are, today. You'll still get there.0
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Not unless you decide that's what's going to happen.0
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