I deeply regret eating bad today.

Trust the math! If you have calculated your BMR/TDEE correctly, and are truly eating at a deficit, you will lose weight. Weightloss is not linear, it will not go in a straight line.

I freaking hope this is a JOKE.

Done with these forums. Just effing done now.

All of what the others said.

OP do yourself a favour and drop the harsh all or nothing mindset, "bad" foods and restrictive eating ("my cravings and an empty stomach got the better of me...").

Eat foods you enjoy in moderation, if they are naturally high in calories then get yourself acquainted with vegetables and fruit, fresh meats and learn new ways to cook, eat and enjoy them.

Also eat in a way that pleases you both physically and mentally ie: Don't adopt a radical way of eating, drop the idea for the need of shakes and detoxes cause they are not needed. Log your foods carefully and log everything using a digital scale.

Use MFP's deficit to do your calculations and don't expect that weight loss number to always go down. Exercise for your health with something that you enjoy and can sustain. Be patient and persistent.

I deeply regret my 21st birthday. (Long story, not going there lol) I do not ever regret eating food.

I share the same hope as seltzermint, that this is a joke.

i regret i didnt buy more beer for today......

sunnybeaches105 wrote: »

I deeply regret a good many things I've done over the years, but taking a bite of omelette isn't one of them

This made me laugh.

ysalgad2 wrote: »

Thank you everyone for your feedback. Your comments are mostly all similar so that tells me I've been doing this "healthy eating" thing wrong. It's great to hear I can enjoy my food and not worry too much about weight fluctuations. I've been told by a few people that going hardcore dieting at the begging is a great way to get fast results. I was planning on becoming lenient on the bad food I ate later on after I managed to lose a sufficient number of pounds. I'll have to re-plan my diet.

Weight gain is not, fundamentally, a product of the type of food you eat, it's a product of the amount of food you eat.

For the sake of your long-term health and well-being, you should eat a balance of nutrient-rich foods, but treats are fine, too- as long as you're hitting your calorie goals. That probably means much smaller portions of everything than you're used to, but it is not- despite what well-meaning friends and not-so-well-meaning diet salespeople will tell you- a matter of always choosing a salad, or cutting out certain types of food altogether. It's a matter of learning how much energy your body needs from food to maintain, learning how much food it takes to get that amount of energy and then eating slightly less than that until you reach the weight you want, then eating that amount exactly, forever.

If you restrict yourself to just lettuce and cayenne pepper for two weeks, will you see fast results? Sure. And you'll be miserable, and you'll stop and binge (probably long before the two week mark) and the pounds you lost will rapidly return, and probably bring some friends.

If you restrict yourself from eating anything you've categorized as "unhealthy" but still eat at a moderate amount, will you see results? Sure. But you won't maintain that forever, and when you "become more lenient on the bad food" later, as you put it, you'll gain all the weight back.

Weight loss is fundamentally not about learning what foods are best for you- that's important, and definitely worth investigating for health, but it's not what will lose you weight. Weight loss is about creating a caloric deficit so your body burns off excess fat. You want to do it in a way that you can maintain for as long as it takes, and that teaches you how to think about and approach eating in a way that will help you maintain your goal weight forever. Any method that's "hardcore" is fundamentally doomed to failure for 99% of us, because no matter how rapidly you see results, you *will not maintain them* if you don't also learn how to eat in a reasonable manner that doesn't create a caloric excess for the rest of your life.

If you approach weight loss as a quick fix, it will be just that- a quick fix that doesn't last. It has to come from a sustainable change.

The way you ate for years made you fat. You have to change the way you eat permanently and sustainably (which means learning how to incorporate the "unhealthy" foods you crave without eating to excess) or no matter how rapidly you lose, you will regain all the fat in the end.

This is my weight log following a 2-week cruise (aka, a 2-week binge). A lot of the time when you have a "bad" day/week the associated weight gain is either from water retention or the fact you simply have more food inside of you. Don't stress.

You should stop with the bad food /good food idea. Food is food it's neither bad or good. Eat what ever the effects you want, just make it fit into the calorie goals mfp gives you. Search here and read about CiCo that's all that matters.

There is no bad food and if you've had salt of any kind whether it's from you adding it or it's in the food EXPECT weight if up to 5 pounds. Hang around MFP and you will be greatly helped by the knowledgeable and very helpful people here. And good luck. You will get it all figured out.

And yes ... slow is good. Learning how to avoid having to look for a 'quick fix' ever again is VERY good.

ysalgad2 wrote: »

I've been told by a few people that going hardcore dieting at the begging is a great way to get fast results.

While you might get fast results, if you're a normal person you will probably also burn out and give up. For me I found that starting out slow and getting stricter as I got closer to my goal was easier. At the beginning I ONLY worried about calories. I did not think about macros, exercise, sugars, sodium, cholesterol. These things I have slowly started to try to get more in line over the last year of maintaining. And I've been maintaining for a year. I haven't burnt out because I allow myself to have everything in moderation. You can totally do this thing. If you want to add me my diary is open so you can see the kinds of 'bad' foods that fit within my macros and calories lol.

katiebean wrote: »

Wow it's so nice to actually read a thread in these forums where OP gets told what they're doing wrong and doesn't go super defensive and pissed off!

Yeah, nice job OP with the good attitude. Keep it up and you'll hit your goals.