Under calorie goal - but feeling guilty

sarahavery
sarahavery Posts: 167 Member
edited September 28 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi everyone. So im under my cal goal for today, 1400 give or take out of 1800, didnt eat much through the day and just had a really light lunch and was starving so had a really nice dinner, which consisted of a donne kebab type pitta with salad, That yummy i had 2!!!

well ive logged everything for today - down to the last calorie so I know everything is correct and im not over on anything! :laugh:
So why am i feeling guilty for eating sometime half bad/half good, enjoying it and still being under my limit. :sad:

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  • soxmandan
    soxmandan Posts: 26
    Maybe you had something too fatty or too sweet?

    A little bit of that stuff is ok, so no need to feel guitly, because thats when you start caving more often to other cravings. Keep it up!
  • hello_kitty3
    hello_kitty3 Posts: 98 Member
    I feel the same way when I eat pizza or ice cream lol but if its in my calories I guess there's really nothing wrong with having it every now and then! Its good to to reward yourself... and its almost like having a cheat day but without actually going over your on your calories so I day WIN - WIN! lol
  • Mrs_TrimWaistFatWallet
    Mrs_TrimWaistFatWallet Posts: 486
    Because you think that you should/coulda/woulda eaten perfect then you'd lose all your weight super fast? Well most people can't eat PERFECT, or if they can, they don't keep it up for long. You do what works for you
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,336 Member
    Because you have bought into the good food bad food dichotomy. Food is food, what makes it good or bad is dosage. If you ate that every day it would be bad for you. Eating it from one meal, well there is nothing at all wrong with that. Food is not good or bad, it becomes good or bad when you eat too much of it. This good food/bad food thing it ingrained in our thinking in North America, and I find it very unhelpful. If you eat the so called "healthy" food the vast majority of the time, this one meal will not make any difference negatively at all. None.
  • cjjones007
    cjjones007 Posts: 602
    I agree - we try to hard to be SOOO good, and while I grant you staying under calories (every day) with high fat foods isn't the healthiest way to lose - but a day here or there is NO big deal, and can actually be good for the body - Remember - all things in moderation right? :)

    Glad you were under your goal and the dinner sounded great to me
  • sarahavery
    sarahavery Posts: 167 Member
    I agree - we try to hard to be SOOO good, and while I grant you staying under calories (every day) with high fat foods isn't the healthiest way to lose - but a day here or there is NO big deal, and can actually be good for the body - Remember - all things in moderation right? :)

    Glad you were under your goal and the dinner sounded great to me

    Thanks CJ. Im just feeling a bit rubbish as eating a meal I used to, but i guess if ive counted all my calories and fat and im under my goal i should be ok, right? HAve you seen my diary? What do you think of my choices for today and the last few days?
  • sarahavery
    sarahavery Posts: 167 Member
    :sad:
  • RattieLove
    RattieLove Posts: 125
    Because you have bought into the good food bad food dichotomy. Food is food, what makes it good or bad is dosage. If you ate that every day it would be bad for you. Eating it from one meal, well there is nothing at all wrong with that. Food is not good or bad, it becomes good or bad when you eat too much of it. This good food/bad food thing it ingrained in our thinking in North America, and I find it very unhelpful. If you eat the so called "healthy" food the vast majority of the time, this one meal will not make any difference negatively at all. None.

    I agree with what you said about eating right the majority of the time, and that this one meal won't mess her up. But you just contradicted what you first said. Food is not just food, that is incorrect. There is such a thing as junk food, and there is such a thing as healthy, natural food. You said it yourself. Eat the healthy food most of the time, and you'll be alright. Basically, healthy food is as close to natural as you can get it, unhealthy food is drifting far away from that. Of course, there are a lot of in-betweens, but if you view all food as just food, you're not going to lose weight. Or at least you're not going to lose as much weight as you want, and won't receive the benefits of eating right. Not an attack, just clearing this up for sarahavery. :)
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,336 Member
    If you notice I put "healthy food" in quotation marks. That is because I am not in anyway convinced that there are foods that are unhealthy in and of themselves. It is all in dosage, completely and totally. Some foods taste good, but have little nutritional value. Does that make them completely bad in and of themselves? Not in my opinion. It does make them a bad choice to eat a lot of since all they give you is nutritionally empty energy, but that in and of itself is not bad. Now I will allow, I guess, that there are things called food that are nothing of the sort, but I am not even sure on that. I will allow it as a possibility though.
  • _Sally_
    _Sally_ Posts: 514 Member
    Maybe you're just bloated/over full from your last meal.....i'm under calorie goal today as well, but I defintely ate too much at dinner.

    This can happen when we don't eat enough throughout the day
  • jonikeffer
    jonikeffer Posts: 218 Member
    You will figure out with time and experimentation what you can get away with. I have found that I can stay under on calories but if I ear simple carbs (french bread, sweets, etc) in a higher amount than just a taste, I will not lose (nor will I gain). For me it take staying on target with the cals AND making sure my carbs are mostly complex carbs. You may find you can do whatever you want as long as you stay under on cals, but keep in mind when you're eating a reduced calorie diet, you need to make sure you're getting your nutrients too. If you're eating a bunch of garbage...you won't be. Just watch that and then do whatever your body allows you to do. :smile:
  • Dagnytaggert
    Dagnytaggert Posts: 18
    Because you have bought into the good food bad food dichotomy. Food is food, what makes it good or bad is dosage. If you ate that every day it would be bad for you. Eating it from one meal, well there is nothing at all wrong with that. Food is not good or bad, it becomes good or bad when you eat too much of it. This good food/bad food thing it ingrained in our thinking in North America, and I find it very unhelpful. If you eat the so called "healthy" food the vast majority of the time, this one meal will not make any difference negatively at all. None.

    So well put!
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