Biggest blunders you've done?

DebSozo wrote: »

Christine_72 wrote: »

Allowing myself to put on weight in the first place. I won't be making that mistake twice!

I'm not putting weight back on either. It is easier for me to keep it off than gain 5 pounds over the holidays and then have to spend 5 months January to May working it off after the New Year when one loses as slowly as I do. I'm going for prevention and maintenance this holiday season rather than a gain. I lose weight most easily from May to Aug. In the Autumn & Wintertime I slow way down.

Yeah same here, winter has just finished here and i put on 6lbs. But i know it'll drop off pretty easily when the weather starts warming up.

Thinking I could do low carb high fat (when my wife is a sugar holic:) It's not a total blunder I just have to figure out a balance - lchf has made me more aware of easy sugar, like the doughnut, cookie, and pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting I ate today. I was super aware of what I was doing.

I just couldn't seem to identify rice, pasta and bread calories. I would always think of rice as 100 calories a cup .

Bread as 100 calories a piece. Pasta, two cups 200 calories cooked.

This last time I finally got it and its really helped a lot.

I also overestimated how many calories are burned by minutes of walking.

These 2 things combined made weight loss a huge mystery to me in past years.

Of course I'm over all that now with mfp.

Making chocolate chip cookies on an empty stomach. Just.. .don't do it.

I eat way too many, and the huge rush of fat makes me sick as anything. But somehow, even knowing this, I still think that *this* time I'll know when to stop nicking cookie dough early enough to prevent it.

Always make chocolate chip cookies after a satisfying meal.

Wasting a 'bulk' (i.e. going on a couple of long trips spaced a month apart and having an 'f-it' attitude concerning how much I was eating the whole time).

I'd have been just as happy eating a bit less, and a lot more happy if I could have taken advantage of the extra calories by lifting. There were no weights, free or otherwise, while out of town and while I was home I was working my way back up to 'heavy' weights for me. So not much benefit there.

Ah, well. At least I reined myself in before going up a size. Now I just need to get my head on straight again.

ashjongfit wrote: »

bethanyka wrote: »

getting a matching tattoo with my NOW EX-Fiance

as far as weight goes, I agree with the above, All or Nothing mentality! and trying to lose X by X. never works for me anyway. Trying to work in that crazy concept of moderation these days

SAME, we got our wedding rings tattooed on, looking at removal since its been three years and I have a daughter and am with the guy I should have been with in the first place LOL

1. Lose 100 lbs in six months
2. 1200cal, no eating back workout cals
3. Not seeing that stupid entry for garlic that makes it like 10x the calories.
4. trying to have to large of a deficit

The 1200 calorie garlic clove! Gets me every time. Not to mention accidentally entering the 1 gram quantity on 100 gram USDA foods. Ate 5000 grams of lettuce last night according to my diary, LOL.

85Cardinals wrote: »

I'm still beating myself up about eating all that candy Halloween night 1998. A date which will live in infamy.

I JUST posted about Halloween 2001.... lol

SusanMFindlay wrote: »

Listening to the dietician when she wasn't listening to me. (To be fair, she pretended she was. It took almost a week for me to figure out that she put everyone on exactly the same cookie cutter food plan. I was eight months pregnant. You don't put an eight month pregnant woman on a weight loss plan. But I don't think she even realized that's what she was doing.)

When Mrs was ordered to see a dietitian to get help gaining weight, the poor dietitian didn't have a plan. She started the meeting by describing the portions of a healthy plate with veg, starch, and meat, then she paused and stumbled over her thoughts until she finally said, "And put butter on the roll, and gravy on the meat, and have dessert, ice cream."

Feeling smug because I chose a breakfast muffin from the 'healthy and lower calorie' shelf at Au Bon Pain. Only to realise when I'd nearly finished the thing, that someone had put a 500+ calorie cranberry and walnut muffin on the wrong shelf.