1 off treat

ashmullo788
ashmullo788 Posts: 43 Member
edited November 16 in Health and Weight Loss
Ok so im getting a takeout/takeaway ive had my calories for the day but im hungry and feel like a treat with my partner so will this ruin it for me? Will i halft to start over?

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  • Unknown
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  • ashmullo788
    ashmullo788 Posts: 43 Member
    I started 2 weeks ago
  • ashmullo788
    ashmullo788 Posts: 43 Member
    And havent lost anthing yet but i havent been eating any junk food ive been sticking to the plan havent lost a pound lol
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    ashmullo788 wrote: »
    Ok so im getting a takeout/takeaway ive had my calories for the day but im hungry and feel like a treat with my partner so will this ruin it for me? Will i halft to start over?

    If you've already eaten all your calories for the day and are hungry enough for takeout, you should reevalute:

    1. Your weekly weight loss goal - many people initially set it for 2 pounds per week when a lower goal is more appropriate - how many pounds do you have to lose?
    2. The satiety factor of the foods you are eating - see http://www.nutrition.org.uk/healthyliving/fuller/understanding-satiety-feeling-full-after-a-meal.html
    3. Your position on exercise calories - if you exercise, what percent of the calories you earn from exercise are you eating back? MFP is designed for weight loss not including exercise, so it needs to be accounted.
  • ashmullo788
    ashmullo788 Posts: 43 Member
    I workout 6 times a week 1 day of rest and i put to loose 1 pound a week
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  • ashmullo788
    ashmullo788 Posts: 43 Member
    Ok thanks for the advice im not sure i got an awnser though lol i will eat my takeout enjoy it and then start new
  • ashmullo788
    ashmullo788 Posts: 43 Member
    I eat 1.330 calories a day leave 100 x
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    ashmullo788 wrote: »
    I workout 6 times a week 1 day of rest and i put to loose 1 pound a week

    1. How much weight do you want to lose total?
    2. What percent of the calories you earn from exercise do you eat back?
  • ashmullo788
    ashmullo788 Posts: 43 Member
    Im 11.9 want to be 8.9 and i eat half back or just under 100 cals left on my dairy
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  • ashmullo788
    ashmullo788 Posts: 43 Member
    Havent excersized today as my body really sore of my workout yesterday my heads pounding im not well i done 20 mins of cleaning and thats about it had chicken breast peas and few chips so im starved didnt fill me up today atall
  • ashmullo788
    ashmullo788 Posts: 43 Member
    Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »
    Probably a good mindset to have, its not really the end of the world, sorry i cant really give you a definitive answer

    Arr its ok im sure its fine as a 1 off like i think anyways lol
  • ashmullo788
    ashmullo788 Posts: 43 Member
    Tbh im just a fatty and need to get it togther to completly get rid of binge and not have atall but i ts like if i dont eat any sort of chocolate or somthing nice im not going to succeed ive tried cutting that out altogther and i always end up back square 1 but ive been having the odd creme egg and its made me feel happy but also making me think i wont loose weight at same time
  • dragon_girl26
    dragon_girl26 Posts: 2,187 Member
    Depends on what you mean by 'ruin it'. If you mean it will cause you to give up on your diet entirely from here on out, then yes. Otherwise, just start back tomorrow and keep going. Today is just one day out of the rest of your life.
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  • ashmullo788
    ashmullo788 Posts: 43 Member
    dragon_girl26 wrote: »
    Depends on what you mean by 'ruin it'. If you mean it will cause you to give up on your diet entirely from here on out, then yes. Otherwise, just start back tomorrow and keep going. Today is just one day out of the rest of your life.

    What i mean it gain weight of this takeout lol ruin it
  • misskarne
    misskarne Posts: 1,765 Member
    ashmullo788 wrote: »
    dragon_girl26 wrote: »
    Depends on what you mean by 'ruin it'. If you mean it will cause you to give up on your diet entirely from here on out, then yes. Otherwise, just start back tomorrow and keep going. Today is just one day out of the rest of your life.

    What i mean it gain weight of this takeout lol ruin it

    You will probably gain some slight water weight, yes, because takeouts tend to be salty. However, one day will not "ruin everything".
  • CattOfTheGarage
    CattOfTheGarage Posts: 2,745 Member
    What do you mean by "start over"? Just log the takeaway and move on. Even if it does make you gain weight, why does that mean you have to "start over"? Ups and downs are all part of the journey.

    Your takeaway will almost certainly cause you to gain some water weight, which will go away again naturally in a few days. It's unlikely to cause you to gain fat in any significant amount, it will probably just slow the fat loss down. And that's OK. That's just a choice you make sometimes. Get going again the next day and you'll be surprised how little difference it makes long term, as long as you don't make a habit of it.

  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    1 off treat? Takeaway is hardly a treat (imo), and unlikely to be a one off. You're likely to have many through your life.

    It doesn't have to "ruin" your diet, if you are smart and work it in to your food. Decreasing your rate of loss may give you more opportunities to fit in treats as your calories would be slightly higher. This might make your diet easier - you need to work out what is more important to you, losing at a faster rate or more easily fitting in a wider variety of food.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    edited February 2017
    ashmullo788 wrote: »
    Tbh im just a fatty and need to get it togther to completly get rid of binge and not have atall but i ts like if i dont eat any sort of chocolate or somthing nice im not going to succeed ive tried cutting that out altogther and i always end up back square 1 but ive been having the odd creme egg and its made me feel happy but also making me think i wont loose weight at same time
    Your attitude is making this harder than it has to be. You are not a "fatty"! Work on redefining. You are a person, an animal, who has drives and instincts and needs, and they are there to keep you alive and healthy. You are also an animal "trapped" in an environment it's not fully adapted to yet, one of too much plenty and too many choices. Deprivation while surrounded by temptation, leads to binges. No way around that. A restrictive mindset leads to wanting all the things you "can't" have. Trying to be perfect usually leads to failure. Repeated feelings of failure makes us desperate and passive. Education is empowering. Giving yourself freedom to make your own choices will make you succeed.

    Don't think of eating healthily and losing weight as being "on" or "off". You are doing this to feel better, right? You should feel better while doing it as well. If you are eating poorly, you'll be hungry and crave foods that are calorie dense and tasty, but not prone to make good choices, because you are hungry and stressed. Hunger and stress will subside, but not for long, and it will come back stronger. Are you thinking about healthy food as boring and tasteless? Think again. A healthy diet is what you need. You can eat anything you want. Choose foods you want to eat. Nothing is off limit. A varied diet of predominantly whole foods will provide you with all the nutrition you need, and lots of taste and pleasure. And you'll feel satisfied when you've had what you need. When you consistently (meaning, most of the time) eat just what you need, you'll lose weight if you are overweight, and then keep a healthy weight.

    Try this. Up your calorie goal to 1500. Open tomorrow's food diary entry. Plan a day of foods you think you'd want to eat, and hit that number. Buy the foods you need, today. Decide when you want to eat. Cook/prepare all the meals in time, and sit down, and just eat. Pay attention to what you are doing and how you are feeling. Then do the same for the next day, and the next. Assess and adjust, and aim to hit your calorie goal and your tastebuds better each day.

    And reduce the amount of exercise if you are exhausting yourself. Exercise is great as long as it makes you feel good, but when it doesn't, you are overdoing it.
  • emmarrgh
    emmarrgh Posts: 44 Member
    I had 2600 calories the day before last, and that was trying to be "picky" at the buffet. I was up 1lb the day after, and another 0.2lbs today (i weigh daily because the fluctuations don't freak me out).

    Frankly if I have a big poo today and drink plenty of water, I will likely be back to normal by tomorrow. It's not starting from the beginning, because I started at 220, and I'm not going back to that weight. Just a 1lb blip.

    If the food was amazing, I wouldn't regret it, but in my case it was lukewarm and bland, and I paid too much for it, so I'm using it as a learning experience and going to remember that it was not worth the calories.

    I hope this helps - we all have obstacles and bumps in the road, that's life, but it doesn't have to put you back at square 1 unless you give it the power to.
  • Chunkahlunkah
    Chunkahlunkah Posts: 373 Member
    edited February 2017
    If by "ruin" it, you mean will it erase all of your calorie savings you've accumulated through diet and exercise, that depends. It depends on how much you've saved so far and how many calories the meal is.

    It will definitely reduce what the savings would've been, that's all we can know for sure w/o precise numbers. That may not be a bad thing though. If you're cutting and burning calories too aggressively, and restricting foods you love, in the long run (or in two weeks), you're just gonna burn out. Pick a diet you can sustain. Slower progress is better than two steps forward and two steps right back.

    It sounds like you want to lose around 40 pounds? So one way to think about that is you want to save/burn 3500 calories 40 times. That's 140,000 calories.

    As an analogy, think that there's a house you want to buy for $140,000. So each week, you aim to save $3500 to go towards it.

    If you can sustain that pace, you'll have enough saved to buy the house in 40 weeks. Each week that you save less, you're extending the amount of time it will take. Each time an emergency expense happens and you dip into those savings, you've extended how long it will take. This would be the equivalent of tapping into your calorie savings to pay for takeout.

    Now if saving that amount weekly means you can't afford food or to pay your electric bill, then adhering to it isn't realistic bc it makes life miserable! Similarly, if eating at the calorie level you selected leaves you hungry or without room for take out, then that's gonna make life more painful than it needs be. Maybe do a mix of bumping up your calories a little and deliberately budgeting in the foods you love. A "plan" that excludes foods you love doesn't sound like the right plan for you!

    If you slow your weight loss pace with those changes, you're, on paper, extending the time to your goal but in reality likely accelerating it if you can't make progress at the quicker pace. You've gotta know yourself and be honest with what calorie level and foods you really want to eat during weight loss.
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