When Snacking Occasional Bad Food Choices
SoleTrainer60
Posts: 180 Member
Hey everyone, Does anyone ever have a day ,when you just want candy or chips or something that you know is not good for you? This happened to me today. After I do this, I feel bad about it. It doesn't happen very often, but sometimes I can't control myself.
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Unless you have a medical reason to avoid those items, they're fine in moderation8
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Last week I had a day where I ate mostly candy for the majority of my calories. I logged it, suffered fatigue due to the lack of nutrients...and moved on.
Don't feel guilty or bad. Some days, $#!+ happens...just keep on going and get back to eating a healthy mix of more nutritional food with some treats thrown in.7 -
Don't waste any energy feeling bad about it. Why should you? You wanted something tasty, you had something tasty, and it was good while it lasted. Enjoy it, log it, and move on.6
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O.k. thanks. I don't know why , but I feel so bad when I do this. I exercise every day, so I guess I feel that when I eat like this, it makes me feel that I haven't accomplished anything for the day, even though I did exercise.
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reading while eating the best nutty bar ever because it fits into my calories and I earned it. Also today, ate a serving of potato chips.5
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SoleTrainer60 wrote: »O.k. thanks. I don't know why , but I feel so bad when I do this. I exercise every day, so I guess I feel that when I eat like this, it makes me feel that I haven't accomplished anything for the day, even though I did exercise.
Those feelings are lies. As long as you stay within your calorie goal, and try to eat more nutritious food most of the time and do your best to meet your macro and micro goals ...there is NO HARM in enjoying treats. The harm comes when you deny deny deny...then binge...then give up7 -
ketomaniac wrote: »Nutritional ketosis is the only permanent solution to carbohydrate/ sugar cravings
^ Disregard this.5 -
When I stopped labeling foods as good or bad virtually stopped guilt and feeling bad about food dead in its tracts.
Now I plan for them.11 -
leanjogreen18 wrote: »When I stopped labeling foods as good or bad virtually stopped guilt and feeling bad about food dead in its tracts.
Now I plan for them.
This2 -
I hiked a long trail today and had a ton of extra calories to spare. So I baked cupcakes. And I ate two of them. And I'm feeling pretty good about that.
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ketomaniac wrote: »Nutritional ketosis is the only permanent solution to carbohydrate/ sugar cravings
Whatever, dude.
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SoleTrainer60 wrote: »O.k. thanks. I don't know why , but I feel so bad when I do this. I exercise every day, so I guess I feel that when I eat like this, it makes me feel that I haven't accomplished anything for the day, even though I did exercise.
This is... concerning. How much weight are you trying to lose? What are your current stats? How much and what type of exercise do you normally do?
Weight loss is about a calorie deficit. There are no "bad" foods, any food can be part of an overall healthy and balanced diet, if you don't have a medical reason to restrict certain things. Labeling foods as bad and feeling guilty when you consume them, is a sign of an unhealthy mindset though...4 -
Yeah. I feel that way every day, so I just do it. This is MyFitnessPal, not MyFoodReligion. There's no such thing as sin here.
ETA I'm just realizing the significance of posting that with a Hannibal Lecter avatar. "Nothing here is vegetarian."
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ketomaniac wrote: »I tell you literally:
Ketosis = heaven
Glucose metabolism = hell
Right now I'm in ketosis. High mental clarity, high energy, great memory, concentration, great mood, zero cravings, just to name a few benefits.
If eat one high carb meal, I know I'm gonna suffer. My body will switch to glucose metabolism and it will demand more sugar for energy. It will take time to readjust and re-enter ketosis.
Move over, Dante. I'm comin' home.
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It's honestly okay. No food is really "bad" as long as your under your calorie goal.
If you want to lessen the guilt you could keep minisize items around. It would be the same thing just a smaller size.1 -
ketomaniac wrote: »I tell you literally:
Ketosis = heaven
Glucose metabolism = hell
Right now I'm in ketosis. High mental clarity, high energy, great memory, concentration, great mood, zero cravings, just to name a few benefits.
If eat one high carb meal, I know I'm gonna suffer. My body will switch to glucose metabolism and it will demand more sugar for energy. It will take time to readjust and re-enter ketosis.
The road to hell is paved with cake?9 -
ketomaniac wrote: »I tell you literally:
Ketosis = heaven
Glucose metabolism = hell
Right now I'm in ketosis. High mental clarity, high energy, great memory, concentration, great mood, zero cravings, just to name a few benefits.
If eat one high carb meal, I know I'm gonna suffer. My body will switch to glucose metabolism and it will demand more sugar for energy. It will take time to readjust and re-enter ketosis.
You do realize that your body still runs on glucose right? You do realize that your body creates glucose through glucenogenesis right? You do have increased ketone production and greater rates of fat oxidation (not to be confused with greater amounts of fat loss), but you still burn glucose. And unless you are in an endurance substrate utilization means pretty much nothing, especially considering in daily activities and sleeping, you largely burn fat.ketomaniac wrote: »Cardiovascular disease, dementia, diabetes, cancer.
All of these diseases are multifaceted... and non of which are caused by carbs/sugar. CVD is largely caused by obesity and inactivity, demetia and cancers are largely genetic.
OP, if you want to incorporate a desert or treat in your plan, you can. I often save 10-15% of my calories for such an thing. And you have to remember, this plan has to be sustainable otherwise it won't last long term6 -
ketomaniac wrote: »I tell you literally:
Ketosis = heaven
Glucose metabolism = hell
Right now I'm in ketosis. High mental clarity, high energy, great memory, concentration, great mood, zero cravings, just to name a few benefits.
If eat one high carb meal, I know I'm gonna suffer. My body will switch to glucose metabolism and it will demand more sugar for energy. It will take time to readjust and re-enter ketosis.
Ketosis doesn't seem to do much for your demeanour and manners though.
As for mental clarity - you do realise your body and brain in particular are still running on glucose.......
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SoleTrainer60 wrote: »Hey everyone, Does anyone ever have a day ,when you just want candy or chips or something that you know is not good for you? This happened to me today. After I do this, I feel bad about it. It doesn't happen very often, but sometimes I can't control myself.
Candy isn't really my thing as regards treats but no I never feel guilty as I realise there's a whole load of context that needs to be applied. Your overall diet and activity for example.
It's a huge leap from "not particularly good for you nutritionally" or "not optimal" to actually being bad for you.2
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