Easter ruined me
jesseecaden
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I have been doing so good since January 1st, I'm down 30lbs and was feeling good. Ever since Easter weekend I have been off. Eating over my calories, not exercising, just feeling back to my old self. Where did my motivation gooo? How can I get it back before I fail myself?
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Put a Reese's Peanut Butter egg at the end of the track.15
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I had to make a conscious decision at six weeks (right around Easter) to recommit and continue this journey. I enjoyed three days of more relaxed tracking days and then jumped right back in. Things stalled for about a week and a half, but I got right back on track again. If you want this bad enough you will find the motivation again.
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EASTER didn't ruin you. You CHOSE to stop being consistent. You can CHOOSE to get back to it.
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Put a Reese's Peanut Butter egg at the end of the track.
I love those!! Much better PB to chocolate ratio
OP - just do it. Set your alarm half an hour early, get into your workout clothes and shoes, and go for a walk/jog/run tomorrow morning. And the next morning, and the next. Pre-log your food for tomorrow tonight and stick to it. You can't let life derail you every time or you'll never reach your goals *or* maintain them.4 -
You can't think that way. I ate WAY too much the week of Easter. I gained back 3lbs. So what? Just get right back to it instead of going down the rabbit hole.6
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Every time you face another food or exercise choice, you get the chance to start again. Just start making those good choices again, and it'll all come right back to you 4
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Start over and take 1 day at a time. I'm on the moderation plan. I will only eat small piece of food I really like and stay focus on doing the right thing. Good luck2
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I am having the same problem, ever since Easter I've been having candy and desserts and not logging well, I cant stop!
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If I get off-track with a one-day binge, I like to apply a surreal quality to that day, as if it were a dream, and oh, now things are back to normal. It works all the time about 50% of the time. The other times, it takes a few days of eating at maintenance to worm my way back into the right portions.
Most of the time, I just have to stay on track for holidays. My aunt during Easter was like "are you sure you got enough" and I said "yes" but I thought "I just ate 1200 calories, lady, and is this what intermittent fasting feels like?"1 -
Girl replace Easter with Christmas and this was me. I got really far off track. The thing I tell myself when I am trying to get back on is that I can't tell myself yes ALL the time. Because when I'm eating crazy, everytime I have a craving, I bargin with myself to have it. So I just start initially telling myself no to get the ball rolling. Then I start saying to myself, log it first to see if it fits. Many times, once I see that there's no way in hell to make it fit, I give up.
Take it one meal and one craving at a time. Treat each one like it's the only thing keeping you from your goals. That way you'll fight it like it counts.
Or you can start small. Say you're only going to eat strictly in your macros/cals for 6/7 days. Then every time you have a craving, say I'll eat it on my cheat day. Many times I forget about those cravings by cheat day, and only end up eating maybe one bad thing on that day.
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I eat candy every single night, usually ~200 calories worth of it.
It can be hard to get back on track in general if you've been off the rails, but if you like candy, why not eat candy? 5 -
Oh I knew you were good people. Yes! It is all about the ratio and this heavenly concoction nailed it. The Christmas Tree runs a close second, but oh the egg...the glorious egg!3 -
OP - I'm being facetious. You didn't fail - hell check out my diary and bear witness the Easter candy laden calorie bombs when I raided the kid's baskets. All good in the end. Just get back on track.
This is going to happen every holiday - that's why there are holidays. What matters is the day to day, not the outliers.3 -
EASTER didn't ruin you. You CHOSE to stop being consistent. You can CHOOSE to get back to it.
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OP, how much over your calories have you been going over? Remember mfp calorie goal is a deficit and the amount of calories between your calories and maintenance will range from 250-1000 depending on how many calories you chose to lose per week.
If you did chose to lose 2lb per week and have way less than 75lbs to lose, you may not be able to lose 2lb per week as mfp won't go lower than 1200 (safety and nutrition reasons),2 -
Oh I knew you were good people. Yes! It is all about the ratio and this heavenly concoction nailed it. The Christmas Tree runs a close second, but oh the egg...the glorious egg!
Is there any difference between the egg and pumpkin reese's? lol They're basically the same shape so the chocolate to pb ratio should be the same too right?! Sorry off subject op...1 -
Stop telling yourself tomorrow and start logging properly and making good choices again now.
Learn from this time and next holiday, consider doing a maintenance week: either aim to average your maintenance over the week to allow one or two crazy days or eat at maintenance every day.
I did this for the last 2 weeks and started at a deficit again yesterday. It made such A difference to my mentality compared to previous holidays/events4 -
Yes..take little steps but get back on track...I did the same thing over Christmas and it took a while and a lot of self talking to get back on my plan..you can do it...1
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Brush your teeth, drink a glass of water, take a walk and get back on track0
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You didn't wreck it, you just took a short break for the holiday. Start right back up again where you left off. No big deal.
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No such thing as "can't". There is "will not" and "refuse" as the answer here.I am having the same problem, ever since Easter I've been having candy and desserts and not logging well, I cant stop!
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Log honestly and consistently. You don't have th do it all at once.1
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Heh... you should have seen how much I ate on Easter Sunday. Here's a list:
-Eggs Benedict
-Lindt chocolate balls (many, around 20 or so.
-Candy coated chocolate Easter eggs
-Lamb dinner with roast potato
-A packet of cheese puffs (go cheese puffs!)
-blue raspberry gelato cake covered in nerds
-peeps (woooo!)
-candy sushi
-home made caramel walnut fudge.
I gained 7lbs. 6lbs gone already.
Do I regret this? Heck no! I'm back on the wagon, so to speak.
Sometimes you just have to give yourself a kick up the *kitten* and say "get on with it, woman!!!".
Just do it (I am not affiliated with Nike
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After 4 years of maintenance you are going to have times where you eat over your goal happen. They. Are. Inevitable.
But they don't go on forever do they? You enjoy times of celebration with others and then that ends and it's back to normal.
At the end of Christmas time here, where it was quite possible my blood was more Toblerone than anything it took a couple of weeks to get back to the job at hand. Even after all this time I got a tad panicky but I breathed through the water weight et al, read some wise words from @WinoGelato then I got my mind and *kitten* back in gear.
Easter, now Easter this year introduced me to Lindt balls. Divine. So I rinsed and repeated Christmas.
I am glad it's over as I found wanted the simplicity of before and I got to the point where I felt sick of feeling sick and stuffed from the indulgences. Hmm, I haven't thought of that but i don't think I could manage long term eating in abandon like I used too.
I can't unlearn calories so I KNOW what I am doing even if I slack off on the logging. You are probably feeling a bit guilty and torn but you are going to have to find your 'happy place'. Not too restrictive and neither a 'free-for-all'. This stuff weight loss and health things take your commitment and time.
All the best.
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Is there a friend or someone you can talk about your fitness goals with? Someone who is behind you and will be supportive, I mean. Sometimes to can help just to talk about why you want to do something, with someone who knows you and can affirm your goals and respond.0
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OP, stop and take a deep breath, then remind yourself what your original goal was and why you started on this journey back in January. Remember the vision you had of a slimmer, healthier, fitter you. Then get back on track to get there, slowly if necessary. Easter was only a just over a week ago. For various reasons, I haven't been to the gym since then either, but it's fine. I'm not beating myself up or thinking I've failed (although I'm kicking myself, because I'm paying to be a member).
I use the app on my phone to check my calories average over the last week. I also know what the TDEE is for my current weight - and if my average is lower than that, even if I've had a big evening out (or two), I know I'm still likely to be losing a bit of weight even if it's not as much as I'd like. Knowing what your TDEE is will help as you may not be overeating, you may be eating 'normally' (ie at maintenance) or you may only be very slightly over your TDEE. Either way, you're not failing, you're just stalled.0 -
Eat, log, next day0
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I enjoyed my Easter was up 7lbs the next morning (body not used to the carbs I suppose) and the scale was back down by Saturday. One day does not dictate the rest of the days that follow.0
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