How do you recover from bad diet day?
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tjsims88
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Do you restrict additional calories the day(s) after? Exercise more? Just Curious... If I go over my calories by a lot I'll only eat about 500 caps the next day
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Nope, I just get back to eating at my goal.7
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Exercise more and try to eat less the next few days3
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I don't do anything.5
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Yup, carry on as usual. I'd rather have to diet for an extra week instead of suffering through a 500 calorie day.9
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I carry on as usual, still losing weight. Had a few days where I was way over.4
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Mycophilia wrote: »Yup, carry on as usual. I'd rather have to diet for an extra week instead of suffering through a 500 calorie day.
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I just look at each day as a new start. I don't worry about what I did the day before, I just focus on eating well today.6
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TavistockToad wrote: »
Yesterday I had 2300 calories when i supposee to have 1500/day
2300 calories probably wasn't much over your maintenance calories. To restrict to 500 calories a day is not a good idea. If you want to drop to 1400 calories per day for a few days, that might be reasonable.
Seriously though, just go back to the plan and let the 2300 calorie day go.6 -
TavistockToad wrote: »
Yesterday I had 2300 calories when i supposee to have 1500/day
Who cares. Just eat right today. Don't sweat it. Don't starve yourself. Just get back on the horse until she bucks ya again.3 -
TavistockToad wrote: »
Yesterday I had 2300 calories when i supposee to have 1500/day
So you ate at maintenance for a day but felt the need to punish yourself? Why?4 -
I think of it as running fuel/extra fuel in the tank and push a bit harder the following day. I may stick to the plan a bit tighter over the next few days, but one day isn't going to hurt in the grand scheme.2
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Penthesilea514 wrote: »Mycophilia wrote: »Yup, carry on as usual. I'd rather have to diet for an extra week instead of suffering through a 500 calorie day.
^Agree
^^Agreed.
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I've done this about one day a week for the past three weeks. Ugh. Every time, I decided to restrict even further for the next few days. I noticed it led to a binge and restrict cycle. It was easy to restrict the following day, since I still felt full from the day before. But on day two and day three, I was tired and lethargic... on day four, I tried to just resume my normal calorie goal and found it really tricky, and then on day seven/eight it all came crashing down again.
So I've decided that if this happens, I'm just going to use it to fuel a good workout the next day, maybe eat fewer calories the following day (if that's what comes naturally), and get back on the wagon.5 -
I eat more on weekends (maintenance) and less on weeks days. Use a schedule, or allow a cheat meal if needed, but don't go too low....and then cycle back to too high.
This planned schedule or planned "cheat" meal is nothing to kick yourself over.0 -
I pick myself up and just remember that it's only one day.3
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It's just one day.
Did you know that mfp calories aren't maintenance calories? You potentially have anywhere from 250-1000 calories before you hit maintenance (depending on how many pounds per week you selected to lose). It's unhealthy and unnecessary to eat 500 the next day.... just eat your normal calories and move on. One day is just a drop in the ocean.4 -
Mycophilia wrote: »Yup, carry on as usual. I'd rather have to diet for an extra week instead of suffering through a 500 calorie day.
Amen to that!0
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