cake blew my whole day
takuwinds
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My work people surprised me with rich chocolate cake yesterday to celebrate my birthday (my b-day was 3 weeks ago). I had a slice and logged it at about 200 calories. My thinking was, I will make this my snack and just go on with my day. I know cake is pure sugar and I will be starving an hour later. I know I didn't have to eat the darn cake. I could have pretended to have some and just toss the piece I got. But nooooo! I ate it.
OK so today is a new day and the cake is in the past and I'm moving forward.
OK so today is a new day and the cake is in the past and I'm moving forward.
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I hope it was everything you dreamed of!3
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I ate cake this morning. Chocolate peanut butter poke cake with marshmallow topping. I don't even know how to log that. It was freaking delicious. No regrets.19
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One slice of cake didn't blow your whole day nor throw off your weight loss targets.12
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http://physiqonomics.com/the-art-of-the-*kitten*-up/
just change the word *kitten* to the F word and it will take you to the site. I like this guy he's pretty informative in an easy to understand way.2 -
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I doubt the cake was pure sugar, but I hope it was pure deliciousness.7
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My work people surprised me with rich chocolate cake yesterday to celebrate my birthday (my b-day was 3 weeks ago). I had a slice and logged it at about 200 calories. My thinking was, I will make this my snack and just go on with my day. I know cake is pure sugar and I will be starving an hour later. I know I didn't have to eat the darn cake. I could have pretended to have some and just toss the piece I got. But nooooo! I ate it.
OK so today is a new day and the cake is in the past and I'm moving forward.
Cake isn't pure sugar, it contains plenty of fat too. Did eating the cake lead to a binge later on? If not, lose the guilt and anguish. If someone brings in a cake once a year to celebrate your birthday, why not enjoy it? 200 calories won't derail your weight loss, and unless this happens on a regular basis you're giving the indulgence way too much power over you.9 -
A little cake once in a while isn't a bad thing. I tend to think of my calories as a whole for the week. If I go over one day, no big deal, I'll make up for it with smarter choices later, this lets me eat lighter most days and drink beer and pizza on the weekends.1
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@mph323 I did later binge on spaghetti. I know I'm blaming food for my setback but no one held a gun to my head and forced me to eat the dang food. I did beat myself up a little but I'm ok now. I recovered and today is a new day to get back on track.
Thank you everyone for the encouragement, it helps me a lot.0 -
@mph323 I did later binge on spaghetti. I know I'm blaming food for my setback but no one held a gun to my head and forced me to eat the dang food. I did beat myself up a little but I'm ok now. I recovered and today is a new day to get back on track.
Thank you everyone for the encouragement, it helps me a lot.
Got it. 200 calories worth of cake isn't worth the guilt, but binging later is an issue, I agree.0 -
If there ever comes a day where I feel guilty for eating cake I really hope somebody does shoot me.
you had one slice of cake not the whole thing and you chose to "binge on spaghetti" that had nothing to do with the cake but everything to do with your choices!3 -
taku,
This is very important -- it is self sabotaging to take one "bad" choice and decide that the whole day is blown so no decisions after that matter anymore. Eating a slice of cake is no grave sin. Log it and move on.6 -
Stop panicking over 200 calories (or the spaghetti). If you were my mom's daughter your birthday cake would be 800 calories a slice. I enjoy the hell out of it every year along with 2 other desserts, a high calorie salad, and stuffed zucchini and grape leaves. My birthday usually comes at 4000 calories, and yet I'm still alive and way lighter. Didn't make a lick of difference to my weight loss. Stop looking at days and start looking at weeks, months, or even years. A year where you are lighter than the previous is a victory. Most people don't achieve that.14
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Err what the amused monkey says! Plus I would really like to eat at her/her mom's place someday
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For my birthday this year, my husband decided that he would prepare a meal for both of our parents, siblings and children and everyone would be at our house.
We decided on Chicken Parmesan (easy for him to prepare large batches and OOHHHH so delicious when you use chicken thighs!)
Well...i had to think of a delicious dessert to go with such a meal! I really thought tiramisu would be a good match...but I really wanted to make a no-holds-barred cheesecake. So I figured I could combine them. And yes, yes you can. Tiramisu cheesecake is now my favorite dessert and I think I'm going to make it every time I can. I calculated it to be about 800 calories per slice, after I divided the total into 16.
That was the beginning of May. I still remember the day and how awesome the food was. I was initially worried about going crazy that day (I had lost over 20lbs since the beginning of the year at that point.) It's about 5 months later and I'm about 15lbs down from where I was that day. So I guess splurging that one day wasn't so terrible!
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If I had eaten the cake I would have stopped at the store on the way home and gotten a pint of Ben and Jerry's and a large bag of Cheetos since I already ruined my day lol3
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200 calories is a tiny slice of cake... just FYI the average cupcake is 300-400 calories lol.4
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My work people surprised me with rich chocolate cake yesterday to celebrate my birthday (my b-day was 3 weeks ago). I had a slice and logged it at about 200 calories. My thinking was, I will make this my snack and just go on with my day. I know cake is pure sugar and I will be starving an hour later. I know I didn't have to eat the darn cake. I could have pretended to have some and just toss the piece I got. But nooooo! I ate it.
OK so today is a new day and the cake is in the past and I'm moving forward.
This post makes me want to cry.
1. if you only having 200 calories of cake blows your whole day, you are under eating. 2. I need like more than 200 calories worth of cake if I'm going to eat it! 3. Your mind set is totally off if this actually threw you off for the day. The whole point of losing weight sustainably is to work these things into your diet, and when you do go over know that a couple of hundred calories isn't a huge difference in the grand scheme of things.
Do you think having 1 small little piece of cake is what made you over weight in the first place? I mean really how small was this piece of rich chocolate cake, that it was only 200 calories! That is willpower there in itself! I need to know the size of this damn piece of cake! Ok, I'm done.
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Goober1142 wrote: »If I had eaten the cake I would have stopped at the store on the way home and gotten a pint of Ben and Jerry's and a large bag of Cheetos since I already ruined my day lol
But that's the point: you can't really ruin a day to the point where it makes sense to literally eat anything.
You can take a high calorie day and turn it into a higher calorie one, but it's not as if your body just stops processing calories once you go over your goal.
If I go 500 over, there's no point to go 1,000 over just because the day is already ruined (unless, like people are pointing out, it's a special day with foods that they have determined to be worth it).5 -
One thing I have realized lately is that even though I have enough calories for cake or sweets they aren't always worth it because they turn on the CRAVE machine...it's definitely easier when that monster is quiet.2
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I had an entire bag of tater tots the other day, but I didn't let it ruin my day. I skipped dinner because I was still full from lunch (I don't recommend skipping meals, but I was so stuffed did would have me sick). Logged it, and moved on with tracking the next day.
It took 37 years to get to my highest weight and one year to get where I am now. That's 37 years of habits, thought patterns, and beliefs to overcome, versus one year of better behavior. Of course it's hard.
Forgive yourself, start over every meal, and keep on going. You can do this.4 -
Oh you guys are the best and I mean that. Yes I agree, birthdays are meant to be celebrated and cake is meant to be eaten.5
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Be wary of the all or nothing mentality! I fall into it all the time and it can be so toxic. It's OK to have some cake sometimes. Or even some spaghetti! Just get back into your usual healthier habits the next day. It's all good.2
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staticsplit wrote: »Be wary of the all or nothing mentality! I fall into it all the time and it can be so toxic. It's OK to have some cake sometimes. Or even some spaghetti! Just get back into your usual healthier habits the next day. It's all good.
The next meal*2 -
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Goober1142 wrote: »If I had eaten the cake I would have stopped at the store on the way home and gotten a pint of Ben and Jerry's and a large bag of Cheetos since I already ruined my day lol
Why? If you smashed your thumb with a hammer would you then smash the rest of your hand because, hey, your hand is already sore?10 -
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not helpful but...Mmmmm cake1
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JaydedMiss wrote: »staticsplit wrote: »Be wary of the all or nothing mentality! I fall into it all the time and it can be so toxic. It's OK to have some cake sometimes. Or even some spaghetti! Just get back into your usual healthier habits the next day. It's all good.
The next meal*
That's true. I almost always binge late at night if I do, which is why I think in terms of the next day.0 -
staticsplit wrote: »JaydedMiss wrote: »staticsplit wrote: »Be wary of the all or nothing mentality! I fall into it all the time and it can be so toxic. It's OK to have some cake sometimes. Or even some spaghetti! Just get back into your usual healthier habits the next day. It's all good.
The next meal*
That's true. I almost always binge late at night if I do, which is why I think in terms of the next day.
yeah im a night eater to
Hard to remember not everyone is at times lol. Even thinking in terms of next mouthful would be beter thn what we both said lol 0
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