cake blew my whole day

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.

takuwinds wrote: »

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.

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.

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!

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).