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I just ate a donut
brother_j
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I feel like I cheated on my wife. I just ate the most delicious donut, but now I am over my caloric intake for the day. Do I not eat dinner and wait till tomorrow, or do I have dinner and eat less calories tomorrow?
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You eat dinner and move on...look at the big picture...in the big picture, it's pretty irrelevant.25
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have a lower calorie dinner and carry on. It's 200 calories4
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Can you do some of both? Have a slightly smaller dinner tonight, and slightly fewer cals tomorrow (and maybe the next day)? Look at your cals by the week and see when you get it balanced out, then carry on as usual.5
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Do you know what your maintenance calories are? I bet that doughnut didn't take you over maintenance.
I have my weight loss calories set at 1860. But maintenance is ~2300-2400 calories. So even if I ate over by a doughnut, about 300 calories, I'd still be at 2160 and under maintenance. Learning my maintenance calories has really helped stop the freakouts like yours.
Log it and get back on the original plan, including eating dinner.25 -
Log it and have a slightly lighter supper tonight. Don't punish yourself for eating something that you enjoyed, even though it didn't fit into your plan today. Over time you will figure out that: 1) in the long run occasional treats are not going to stop progress and 2) you can enjoy your food and meet your goals too. Find a balance, but more importantly try to not let guilt play into this.9
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I personally wouldn't skip dinner unless I wasn't particularly hungry and I knew it put me over maintenance for the day, at the end of the day it's just one doughnut
look at it as a treat and move on 5 -
In the grand scheme of things, one doughnut doesn't mean anything. The key is overall consistency. Get back to your regularly planned deficit tomorrow.7
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I'm taking a different tack since OP's diary is open.
If you're hungry eat. You already hit your fat and protein numbers, so maybe make it mostly vegetables - which are pretty low cal...and seem to be lacking in your day so far.
I would caution you that you are using generic entries which may or may not work in the long term. "3 chicken breasts" for 330 calories? You have no idea the actual size of them, or were they some preportioned thing?
Also...
I see TWO donuts!!!!!!
I've been known to eat a whole box in one day, so no judgement here.19 -
Those frozen Kroger's chicken breasts, I buy those. They have widely varying sizes in those bags. You might want to start weighing them.4
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I see that you logged 1/2 a Krispy Kreme Cinnamon Apple Filled Donut (165 cals) & a Wegman's Coconut Cream Pie Donut (113 g) at 365 cals. My question ... were these good because I have not ever had either of these?
Its not quite a bad as cheating on your wife, you have ask her for forgiveness and hope she does not leave you in the process. This is just a donut (or 2?) you don't get to go to jail or have to sleep on the couch for enjoying a donut.
What you do for dinner will ultimately be up to you, this is not a failure, don't be so hard on yourself you are in this for the long haul.9 -
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Those Krispy kreme Cinnamon Apple Filled Donuts are the only thing I eat from KK. Da bomb.2
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Must have been a damn big donut if the calories exceeded what you would normally eat for dinner3
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workout... go for a walk, burn some calories and make today a success.2
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Go for a walk or to the gym. Eat dinner. Don't stress about it.2
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go take a walk or do some other cardio and work that donut off. No reason not to eat tonight!0
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Every Friday, the boss buys donuts for the office. I've not been interested, and had no issue in choosing my Special K over them. Until last week.... I knew on Thursday morning that I was eating a Friday donut. Sweetwater's Donut Mill calls it a Peanut Butter Cup. A fat evil thing, stuffed with fluffy chocolate filling, and topped with delicous peanut butter icing. Worth. Every. Calorie.17
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Grab your heart rate strap and your jump rope! Put on some good music and jump enough calories to have a few donuts.2
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Eat dinner and move on. I'm sure that donut was amazing tho!!2
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I ate at a buffet last night and even had a roll. I am almost certain I went over by a couple of hundred calories but I do not feel one ounce of guilt. Just keep moving forward. Today I chose lower calorie foods that keep me full. Going to have vegetables for dinner tonight. It's about balance over the long run.3
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Why don't you just have a giant salad for dinner instead to cut down on the calories. I would just cut out the calories from my dinner and make a big salad with lots of veggies <200 calories and hopefully only be over my total by <100.0
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have dinner. keep it in check. resume normal operations tomorrow.5
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Just keep doing it again and again. Eventually your conscience won’t bother you anymore.2
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Eat dinner for sure. Try not to overthink it. Weight loss is a mind game. It's done you gotta move forward. You could exercise and take your mind off it and burn the calories as well.1
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YUM!2
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And it was a Krispy Kreme...we don't have those where I live, a mixed blessing because they are so good. I can't remember the last time I ate a donut. Hmm...that's sad.1
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Today I’m ravenous and you know what? I don’t care about keeping my deficit it’s just one day and I know myself better if I get too hungry, later I’ll end up bingeing and I DON’T want that
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well, im sure the Earth will stop spinning on its axis now, and we will all plummet to a cold, dark, gravity-less death in the deep void of space.
or not.
it was a donut. youll be okay. promise.3
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