Carb attack!
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modustee3
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Help! I have been trying to lose weight and doing pretty well in the eating department except the last 2 days i have let myself fall into emotional eating and for some reason my comfort has been italian bread toast with butter..i feel like im killing myself with carbs and screwing up all of my effort! What kind of workout is best for a post carb binge?? Also we are doing biggest loser at wprk and we weigh in on fridays zo i gotta hit it hard this week....though i do have a 3hour roller derby practice tomorrow but by then all of this will be distributed and my weight will be on its way up 🙄
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If this was a substantial increase in carbs for you (and it certainly sounds like that's the case), you will see a spike in water weight the next couple of days. Then it will go away. That's it... no special workouts or counter-measures.
If you actually ate bread & butter to the tune of your maintenance calories or more, you may have impacted your rate of fat loss for the week somewhat, but likely not as much as you think.
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Punishing yourself with exercise isn't a good habit. Emotional eating is understandably hard, but can you perhaps pinpoint what might have triggered it? Rough days, being too restrictive, anything?
The only thing you can do is log it and move forward. You can't undo it, all you can do is get back on a reasonable deficit and try and do better going forward.16 -
Help! I have been trying to lose weight and doing pretty well in the eating department except the last 2 days i have let myself fall into emotional eating and for some reason my comfort has been italian bread toast with butter..i feel like im killing myself with carbs and screwing up all of my effort! What kind of workout is best for a post carb binge?? Also we are doing biggest loser at wprk and we weigh in on fridays zo i gotta hit it hard this week....though i do have a 3hour roller derby practice tomorrow but by then all of this will be distributed and my weight will be on its way up 🙄
Why are you focusing on the carbs from the bread and not the fat from the butter? Fat has more calories per gram (9 vs 4 per gram of carb).
No need to use exercise as a punishment (and if you're increasing what you're used to you may see water retention/uptick on the scale from that). That's a bad habit to get into and can lead to all sorts of problems down the road.
Just get back to tracking your calories tomorrow and move on-one day is nothing in the scheme of things.20 -
Was it emotional eating or have you perhaps restricted your food choices and/or calorie in take in a way that is unsustainable and you've had a 'bounce binge'?
If you cut your calories too severely eventually you're going to crack and when you do you'll likely end up consuming more calories than you would if you'd maintained an appropriate deficit.
Have you cut out entire food groups leading to you feeling deprived? I know if I try to completely deny myself of foods I enjoy eventually the craving for them gets too much and I go wild.8 -
Was it emotional eating or have you perhaps restricted your food choices and/or calorie in take in a way that is unsustainable and you've had a 'bounce binge'?
If you cut your calories too severely eventually you're going to crack and when you do you'll likely end up consuming more calories than you would if you'd maintained an appropriate deficit.
Have you cut out entire food groups leading to you feeling deprived? I know if I try to completely deny myself of foods I enjoy eventually the craving for them gets too much and I go wild.
Just to illustrate this point:
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Thabk you everyone im feeling better...im not restricting any certain food geoyps, just cutting back on sugar and carbs. Im just very in need of a mental health day from work and getting home i let out a relaxed sigh and start making toast and savor it lol! It isnt as bad as i think, honestly but i felt overwhelmed by letting myself go crazy and the guilt after since ive been doing so well. Thanks again! Onward!2
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It's absolutely amazing to me how the "carbs are from the devil" stuff has taken such a hold on our culture. While it's perfectly okay to cut carbs and obtain a deficit that way, it doesn't follow that carbs are bad. OP I'm not saying that's what you're doing, but the focus of your post caught my attention. And "carbs are bad" posts come up on MFP all the time.
But...in relation to your original post:
1. Don't punish yourself with exercise
2. Don't punish yourself with an excessive deficit to make up for one day or even several. If you're generally disciplined, one day will cost you one day in time to goal. Since your goal, whatever it is, pertains to the rest of your life, it should be manageable enough to account for a day like that every once in awhile.
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Thabk you everyone im feeling better...im not restricting any certain food geoyps, just cutting back on sugar and carbs. Im just very in need of a mental health day from work and getting home i let out a relaxed sigh and start making toast and savor it lol! It isnt as bad as i think, honestly but i felt overwhelmed by letting myself go crazy and the guilt after since ive been doing so well. Thanks again! Onward!
That's an contradictory statement.12 -
Help! I have been trying to lose weight and doing pretty well in the eating department except the last 2 days i have let myself fall into emotional eating and for some reason my comfort has been italian bread toast with butter..i feel like im killing myself with carbs and screwing up all of my effort! What kind of workout is best for a post carb binge?? Also we are doing biggest loser at wprk and we weigh in on fridays zo i gotta hit it hard this week....though i do have a 3hour roller derby practice tomorrow but by then all of this will be distributed and my weight will be on its way up 🙄
This is terrible and you should be complaining to HR about it. 'Biggest loser' competitions encourage unhealthy rates and methods of weight loss, and can trigger eating disorders; particularly in anyone who has previously had an eating disorder, which you and HR would not necessarily know about.
They're also inherently unfair, as the fatter someone is the faster they can lose.
I'm also willing to bet that your contest is not taking into account that the weight of a menstruating woman can go up no matter how fast they're actually losing fat, because of period-related water retention.11 -
Help! I have been trying to lose weight and doing pretty well in the eating department except the last 2 days i have let myself fall into emotional eating and for some reason my comfort has been italian bread toast with butter..i feel like im killing myself with carbs and screwing up all of my effort! What kind of workout is best for a post carb binge?? Also we are doing biggest loser at wprk and we weigh in on fridays zo i gotta hit it hard this week....though i do have a 3hour roller derby practice tomorrow but by then all of this will be distributed and my weight will be on its way up 🙄
This is terrible and you should be complaining to HR about it. 'Biggest loser' competitions encourage unhealthy rates and methods of weight loss, and can trigger eating disorders; particularly in anyone who has previously had an eating disorder, which you and HR would not necessarily know about.
They're also inherently unfair, as the fatter someone is the faster they can lose.
I'm also willing to bet that your contest is not taking into account that the weight of a menstruating woman can go up no matter how fast they're actually losing fat, because of period-related water retention.
Agreed.
I used to work in an office where (goodness knows why) some of the guys had an ongoing competition to see who had done the 'best' poo of the day.
They had a chart, an over-thought-out scoring system, extensive side notes... but thankfully, no photos.
I thought this was a teeny bit inappropriate for an office... but would find a poorly structured weight loss competition even more embarrassing and less office-friendly!1 -
Echo on the "biggest loser" bad idea stuff. It was a bad idea for the people who did it on TV and a huge money-maker for those who propped that *kitten* up.1
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As long as the Biggest Loser competition isn't official or mandatory then I don't see it as too big of a problem. Also as long as it's all done in fun, not taken seriously and people understand that the 'winner' isn't necessarily, really the most successful at losing fat.
I demonstrated this when I they did one of these competition's at a place I worked at years ago. I deliberately maintained my weight during all the weigh ins. Then, using a combination of being male, by far the heaviest, a strict calorie/carb reduction in the final week and a weight cut in the last 48 hours was able to win the competition by a good margin. I of course refused the prize because I'd just gamed the system to prove a point rather than compete in a fair way or in the spirit of the competition.4 -
less carbs (for some people - I'm one of those people) also leads to making you feel like *kitten* emotionally. Therefore wanting to eat more.
Carbs are not the devil.
Just as an example - I can eat 1500 cals LCHF and be a starving miserable human being, or 1500 cals with balanced macros and decent carbs and be a normal functioning human being who gets a bit peckish but can handle it until the next refeed.
Same number of calories - completely different feeling.
Everyone is different tho, so yeah... just my 2c.5 -
I had to adjust my carbs in mfp- frm 40 C/30P/30F to make mine more carb heavy- I just love my fruits and veggies, pasta or bread etc- so I now do 50C/ 25P25F- may still change it- more carbs keep me more filled- esp. slow buring carbs- BUT there is no reason to go low carb unless you WANT to do it0
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I make a double serving of homemade oatmeal every chilly night and sleep so good. I save enough calories to have my 300 calorie splurge.2
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As Louie Anderson says - Butter is evil. Comfort food equals bread and butter, lots of both. The only way I can lose weight is when I eat only 1 or 2 portions of carbs a day (and I don't mean the carbs in some fruits/veggies.11
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Carbs, the breakfast of champions!0
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