Guilt?

pinkleah456 · August 2011

My calories are set at 1200 a day and I'm regularly eating under this by 100/200 and burning off 400+ at least five days a week.
I can't get my head around eating back my exercise calories as I just feel guilty like I have 'ruined' all my hard work. I always work out in the evening and eat my dinner after my workouts so I'm never going to bed hungry.
Today for example I have added in all my food and exercise and it's telling my I have earned a few hundred more calories but I can't bring myself to eat them for fear of gaining weight

Does anyone else feel this way?

springtrio · August 2011

Yep. Up your calories. I put mine to 1,500. Make up for all the hard exercise you do. I burn A LOT of calories through running and weight lifting and I had to for my own sanity. Scale is going to move slower, but IMO it's worth it.

Jayfitness27 · August 2011

I have felt that on occasions but my husband probably might sympathize with your situation easier because he is very much tied in guilt when it come to food and exercise, many times he says he'll starve himself and I have to intervene and tell him no and make him something to eat regardless, I think that the guilt is more of a pattern in which you go through when your used to a routine and then break it for even a minute.. the psychological aspect of our obsession with eating and exercise always tends to lead us to feel like a kid who did something bad, and is afraid of the consequences, yet we are adults and our shame only lies in not admittng that it is ok to feel this way.. We dont have anyone ( or shouldnt) who is berating us like this to feel guilty.. It happens I know sometimes drinking cola when i stopped all together on occasions makes me feel guilty about the weight that i might gain back from the 8oz glass or more ... I think honestly we need to say I am loved , I am cared for, and I am ... special because I am me... if you can live with yourself to extend yourself for a second and say that I will treat myself to something good after this step of admitting my problem or fixing a minor flaw in the complex to help make life easier it might be just for the best...

CocoNuttie · August 2011

I used to eat under my goal calories and didnt eat my exercise calories back, all because of guild as well. It worked fine for 2 months or so. Then I hit a plateau for nearly 3 weeks and only manage to come out of it by eating more

ashlielinn · August 2011

I feel exactly the same! I can't get my brain to realize my body NEEDS to be netting at least 1200 calories a day.

ilookthetype · August 2011

I get this, all too well, I come from a disordered eating background, so I have a grasp on not only the guilt but how to overcome it. You have to not associate food and guilt, or it is likely you, too, will develope an ED. Food isn't to be feared, think of it simply as fuel. Eat clean, whole grains, lean meat, eat "guilt free" food and be sure to eat enough of it, you're only getting a couple hundred calories a day and that is really not ok, unless you are morbidly obese, but, looking at your picture you look like you are at a healthy weight, which means losing more weight to get to (what I choose to assume is a healthy) GW will be extremely difficult, you need to eat more calories so your body can burn that instead of muscle.

juliesummers · August 2011

I have the same problem. I have a history of eating disorders and, while I love this site, I do find it a bit triggering.
Every day I burn at least 800 to 1100 calories through exercise, but have a hard time eating more than 600 calories.
I know it's just going to **** up my metabolism in the long run, but I have a hard time eating more when I know it's just going to keep making that number rise.
Does anyone have any advice for getting past this hang up?

Lozzy_82 · August 2011

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