I went over my calorie allotment for today, and I'm not apologetic about it at all

After eating my calories for the day, I found myself still hungry. I still had half a piece of the sugar free coconut cream pie in the fridge, and wanted some croutons in my white bean chili as it was rather bland. I chose to eat them both, even though it pushed me over by about 260 calories.

But my reasoning is this:

1) I've been doing very well in sticking to goal for the last 3 months. From what I can remember, the only time I went over in that time was the purposeful refeed on my birthday. Letting loose a little on the reins once in a while, especially as long as I tighten back up promptly the next day isn't going to hurt me at all.

2) I've been really active the last 2 weeks especially with walks, elliptical sessions, low impact aerobic videos. I've only been counting back 1/4-1/3 of the calories, trying to keep a buffer going. Today I used as a rest day and only took an hour walk around the 4 acre piece of bottom land my parents own. I had no way of figuring out the distance, though, so went conservative and only counted 1/3 of the calories given for 2.5 mph, though I was probably a little faster than that. Also, the ground is uncultivated and very rough, so it was challenging terrain to be walking anyway - not like the smooth, paved streets of town!

while I know that about 6,000 of the 15,000+ steps my step counter says I got in today are from playing the piano for the church live streamed services today, that still means that 9,000+ are legitimate steps, and pushes me a lot closer to being lightly active rather than sedentary. When I compare sedentary to lightly active for my weight, there's about a 250 calorie difference, which means I was approaching being int he hole by that 250 calories. Subtracting out the exercise portion of those that I had counted still means I was in the whole by probably 225 calories. And truth be told, most days this week, that has been the story - I've truly been more lightly active than sedentary, but while I ate back a portion of my exercise calories, I left my settings at sedentary.

All that is to say I believe that I don't think eating over today is going to mess up my loss rate for this week, as I think I am set to lose faster than I had planned anyway.

so I had my pie and I enjoyed every bite! lol

I'm off tomorrow and have plans for the day if the weather is agreeable. I want to mow my neighbor's lawn (shouldn't take more than 45 minutes, but its all hillside) and get some plants moved and bulbs planted. I want to change the oil and filters in my riding mower. I want to do some laundry. and maybe some other things as well, so tomorrow is planned to be a fairly active day too.

I tried my hand at making homemade potato chips in my air fryer. For about 1/2 of hte potato, I used my mandolin with thin slice, but felt like it was chipping the potato instead of slicing it, so I put the rest in the slicer for my food processor. I then soaked them in water all day, changing it out twice before trying them off, spraying them with oil, and tossing them in the air fyrer. They turned out great! though the best were the ones that were the mandolin sliced ones, so I'll keep that in mind for next time.

I woke up at 3 am this morning feeling very nauseous - bad enough that I actually went to get a bucket just in case. I rarely, rarely ever - what's a nice, benign term? expectorate? lol - anyway, I rarely ever actually do that; usually I just suffer. I had a touch of food poisoning back in the summer, and had thought this morning that perhaps something I ate yesterday didn't agree with me? Was my body rebelling at the extra strenuous work I did yesterday? I laid really still and eventually, the feeling subsided and I was able to fall asleep.

Well, at lunch, I've been trying to to an aerobics video, and right before I started it, I ate a little bit of roast beef lunch meat I had in the fridge, which I had bought on Saturday. Now, about 3 hours after eating that, I'm feeling slightly nauseous again. I think I figured out what got me this morning.....hopefully, since I was able to ride it out this morning, hopefully this afternoon, the feeling will pass quickly.

good luck to you, Alexandra!

This is the very same hat purchased a second time. The first one has been outside for many miles of walking in various types of weather.

bmeadows380 wrote: »

wow - that is bleached! How old is that hat?

According to my order history it is 1 year and 12 days old.

@bmeadows380

Banking enough calories over 6 days to eat one day at maintenance each week has given me an additional benefit. I won't say that going into and out of a higher calorie day is always effortless but it is usually that way.

It also helps that this is exactly what I want for now and the rest of my life. On special occasions or sometimes just for fun I want to be able to cut loose and eat a lot of food. I do not experience guilt because this has been my plan from the very beginning. One of my earliest sayings was that I did not want to be sitting in the corner at Thanksgiving eating celery sticks. If almost every other day in November is "controlled" there is no reason I have to do it either.

One of the reasons I never wanted to consider weight loss surgery was because it potentially meant I would be permanently forced to eat fist sized amounts of food for FOREVER. While I will be the first to admit I have not been in good control of myself and if it were as simple as crime and punishment perhaps I should have to eat that way for the rest of my life. However, that is a harsh way of viewing things. I have to be willing to extend myself some grace.

@speyerj

My digestive system is fine unless you count my foolish choice to eat too many spicy things which has created a "burning" exit. I had some very minor reflux but not enough to need medication.

I wouldn't be worried about carbs or sugar anyway. The are the easiest things to digest and other than a slightly elevated blood glucose level for a day or so afterwards they have very little residual implications for most people.

It is really only the big water weight gain that presents a problem and if you do not count the negative impact on reflection in the bathroom mirror it is only exercise that is hindered by it.

If I had known there would be a sundae bar at your place I would have skipped the milkshake.

Ha!..every time I binge eat I am very sick....does that make me stop doing it?...evidently not...after over 40+ years abusing my digestive system, I am finally getting a handle on it ( somewhat )....I am working on taking off the last 2 of the 8 lbs I gained over a week ago... I use to throw in the towel after a binge and continue eating for days until I was almost in a self induced sugar coma....now I am able to get back on track fairly quick...overeating huge amounts does not feel “ normal “ any longer and I don’t enjoy the thrill of it...I feel uncomfortable and lethargic afterwards...and yes, I have been to a psychologist and a nutritionist which both helped somewhat...at least I know the reasons I binge....only no answers how to prevent it from happening....I am not even sure what triggers an episode...I am doing better and after losing 75 lbs I feel like I am gaining some control over this problem...I know it is something I will have to deal with the rest of my life...