A week of bad eating; Will it effect my weight loss?

What makes you think it would?

Well, rest easy, because they don't. Fuel burned is fuel burned. If nothing is left, nothing can get stored to make you gain weight.

Calories are what matters with weight loss. You can lose weight on a diet of twinkies.

If most of the food you have been eating has come from a restaurant though there is a stronger possibility that you have eaten more calories than you think. Depending on your rate of loss you may lose a little slower than you were or not at all.

Assuming the above paragraph happened though try not to worry about it. It is a pie in the sky dream that you can lose weight for an extended period of time super consistently on schedule. Life is messy and we are human. Perfection is not required and a good plan is flexible and forgiving.

It sounds like you may need to compromise on your food a little so you don't go from one extreme to the next. Try making sure that a certain amount of filthy food is in your diet so you don't feel deprived.

meharmahshahid wrote: »

NovusDies wrote: »

Calories are what matters with weight loss. You can lose weight on a diet of twinkies.

If most of the food you have been eating has come from a restaurant though there is a stronger possibility that you have eaten more calories than you think. Depending on your rate of loss you may lose a little slower than you were or not at all.

Assuming the above paragraph happened though try not to worry about it. It is a pie in the sky dream that you can lose weight for an extended period of time super consistently on schedule. Life is messy and we are human. Perfection is not required and a good plan is flexible and forgiving.

It sounds like you may need to compromise on your food a little so you don't go from one extreme to the next. Try making sure that a certain amount of filthy food is in your diet so you don't feel deprived.

First of all, thank you so much for the advice . I'm not really craving these foods very much, but my family has a guest over, which causes to eat these kinds of food more. I really hope I don't lose my progress

You don't really lose progress unless you eat a surplus of calories. A surplus means you have eaten your calorie goal + the built in deficit + more. The calorie goal + the deficit calories is your maintenance calories. That is the estimated level you would eat at to neither gain nor lose weight.

In 2 years of weight loss I have spent most of my time in a calorie deficit. I have spent some days eating maintenance calories, and I have spent a small number of days eating a surplus (think holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas and vacations). The maintenance days were mostly a wash which is fine. I don't need to lose weight everyday just most days. The surplus days caused a minor regression in progress but I knew that in advance and I decided it was okay. None of it kept me from losing more than 250 pounds. I may have added a little time to the end but my life didn't stop because I chose to lose weight.

Weight loss is not fragile. That is a myth that is perpetuated by a lack of understanding of how the bathroom scale works. You can do everything "right" and the scale will stall at times and even go up. This is normal but because people freak out about it, I was once one of them, it makes you think that the tiniest thing can derail you and that perfect adherence is necessary. It is not. By the way here is a good article about the scale for when yours gives you some news about all the restaurant food you have been eating that may seem alarming:

https://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations/

You can lose weight eating 100% “junk” as long as you are in a calorie deficit, but due to the high calorie count of those foods you won’t be satisfied for long.

Any gain on the scales right now will be water weight as long as you aren’t eating over your maintenance calories.