Was this too much or am I still ok?

gh0stly_pepperz
gh0stly_pepperz Posts: 1 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I didn't want to eat past midnight but I ended up have a bowl of fettuccine with some fried chicken at 2 AM due to my cravings.

I honestly don't know how many calories this is but I'm worried it was close to 1000 and the day just technically started...so I still want to be in a deficit by the end of it. So can I still eat something low calorie later in the day and still be at a deficit?

Thank you for any advice you may have. I just don't wanna sabotage myself

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  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    It doesn't matter WHEN you eat the food, but midnight fried chicken with fettucine for 1000 calories is definitely going to make the rest of the day challenging.

    Are you trying to eat really low calorie all day long? That will lead to midnight kitchen raids. Just try to split your allotted calories between a few meals and don't try to cut your calories too low. If you're set at the low end (like 1200) then consider eating more in general to avoid that hunger.

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  • tomcustombuilder
    tomcustombuilder Posts: 2,280 Member
    Overall weekly calories is the number to look at. Meal timing is irrelevant. Being miserable when dieting down is a recipe for failure
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,527 Member
    All of the above! But my biggest piece of advice if you're looking for consistency is to weigh it, and preferably track it, before you stick it in your head. Otherwise you get stuck exactly as you are, wondering and stressing.
    Sometimes that's not possible, but where you can, it will give you better information to work with.
  • patriciafoley1
    patriciafoley1 Posts: 190 Member
    Next time have one egg scrambled with a slice of cheese on whole wheat bread. It will give you some protein to attack those cravings and it will satisfy you at relatively few calories.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,390 Member
    edited December 2024
    (sorry, did not see the date of the original post! :blush: )

    You try. You learn. You try again

    Un-known, un-weighed, un-prepared by you quantity of fried chicken and fettucine at 2:00am is probably not optimal. ALSO giving up on a day because something went wrong is also not optimal. But, by the same token, trying to desperately turn a side-ways day into a perfect day is just as much not optimal!

    The 2:00am fried chicken and fettuccine day is NOT a write off in terms of long term results; but it is also not a day that can be/should be twisted into immediately contributing to your weight loss by itself.

    The **ONLY** long term correct answer is to carry on in a **REASONABLE** manner.
    Yup, yup, I'm throwing an absolute statement into the fire!

    Because of your 2:00am raid you probably got a bit less hungry than normal. This means that you might be reasonably able to get away with a slightly reduced breakfast or lunch while carrying on more or less normally in terms of the remainder of your day. But if you try to cut everything to the bone the mostly likely outcome will be a restrict and rebound overeat cycle in the middle of the night or the next day.

    So carry on with your original plan... with some small adjustments maybe and even the small adjustments are not, strictly speaking, necessary. Sure, your one time over-eating incident has pushed your maintenance start date back by a day or two. So what? The main thing is that you continue to carry on and do not throw in the towel for the day. And then look at your weekly and your monthly, and not just your daily, picture.

    And all the very relevant stuff discussed above in terms of deficits and logging. Approximate logging is... approximate. It may or may not work for someone. But it is not a precision tool.

    Take care and best of luck!