How do you start up again after a bad binging few days??

Start now, not tomorrow. Pick your self up and get back on track. Have a salad for dinner w/ some chicken or other good protein.

One bad day doesn't blow a change of healthy eating (this is NOT a diet); two bad days you're losing focus... Stop it now and get back to the healthy eating. It happened and now its over, right?

Just do it. A few days of binge helps you remember why you don't want to eat that way.

Jean

Forgive yourself for the binge, and then start over again right now. Drink some water and have a healthy dinner tonight.

Exercise! That will make you feel good! And that good feeling will make up for the hard times you are going through. And treat it spiritually.

Hiya

you've got to look at the bigger picture a couple of bad days doesn't mean you can't lose weight it just means you got distracted and life got in the way! It happens to everyone now and then.:ohwell:
2 rubbish days are not going to derail your progress, look at what you have achieved since you started this and have a good think about what you want to achieve and why you want to achieve it.
Like everyone says the only thing to do is pick yourself up and start eating healthy again and think about what you can do to avoid another few rubbish days next time life gets in the way.
Also make sure your eating near your net calorie goal so you don't get too starving and deprived because thats one thing that is guarenteed to make me binge.
Good Luck
Nicki

Hi

I just make sure I log my binge cals too then compare it to my maintance cals you may find that it is not so bad....

i.e.

My target is 1200 cals a day however my maintance is 2560 (acording to MFP) When I last had an "off plan day" I logged everything and it only came to 3100 cals which was only just over 500 cals over maintance this made me feel much better and I found it easier to get back on plan the next day...

Hope this helps

Lucy

That's exactly what I did a week or two ago and it really helped me "get back on the horse" so to speak. Sometimes we think things are much worse than they really are. By logging the "binge" it helps bring us back around to our goal path.

I found that keeping a journal really helps in terms of staying in touch with what I do and why I do it. In a journal you can lay things out in a way that means the most to you, not to anyone else, and you don't have to pull punches or be diplomatic about it. That's priceless.

Also, did you know that most ex-smokers had to try to quit numerous times before they finally kicked the habit for good? I know I did. Keep at it. Some days are going to be better than others. Accept it. Keep at it. If this were easy, everyone would be doing it. It's not easy, and that makes you special.

good luck.

For me one or a couple of bad days work as a perfect motivation to do better next day. Strange enough I feel much more motivated to start over and actually I do better that way.

When I am in a situation like that, I think back to something that a music teacher said to me when I faced an impossible task. We had to play a modern classical composition for 5 dismantled pianos, which were tortured with various tools such as hammers, screws, and also, yes, an electric milk mixer. On top of that, we had to play an improvised canon where one would start to play a melody with the milk mixer, and the next one would pick it up, and so on. Because it was improvised, there was no way to know what the first person would play. Because we had our backs turned to each other, there was no way to see what he played. And making out that one melody you were supposed to repeat among all the other sounds that were going on was basically impossible.

Yet, the composer (our teacher) insisted that we should try. He agreed that it was an impossible task. But he told us that no matter how often we lost track of the melody we should repeat, no matter how many mistakes we made trying to repeat it, and no matter how impossible the task is, it would be worth to keep trying to do the best possible. And it's true: By trying, something would come out that, even if it wasn't a real canon, was sounding nicer and more familiar than if everybody had given up and played what they wanted.

The bottom line, and I am thinking back to that often, is: It's always worth it to keep trying to do a good job at a task, even if it seems (or is!) impossible, because the outcome is not yes or no, but a range of possibilities, and everytime you push harder you improve the outcome a bit.

Don't get discouraged. A couple of bad days don't undo what you have already achieved, and, more importantly: They can not possibly undo what you are yet to achieve!

For me one or a couple of bad days work as a perfect motivation to do better next day. Strange enough I feel much more motivated to start over and actually I do better that way.

amen