fallen off the wagon today and yesterday...help?

Today's a new day! Just do what you can to eat the right choices. I fall off weekly!

Eating a lot of protein can really help to get cravings back under control, at least 20 g of protein. I like to have a high-protein breakfast, and then I rarely get cravings the rest of the day.

Its really a mind game in the begginning. If you plan out what your going to eat for the whole day that may help, it does me. Stay on track and you'll be fine.

hi everyone. I joined last week, and after a successful weigh-in yesterday I suddenly lost all resolve and pigged out yesterday. so today I thought I'd make up for it, so didn't eat much till the evening and have just had a food frenzy! any thoughts/advice? thanks, Jen

Don't put off making better choices.

I am not a psychologist/psychiatrist by any means, so I'm only speaking from my own personal experience, so take it as that. Are you self-sabotaging? You stated that "after a successful weigh-in" you pigged out....given the order of events it seems to me like self-sabotage. I used to do this. My advice is to only weigh yourself once a week to measure your progress.

Also, are you eating enough calories? I haven't checked your food diary, but before when I used to restrict myself too much, I'd binge after a period of time, and the cycle would continue. What are your current weekly goals?

Not eating all day makes your body tell your brain: FEED ME NOW!

What you should have done was plan your meals out for today, carefully allotting calories/carbs for each meal. That way you eat only what you should, and you also stay full so that at night time your body doesn't freak out and insist you eat everything in sight.

Remember that what you want to do is make a lifestyle change rather than diet. That means some days you will eat more than others and if you allow yourself the room to eat a piece of chocolate today, and then tomorrow for your snack eat a cucumber or a cup of yogurt. It's all about thinking, "If I eat this, will I be able to have 'that' later?"

Good luck!

forget about it! Get back up and keep going..don't do the not eating all day to make up for it though..as you experienced, it'll just make you crazy hungry at the end of the day. If you ever fall off and want to make up for it, do it by burning some extra calories.

The same has happened to me to!!! So many distractions living LIFE!!! Well just dont give up and get back to it!
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First off don't beat yourself up. Log all foods good and bad. Go for a walk, or whatever you enjoy. This is going to be a life long pattern change in your life and is not going to be over night, in one week, or maybe even a month.

I am most successful when I log everything. Not because I eat so well, but because I can go back and look at what I did, right and wrong. Some weeks at weight in I am devestated. I either stayed the same or didn't lose. I go back and look at my log and I either didn't exercise or fell off too many times. I usually allow myself once or twice in a week to eat something off plan. Carl's Jr oreo shake is 740 calories, but sometimes that is what I need. I just don't have one more than once a week.

Keep trying, I've been at this for 18 months now and I lost 1-2 lbs a week (Most weeks). I am now down 129 lbs. Went from a size 28 to size 12. You can do it too!!

When I fall off the wagon, I do a double-backflip into a swan dive - judges give it 3 'tens'. I know how you feel. You dust yourself off! THATS what you do! You are in this for the long haul! It took me almost 10 months to get where I am now and I still have a ways to go! (Starting weight in Jan 2011 - 285-290. Current weight, 211)