bad eating day... what next

The best advice I can give is to 'forgive' yourself. It is ok to have these 'cheat days', and still loose successfully. :-)

Someone posted about turning the day around - agreed! I try to squeeze in an exercise in on days like this, it just makes me feel better.

Whether you have a bad day or just a bad meal, recognize that you had a bad minute, and gather yourself up and get ready for the next meal/day.
Don't let one bad meal ruin you frame of mind.

Keep looking forward and remember how great you felt last time you stood on the scales and saw a loss!

let it go..get back to your healthy eating & exercise days..

I can relate. I went to a wedding this weekend and the first day I didn't follow my plan, but wasn't too far off. The second day I ate like I had no limit. I know it was in part because I drank too much at the reception. Who doesn't want to follow up a night of drinking with a giant breakfast buffet? I ate fruit, pecan roll, hashbrowns, bacon, sausage and french toast with syrup. Then the wonderful bride and groom brought out pizza for lunch for everyone (this was a 2-day wedding) and of course I had 3 slices of that and a bowl of chocolate covered pretzels. Go big or go home, right? lol UGH! When I got home and tracked all that I'd eaten over the weekend, I realized that colorie-wise, I'd eaten the equivalent of 2 1/2 days of calories in one day. This morning, I weighed myself and found that I'd gained back the 4 lbs. that I'd lost just by screwing up those 2 days. I feel so depressed having basically thrown away the hard work that I'd done to lose those 4 lbs. I'm back on the plan today, but its difficult to get back once you fall off. At least for me. When I get depressed about having screwed up, it kinda makes me say - Whatever, I guess I'll just be fat the rest of my life. I know thats a horrible pitty party for myself. So I'm back on the wagon now and I hope that you can work through your bad day and get back at it too. You're not alone!

Another one here who fell off the wagon on the weekend - visitors, away from home, etc. Stinking hot so no walking. But I just drew the curtain on those days, made sure today I ate really well (as best I could), and had an extra fast walk (that's my exercise at the moment whilst I am still so overweight).

It takes practice and planning to make healthy choices all the time - and the more we practice it the better we will all get. And beating ourselves up when we do fall off the rails just makes us feel guilty, miserable, depressed and we turn to food again. NOOOOOOO we can do it!

Make healthy choices whereever possible - choose something different, choose the least worst, smaller helpings, water in between booze, small bites so it takes longer to eat whatever it is. It is hard when you are out, but I guess if we look at what those gorgeous skinny people are eating and follow their lead?? Do gorgeous skinny people eat ANYTHING? :laugh:

Onwards and downwards!

Go to the gym and try to burn off most of the bad calories I've eaten.. and if I'm not motivated to do that, I just think positive and remember tomorrow is a new day!

just eat right again sometimes make some fruit shake/smoothie and drink that instead of breakfast/dinner.

I have been trying to eat and burn enough calories, so if this happens it doesn't effect me. I am still trying to get over my cravings, and for now, I am allowing myself ONE indulgence, every so often, ONLY if it is in my calorie budget for the day. If I want some thing sweet, I have to make sure I have burned enough calories to allow it.

Acknowledge it and move on to be honest. Some people go down the "I have to make up for it by punishing myself" but it isn't the right way if you're making a life style change rather than just losing weight. You're always going to have 'bad' days, it's human. Tomorrow is another day and tomorrow you will do it right Of course if it's a regular thing you need to sit and analyse why, what happened that day or those days and work on that - the binge eating or 'bad' days are a symptom of something bigger in my opinion.

I so agree with the "Tomorrow is a New day" posts. I find it also heaps to unload to someone (friend, partner, even this message board) as it makes me feel like a bit of the guilt has been lifted. Every single person has "bad" days, and they make the following good ones feel like even more of an accomplishment

These days are going to happen. Sometimes you can't avoid it, especially around holidays. My thing is that I know if I don't have occasional "bad days" and I mean VERY occasional, I won't stick to this for life.

I am trying to keep my bad days to two per month, although it's not easy. I try to do extra workout time on days that I over indulge.

Unfortunately, I rebound poorly from bad days...it's more like a splat. Whatever food I binged on...if it's still nearby, I keep wanting to eat it since I have a taste for it again. I am going to take what you guys said and use it as an example, though. I already intended on working out, and I have dinner plans, but it's gonna be a very light veggie lunch.

The amount of calories consumed last night in a 4 hour period is staggering, though! Movie night at our place is a high risk time...every week! I have a friend who is a baker and bring over leftovers; all my friends bring junk food, and I have no willpower! Eek! Gorging on air-popped popcorn it will have to be.

Log it and move on.