Might as well eat bad all day...

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  • GPSHEALTHCOACHING
    GPSHEALTHCOACHING Posts: 497 Member
    I also saw a quote that went something like......

    If you accidentally run a stop light and don't get busted, do you now go and rob a bank? NO!!!

    Your bad meal is running a stop light, don't turn it into robbing a bank by ruining the rest of the day or week, or weekend.......

    I need to follow this advice more often! :P
  • Rabbitfeet
    Rabbitfeet Posts: 92 Member
    I have fallen into this trap today. It was a really bad day. So bad in fact I am scared to track my calories. :( Tomorrow is a new day! Onwards and downwards!
  • lc52820
    lc52820 Posts: 76 Member
    That is a good way to look at it. Usually if I have something unhealthy, I try to work out later to balance it out...or if I am anticipating going out to eat or going to a party or something where I know I probably won't eat well, then I try to make sure I exercise a bit extra to make up for it. That takes away the guilt for me :)

    Plus if it's just one day like that out of the week, I wouldn't worry about it too much especially if you are continuing to lose weight. One bad day won't undo your whole week if you've been eating well and exercising.
  • pinkhu13
    pinkhu13 Posts: 133
    I do this too occasionally *sigh*
  • aspenshadow
    aspenshadow Posts: 2
    Excellent... and very true.
  • ChristySeeksBalance
    ChristySeeksBalance Posts: 43 Member
    Similar concept: I broke an egg, might as well smash the dozen.
  • rextcat
    rextcat Posts: 1,408 Member
    So I've been around MFP for a while (not new here lol), but I've been in a slump lately. One of the excuses that I keep falling back on is the "I ate a crappy lunch, might as well get some ice cream, and eat at a buffet for dinner because I already screwed my whole day"....Then I eat 4000 calories that day and feel like crap. Only if you do that everyday...like I've been doing for a while now, well you won't see any results! (Except for maybe the scale going in the wrong direction)

    One of my MFP friends pointed this out to me the other day, and I really liked it, so of course I googled the phrase, and thought I would share it with you all. Maybe it will hit home for some other people like it did with me who keep falling back on this excuse.

    Phone-1.jpg?t=1335553599

    but i did just that with my last phone....oh well.:frown:
  • BigDaddyBRC
    BigDaddyBRC Posts: 2,395 Member
    Everyone's body and mental state is a bit different, as is the interpretation for which you find in responses. Personally, you are bashing a mindset that may just break someone who is trying. They are not you, nor you them. Just because it is not something you believe in doesnt mean you need pull out a negativity in the MOTIVATIONAL thread.

    There is nothing wrong with tossing a day under the floor mat. There is a common practice and successful theory out there used by many in which this cheat day actually helps. When it doesn't become useful is when it's done on a regular basis, as in more than once a week.
  • ChristySeeksBalance
    ChristySeeksBalance Posts: 43 Member
    Everyone's body and mental state is a bit different, as is the interpretation for which you find in responses. Personally, you are bashing a mindset that may just break someone who is trying. They are not you, nor you them. Just because it is not something you believe in doesnt mean you need pull out a negativity in the MOTIVATIONAL thread.

    There is nothing wrong with tossing a day under the floor mat. There is a common practice and successful theory out there used by many in which this cheat day actually helps. When it doesn't become useful is when it's done on a regular basis, as in more than once a week.

    See, I think a cheat day is a completely different concept. I do cheat days, usually planned ahead of time. When I have a cheat day I don't feel bad about it, and I don't feel guilty about what I eat. On the other hand, when I have an unscheduled indulgence if I let myself give up on the rest of the day because I already "blew it," this is the kind of thing that can totally derail me. It's self defeating and discouraging.

    The difference is with a cheat day I feel like I'm in control. When I am discouraged and write off the rest of a day I don't.
  • Echo17121
    Echo17121 Posts: 111 Member
    I have had a few days like this and a week like this as well. Today I was so proud of myself as it was a little boy's birthday in my class and he brought great cupcakes. It was also a little girl's birthday in the other room and her chocolate chip cookies were brought into my room as well. I had a cupcake and one cookie, logged them, and then went back to my regular eating. I knew I could have them because I do a massive workout set on Fridays and it would be gone before lunch anyway just working at my preschool lol. However, I easily could have opened our snack cabinet and went to town on crap all day but I didn't. I am finishing this day knowing I ate really well and had a rare treat. I find if I focus on the workouts I have during the day I have to make sure I eat well. Because that week I went off the wagon hardcore, I couldn't even move without feeling sick. You really do have to focus on the good feelings and pay attention to the bad ones when you eat garbage! I love the quote too!
  • FungusTrooper
    FungusTrooper Posts: 227 Member
    Just fyi, I smash my phone if I drop it.
  • FixItDuck
    FixItDuck Posts: 112 Member
    This is making me rethink the ice cream I was going to eat later. Thanks!

    Umm yeah, ice cream, I have been hearing it calling from the freezer for half an hour LOL
  • jesska812
    jesska812 Posts: 102 Member
    This is exactly what has held me back for soooo long - that stupid 'perfection' mentality. If I went and say ate fast food for lunch rather than logging it, dealing with it and moving on I would just not log for the day, eat what I wanted and start again the next day. Needless to say it didn't work ;)
  • CookieCrumble
    CookieCrumble Posts: 221 Member
    I used to do this too - and I STILL have the potential for it, I know I do. It's only keeping a tight grip of myself and reminding myself what I'm doing this for - stops me in my tracks.

    It's nice to know that I'm not the only one but what a devil the human brain and reasoning can be....

    In the UK we had 'stop smoking' adverts, animated ones, showing little pac-man type brain neurons fizzing about trying to get the quit smoker to relent and smoke again.... food is very much similar, I think. We reason things out to make them 'fit' within what we want to do and it's not always the best thing.
  • BronnersHarris
    BronnersHarris Posts: 247 Member
    Could have done with this post last night as this is exactly how my evening went. Had some sweets out of my son's party bag then moved on to chocolate..... and the list went on.
  • coconutbuNZ
    coconutbuNZ Posts: 578 Member
    Oh I like that! Thank you. Yes I come up with that "excuse". Well that's what I think it is. I eat one cupcake and then after that decide to binge some more. That I realised is just an excuse to eat crap all day and then I feel bad afterwards. When I have a weak moment, I try to focus on how bad I know I'll feel afterwards to stop me from grabbing another ten cupcakes!
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