went waaaaay over calories, what to do?

You just have to move on from it. You don't want to deprive your body of food in the following days, but exercising definitely wouldn't hurt. Just get back up, and keep moving forward on exercise and calories. It's just a slight bump in the road and everyone has them every once in a while.

If it's making you feel guilty, let the guilt fuel you to keep working hard! You can do this! :flowerforyou:

I don't worry about it. I plan for not so good weekends. I take a week-to-week approach, not a day-to-day approach. Tomorrow is a new day.

Drink some water, pull out a pad of paper, and plan your meals for the next few days to get yourself back on track. I always seem to slide off my plan when it's a holiday or when I have family/friends visiting. Best thing to do is hit the ball from where you are. Just don't step on the scale!

Tomorrow is a new day, a new start. Learn by your mistake and try to do better next weekend.

I had a bad WEEK! We were out of town and staying at a families house, so eating healthy could have been possibly but I let myself slide and eat whatever, and working out really wasn't possible. So at first I wasn't going to log a single thing, because I HATE seeing the big red negative number. However i decided to make myself accountable so that i could see the "damage" and figure out how much the scale might go up.

Anyway, here I am feeling guilty and looking for some pick me up inspiring posts. The thing is that we just need to leave this weekend/week in the past, but learn from it. We are only human so binging and caving in to the food we want is only natural. But the minute we decide okay, no more food for the rest of the evening, is when we are taking action.

So the best thing to do, is be better tomorrow!!!! Work your butt off, not for recompense but for your future success, KEEP GOING! One day, a whole weekend, an entire week, of crappy eating should not let us feel like we screwed up completely and can't keep going, because we need to keep going! We CAN, and SHOULD, keep going!

Drink a lot of water and make the next right choice. One day is not going to derail the train unless you let it.

Tomorrow is a new day and get moving, literally. Pick up your cardio workout no matter how you like to do it. Move forward not back. Don't throw your system into shock by starving/limiting the next day to compensate for the recent extra calories . That would only mess with your sugar levels. Make a plan to reward yourself in the future after a good run of eating, living well, like something you enjoy but within limits, once a month. My guilty pleasure will always be pizza, so I have A piece of pizza occasionally. That reminds me: I'm overdue for a piece with pepperoni Good luck!

Did the same thing. Ate great all day,cleaned and painted like a manic, weighed myself, up a lb, so didn't care and had some treats! Guess a holiday weekend is not the best time to join this site (( funny thing is that 8 didn't do bad on food...site said I'd hit my goal in xx time...just don't get how u can eat good... I only had eggs, salad and sushi today, but gained a pound!!!

Occasionally going over our calorie goal has no long term negative affects. You have to look at this as a long term journey with long term goals. A previous post mentioned that we should look at our weekly net results. That has worked for me. I purposely give myself at least one "free day" per week when I go out with my wife and friends and just enjoy myself for the day. Of course, I still try to make good choices, but I also don't worry about having a few delicious French fries or my favorite German schnitzel that I would not normally eat. I still record everything to best of my ability, even if I have to guess the calories in the foods I eat on those days. I have fun with it, sometimes even making up names for the food I eat and entering them into my food database.

Bottom line - drive on! Stick to your routine! Set long term goals! Make it fun! You can and will succeed!

I always work harder in the gym the next day. Dont be too hard on yourself though, everyone goes over their limit sometimes. You probably deserved a treat!

You guys are all awesome! I'm sitting here thinking "oh my gosh, I just so far over my calories today, what now?" Then I check out the message boards & this thread was already started! I, too, feel so incredibly guilty about going so far over my calories today. The rest of the weekend has been bad, but at least close to my calorie goals. I have managed to exercise everyday, so that helps me feel just a little better, but not much. I'm so disappointed in myself - instead of eating what I thought I should, I just let myself go & ate whatever I wanted. But reading all the other posts, I see that I'm not the only one who has done that this weekend. You all have made me feel better & helped me realize that this weekend is an exception to how my eating habits have been/are, not how I'm going to let them be all the time. Tomorrow is a new day & I'll get back on track tomorrow. I'll continue to exercise, eat right & drink that water.

run a marathon.

This is terrible advice. If you were really serious, you'd enter a triathlon.

^thoroughly enjoying the comic relief