I have been counting calories for a month and have lost 8lbs (7 in the first week) I was doing good until this past weekend on the weekend I went to a buffet saturday ate a pancake, hamburger, 2 slices bacon, 5 breaded shrimp, 2 scoops of mashed potatoes...then had taco bell for dinner (a crunchwrap and beef and potatoe burrito) sunday I had cereal, tim hortons (everything bagel with herb and garlic creamcheese) and a ham and scalloped potatoe dinner with peas and a salad and a 1/2 a piece of strawberry rhubard pie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I woke up this morning super depressed. the weekend before this I over did it at the baseball game. I have been at a plateua for 2 weeks and finally lost a poun last week. I feel depressed and stressed out. I have no energy for exercising and I am at the end of TOM. sorry I just needed to vent I feel like i just ruined all my progress!!!!!!!!!! UGH
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I think the only way you can ruin your progress is to give up. Seven pounds in a week is great! Too bad it can't happen every week but it doesn't. When I get tired and stressed out I know I am eating too many of the wrong things. My body and my head both know it...you can't hide from yourself. Resolve to make tomorrow a better day. Much better than starting over months from now.
Yup. Climb back up on that wagon. You probably haven't gained weight, so at worst, you're where you were before you had the accident with the buffet Just get back on plan, force yourself to exercise, and then revel as the pounds come off.
You're going to mess up and eat off plan sometimes. Nobody is perfect. You have to accept that and expect it, and keep on going forward anyway. I believe the best way to deal with times when you eat off plan is to look at it as a learning opportunity. Okay, you messed up. Now, how are you going to handle it differently next time? What did you do wrong? What is the lesson to take away from this? Spend some time thinking about it and come up with a plan to try next time you end up at a ballgame or out at a buffet. For the rest of your life you're going to have to regularly deal with temptation - your job is to figure out how to deal with those situations in a way that won't hinder your weight loss! It may take you a while to figure it out. Maybe the first plan you come up with won't work. But you have to keep trying. Each time you are faced with temptation and try to avoid it you will learn more about how YOU deal with food situation and you WILL get better at handling them. It takes time! You didn't get overweight overnight, and you won't learn to be skinny overnight either. But you will get there if you are persistent.
Don't be too stressed about this- one weekend isn't going to completely ruin everything you've accomplished so far. As long as you don't give up, then you haven't ruined anything. You've made the decision to make this lifestyle change, and that's accomplishing a lot more than a weekend can mess up. Just hop back on that horse! Get back on plan, get back to exercising, and maybe stay away from the scale for a few days. You can do it!
Stressed!!!!
Just get back on plan, force yourself to exercise, and then revel as the pounds come off.
