[Starbuck]

Was wondering if anyone feels like I do right now. Trying to be good I decided to try turkey sausages, we don't really have them in the UK so I've never had them before. So I decided to try and save calories over normal sausage and try turkey ones, but they were horrible.
Now I'm left regretting eating them as I saved calories but I would have been better having the more calorie sausage as at least they would taste nice.

I did it yesterday too, ate 4 biscuits instead of the 1 I was allowing myself then spent the whole rest of the day beating myself up about wasting calories.

It's weird because I didn't go over my allowance, but I know I could have used my calorie allowance better. Am I making scense or just rambling

Am I the only one who instantly regrets wasted calories after they are eaten?

[astrophe]

Call it a learning experience, and let it go.

Obsessing over little details like that isn't going to help. It's not about perfection.

GL!
A.

[4star]

Originally Posted by astrophe

Call it a learning experience, and let it go.


GL!
A.

That's what I was gonna say. That's over and done with, no going back now, time to let it go and move on.

Beating yourself up doesn't burn any calories. It only produces stress hormones.

[NorthernExposure]

There's nothing wrong with experimentation. If the turkey sausage HAD been good, you'd be like "awesome! I can eat 2 of these for the 'price' of 1 regular sauage (or whatever the calorie savings was), and they taste great!" Unfortunately, that didn't happen, but you don't know until you try.

[MissSMcC]

i have regretted eating certain snacks thru the day when it gets to 7pm and im hungry but have no calories left. and now i know not to buy those turkey sausages i keep seeing in tesco lol i agree with the other posters about it being a learning experience, now you know not to buy them again, so try something different next time.

[QuilterInVA]

You can't go back and uneat the food, so move on. You are wasting time regreting what you cannot change.

[lackadaisy]

Every day I regret something. I regret mistakes in papers and walking to class the wrong way (black ice!?), too. I like that: it reminds me there's room to improve, that my diet is a fun experiment. It reminds me to try to enjoy food instead of obsessing about being "on-plan."

Note what wasn't worth the calories, but don't obsess... for a lot of people, that leads to completely irrational behavior like thinking you've "blown a day" and binging, and you do not want to do that. What's one yucky turkey bacon in the scheme of life anyway? Certainly less than some 1,300 cal cheesecake slices you've had in your life, and even if you didn't track them, you ate those too.

[LLBoldAsLove87]

I agree that trying out new "healthy" foods runs the risk of this... but it is always exciting when you find a healthy alternative that you can enjoy for life! For example, I love turkey bacon, I dont think I'll ever go back to real bacon... and I love putting cottage cheese with splenda and cinnamon on a cinnamon raisen bagel - why would I ever want to use real cream cheese and miss all that protein?

[Shannon in ATL]

I'm the same way - even if I don't go over my calories I resent wasting my calories on something that I don't like, or something that I like too much like biscuits.

Right now I'm eating a jar of almond butter that I don't really like, but am determined to eat because I bought it. Every sandwich I eat comes with mild resentment for eating calories on almond butter when I would rather eat something else.

I try not to second guess the calories. If I made a rational, informed decision to eat whatever it was I try to remember afterward that I had a reason. Doesn't always work, but I give it a shot.