Well I just got home from Red Robin and Dairy Queen. Big mistake. So my boyfriend and I decided to go to Red Robin for dinner, I ordered the gardenburger without sauce, and no fries. But then they brought out a basket of fries for us to have while we waited. I could not hold back, I had half of that basket and then some of my boyfriend's when our food came. By that point I figured since I'd already messed up I might as well enjoy it, and we then went to Dairy Queen where I got a medium butterscotch dip cone. I'm supposed to weigh in tomorrow too. Hmm...

No... not Red Robin. The bane of my existence. I can't get out of that place without taking in an extra 80,000 calories that shoulda just stayed in their kitchen.

Stupid, stupid bottomless fries...

Oh, my god. Ugh, this past week has been terrible. I can't honestly recount much of what I've eaten over the past few days, but today was pretty atrocious. I've had

2.5 of those AriZona tea cans (roughly 173 g of sugar! in that ALONE!)
an order of sushi (about 17 pieces in total)
2 big chocolate eclairs (don't even want to think about that)
a bag of tortilla chips (that's roughly 1300 calories)
half a can of salsa (about 90 cal)
a small mochaccino

That is surely over 5000 calories. How can I have eaten that much in a single day? I'm so disgusted with myself, and I just FEEL so unhealthy. I haven't gone to a proper gym in about 2 months and I'm so sluggish all the time and I just want to sit in my room and eat.

Ugh, tomorrow I have to take care of a lot of things, but come Saturday I'm joining a gym. My God, I can't even look at myself.

Today I was way off track. Waaaay off track.
Pop tarts
2 plums
1 apple
2 hotdogs w/bun
20 oz soda
chips
fruit roll up
gushers fruit snack

I cant stop eating in the evenings!!! grah!

Well, Ghost, it sounds like you need to follow my New Patented Fool-Proof Sleep-It-Off Diet. Insanely popular book coming to an Amazon.com near you Real Soon Now. Here's the blurb:

Tell me if this pattern sounds familiar.

* You wake up ready to make today a great day.
* You have your oatmeal or bacon for breakfast (depending if you're on Plan A or Plan B)
* You have a healthy snack mid-morning
* You turn down pizza for lunch and have oatmeal or bacon (again).
* You get home at six o'clock and have four ounces of chicken and steamed vegetables for dinner
* You then spend 7pm until 11pm with your hand permanently buried in a bag of Doritos.

If this describes you, try out my new plan: go to bed as soon as you hit your target calories for the day. For most of us, that will be around 7 pm. But if it happens at noon, so be it. Just leave work, head home, and take an 18-hour nap. The pounds will melt right off.

Stupid & delicious bottomless fries... and avocado bacon burger...

To use our beloved kaplod's analogy: you threw yourself down the stairs because you tripped on the first step.

Next time (and there will be a next time, because you're human like all of us), say "ok, I had fries and you know what? I ENJOYED them. Now I'm going to get back on track."

You wouldn't say that just because you exceed the speed limit on the highway, it's ok to also run red lights, right? So don't use a slip in your eating as an excuse or as permission to do things you shouldn't do.



And next time you'll do better.

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wow, you sound just like me!!!! I will plan something out, and when I slip, I throw myself to the dogs and just keep falling all day, with the thought I will do better tomorrow. I like how you put it photo chick, and I am going to do that from now on because even though I have been doing really well since Monday, I know it's comming. I never get through a diet without numorous slips. Thanks, and good luck to you drose!

Something for you to think about - this helped me a lot when I changed how I looked at what I was doing.

A "diet" is something that you start at stop. It's something that you can "cheat" on and "slip up" on. It's something that is restrictive.

I don't diet.

I eat for life. And in my life there are going to be french fries. There are going to be dinners at the Mexican restaurant with chips and queso. There are going to be birthday cakes. There are going to be office events with bagels and donuts and muffins. That's life.

So when you eat for life, you make choices - and some days you make the *choice* to eat something that you know is fattening or not healthy. I made the choice last Saturday to eat a 5 Guys burger and split an order of fries. It put me 400 calories over for the day, by the time I had that for lunch and then ate a healthy dinner. But I made that choice. I didn't then say "well, since I had 5 Guys, I'm gonna walk across the street and have a large Cold Stone ice cream" or go home and say "since I already blew it with a burger and fries, I'm gonna eat this entire bag of potato chips".

What I did say was "I made a choice to treat myself with something I wouldn't normally eat and now I'm going to continue to eat healthily."

And because I know I can have a burger once in a while I'm ok. It's become a once in a while treat and so when I choose to have one, I have a good one - not a half-squashed McDonalds one.

Not that I'm perfect. Lord knows there are plenty of times that someone puts food in front of me and I eat it mindlessly - and then think "why did I eat that?" But even then I think "ok, well, that was that. I hope I enjoyed it!" And I move on.

Does this mean I haven't lost weight as fast as I could? Yup. It's even made me stall a few times. I could be really strict with myself and be miserable and eventually give up because I was forbidding myself and beating myself up.

It's taken me nearly 18 months to lose 70+ lbs. It'll probably take me another 6-8 months to lose the remaining 30. But you know what - I won't be miserable and I won't be setting myself up for failure.

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My favorite excuse I give to myself is this:

Well I've already half of the bag of cookies. I should just finish them so I won't be tempted to eat them tomorrow.

Oh yes, I understand how this is absurd. But when I'm wolfing down cookies it makes pefect sense and even a little heoric! Craziness :-)

Today has been super bad for me too...like really bad. But I'm ok with it, because it's one day...and I know the reasons behind what caused me to binge. I also know I'm going to the gym tomorrow and will move a lot LOT at work tonight. We're having a pot luck at work tonight too... but since I work overnights, my binge day (I'm allowing myself a free day today) will be over at midnight. So when they bring out the pot luck, I will not be participating. I'll bring my own lunch, but I also plan on bringing something healthy for everyone to eat. I know they're ordering pizza...which I LOVE, but I also know I can't eat it and most of the pharmacists I work with would not let me anyway. I'm allergic to milk, and the last time they ordered pizza I broke out into full fledged hives and had to be given meds.

But yea, I'm stressed because I had to take this hugely important pharmacy test this morning. It's expensive and I want to do well so I don't have to take it again. It's also TOM...ick.

Today I started good with a low cal bagel, egg beaters, 1 slice turkey bacon, and 1 slice no fat cheese. That was an awesome breakfast for 300 cals. Then, I stopped at my parent's convenience store before I had to take my test. I had 2 giant choc chip cookies. ...Then after I got home (back to the C-store) like 3 hours later I was hungry...(I know I wasn't hungry. Just bored and anxious)...so I had a cheese stick (80 cal)...That didn't fix anything. So I had a rice krispie bar (140 cal), a handful of chex mix (? cal), another choc chip cookie (about 220 cal), 2 cupcakes(prob like 400 cals)...and a cup of easy mac (210 cal) with 100 cal tuna mixed with it. ...if that isn't a disgusting amount of non-nutritious food...i don't know what is. I know I won't be eating again though until like 7pm because I'll be going to sleep here shortly so I can make it through my overnight tonight.

but yea, that's my confession. gross. but true.

RHFRANK: I did the cookie thing lastnight!! lol...My blood sugar was through the roof and I was wondering why..duh!!

*sigh*

You're right. They are so good.

And by the way, anyone here like pepper on fries too?