So .. i finally decided that intsead of depriving myself of having a birthday feast, i decided i would take one evening to eat whatever i wanted, with the promise that i WILL NOT make this an every day or even an every month thing..I really want it to be just the once..

I had some jalopeno poppers, i had two slices of cheese pizza, i had 1/2 bag of sun chips < i was so hungry i didnt watch how much i ate..until it was gone.. I had one small piece of birthday cake< we threw the rest of the cake out after our 1 piece, cause i didnt want it in the house.. I had 3 tbsp of chocolate hazulnut ice cream..<threw that out too..after three spoons..and then had 3 cups of plain popcorn with a spray of becel topping spray...

So there ya go..that was my evening of eating anything i wanted..But i made my fiancee throw out whatever we could not eat in one evening..cause i didnt want it impeding my success tommorow..

So ya...please help by keeping me accountable..cause right now i have no craving or desire and i feel rather sick from eating all that crap..but thats not to say that tommorow i wont want something that contains gluten or wheat or sugar..Ive planned out my meals for tommorow tonite, so i have everything at hand..

Anywho...this is my confession..and now its onward and upward.. Oh boy does a carrot sound so much more delicious right now after all that sugar.

By my highest estimates, it sounds like you had 1500 calories. Shrug. No lasting damage done. Make it up with an extra-long workout tomorrow and you'll be great!

Happens to us all. Now hop back onto the Beach Buggy! Yesterday's gone.

Yep...move on. Just be aware that the scale may be very unkind for several days....mostly it's reaction to the sodium. As long as you stay OP and don't freak at numbers you don't want to see, you'll be just fine.

My fiancee and I did this as well before we went back on phase 1 just to get it out of our system. We had a chinese food feast and I am grateful that I was pretty grossed out by myself afterwards. I would have to do phase 1 for a week just to rejolt my system with south beachy goodness and ban those cravings. After I had a taste of cake trying out bakers for my wedding, I couldnt stop wanting cake!

The way I look at evenings like that (as long as they don't become regular) is that you've set yourself back one day of dieting...no biggie, as long as you don't let the guilt affect you and you don't let it turn into a daily event. Sometimes days like that even give you more motivation to eat well and exercise the next!

I don't even think about weighing myself for a week after this happens. Usually I'm right back to where I was by then. One thing I have noted though, the next day after overeating I am unusually hungry and want to snack all day. I stick to Phase I foods for a couple days and drink lots of water to get through that "hungry all the time" feeling.

Well, i dont know about you..but all these foods were a most definite no no.. I mean.. ive got the abc's of eating bad foods.. Acid Reflux.. Bowel issues Constant cramping.. Yah.. i havent eaten wheat or gluten or sugar for a looooong time..mostly i havent eaten wheat or gluten..cause my body reacts badly to it and well..im paying for last night for sure.. It makes me want to never do it again.. I look like im pregnant, cause my belly is so bloated and i wasnt altogether sure if my body was going to hold it all down last night or early this morning.. All i really want to do now is drink lots of water and eat sugar free jello and drink veggie cocktail..i still feel excessivly full last night,which is unusual cause carbs dont fill me up..but i think all the stuff i ate that my body doesnt like, is making it feel really ill..I just have to say..when looking at the birthday cake my hunny bought for me..i had one little piece and then i actually decided to find out how much icing was on that cake..so i took a spoon and started scraping the icing off the cake..and you know what? It looked like equivelent to 2 pounds of butter..i thought..that is sick!!! It was so disgusting looking at that cake and thinking that i used to eat half a cake in one sitting.. i could barely eat more than a little square..and to the person who posted "you only ate about 1500 calories"... oh no i didnt.. Because the pizza was 350 calories a slice..or 1/7th of the pizza and i had two..which equals like 700 calories..and i had already consumed 700 calories that were healthy calories during the day on plan..so that alone is 1400..and the stuffed jahlopenos? they had 250 per 3 and i had 4..so you get the point..it was over 1500...i probably ate almost equivalent to a mcdonalds value meal in calories in one night..over the period of 4 slow hours..but..to think that its so easy to consume over a couple thousand calories easy just from eating a mcdonalds value meal..its crazy.. and to think i used to do it all the time!! no wonder im so big!

Thanks for the vivid description, PortHardy, You are reminding me not to do that.

Seriously, after following SBD pretty close for almost two years now, my tastes have changed. Now, if I want to have a night where I can eat "anything I want", it is more like making a healthy version of my Grandma's mac and cheese or actually having some buttered popcorn. I think you might find in 6 months that you will have a new and healthier version of "off plan night"....and that will be progress.

Sorry about the ABC's today!

lol thanks..yah..i guess i thought "mm one piece of cake" wont kill me..but it felt like i was going to die later..and to be honest..all day, my stomach has felt so blah..like just so sensetive..all i wanted to do was drink veggie cocktail and water..but alas.. i settled for scrambled eggs for breaky with veggie cocktail and water..gotta have that protein..oddly enough though, i stepped on the scale..and i lost another pound????? maybe i didnt eat as many calories as i thought..or..it all came out the other end... HAHA

I know it's not a popular position - but when I have a really full blown cheat day I tend to actually lose a bit, particularly if I've been plateau-ing. My personal belief is that it revs up my engine (so to speak) and makes the 2 weeks I spent OP kick in.

Make no mistake - I know it's the 2 weeks OP that make it possible.

It may not be a popular position, but I have heard MANY people say that an occasional cheat day can bust through a plateau. I know that the folks who wrote the Carbohydrate Addicts Diet said, in the first book, that you should have a mini cheat meal every day! They backed off from that statement but . . .

I have had the same experience, though. If I'm on a regular "eat less" diet, a freak out day always shows a gain. On South Beach (or years ago on WW Core) the once-in-a-while cheat didn't bump me up at all. Strange? Yep.

THANKS for the vivid description of your cheat day...I was online looking for some delicious SBF recipes for my birthday dinner the first week of March.. (This year marks my fifth year that I have maintained my SBD weight loss...I originally gave up sugar and havn't had any baked good, cookies, etc since...This has been my success.)..Anyway, after reading your experiences with the birthday, I decided to have baked fruit and enjoy the day...Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels...Thanks again for sharing...

I've done a similar thing - funny thing is, that food I thought was so grand seemed to have lost it's flavor - keep on keepin' on - you took positive steps for tomorrow - some say stepping back to phase 1 for a day or two could help get you back on track