Looking for some support here. This is what usually happens.. I do really really well for a few months or few weeks and then I have ONE bad eating experience and it leads to me to just giving up all together.

I just had my "bad eating experience". I made cornbread (with real corn baked in, butter, and eggs) that somebody said I just HAD to try.. so i made it and I JUST ATE ABOUT 1/4TH OF THE 8X8 PAN. I think the recipe said 250 calories per serving (so i think i just ate about 4 or 5 servings)....

Somebody please help with what i should do? I did work out for about 1.5 hours this morning and had a fresh fruit smoothie this morning that I made, so really other than the cornbread its been a good day.

Please help.. i am just wanting to give up

If it were me (keep in mind, I am relatively new to this still), I would just pick up and carry on as if you had stayed on plan all day. But before that, I would get rid of that corn bread (to somewhere else lol).

We all screw up sometimes! It's a matter of how we react to that screw up that matters the most!

DON'T give up - the funny thing is, sometimes when I've enjoyed a splurge, that's what my body seemed to need, because then I get a little whoosh and see more than a half pound fall off that week. Not a daily splurge, mind you, but one day of higher calories in a week. Have a healthy filling dinner with plenty of veggies and be active this weekend and you'll be fine. Freeze the rest in single servings if you need to!

Accidents happen like OhMyDogs said just brush it off and make a commitment not to do it again and stick with your plan. If you are seriously worried about it then just reduce your calories for next week by 200 calories a day that should more than make up for it.

Agreed. We all do things every now and again that we regret. If you overslept one day and were late for work, would you conclude that you should quit your job? If you overdrew your checking account by accident, would you decide then to go on a shopping spree and spend your entire life savings? (I'm really hoping that the answer is No.)

You've done something you regret. It happens. Now it's time to realize that it's not the end of the world, forgive yourself, and move on. Changing the way you eat can be stressful, but you can't let food drive you crazy. It's just food. You're going to be just fine.

Anna - LOVE the oversleeping simile - thanks for adding a good way for lots of us to think about it! I had a ww leader years ago who asked us, "If you got all tangled up in the sheets one morning and literally fell out of bed, what would you do? Would you lay on the floor the rest of the morning worrying about it or would you get up, dust yourself off, and get moving..."

Thank you for the support everyone!!!

I just threw the whole thing of cornbread away... I feel bad for wasting it, but if i think about the amount of $ to make it was about $3 total so I really don't feel as bad..... I don't have anyone to give it to so thats not an option, so i just threw it away. I knew if it just sat there on top of the oven I would eventually eat it all.

The worst part was.. IT WASN'T EVEN THAT GOOD!!! I feel much much better about not eating that kind of stuff then actually eating it. Now i just feel kind of BLAH.

Thanks again for all the support!

I felt the same way when I had a krispy kreme donut. It was good, but I could have done without it. Keep up the good work and just remember that sometimes we do splurge, but its ok every now and again!

When I end up eating bad, the next week I try soo much harder and so much better because of the guilt...use the guilt to help you power through and make it up during the rest of your week!

Lots of good ideas here. The other analogy I like (from someone here at 3FC, but I can't remember who) - if you got a flat tire, would you get out of your car and slash your other 3 tires? That's a very strong visual image for me, and it helps.

I also try to learn a lesson when I make a "mistake." For example, early on in my journey I went to a restaurant with only a vague plan to get a salad. Coming home to enter that salad into my calorie counter, I discovered that that salad has 800+ calories, without dressing! I haven't gone to a restaurant without a specific plan since.

I have lots of stories like that from various points and times in my journey, when I slipped up but then got some new information from it. It's how I've gradually refined (and keep refining) my plan, so that it is realistic and livable and working.

What lesson can you learn from this? Don't make cornbread again? Give it away immediately upon making it? Freeze it in individual, portioned baggies?

It's progress, NOT perfection, so don't give up!

Congrats, Live4summer!

It's a new skill we have to learn in order to become and stay healthy.

Make mistake, don't beat self up, learn from mistake, carry on.

And, oh yah, rinse and repeat...

Just get right back on track and NEVER make cornbread again!

This is how I look at it if you have a "screw up" that sets you back a couple days maybe but if you just give up that sets you back god knows how long! Dont give up over some corn bread.... dont let that darn corn bread run your life! YOU CAN DO IT!

I agree. Don't give up all together. Just stop overeating now, continue like you ate well all day, and move on. So what if you ate a thousand cals. That's 1/3 of a pound. No biggie. It's only a big deal if it turns into a bad day tomorrow, and the next, and pounds and pounds in the future. As it stands now, you just aren't gonna lose weight today. And if you worked out for an hour and a half, you really probably haven't done too much damage.

i have done the same thing during past efforts to lose weight, and gave up completely within a few days of the slip. "oh it'll be okay" and then it wasn't, and i just didn't think i could do it anymore. every time i look back on that i think how far i could be now if i hadn't just gave up because of one slip in willpower.

like others have said, everyone makes mistakes. it makes you human. do a little more exercise over the next couple of days or cut a few calories more than usual and you probably won't even see the slip in your weigh in!