Three donuts just magically vanished..into my mouth. :(
Wow, today was going just great, until I came home to find glazed donuts sitting on the counter.
I don't even like glazed donuts that much! But the cravings came on relentlessly until before I could even blink I'd eaten one. I took a breath, logged it into my calories and went about making dinner.
But a second craving came on, spurred on by how delicious the first one was. So I rearranged calories in my tracker to have a second.
Then I got into that moment of panic. The one right before a binge where all I'm thinking is "I can't do this I can't do this I can't do this. I'll be fat forever." Cue the third donuts demise.
But then I realized, I could adjust my dinner and stay within maintenance calories and hopefully avoid too much damage.
It just stings extra bad this time because I had gotten to 250, had a bad day and headed up to 253, and then this morning I was back at 250! I probably won't weigh in for a few days.
I just don't know what came over me.
Anyways, I stopped and am now pretty full. The cravings are basically gone and I just feel pretty bad. I am not going to spend all night lamenting the donuts. Tomorrow is a new day. I know maintaining the ten pounds I've lost is just as important as continuing to lose so I'm going to just eat my dinner and get on with the evening.
Tomorrow should be right as rain. I just hope these 'fall off the wagon and then crawl back on' days start to become fewer and farther between.
Last edited by thewalrus0; 09-16-2012 at 08:40 PM.
I don't know how or why, but usually I can avoid things like that. Yeah, I might have one, but otherwise I guess it just depends on how preoccupied I am. I think about how the doughnut isn't good for me, and that I'd feel better if someone else ate it rather than me. Or I think about how half my friends wouldn't be interested in it either... for whatever reason.
I'd much rather eat something like chicken... ughhhh I want chicken...!
Boy I can relate to that! You have a great attitude though, and it doesn't sound like you did too much damage. I loathe when I come home to find food in the house that I would not have bought myself. Example: My MIL and FIL babysit my two little ones 3 days a week for a few hours while I work. My MIL is a total sugar addict (though she's relatively thin). Sometimes I come home to find a cake, or a box of hostess cupcakes, or some other totally awful thing that mocks me. Sometimes I'm able to resist, sometimes not.
Although I find that sometimes it's easier to resist all together than to have a bite or just one serving.
Aww, don't worry. Maybe you can do some extra workouts this week? That always happens to me when I restrict myself too much. When I had absolutely no sweets in the house, I got desperate once. I made these little fried balls of bisquick rolled in sugar. They didn't even taste very good.
Aw, don't worry about it! We all slip up. Plus, it's fine to have a treat day now and then. Just don't eat the whole dozen Brush yourself off, hide the rest of the donuts, and get back on the straight and narrow!
If it makes you feel better we had a party with a candidate we're helping tonight, and I managed to overeat my calories by almost 1000. And since I've been doing badly lately, anyway, it's compounding. The very next meal tomorrow I am focusing on the right choices and will stick with it, but tonight I feel a bit naughty
And the windstorm wasn't nearly as bad as last week's - for one thing, almost nobody (including us!) lost power this time, and a remarkable number of trees didn't fall. It wasn't as bad as they predicted, thankfully!
Last edited by Arctic Mama; 09-17-2012 at 01:07 AM.
glad no one lost power! during that last storm my cousin's daughter (my niece?) lost power for several days at least at her place...we had a few days of rain pouring sideways down here but nothing like what hit up in anchorage...although it did create a nice sinkhole at my son's high school lol
Oh the guilt after eating something like that! Usually I lose all control and think "oh well, since I'm already screwing up, I might as well go all out" and I eat a crap load more. So congrats for not getting there at least!
Well done on your attitude toward your "slip up". Remember that we are all human, we all have cravings and make mistakes. You did the right thing by stopping yourself from having too many.. It takes a lot of willpower to do that, so big ups to you!
doughnuts have a tendency to evaporate around me as well . Like others have mentioned, KUDOS to you for not beating yourself up for it and arranging your calorie intake around so that the damage wasnt fatal for your diet.
The fact is, donuts will always be there. Sometimes we all have those days where one treat just isnt enough. In order to make a diet more of a lifestyle change, we need to allow ourselves the ability to eat the evil devils but in moderation.
Now all you have to do is find something that will make you feel good about yourself after you have done it. Focus on the positive and forgive yourself for the little slip-ups
Now Im craving donuts LOL
I know that magic trick! Yesterday I was about as talented as David Copperfield, performing 2 amazing tricks. First I was able to make my car turn into a pizza shop. Then I was able to make most of the pizza disappear! Today will be better.
I just hope these 'fall off the wagon and then crawl back on' days start to become fewer and farther between.
I hear ya! ...
yesterday I went grocery shopping for just a few staples (eggs, cheese, etc) and my sweet tooth went haywire just as I walked into the store! ... at least the cupcakes I ate were MINIATURE cupcakes. But it was that chocolate eclair that busted my gut.
And yeah, I was up one pound on the scale this morning. Phhhhht!
The good thing that came out of this? .... I made myself sick by eating so much sugar. Now I won't want it again for a LONG time. (hopefully!!!)
I thought of this thread this morning when I went into Circle K to get a huge Diet Pepsi and passed the display of DELICIOUS looking donuts. I anticipated this. I only brought $1 in, and left my purse in the car just to ensure that the fat little devil on my shoulder didn't sit on the thin little angel and force me to buy a donut (or 4).
Three donuts just magically vanished..into my mouth. :(
Tomorrow should be right as rain. I just hope these 'fall off the wagon and then crawl back on' days start to become fewer and farther between.
Brush yourself off, hide the rest of the donuts, and get back on the straight and narrow!
. Like others have mentioned, KUDOS to you for not beating yourself up for it and arranging your calorie intake around so that the damage wasnt fatal for your diet. 
But it was that chocolate eclair that busted my gut. 
