I feel so guilty.
 

I attended my best friend's graduation and the graduation party held afterwards . The graduation started early in the morning so I didn't have time to grap any breakfast. I only had a danactive immunity yogurt drink. The graduation was more than 3 hours and I was dying of hunger. The only thing to eat there was cookies and fresh fruit salad . So, I had a cookie and 2 fruit cups in there. (I'm on a low-carb diet) After graduation we couldn't go anywhere to eat good food for hours cause it was a suprise party and we drove her around. (I had some chili, and a small salad) At the party I had 2 beef shish kebaps with salad, 2 grilled chicken drum sticks and some watermelon. And I only had a bite from her cake. And I drank a glass of no sugar added cranberry juice. I've been depressed all day about it. I feel like a failure. I was doing so goooood all month. :(:(:(

Just get right back on plan! Sometimes, we aren't perfect and that is what makes us human. Don't worry! Sometimes a day off plan helps you have a really big loss the next week! :hug:

Gosh, I wouldn't feel like a failure if I were you. It sounds to me like you made some really good choices in a really tough situation. I'd say kudos to you for sticking as close as you could!!!!

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Not to say that drinking or drugs are any easier to give up, but, you have to eat on a daily basis. You made the best choices you could in a tough situation, and I'm proud of you and you should be proud of you too.

Ditto

You did the best that you could under the circumstances. I don't see any reason at all to feel guilty about it. :hug:

A big part of weight loss (and maintenance) is learning how to pick yourself up and move on after something like this happens. Binges happen. Mistakes happen. Bad choices happen. No one eats perfectly all the time. Don't beat yourself up over it--Just shake it off and keep going.

In the long run, one bad meal or one bad day every so often will not undo all your hard work.

Amen to that. We have to live this lifestyle for the rest of our lives ... and you have to accept that sometimes you're put in bad situations where you have no control over the food that's available. The only thing you can control are your choices during those times.

I shoot weddings every Saturday (and sometimes Fridays and Sundays as well). I can't always take a cooler with food with me. And believe me, the food that's served at weddings is NOT low cal! :) But I make the best choices I can in the situation I have ... and I refuse to feel guilty about it. It is what it is.

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Yes... You did well under the circumstances. :cheer3: You can see that there are things you could have done better--like having more of a breakfast to begin with--but this is life! Things happen in life over which we have little control. Those who want to lose weight and keep it off learn strategies to minimize the damage, and it sounds to me like, aside from going over on carbs, you made the best choices you could. :yes:

If you added up the calories in all those foods, I think you would find that the total isn't bad. I know you're not following calorie counting, but still... if you were, I think you'd be to the good.

No guilt, chickie! This isn't a path to becoming perfect, it's a path to becoming healthy and slimmer.

Jay

Sometimes I find myself in this situation too - hungry and nothing but high-calorie food around. So you have a choice: Eat something high-calorie or not eat at all? I think the better choice, if you really are hungry, is to eat that high-calorie food. Have a donut. Not three donuts, one. But if you just don't eat, you'll be miserable and make those around you miserable too. Sometimes you don't have a choice between something healthy and unhealthy, but a choice between what is less unhealthy.

One donut is not going to undo all the hard work you have put in up until now. It's when bad food choices are habitual that we put on weight. Guilt is not a motivator! Just eat healthy EVERY TIME you have the choice, and those times that you don't have the choice, do the best you can.

What you ate doesn't sound that bad at all!

I also was at a graduation party yesterday, and I wish I could say I had only eaten what you did! It was an all-day eating fest in which I actually made myself ILL by eating so much food! I had countless doritoes, chips and guacamole, a ham salad sandwich, a hamburger minus the bun, countless crackers and cheese, countless crackers and spinach dip, macaroni salad, cake, cookies, sangria, and 3 or 4 lite beers. :devil:

At least you remember the quanities you ate yesterday. I don't know WHAT I'm gonna put in fitday.

I feel like I've been through a war lol. Not good. This is why the summers are so much worse for me than holidays. Because these types of "feasts" happen almost every weekend in the summer.

UGH! So feel good about yourself in comparison!

Thank you all for the comments. I feel so much better :) . This week is going to be a tough one for me because I'm going out of the country for the summer next week . All of my friends wants to hang-out and go out to eat. I'm hoping I don't overeat.
And after next week I'll be in Turkey. I miss the food so much there. I don't know how I'm going to stop myself :( ..