Anyone else feel extremely guilty after eating something totally off of your diet????

I always seem to have this I dont care attitude about food when I Am really craving it. For example last night I wanted pizza sooo bad so I went and ate 2 slices of pizza. Then I thought one night of indulgence wont hurt so I went and got a banana split............man was it good! After all had be consumed and I began to post it in my food journal I began to feel extremely guilty. Then came the self pity!!!! I always do this to myself. I feel so terrible about myself after indulging in foods that I enjoy. I keep track of my diet for the most part but whenever I fall off the wagon it is a major issue. Need help dealing with my so called failures. How do you deal??

I try to make good choices all the time.

I try to have a plan all the time.

I don't have any forbidden foods, but I try to avoid eating very many foods that are high in calories/low in nutrition.

I try to ask myself before eating anything "Am I really hungry?  Is this the best choice if I am?  If not, can I make a better choice?"

If I still eat something that puts me over on my calories for the day, I forgive myself and move on.  No guilt, because this is a lifestyle change, not a diet, and I will certainly not live the rest of my life without a few indulgences.

So, in your case, I would probably have had the pizza, because I can fit 2 pieces of pizza in my calorie plan for the day.  But, I would have tried to skip the banana split in the same day.  But if I really, really wanted it, I would just log it and forget it.  Something that helps me see these things in perspective is to use the analysis tool for the day I indulge, the week I indulge, and the month I indulge.  By the time I get up to the month level it has "disappeared" both from the calories and the food grade.  The only way a single indulgence will mess up achieving your weight loss goals is if you let it by giving up.

Yes to dkenworthy.  I am much the same way.

My suggestion is to move on.  Tomorrow is a new day - the slate is wiped clean.

Find some things that are satisfying substitutes for the foods you enjoy most.  For pizza, I like english muffins with spaghetti sauce, low fat pepperonis, and mozzarella cheese.  This is only about 150 calories per muffin.  For the banana split, maybe sliced banana in vanilla yogurt.  For my chocolate fix, sugar-free chocolate pudding or an individual microwave brownie.  For potato chips, air-popped popcorn or raw vegetables dipped in light ranch.

And do not deny yourself foods you absolutely can't imagine living without.  Plan for them.  Allow yourself to have them, guilt-free.  This is your new life.  Live it.

No, because nothing is "off my diet."  I don't restrict the foods I eat, I just pay more attention to the amounts, and of course try to eat foods that are more healthful.  But if I want a piece of cheescake, I have a piece of cheescake- I just don't eat 4 servings of it.  And even though I'm still in "losing" mode, if I happen to go over my calorie "limit" for the day I don't get upset about it or torture myself with self-imposed "guilt."  I've lost 50 pounds in the last 9 months, slowly and steadily, so I don't see any reason to label an occasional incident of overeating or indulging as a "failure."     

That always hapens to me!!

A few weeks ago I was still "dieting" and my cousin came over and my mom (she loves to cook) made homeade dinner rolls they were DELICIOUS! My cousin ate them and i couldnt resist so I ate not 1, 2 or even 3...I remember eating about 4 and it was LATE AT NIGHT!!

Now im really on track, i dont let anythign get to me. I always have a lot of temptations around me and I even have to make my own meals (im 14) since my mom makes a lot of fried foods, and always cooks rice pasta and it's not whole grain either...so I have to make something like a salad, have salmon with some brocoli or bean salad (yum) :)

If you set your mind to it you can do it,  and if it only happens once its alright youll get back on track, learn from your mistakes (: If i can do it ANYBODY can i am a junk food fanatic and because of eating junk all my life i have to lose 20 lbs!

I'm with flonklar.

It's all about choices. Sometimes the high calorie food is the choice. Savor it.

If you do you'll find you are not so likely to over eat high calorie foods - which happens when you know this is The Last Time You Will Eat This (so you eat it all). When you take the time to enjoy, it is a deliberate choice, and you know you can have more some other time, there's no guilt and no pressure to consume massive quantities. I am currently losing weight and have a nice lovely down trend for the weight analysis even though I eat a number of things that others deny themselves.

Yeah, I know what you mean. Sometimes we slip and mess up. We're human and we make mistakes. We just have to learn from them.

Like others have said, I just take it one day at a time. I'm the world's worst about eating out of self-pity because my diet went bad. So what if today was a bad day for your diet? That just motivates you to make the next day even better. This is what I keep repeating to myself when I've had a bad day.

 And if you are really craving something, try eating only half of it and then substituting fruits/veggies for the rest if you are still hungry. So that 520 cal banana sundae is now only 260 cals. If you eat only a 1/3 it is 173. You can have food treats as long as you keep it within proportions. Hope that helps.

I don't look at it as a mistake. I didn't do anything wrong, I didn't break a rule. I wanted something good so I ate it. If you eat well 99% of the time, a day of pizza and ice cream isn't really going to screw you over. Also, you can simply log it and make it a part of your lifestyle.

My whole thought is, thin people eat good food and don't seem to feel any more guilty about it than eating fruit. They just don't eat it as often and/or as much as the rest of us. I'm not going to deny myself anything, because it'll just set me up for failure.

I don't know about you, but I'm not giving up my pizza, or giving myself fourty lashes just for having it.

don't feel too bad. I ate a Costco Apple Crumb muffin yesterday as a snack. Thats 920 calories. I knew they were bad but didn't realize how ridiculously bad they are. I feel horrible but what can you do, whats done is done. Best I can do is try very hard to never buy those darn things again! :)

Yes, it is hard.  I get bad headaches and certain foods take it away so i am moody I am thinking I need to adjust my body to the new eating habits but I cheated the other night when i was at the pastors house helping with cleaning becaue they were moving and they provided the food and it was pizza, I at two slices and yes I felt real guilty so I went walking the next morning not sure if that justifies it but hey we all fall short and we have to get up and dust ourselves off and keep striving. Don't give up

Grrr.... I was just out at a party and stupidly ate (some) mcdonald's and chocolate that i didn't even want, and i knew it as I was eating it... then came home and ate an english muffin with peanut butter and bunch of fruit... i was totally ravenous and didn't even have much to drink...

this is epic so im hijacking- i kind of feel guilty because i overate for sure today, but NOTHING compared to the intense guilt i used to feel after something like this... i am thrilled because i think i have actually figured out a) how to forgive my self for these slip-ups b) am pumped to work out doubly hard the next day because i will have an extra push c) am slightly comforted by the fact that occasional overeating will keep my metabolism on its toes (last week i slipped up and ate a bunch of brownies at a friends and woke up the next morning having "lost" like 3lbs?!) d) had fun, and was at least conscious of what i was eating and how it wasn't even satisfying- hopefully an experience i will keep in mind next time i am tempted to "indulge"... i need those every once in a while to keep "reminding" me how great i feel on the "good" days, as long as I can maintain something of an 80/20 balance

lol maybe i did drink a little... <<this is totally rambling... oh well, forgive yourself and move on :)

A few people really hit the correct things. For most people (me included) totally stopping foods won't happen. Actually pizza is my weak spot. I won't give it up, I like it waaaay to much. But there are things you can do to work with it. 

Plan for it. Eat calorie light foods during the day to adjust for it. Exercise before eating it. If you plan for it, you won't break your calories, and bigger, you aren't stopping cold turkey, allowing urges/cravings to take control.

Regardless some bad days DO happen. The next day just go back to being good, if a real bad day does happen.