Confession time

We went to lunch today and I had a house salad with grilled chicken, which was extremely healthy and low in calories (it had cheese and bacon in it but I only had about a tablespoon of each and left the rest...) It was delicious and I felt very virtuous about not even having a soda (I don't really like soda and they didn't have juice) But then I blew it less than half n hour later. DH had to go to the phone store and there was a Dunkin' Donuts just next door. I went in to get some orange juice and use their bathroom, and walked out with two of my favourite donuts as well... and then I ate them BOTH instead of sharing with my husband, so that was 500 totally empty calories in my day! I felt kind of guilty when I found out how many calories they had, so I went for a half-hour swim this afternoon AND I went for my normal walk tonight, and when you add them both together I just managed to burn off the donuts...

What did you do that was less than ideal lately?

I only worked out Monday and Tuesday this week.  I need a workout buddy...**sigh**

~H~

I had chinese take out last night even though i know the sodium is terrible and it makes me feel like crap. Then i finished off the chicken for breakfast this morning. It's the first time since jan that i've really eaten like that. ugh. i won't be doing that again any time soon!

I just ate two ice cream bars :(

gah, i've been doing so well this week, even lost my first 4 lbs, and today i blew it...ate an entire gigantic bowl of scalloped potatoes...the kind you get dehyrdated at cub foods...sad part was, it wasn't all that delicious, and the potatoes were hard...

I had a 500 cal deficit tonight but I was still starving. I ended up having a few things I didn't really want and then finally made myself the grilled tofu sandwich I wanted in the first place! Oh well- I didn't eat over my calories and it bumped up my protein.

"I ended up having a few things I didn't really want and then finally made myself the grilled tofu sandwich I wanted in the first place!"

ooh!  This is excellent!  Don't feel badly about this, this is a terrific learning experience!!  You learned that many times if we allow ourselves to have the item we really want, we will save ourselves calories in the long run.

Oh, this is very, very good. :) 

And kajik, look what you learned...you learned there is room for donuts in your eating plan every once in a while and that you needn't feel guilty about eating them.  :) 

All in all this sounds like a very good day, ladies!

although i have succesfuly realised just about 6 weeks ago, that a trip abroad where i cannot count all the cals and weigh myself CAN result in weight loss, just 8 days ago (and it was a one day trip to london, so hardly no chance to eat healthy!) i have had a mac+cheese and a sandwich - and ate too much after that, which resulted in gaining about 8 lbs.

good thing about this is, it can be reversed, and i am now back to my original weight

Every time i start to lose weight, I always sabotage my diet. I gain all my weight back.

I do the same thing, amber1975. I just don't know why. Do I really not think I'm worth the effort or something? I'm thinking about seeing a counsellor to address some of these issues...

I had a slice of DP's pizza (300 cals) and a chocolate chip cookie (350 cals) tonight, AFTER my dinner.  I'm way over my usual calorie budget, but within maintenance, so I don't feel too guilty about it.

They were delicious though, so totally worth it =]]

Well, yesterday, I had a 8 pcs Cheesy bread from "Domino's Pizza."  Each one is 125 Cals with 6 grams of fat.. Adds up to 1000 calories, and 48 grams of fat. Yeah,  I was busy, and on the go. I should have had something better than that.  I got on the ellipitcal and ran for over 45 mins. I was out worn out. I've never ate that much before during my diet. NEVER! I will never skip another meal. That's my reason for eating all of that Cheesy Bread. I had missed lunch. My calories intake for that night was that 1390 calories. I did have breakfast, and I was planing on having my kiss yo mama salad for lunch. Didn't get around to it. Ordered Pizza, because I promised my kids I would, and ordered 2 order's of Cheesy bread. I didn't think I was going to eat it all, but I did. Just that. I felt like crap, but today when I woke up. I weigh the same. 161lbs. I was like.. Okay.. What's going on here. I just ate a load of junk, and I didn't gain anything. Well, the jokes on me.. Those pounds just might show up on Monday's weigh in. Mary will be showing her face sometimes this weekend. :(
But, not gaining anything doesn't give me the right to do it again. :(

i would say there are people who do so much worse than you:) and also, if you only overate once and exercised, you might not gain at all

I ate two cinnamon roles, plus a ton of nibbles. There were too many sweets everywhere, and I couldn't control myself! 

Original Post by lynnhaslost:

Well, yesterday, I had a 8 pcs Cheesy bread from "Domino's Pizza." Each one is 125 Cals with 6 grams of fat.. Adds up to 1000 calories, and 48 grams of fat. Yeah, I was busy, and on the go. I should have had something better than that. I got on the ellipitcal and ran for over 45 mins. I was out worn out. I've never ate that much before during my diet. NEVER! I will never skip another meal. That's my reason for eating all of that Cheesy Bread. I had missed lunch. My calories intake for that night was that 1390 calories. I did have breakfast, and I was planing on having my kiss yo mama salad for lunch. Didn't get around to it. Ordered Pizza, because I promised my kids I would, and ordered 2 order's of Cheesy bread. I didn't think I was going to eat it all, but I did. Just that. I felt like crap, but today when I woke up. I weigh the same. 161lbs. I was like.. Okay.. What's going on here. I just ate a load of junk, and I didn't gain anything. Well, the jokes on me.. Those pounds just might show up on Monday's weigh in. Mary will be showing her face sometimes this weekend. :(
But, not gaining anything doesn't give me the right to do it again. :(

lynnhaslost, you probably didn't gain because, despite all of the crap you ate, you still stayed under a reasnonable amount of calories. Even if the 1390 number was just from the cheesy bread alone, if your breakfast was a reasonable one (no more than 500), you probably only ate at your maintenance calorie level, if only a little over. Like you said, as long as you don't do it continuously, you shouldn't gain any weight. I know just yesterday I weighed in 2lbs heavier than the day before--and today I'm almost back at the weight I weighed in on Friday. The 2lbs was just water weight--I had eaten a lot of salty foods Friday unintentionally and didn't drink quite enough water to flush it out of my system.

Tomorrow's my weekly comparison day, as well. I'm trying to be good and stay away from the sodium today. Even though *I* will know it's just water weight, I don't want to compare numbers and then, on Tuesday, weigh 2lbs less. That would just suck.

Friday night my DH and I went to our favorite Chinese buffet and I ate  a few sweets and ice cream.  Then last night, I had 3 slices of pizza and 1 piece of chocolate chip desert pizza.  I had worked so hard those days doing house work and yard work that I convinced myself that I "deserved it."  UGH!  I feel guilty and feel like all of my hard work this week of eating healthy and exercising like a mad woman has been undone.  I don't know why I do this to myself.  I will have to face the scale in the morning and pay the consequences of my actions.  The worse part is, I'm leaving for vacation on Tuesday....I hope I can control myself and not do too much damage. 

Between getting married and moving, my eating has gone to ****.  I'm still maintaining my weight, thankfully, but I'd really like to get back into the losing mode.

I had my wedding day, which included breakfast out, lunch out, a snack out, and then the reception, followed by another fast food run at the resort.  After I got back from the resort we had two more wedding receptions, one for my family who couldn't make it and one for his.  Both involved a lot of potato salad and cake.

Immediately after the packing began.  Throughout the packing process, and then the moving process, we ate nothing but pizza, fast food, and chips/candy we got at the carry-out. 

Yesterday was my first day of starting back on my weight loss calories.  I was a little under, but it wasn't too terrible.

Last Monday night was a rare night for me and hubby to eat out.  My dinner was reasonable (grilled fish, steamed veggies, broiled tomato topped w/cheese), but I had a pomegranite martini and a glass of wine.  Cool thing is though, I worked out that morning, so I still wound up 200 cals below maintenance.  Pretty cool. 

I caved today and had a large Miami Melt meal at Mc Donald's, with a large milkshake. Hello 1500 empty calories...*sigh*

 

Still...my average is still 800 cal below maintenance (2620 being my maintenance should i wish to stay this super-size, and 1777 being the average of the past 5 days)

I have till Tuesday evening 6pm to undo some of the damage of today. Cue buckets of water and lots of walks with the baby.

My really good friend invited me to go out with her for dinner Friday night. I have been being so good I figure I deserved to get whatever I pleased LOL! Isn't that the way it always is. So I had a grilled chicken G-bread sandwich with fries and since I had been dreaming about a white russian I went for it and got one of those too. The thing is I only drank 1/4 of the drink, I guess its been so long since I had alcohol I don't care for it much now. I ate all the food though but 5 fries and I ordered the sanwich with no ranch. That was me worrying about calories hahaha!!! I am trying to think of a way to make this sandwich healthy because it was so good, I know I can make light wheat garlic bread, grill my own chicken use turkey bacon instead of the real thing, but I cannot find low fat pepper jack cheese any where. Anyone have an alternative suggestion for that one?

The other day at work I had a piece of cake. It was white cake with some sort of cream filling and white icing. The piece was about 3x3x2, smaller than a cupcake. But with all the icing and cream filling I guessed it to be over 300 calories.

It tasted like sugared cardboard.

Next time I see a piece of cake, this experience will come to mind.