the downside of fridays

okay, now. i have been counting very well all week, even working out everyday since sunday. but of course friday rolls around and its all downhill.

i started out the day fine, good choices and breakfast and lunch, but friday night is always pizza night at my house. so i promised myself to choose carefully.

well i ate 3 slices of stuffed crust, a bag of popcorn, and about 7 spoonfuls of icing :O

im so dissapointed! i feel like there is no way to recover from this. any advice?

did the same exact thing. had a sensible breakfast (oatmeal), okay lunch (slice of pizza and a clif bar) then somehow backslid into a lot of clif bars (which i don't recommend... it's not friendly on the stomach) and general tso's with an egg roll.

i'm disappointed, bloated, and kinda gassy. but what can you do?

drink a few glasses of water, set your alarm clock, and resolve to do better tomorrow. you're only human!

You can't change what's happened but you can learn from a mistake.  How about next Friday is 'make a pizza night' rather than buying a nasty big greasy one from a shop?  You could make it with a nice thin wholemeal crust, add more vegetables and less cheese.   Serve it with some veggie sticks and healthy dips rather than popcorn and icing (?).  You could only make what you intend to eat rather than feeling compelled to hoover up the leftovers....   All the same fun, keeps up with the tradition, a fraction of the cost and you wouldn't feel disappointed at the end.

I totally sympathize.  Last week my doctor told me I can't be on the diet because I'm trying to have a baby (and dieting can cause birth defects, low birth weight, increased risk of death of the baby in the first month of it's life... yada) and I became totally depressed.  So I spent the last week binging on foods, not logging anything and not exercising.  Now I'm scared to step on the scale. I know I should be maintaining my weight and eating healthy for the baby, but that isn't what I did at all. 

But what is done is done right?  We can't go back in time (unfortunately) so all we can do is try harder in the future.