MAJOR slip up!

I know that you're supposed to have a 'cheat' day once a week, but I think I may have just undone everything I've worked for.

My family is having a bit of a get-together, and my job was to help make cookies. Now, normally i am very well disciplined when it comes to these sorts of things, and I actually made the cookies according to the recipe (real butte,r real sugar, real eggs, etc).

However, I slipped up BADLY when it came to putting the cookies on the cookie sheet. I thought, 'hmm, it wouldn't hurt to try a BIT of the batter'. Before I knew it, I had eaten about a cup or so of the cookie dough! Last time I had eaten naything with sugar and/or butter in it was a doughnut I had eaten a month before.

And now I'm reminded of why I don't eat sugar. I'm feeling super depressed and like a total fat A--. I'm afraid to log in the calories in it, Because I don't know how to log in the calories for homemade cookie dough, and I'm afraid I might have hit way over my calorie marker for the day. I had only about 300 calories before I went on the binge, but I'm still very, VERY nervous.

Any suggestions for what I should do?

Type the recipe into the recipe analyzer and go ahead and log it. Don't stress about this. Just move forward. :)

maybe its bc youre STARVING!  please get some assistance.

I agree with hamburger. Log it and face your fears, that is the only way to deal with them. Not knowing is always scarier. Once you have a handle on how much you ate, then you know where to go from there. Move forward. Everyday is new, no mistakes. Tomorrow you will do better.

That's why this site is so effective, because we log in what we eat and we aren't kidding ourselves about what we put in our mouth. I know exactly what you did, too. After doing so well, and avoiding sugar, you just went on a sugar binge. Try getting a little sweet stuff in each day so you don't start to feel deprived. Go ahead and calculate those cals. You may find that it was bad, but not as bad as you think and you can use that to go forward tomorrow.

I used to have massive trouble with eating. I'd eat clean until the afternoon then binge. And this went on for years, on and off.

Finally I had two good days in a row. But that weekend I went home and it was terrible! I didnt even have one healthy meal and cake fro breakfast. Its funny tho, I felt terrible, physically after that weekend and decided to really start listening to my body. When i crave chocolate do I really want it? Or am i looking for comfort. Finally, I am now CHOOSING to eat healthy. I dont want that ham and cheese corissant. I dont want those cookies all the time like before. Because I decided to stop forcing myself to eat good, but to listen to my body.

I came to accept what I did and only through that did I finally break years of bad habits. Now I may binge again one day. But I feel so much stronger. So use the feelings now to motivate you. Next time you feel and urge to binge, remember how silly it really was - you didnt need that food, just like you dont need it now.

Goodluck! One day never ruins anything. And even if you binged once a week, at least its 6/7 days of being good rather than bingeing all the time (like me, but even then i still ate a good breakfast, and moved towards where I am now)(

Well, let's just look at how many calories total you ate. Calculate them.. it could be worse, it could be better, or it could be just as many calories as you imagined.

Eating healthy doesn't just happen over night. Sometimes it doesn't happen over a week, or a month, and for some it takes YEARS to finally learn self-control and to eat healthy. This is a learning experience about how you react to certain foods, and what can help you achieve your goal. You got to start taking the slip-ups as learning experiences instead of freaking out.

And also, you may want to stop putting foods on the "touch this and you will be ruined" list. That only causes you to crave it more. Like if you know you really like cookie dough, and you want some of it plan it ahead. If you're in your calorie limit, it's fine. Take some out of the batch and snack on it. Always log it.

Personally, I find moments where you do cave into cookies or cake or pie and feel guilty about it the absolute best moments to come up with a "what have I learned today?" moment. Over time I've learned that I don't like pie and cookies nearly as much as oranges and apples because pie and cookies make me feel bad sometimes, where as I never feel bad about an apple. So what do I do next time I'm hungry and I'm being offered a cookie or an apple? I choose the apple. But I didn't learn to do that for MONTHS. It is frustrating, but you'll get it.

So hang in there, darlin', and use this situation to your advantage! ;]

I put in the recipe and it said it was 80 cals a cookie ,which I am very, VERY skeptical of. But so far I'm still within my calorie range. But the thing is, I don't really want to eat. Eating the cookies just made my stomach hurt really, really badly and just feel horrible in general.

Woohoo for being within your cal range! :D

Hmm. I get like that after I bake something. XD (I looove eating cookie batter while I bake cookies. Afterwards it's practically like I ate two full meals at once!) If your tummy hurts too much to eat, don't eat.. or try eating foods rich in fiber, yogurt, and/or bread. Those will help your tummy if it's still feeling bad. Also try drinking warm tea or warm water.

Cookie batter has raw eggs in it.  Personally, I think that's a BIG part of what makes it taste so yummy, but that's probably why your tummy feels heavy and ooky.  Cookie batter is very dense compared to a cookie as well.  Your tummy will feel better after you digest the cookie dough. 

Don't worry about binging.   You don't HAVE to have a cheat day.  I don't really have one.  I may have a cheat meal or a cheat snack, but I don't think I could handle a whole day.  But allowing yourself some "naughty" foods is fine.  Also, slipping up and eating too much cookie dough is fine as well.

Last Tuesday I made brownies for my hubby and his friends.  I "slipped up" and ate a lot of brownie batter AND a whole brownie when they were done.  I still lost 2 lbs last week.

You didn't undo everything with one indulgence.

your "major slip-up" doesn't even come near to a real binge. the fact that you're beating yourself up so badly over it is ridiculous. have you ever thought that maybe you are STARVING YOURSELF and that's part of why you did it?

Yeah, that's not really a binge. Don't beat yourself up: log it and move on.

When I have a sugar crush, I try to offset it later that day or the next by eating extra healthy: a lot of lettuce or spinach or other greens, peas and beans and brown rice, oats and applesauce, steamed zucchini and carrots. You know the drill, fiber and vitamins. The point is to fill your tummy so it's stretched and has something to do. By the time it's done digesting everything, your body should be done with the sugar spike and you'll feel a lot better.