........It's a new day........

Every night after I've eaten badly I think 'oh well, it's just one day. Tomorrow I will be good and make up for it!'

But this happens EVERYDAY. I'm eating badly sooo many days and then triyng to excuse myself with the 'tomorrow is a new day' excuse.

I NEED TO BE MORE MOTIVATED!!!

But, just for the sake of it, tomorrow IS a new day and I plan to eat well tomorrow. I'm going to post again to tell whether or not I've screwed up again.

Anyone with me or do the same thing?? Surely its not just me..

I do the same thing :(

Im good all day, then at night i break and eat loads.  Then I talk to myself in bed that night and tell myself its going to be different tomorrow.

Ok I am with you,

Last night I ate all the way up to my calorie total, (healthily)

then freaking blew it with Chocolate covered raisins, (like a whole can) and a boat load of pretzels... Today I was jumping back on the wagon too.

I do the same thing as well. I've found that if I think of it in longer terms than just a day it helps me stay on track. Like say, if I ate a snickers bar and I'm now around 300 cals over my maintenance, I think that it will take one day with a deficit of 250-300 to make up for that snickers bar. So while you get to enjoy the snickers bar one day, it sticks with you for two. I don't know if this makes ANY sense at all but thinking like that usually prevents me from munching over my limit.

Original Post by jamminatorr:

I do the same thing as well. I've found that if I think of it in longer terms than just a day it helps me stay on track. Like say, if I ate a snickers bar and I'm now around 300 cals over my maintenance, I think that it will take one day with a deficit of 250-300 to make up for that snickers bar. So while you get to enjoy the snickers bar one day, it sticks with you for two. I don't know if this makes ANY sense at all but thinking like that usually prevents me from munching over my limit.

Thats funny, I use this same way of thinking, but just reverse... Like, I can allow myself to go over my daily calories by 500, because I know I can "erase" it all tomorrow with no problem. The good thing is, I have never gone that much over. :)

Same. I had a great day yesterday, ate well, got my planned 1250 calories, did a morning aerobics class. The 9pm hits and for some reason it seems like a good idea to order and consume an entire pizza. Now I've gained 3 pounds overnight, setting me back 3 weeks. This happens 5 nights out of 7...The next day I am so despressed about it, but just keep doing the same thing to myself. I've tried increasing my cals and accepting that I cannot lose more than half a pound a week, but I just keep binging at night, no matter what I eat in the day....Should I maybe be leaving my wallet in the office???

Night nibbling is my problem too. Nothing nicer that a cuppa tea & a couple of biscuits or big chunk of cheese (or both) to munch on of an evening.

Though I have found two things that prevent such habits -

1. My muscle toning pad. One of them things you strap round your middle & it contracts the muscles to help strenthen them. It also prevents you nipping to the fridge!

2. I recently brought a teeth whitening kit. With gum shield type things in your mouth you can't eat & after you take them out you don't want to eat & lose that minty clean feeling.

Hope that might help.

I'm exactly the same - hence the username! I'm like it with everything, though, not just my bad eating habits.

I have the same problem! You are not alone!  Especially when I dont get home from work until 10-12 at night!  Then I eat some "dinner" but nothing hits the spot...if I eat salty I want sweet, if I eat something soft I want crunchy!  I go to bed stuffed and miserable and say well tomorrow is a new day! I am going to try to come back and check this forum later tonight when I get that urge! maybe it will help!

yup same here. i eat good during the day then i have 600 calories left for dinner. but then i would eat chips thinking that i have been good the whole day and then before i know it, i have been eating the entire bag. then i would be so depressed thinking that all the hard work that i have done for the entire week is ruined. i think the suggestion of clg7357 might work. i'll do that too!

4 months of "tomorrow is another day" and I have regained 15 lbs!!! 

I'm back on track now.