OMG I am Offically ashamed of myself!!!

OK well tonite Im here at my moms house and my lil boy is running around. He just finished eating a little bit of meat and I asked him if he was still hungry. BIG MISTAKE.  I heated HIM up a can of Chef Boy R D Raviolli and Meatballs. Well what do u know my lil Nate did not want it and guess who ate 3/4 of the can. BIG OL MOMMY.  Everybody knows Im dieting so I was just sneaking bites. Can yall believe I did that. I cant. Ive doin so good.  I really wanna cry. Ive let myself down tonite. Thanks for listening.:((

Is it really that many calories? What is there -- about two servings in a can? I can't imagine you did that much damage. 

Well thanks for makin me feel slightly better.  I hope I make it through this. I have a hella long way to go and to slack this soon into it is pitiful!!!Ill do good tomarrow I promise.

According to the CC database, the entire container is only 400 calories. I wouldn't worry TOO much about it.  One of my comfort foods is spaghettios w/meatballs so every once in a great while I will work it in to my food plan.  And of course, it also includes a peanut butter sandwich (all part of the comfort thing).  Ends up being about 500-ish cals when all is said and done, so I just either do some exercise, or eat lighter the rest of the day, and call it good.  Oh yea, and maybe get some extra waters in.

::hugs::  Honestly, I wouldn't sweat it too much.

Don't sweat it.  We are all bound from time to time to indulge in something we hadn't planned on.  Just feel good that tomorrow's a new day and anything is possible. :)    

If your worried, just skip lunch or breakfast tomorrow. Its an easy fix.

Eating an entire tub of icecream in a sitting is a little bit more to worry about though (hehe, icecreams so good ><)

Realize that especially when you are starting a new plan, there will be mistakes, simply because your mind wants to fall back into its old routine.  Don't let a slip up like this discourage you, its natural at the beginning, until your body has gotten used to what you are feeding it!

Yup Yup Thats what Im tellin myself. Tomarrow Tomarrow Tomarrow. Start all over.  I dont know but is anyone else find it not so easy to log food on the journal. It doesnt always have the exact food that I eat. I find it difficult.  Thanks:))

Realize that especially when you are starting a new plan, there will be mistakes, simply because your mind wants to fall back into its old routine.


And even when you are 6 or even 9 months in to the plan, you'll have mistakes.  Don't think of it as a "diet", but as a lifestyle change.  It's going to take time - and practice - to make those changes in to habits.   And life happens.  Things happen.  Enjoy and go on from there.

be glad you didn't have a side order of garlic bread with it. 
I liked what the others said.  Great advice.   Thanks for sharing

I agree. I have to say all yalls great advice honestly made me feel better. Really THANKS ALOT:))  Hay I have to say that there were like 2 bites left in the bowl and I didnt eat them. I left it there to sit in the cold. LOL....Thats good rite!!!

mmm those are good tho! lol. real high in sodium but i'll have to admit i've factored them into my diet quite a few times.

dont let this be a let down. we have these days, no biggy. Just get back on track. since your boy has tons of energy, go for a walk or go to the park and burn some of it off.

Enjoy the pieces in your teeth!  dont let something you normally would have enjoyed get you down. It's so not worth the heart ache :)

hehe I just went to my cupboard to see if I had any Chef Boyardee in there... (nope).  What a disappointment; now I really want some! :D

Hi nicensweet,

I wouldn't worry too much, since you said that you only had a few bitefuls.  I'll tell something though, this addiction that we have with food (doesn't matter what size you are, we all have a love/hate relationship with food).  But compared to other addictions:  gambling, drugs, alcohol, smoking........you get it huh, a food addiction is harder to maintain because we need food to live, breathe and survive.  we don't need to gamble, do drugs, drink alcohol, and smoke.  so when we "relapse on those other forms of addiction", we can automatically say, "yes I relapsed, but i'm back on the wagon."  but with food, we can't be too hard on ourself each time we sneak a bit of something or even go thru a whole binge. what we need to do, is analyze why we we did it.  We still eat, but we learn about our habits and our thinking that got us here today. 

and there's always tomorrow. tomorrow is a new day, new start.  heck, you don't even have to wait till tomorrow, right now is your new start.  ever heard of "do overs"?  how about "roll again"?  this is one of them.  :)

So, I guess eating a bag or healthy butter popcorn is not that bad either. Its by Jolly Time and its called Healthy Butter (seriously)!!!

 Forgiving yourself is the easiest way to keep the diet up. Just like you probably would scold your son if he did something small wrong and then move on, you gotta do the same. If you hawked after him for getting some crayon on the white table over and over, it'd hardly be productive -- same thing here, you made a mistake. Tell yourself to watch out, know that it happens sometimes (and you DO deserve a treat sometimes), and move right on!

As a mom myself I know the feeling of letting food go to waste, and I've been there too!  And then I think it might be better off in the garbage, but I still feel bad for wasting it.  I don't know what it is, but I hate waste.  It's a habit that I had to break, and had to see food go in the garbage instead of in me.  In the end it's all "waste" anyway, think of it that way :)

Nicensweet, I just want to tell you that I was bad today too. I'm only suppose to eat 1400 calories to lose weight and I ate 1700 and didn't work out at all.  And just reading everyones support for you makes me feel like they're supporting me too. Let's just figure it's one day and think about all the days we were being really good. 10 days of good to 1 day of bad has to be in our favor. Tomorrow is a new day and I'm determined to make it a good one.  : )

I can probably make you feel a little better...

I burn 1500 a day before exercise (1750 if I run for 45 mins and do pilates for an hour).  The last three days I've eaten 3,500 Weds, 2,500 Thurs, and 2,100 today.  I haven't exercised all those days, but I'm about to for today.  My average intake this month is 1800.  My average burn is 1575.  This has been going on for like 2 months.

So please, don't feel bad about one day.  It could be worse.