Oh God...i just fell off the wagon!!!! Company had pizza for everyone today...i ate from the sacred pie!! Had a coke to go with it and a chunk of cake for desert.....

I want to cry!!!!!

Just letting you guys know....


:)

It's Friday! Do you allow yourself a cheat day every week? If so I guess it's today!

Oh God...i just fell off the wagon!!!! Company had pizza for everyone today...i ate from the sacred pie!! Had a coke to go with it and a chunk of cake for desert.....

I want to cry!!!!!

Just letting you guys know....


:)

Happens to the best of us. Be sure to not let it turn into a cheat weekend and you'll be just fine. Who knows, it could actually help kickstart your progress.

jason

today im falling off the wagon, well not really, its a planned cheat day, the plan is, to have no plan! and eat what i feel like, it will be a releaf to be "free" for one day

think of it as a carb up and lift extra hard in the gym the next day!!

i completely understand your feelings about what you ate, and frustrating it can be when you get off track. the guilt is not fun to deal with, but don't completely beat yourself up about it.

have you been allowing for free days? if not, maybe today was your body's reaction to that- it could have been telling you, "hey! feed me!"

the extra carbs WILL raise your metabolism. it's highly unlikely, if you've been sticking you a good, clean program, that you will gain much- if anything- from today. you probably didn't eat 3500 cals over your maintainance. you will probably just have some bloating for a day or two, and then things will be back to normal!

if anything, i can totally relate. when i eat ONE THING that i know i shouldn't eat, it's like i'm a speeding train with no breaks. i'm trying to hard to fight the reaction of, "well, i already blew it, might as well eat two pints of ben and jerrys..." right now, and it's a constant struggle for me. when i have bad days, i'm trying now to separate myself from the immediate situation and say things like this to myself:

"is eating this worth the regret that i will feel immediately afterward?"

"in the scheme of things (eating healthy over a lifetime), one day is not going to make or break me. i choose to start over clean from here."

"is my body telling me that i need this right now, or am i satisfied?"

"i have learned a lesson from today and i will apply it to the future so this will not happen again."

think about it this way- people who set out to eat PERFECTLY and exercise PERFECTLY and don't allow any room for being human and making occasional mistakes are bound to give up, fail, or put themselves through incredible amounts of emotional stress. the important thing to do, and the best way i've found to go about things, is to set goals, understand that this lifestyle change is not easy and know that there are going to be hard days, and accept things as they happen. praise yourself for coming this far, learn from your mistakes, and use your experience to better yourself tomorrow.

wow, cheesy motivational stuff, eh? i'm going to go take my dr. phil hat off now. :p

good luck to you, it's all good, tomorrow is a new day!

oh please, I've been off the wagon for weeks, eating whatever the hell I want and going to the gym maybe three times. all that changes on Monday, but for now I'm not worrying about it. I needed the break. and I've lost a few pounds, even!

well i just came back from my weigh-in this week, i ate more and lost more, great start to a bulk!! ;) i even had a "vege cheat" last week, where i ate over 2lbs of vegies with a huge piece of chicken :p

dont underestimate your metabolism!

well it looks like i turned that cheat day on friday into a cheat weekend. Its soo screwed up guys....i fall off the wagon and its like i get this "OH hell with it..lets see how far i can go" attitude. I got out rollerblading and went to the gym but the diet went to hell. I went strawberry picking and now have too many strawberries to even mention...so i was on a strawberry tart..pie...shortcake kick all weekend.

I start back on the clean food today. God i love Mondays...Just hope that bowl of whipped cream has gotten itself out of my fridge by the time i get home :)

I'm going to sound negative...but seriously, I see these meltdowns on this site about people having some foods that they normally wouldn't throw inot their diet and it makes me chuckle. DON"T TAKE IT so personal..and you'll be fine. It's trends that halt progress, not one days or meals worth of cheating. Pizza and cake at a company party is not going to make you add 10 lbs overnight.......but an entire 1 1/2 to 2 weeks of it will....

I had a cheat on Saturday for the entire day. Unfortunately I'd been drinking imports instead of the watered down american beer on saturday night, and the only thing I could think of for lunch on Sunday was a big ole wrap and nacho chips with salsa. Then somebody on our street had an ice-cream party, and that ship had sailed. I ate a bowl of that along with 3-4 hefty cookies, and enough watermelon to sink a ship. It's all good though. The more cheat days followed by clean days I have the greater the confidence I have in myself that I can cut bad eating off at the knees any time I want. So, today it begins anew eating cleanly :)