How would you recover from a bad day of eating?

Monster2

Monster2

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I know most of have done it! After you have a bad day of eating and go on a huge eating binge, what do you do to get back on the right track? Do you work extra hard the next few days or do you just suck it up and keep on your regular program?
What would you recommend to someone who has eaten a lot in one day?
OR is there some kind of "generally accepted" to recover from a bad day of eating?
Thanks!
 
You just move forward. If you feel that you overate because of emotions, then take some time to figure better ways to deal with those emotions.
 
Yeah, don't feel bad man. Just always remember you have to eat more than 3500 calories above your maintenance calories to gain a pound of -fat-. If you step on the scale and see weight gain more than that, its most likely undigested food and liquid. So unless you like ate a whole buffet or something, one bad day isn't probably going to kill you.

I do recommend putting in a little extra next day at the gym though, but don't psyche yourself out by thinking you failed. All that's gonna do is throw you into the endless yo-yo dieting loop.
 
I'd say just stick with the program and don't be hard on yourself. If you try the "Then I'll eat NOTHING today" style, which I have tried several times, well.. my experience is that I end up binging even more.

Just, stick with your plan, accept the fact that you fell into a hole for a single day and get on with it :) we've all done it, even those that have lost tons of weight. And like Daybehaviour says... you REALLY have to pack that shit in there to actually GAIN a ton of weight. :)
 
I'd say get right back on track as soon as possible. Don't punish yourself by eating virtually nothing or exercising extremely more. The deed is done so there is no point to beat yourself up about it. Move forward.

I personally have a bad "all or nothing" mentality that I need to work on. For example if I overeat I often make the situation worse by thinking "Well I already overate so basically the day is ruined so might as well eat some more". Try to avoid that mentality.
 
Well... here's what I've noticed. That if you do have a bad day, and you exercise and drink a healthy dose of water later that day your body will move the food through your system quite a bit faster. I'm not saying go crazy and run a marathon or anything, but that exercise (even mild exercise) and water sort of help your body readjust and decide that it doesn't need to digest all of the food you've eaten, and helps move it along to your toilet quite a bit faster. Especially if you're like me, and haven't exercised much lately. (but I am improving on that!)
Maybe this is all mental, but it can't hurt!
 
I'm part of the 'put it behind you and move on' clan. It happens to everyone, there's no point dwelling on it or letting it become an excuse to fall off the wagon. The odd bad day here and there isn't going to derail your efforts but that in itself should not become an excuse to have bad days either!
 
The past is history. Learn the lesson and let go of the emotion. This is what most esoteric teachings would advise. We would do well to bring more of their teachings into our life and recognise that you are amazing. There is no computer on the planet that can do what you can do. You don't have to keep running the old programmes...You can create new ones.

This may seem odd, but just humour me and try it for a month.
Use that cinema screen in your head to create a picture in your mind of yourself stepping onto the scales and being delighted to see them read exactly what you want as your next weight goal. Make that picture as vivid and bright and realistic as you possibly can.
Notice the date...set the date.
Then in your mind, step into the picture and live it, experience it, use your 5 senses, what can you see, what do you hear, what do you say to yourself, what is everyone else saying to you as they congratulate you, how do you celebrate your success, what can you smell, taste....how good do you feel.
Do this every day, first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Let your subconscious work on it whilst you sleep.
Just try it every day for a month (What harm can it do?) and notice what happens.
Every successful athlete utilises this type of visualisation. Try it for yourself and then come back and tell me just how successful you were.
Your unconscious mind is very powerful. Use it.

I wish you every success.
 
The 'just humor me' actually had more appeal the first time I read the cut and pasted blurb. Now I wonder why we should humor someone who's just pasting the same thing over and over...

I will say that whatstheharm.net was interesting, although I don't really know that I agree with all of their examples. For example, if someone refuses chemotherapy because they're afraid of what it will do to their fertility, I don't know that acupuncture actually caused them to die. There are several cases where the harm seems to have been in refusing normal medical treatment in favor of the listed option, rather than the listed option alone. Of course, getting Hep B from acupuncture needles doesn't sound good!
 
Jeanette401 said:
The 'just humor me' actually had more appeal the first time I read the cut and pasted blurb. Now I wonder why we should humor someone who's just pasting the same thing over and over...

I will say that whatstheharm.net was interesting, although I don't really know that I agree with all of their examples. For example, if someone refuses chemotherapy because they're afraid of what it will do to their fertility, I don't know that acupuncture actually caused them to die. There are several cases where the harm seems to have been in refusing normal medical treatment in favor of the listed option, rather than the listed option alone. Of course, getting Hep B from acupuncture needles doesn't sound good!
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The feng shui part will make you tear up from laughing :)
 
True story - my dad had to move offices at one point, because the building owners decided the ones he was in had the best feng shui and they decided they wanted it for themselves. They waited until the previous rental contract was up though!

I just came across the one with the NZ MPs falling for the 'ban dihydrogen monoxide' ploy though. That's pretty hilarious!
 
Hi Jeanette401

Yes you are correct. You don't have to humour me, only you can decide what to try. I have made a few similar posting and even cut and pasted some parts, because I felt that the consistent message was one worth repeating and I felt that this is the right place to start. Only looking to be helpful.
I hope you take the time to look at my other postings and that you find some of it useful and worth trying.

Best wishes
 
I think we use to have some people come on about self-hypnosis like you are suggesting. They never really went anywhere.
 
I have to try relatively hard to stop myself from getting overanxious about a bad day, because it's really easy to deprive yourself after you know you've overindulged.

I try and make it a point to stay on track, rather than shortchange myself.
 
Hi SoCoSideshow

Yes, it is not helpful that our own minds seem to like to re-run the memories of where we have gone wrong, is it. It's not enough that we had a bad day...our mind seems to like to play re-runs and we torment ourselves.
Notice that I say that we torment ourselves.
We have an entire cinema screen in our head with full surround sound and nobody ever gave us the instruction manual before. (in case you hadn't guessed...it's what I do).
Here is the interesting thing. We also have the remote control. We can choose what movies (in our head) that we are going to pay attention to and what one's to ignore. We can change the channel or even write our own scripts and play those movies.

Now, we are aware that emotional eating can account for a lot of where we slip up.
A secret for you. Those movies are actually one of the keys to how we feel.

Therefore, if we allow our mind to keep running the crap movies with the crap soundtrack...guess what, we make ourselves feel crap. And what do we turn to for comfort? You guessed it.

If on the other hand we said, no STOP, I don't want to watch that movie (in my head), I'm going to run a more pleasant movie...then we would be making a choice to empower ourselves...to feel better....and to cut down on the episodes of emotional eating.

Some people say to me it cannot be that easy to get rid of the excess weight. I say don't look to make it difficult. There are a number of very easy steps that you can take for yourself and empower your self.

I hope you find this useful.
I wish you well.
 
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