I Cheated Today...

[chicagochick]

I was on the road for about 8 hours today, so I had to eat lunch and dinner on the go. I ended up cheating big time and eating a McDonald's dbl cheese AND a Wendy's fish sandwhich WITH FRIES. Ick. I don't even know why I did it.. I could've grabbed a sandwich from Subway (what I usually do when I'm on the go) or even stopped at a pantry store to grab a healthy salad and some fruit. But I haven't had a cheat day this week, and so I suppose I thought I could have a couple of my favorites.

On the bright side, I didn't even go over maintenance calories (2300/day to maintain) and including my breakfast, only consumed a total of 1960. So why do I still feel so bad???? Why do I still feel like I'm going to gain a pound? How do you deal with the guilt of cheat days?

 

[allyphoe]

I don't have rules for myself, the breaking of which would be "cheating." There is no virtue in food; neither is there sin.

I want to get from Point A to Point B. If I see something interesting along the way, I might take a detour. Or I might stop and sit by the roadside. Or I might change my destination to Point C. But detouring or dawdling or revising the trip plan aren't "cheating." If you're out running errands, with 3 stores on your list, and you stop to get gas halfway through, is that "cheating" because it wasn't part of the original plan?

Now, if I sit by the side of the road too long, I might find myself wondering if I'm ever going to reach my destination, but the solution there is not to sit around feeling guilty that I've delayed, but to get up and move forward.

There's no changing the past. Try to do better going forward. That's all any of us can ever ask of ourselves.

 

[Cams Habs]

I don't have rules for myself, the breaking of which would be "cheating." There is no virtue in food; neither is there sin.

I want to get from Point A to Point B. If I see something interesting along the way, I might take a detour. Or I might stop and sit by the roadside. Or I might change my destination to Point C. But detouring or dawdling or revising the trip plan aren't "cheating." If you're out running errands, with 3 stores on your list, and you stop to get gas halfway through, is that "cheating" because it wasn't part of the original plan?

Now, if I sit by the side of the road too long, I might find myself wondering if I'm ever going to reach my destination, but the solution there is not to sit around feeling guilty that I've delayed, but to get up and move forward.

There's no changing the past. Try to do better going forward. That's all any of us can ever ask of ourselves.

Simply incredible, and true.

 

[reissue]

Yeah I don't know food is food to me. I don't go out of my way to eat fatty stuff but if I do and don't exceed my self imposed calorie limit I don't call it cheating no matter what I ate. For me getting over the fear of food was a big step in learning how to eat. For me it's about making smart choices and the only smart choice that matters is that I don't over do it. Now that I've learned how to eat sensibly I feel like every day is a cheat day. I eat what I like and I cheated being fat and unhealthy, I beat it. I feel like the saying "have your cake and eat it too" was made for me.

BTW I ate fried kielbasa, potatoes and sour kraut for dinner and followed that up with vanilla cream and blueberry crepes for dessert. I didn't exceed my limit, in fact I was well below my maintanence level today and will likely wake up and be lighter on the scale. I'm lovin' every delicious minute of it.