I just cheated...

[STEPHANIEANDJ]

Help! I just cheated on my diet and I feel horrible. I work so hard at the gym, just to ruin it by giving in to temptation. I ate 2 Chips Ahoy cookies and a Hostess cupcake. I am babysitting, you will not find these things at my house. I am so angry with myself. Especially since I cheated after 8 p.m. I know that people say it is ok to cheat every now and then, but now I feel like crap. Help!
Stephanie

 

[ghettostudmuffin]

I thin you're being too hard on yourself. 2 cookies and a cupcake aren't gonna make you gain weight. AT ALL. Not if you only eate tehme once or twice a week and eat perfect the rest of the week. Yuo caneven figure a cookie or 2 into your daily diet if you have a serious sweet tooth which some people do.

Don't be so hard on yourself. Being ultra strict in your diet is very hard. Maybe allow a cheat day where you can either eat all you want for a day, or at least one meal of whatever and however much of what you want. Will help to keep you sane, and keep your metabolism moving along and may actually help you lose bodyfat faster..

 

[Slyder190]

Help! I just cheated on my diet and I feel horrible. I work so hard at the gym, just to ruin it by giving in to temptation. I ate 2 Chips Ahoy cookies and a Hostess cupcake. I am babysitting, you will not find these things at my house. I am so angry with myself. Especially since I cheated after 8 p.m. I know that people say it is ok to cheat every now and then, but now I feel like crap. Help!
Stephanie

I laugh at that amount of bad food. In the midst of bulking I cheat every so often with bad food, but in the summer when i'm cutting and going low-carb and I give in - watch out, I consume mass quantities at once. Not something to be proud of, I know. Don't be so hard on yourself.

 

[gregory]

LOL! You're too funny. You should see how we cheat on a diet. try a medum pizza per person, and top it off with some ice cream cones, 2 a piece king size. Now that's giving in. You're a light weight.

 

[Miss24k]

Girl don't worry about it, what's done is done. Just move on from there. Next time you babysit bring a healthy snack with you. It's easier to avoid temptation when you have a healthier alternative.

 

[*MissFit*]

hahaha i cheat by eating whole tubs of icing .. owells .. i still look alirght

 

[Deleted member 33117]

Bwahahahah I went I eat a cheat meal, it consisted of something like one large stuffed crust pizza with extra cheese and pepperoni (by myself) and 1/2 gallon of blue bell homemade vanilla made into floats using diet dr. pepper.

Beat that shit! Bwaaaam!

 

[Drmemory]

It was a box of brownies for me... sadly I can't say it was just impulse either as I had to make the damn things first. No worries though, I just worked out extra... you do the same and you will be fine (also less prone to binge again).

 

[Deleted member 33117]

Pick one day a week. Follow your diet strictly, but on that day (lets say friday) eat all the shit and junk food you have been craving all week. STuff yourself until you feel like you want to punk and can't look at another cupcake without getting sick to your stomach. It will help speed your metabolism up, replenish your muscle glycogen and help you avoid cheating for the rest of the week.

Actually, unless you are getting ready for a contest, and need to get shreaded, its usually fine to eat a cheat meal once a day. You can still drop bodyfat doing this. Have a hamberger on white bread or a cupcake or 2. Its not the end of the world.

 

[Drmemory]

Bodybyfinaplix is right, if you are gonna binge, make it a doozy and you will be less likely to want to do it again. Eat it till you are sick of it and never want to eat it again. 1 cupcake will leave you wanting another next week and the following week, or more cookies or whatever. But if you snarf down 6 or 8 then you are gonna feel bad (both physically and emotionally) which will help prevent future binges.

Take it from a chronic over-eater, you need to learn to tell yourself when your body is craving food and when you are craving emotional satisfaction. Next time before you grab them cookies, think to yourself, is it a mere mental craving (because you are bored, unhappy, tired, smell induced, etc. OR are you really hungry and would want to eat anything, even a plate of steamed vegies. If you say it is due to true hunger, then eat the vegies, a protein shake, or something healthy... if it is merely a craving, you gotta learn to control those.

Lots of times, when would think I was hungry, and then thought about eating the veggies, or tuna, or whatever, it turned out I was not really hungry at all and I just needed to learn the difference between hunger and a craving.