Making this post for whoever else might also need this reminder...
Today I went to a dim sim lunch with my team to celebrate the Lunar New Year and downed roughly 1000 calories, then just HAD to follow it up with something sweet (some honeycomb and two cookies for an extra 320 calories, yikes!). All that plus my pre-logged broccoli and chicken breast dinner and I'm sitting at about 1,900 calories.
1,900. That's almost 700 over my allotted calories to keep me on track. That's 1/5th of a pound. Enter thoughts of: "That's a gross amount of food. I feel sick now. How long do I have to run to burn this off? This is the first step of going right back up to 270. All 40 pounds of progress is so easy to erase, I might as well just do it before it happens. I hate myself, why can I not control myself." Etc, etc, continue self-deprecation.
^^ It would have been so easy to continue down this rabbit hole of negativity, so easy to reach for another cookie because "well, now it's a fuck it kind of day", so easy to replay and agonize over every bite that I had taken wondering if it had been "worth it". And not only would it have been easy, it was tempting.
But then I forced myself to remember something: my framing was entirely off. Sure, yeah, I missed my MFP goal for today. But my MFP is set to help me lose 2lbs/week, and my actual TDEE is 2,100. Which means....I still ate in a deficit today. I still ate in a deficit today. And that's important to remember because:
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It means I didn't fail at today. I was just closer to maintaining than dropping, and that's okay too. My weight shouldn't go up tomorrow - it just probably won't drop. And for one day, that's fine.
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It stopped me from reaching for a third - and then maybe fourth, fifth, who knows - cookie / chocolate / whatever. I can refocus, go to my boxing class tonight, and get back to things as normal tomorrow. It stopped me from truly eating in a way that would make me gain.
So for everyone at the top of a slippery slope known as those "fuck-it" days, remember your actual TDEE vs your MFP allotment and give yourself a break when it comes to days where your deficit is just a bit smaller. I still wish I had made different choices today, but I can start my better choices again right now and stay at 1,900 for the day, and then get right back to a comfortable and healthy 1,200 tomorrow.
If I can do it, y'all definitely can. Onwards and downwards. And happy Year of the Rat!
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