[swwatch]

So I fell off the diet today, now what?? Today is day 19 and I guess I just got pissed cause I weighed less on day 16 than today and so i ate! AND ATE, AND ATE, AND ATE! Yeah I don't eat tooooooo bad (honstely don't have any junk in the house otherwise I would have ate that) but i had cheese, lunch meat, crabmeat, shrimp, 1 yogurt and some nuts. Yeah didn't really eat "sugar" or "starches" but I fell nonetheless. BUT NOW WHAT?? Do I wake up tomorrow like nothing and just take drops and stick to the game plan and call it day 20?? Do I exerciser tonight and burn off some of this food?? Do I need to start all over from day 1?? CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHERE TO GO FROM HERE Thanks

[Izzy]

I'm a Life Coach, and what I advise my clients when something like this happens is to first of all look at the big picture. Look at how much you have already accomplished. Yes you may have weighed less on day 16, but how much would you weigh if you had never started? Ask yourself how much you will weigh in a year if you abandon this now? We have become a society of instant gratification, and hcg is pretty instant, but we have to stay realistic in our goals.

The next thing I would suggest is to look at today as a lesson. Don't beat yourself up, don't label it as a rotten day, don't use it as an excuse to sabotage yourself. Then wake up tomorrow morning knowing that there might be a gain, take your drops and vow to learn from today and do better tomorrow and continue on with your plan.

[movlabs]

Yep, I like to say just hitch up your big girl panties and get back on the horse. It's just a bump in the road. Call it day 20, call it an unplanned interruption, call it Life. I'll bet you fell down a time or two when you were a baby trying to walk too.

I would take a nice long walk, just to help balance out the increased blood sugar which you haven't had in some time. You may gain, you may stall, you may lose, that's the nature of the beast.

[Plokiikmol]

Cheer Up! You had one day of feeding freenzy...tomorrow is a new day and you can get back into the saddle and keep going. I have been stuck several times in the past 25 days. I am not at goal and will continue until I get there or run out of dose days (40). Getting stuck or stalled seems to be quite normal. Your body takes time to adjust to losing fat and you may be losing inches and not pounds on the days with no loss on the scale. Fat lives in small compartments much like a honeycomb. When the fat comes out it does so much like honey..a drop at a time. The comb is left behind and your body stores water in it while it decides if it will be needed again. Once it determines it is not needed and due to a lower protein intake from you diet, the body will break down the comb and use it as protein; that is why you don't lose muscle on this low protein diet.

Hang in there and make a fresh start. You will be glad you did.

[Kitdowstyhodo]

Hi, I read your post yesterday and had some thoughts for you.

As you said, although you didn't eat that 'bad' you still 'ate and ate and ate.' You were very honest with yourself and now you have the opportunity to deal with the action of 'eating and eating and eating' beyond just the first step - as mentioned earlier, which is getting back on the wagon.

So, you've recommitted, period, no negotiating. But what was really the issue when you became frustrated, was it the going off the diet, 'cheating' or was the reaction and the compulsive eating that was actually the bigger problem, not the what-you-ate? It's just as problematic to eat 3 heads of mashed cauliflower in one sitting as it is to eat 12 cupcakes. It's not the calories that kill it, at the end of the day, it's the lapsing into the destructive, compulsive behavior that really needs to be confronted. You know the truth, uncomfortable emotions and situations will happen throughout the rest of your life and being skinny won't change the way you react to them.

So, the upside of what happened is that you can commit to making some major life changes that will help you on many levels, and certainly get you clear on the eating stuff. I don't know if finding commonly suggested alternatives to eating when your frustrated (taking a bath, going for a walk) easy to follow right now, since I think a lot more support for you is necessary. But for now, committing to the HCG diet is important for re-building confidence while you seek out opportunities for self help. Ideas? Mediation and cognitive therapy have helped me a LOT. Seeing a therapist, or maybe a life coach, like the member above could be great ideas. There's other stuff out there, why not explore?

So, my two cents would be to treat this one cheat as an opportunity to make some real adjustments. You want to be successful on this diet - which you will - and you want to dump the compulsive eating so you can stay thin and find new ways to deal with life's challenges.