Weight-Loss The Ice Cream Made Me

[Immaier]

Lately I’ve been doing extremely well with diet and fitness. I had been under-eating and working out really hard, though I hadn’t been toning up as much as I would have liked. Last week I increased my calories to 1,350 (I’m 5’4", 116) and started seeing results immediately. I lost quite a bit of fat and am feeling much more toned. For the past two days I had been craving excessive amounts of sugars. Yesterday I consumed around 120 grams of fruit and vegetable sugars. (Blueberries, three large apples, carrots, sweet potato)…it was insane. Today, I noticed I was craving sugars AGAIN, though I had less fruit and more protein regardless. Well, finally, I gave in, went to the store and bought some Breyer’s Light, nonfat ice cream. 110 calories for half a cup, no grams of fat….but the sugar I was craving. Of course, I couldn’t just stick to one serving size. I must have had…three and a half? I doused the carton in water and watched the rest wash down the drain before I was swimming in the stuff. Anyway, I’m assuming I ate around 400 calories of ice cream, so totaling at around 1,900 calories at the end of the day, with only minimal exercise. (Pilates) Today was a fairly sedentary day as well, in general, considering it was my rainy day off. Normally I do 45 minutes to an hour of cardio a day, but I didn’t even do THAT today.

So, what I’m wondering is, am I going to wake up tomorrow and realize that about a week of hard work is now lost? Do I have to pump out another week just to get back to where I was? I’m pretty discouraged. Also, I know that severely restricting calorie intake is a no-no, but say I only consumed around 1,000 calories tomorrow, and did my normal gym routine (which would ring me in at around 800) just for ONE day? I was planning on waking up, having my greek yogurt, apple, and some oatmeal to kickstart the day, but then eating a bunch of veggies, and maybe some tuna, egg and edemame for protein. Basically, still a really balanced diet, but with fewer calories.

Would that get me back on track, make it like tonight never happened? My boyfriend’s coming back in one week and I haven’t seen him in three months. I need this bikini body to be superb for his return!

 

[summer123]

Please don't go with the temptation to cut to 1000kcals tomorrow- your really going to notice it the day after and low and behold you have a binge-starve cycle, these are very very hard to break. Best thing you can do? go back to 'normal'. Try to cut the sugar ice cream things- keep them for a treat by all means but work out if its really worth it if you find its hard not to stop once you begin eating them.

It could be that your body just needed that little bit more energy. Just when it does it sends out cravings for sugar, sugar is enegy for the body straight and simple. It works, quick easy to digest energy and your body is very adapt at getting hold of it. If you do find you get to a strong sugar craving again, try adding in some complex carbs such as brown rice, wholewheat pasta, multigrain bread etc, stuff that your body has to work to digest. Eat about 100-150kcals, wait for 30 mins an hour and then see if you still need more. If you can manage it, stick a small amount of fat (from oils) with that to help maintain an even keel. Its glycogen, protein will nor give you that, its energy, its blood sugar levels evening. It should help.

Its worth thinking about the additional calories over the course of two weeks, so you had 400kcals? whats your deficit for the week? being that weight loss happens over 10-14 days, do you really think this 400kcals is really going to ruin everything you have worked for?

Nope, I don't either.

Pick yourself up and go at it again. You have done so well so far, you can do it again, we learn best by out mistakes, anything worth having is not obtained so easily, remember that and no ones weight loss is plain sailing- please don't think no one has bad days, some even have much worse days then you but ober the course of a weight loss, as a one off its really not going to make a jot of difference. Please don't worry.

But having said that, if you notice these sugar cravings and problems keep happening, then you do need to rethink your food and what you eat. As we lose weight and as we age our bodies have slightly different needs, different days of the week we are sometimes more stressed, do more exercise, rest more, relax more, out bodies require slightly different nutrients. Its normally settled if we allow ourselfs to have a little of what we fancy but on a hardcore diet its easy to ignore or steamroller through and not listen to. If your body continually asks for something, its worth really thinking about that and changing accordingly.

 

[crnulus]

Eat 85% dark chocolate, it's low in carbs so you won't get fat from it.

 

[summer123]

Eat 85% dark chocolate, it's low in carbs so you won't get fat from it.

Unfortunetly this is not true. You can get fat on anything if you eat more calories then your body requires, you can even get fat on apples.

85% chocolate may be harder for some people to overeat (not me!) but this doesn't mean you cannot get fat on it, if you require 2000kcals to maintain your weight, you ate 1950kcals and then had 150kcals of 85% chocolate, this is an over eat and will result in stored calories.