Weight Loss

I have been doing Vacation Bible School all week and some of the crew leaders are going out to get ice cream at dairy queen after. I worked out today as usual (about 400 calories burned) and I am going to save up my calories (a little over 500) and get the lowest calorie SMALL blizzard (according to DairyQueen.com :) ....I will still be under my daily intake if I am careful today but I still feel bad >:( Probably because it will be the last thing I eat today around 9 pm....

What do you think? I will have plenty of calories to be a little bad and get a blizzard, or do you think I should be good and just get  a cone or something?

This is really about 2 eating philosophies!
I know people who NEVER cheat and always order the healthiest thing
I am more of....I love healthy food but I need to eat treats sometimes or I would go crazy :)

Hi there MakeMusique, I am VERY new to this diet business (about two weeks now, first time in my life) and I'm doing REALLY well so far, managing to keep track of stuff via this website and taking care of what I eat.  I do however have one rule that I stick to, I eat what I want to over the weekends and one night a week, I don't stress if I have a drink or a dessert..  I really am not an expert, but think that we all need to have a balance in life.  I hope this helps and good luck.

 

Yeah, I'm more the second kind too. If I don't get a treat every now and then, I end up with a binge worse than I'd have had if I just got what I really wanted. Go ahead and have the treat, and get back on track tomorrow! There's no point in worrying about one blizzard, especially if you worked out and have set calories aside too. Sounds great to me!

It's not an issue of being off-track or on-track...Enjoy the BLIZZARD! Love it. Don't eat it every day or even every week, but enjoy the treat when you have it. a diet is real life and in real life, you get dessert sometimes. You know you won't go over your calorie goal, so you'll be fine.

I think that you might find that getting a small something will satisfy you.  In the past, I used to cheat and get something big etc and I would be stuffed and feel crappy after eating it.  The thing that will kill you is prohibiting yourself to have something - then you're gonna crave it and obsess over it, until you binge on it.  That's just my experience though.

I agree with kristicro. You are having a life. Enjoy the blizzard with the crew leaders.

You even said that you might be still under your daily intake. When I still feel guilty the next day from a situation like you described then I work out a little bit more than usual.

Sometimes a little bit of extra fat intake actually boost my metabolism after a few days of keeping strict to my daily calorie allowance.

Yeah get what you want because when the cone doesn't satisfy you that just leads you to still wanting the blizzard. It is hard but I have slowly learned to just satisfy my initial craving rather then mask it or try to find a weak substitute. Enjoy that blizzard

Well, that really depends upon your ideals. I know people who NEVER step out of the dietary line, and I myself enjoy the discipline of that virtuousic practice (it can be veeeeeeeeeery hard to do so..:) ). Otherwise, I know plenty of health concious people who still treat themselves to something every now and then, and I agree with this approach as well; Your body should be fine with handling these sort of things; They are not as fragile as some make them to be, or even not so as so many more do :). I think that if you are a constitantly active individual, and even are willing to go the extra mile to do the work in order for your body to truly accept it as "energy you've already spent", then I say go for it. I mean, we can't be going through all this trouble about maintaining our bodies without looking for some guilty pleasures inbetween. :p

You should be fine, simpley, but I'm sure most of this battle will be fought in your head, not your body.

It's NOT cheating if you're still within your calorie allowances!!

Original Post by mrsdagle:

It's NOT cheating if you're still within your calorie allowances!!

Word to the above.

Also, though I am too late to help (and I hope it worked out) see what you feel like when you get there. If the blzzard is calling your name, so be it.

If you're looking for something lower in calories than the blizzard, get a chocolate dipped soft serve cone. But, I think you should get the blizzard. They're delicious, you don't have to eat all of it, and little indulgences are okay every once in a while.

Like others have said, it's not cheating if it's within your calorie allowance for the day.  The other thing you may find is that it may well be enough to eat just half the blizzard (though don't force yourself to stop there; you've budgeted the calories!).  When I was a kid, I could eat a whole large blizzard in one sitting.  These days, I get a small blizzard, am full when I get halfway through it and put the other half in the freezer for another day.  Also, the calorie difference between most kinds of blizzards isn't enough to worry about.  Get the kind you want, or you'll be sitting there wishing you had the "good kind" and it'll take away enjoying from your treat.

There's no law that says that you have to eat the whole thing at one sitting, or even at all... Last time DH wanted to go to Dairy Queen for a treat, I got him a large blizzard and I had a couple of spoonfuls of it, then I went to the supermarket and got some icecream bars for my own lower-calorie icecream treat. It's not actually the calories that bother me so much about dairy queen - it's the price! It's the same price for a blizzard as for a whole CARTON of icecream in the grocery store...

If I didn't get to eat something 'nice' every now and then I'd just flip out and eat terribly (I'm thinking of the night I eat a pizza followed by a chinese for two with a pack of chocolate biscuits in the space of two hours!). There's no harm in having an ice cream as a treat. The key word there is treat: it can't be every day!

I've heard that having a 'bad' day once a fortnight helps keep your motabolism working and stops you hitting a 'barrier'. When I say bad I mean within reason, but have a pizza or burger or whatever's your vice. I don't know if there's any kind of scientific principle behind this, but it at least has helped me keep on track knowing I've got a day where I'll be able to have a bit more than usual.