Oh my - I have just had an all out leftover candy binge. And I never eat sugar.

I have been LCing for a couple of weeks now but feeling increasingly depleted. I don't know if I wasn't taking in enough calories and exercising too much or what. But I couldn't make it through even a twenty minute run this morning. So tonight I decided to have an apple after my brussel sprouts, thinking that maybe I had pushed the carbs too low with the exercising and that maybe an apple would restore some energy. Woops! The apple turned into a bowl of nacho chips which turned into SO MUCH halloween candy.

Does anyone have any advice? I have just eaten all of that and I KNOW I am going to be sorry tomorrow. I imagine I should just jump right back in, drink lots of water, eat my green veggies, get my carbs back down to induction level, and forgive myself!

In hindsight, now that I think about it, I have been increasingly pressuring myself to cut back because my high school reunion is coming up (feeling my internal critic saying I should be thin for this). So all day I was contemplating different ways to drop a few quick pounds in the next two weeks before the reunion. Fat Fast, Meat Fast, Stillman's, I have been considering them all. All the mental energy depleted by constantly thinking about fasting and then physically exercising too much and eating too little turned into - major carb binge tonight!!

Need to just take it easy and get back to some moderation. Forget the fasting and the bingeing - they are just two sides of the same coin after all.

OK, thanks for listening. Tomorrow will be unhappy but I will hopefully remember it for a long time to come.

G'night now...

Got it in one, CJ!

Have you read Razzle's "After you cheat" sticky at the top of this forum? She gives lots of sound advice about forgiving yourself and moving on.

I hope you feel better tomorrow and get right back on that wagon!

Cheers.

Rosebud

...I certainly need it.

Going to do my VERY best not to kick myself backwards and forewords today. Got my bottle of water at my desk and I plan to get to the gym and right back to my induction veggies and protein.

Whoever said that progress was easy?

...happens to us all. In a way, the occasional binge is almost good, because how crappy you feel afterward reminds you why you've ditched those carbs to begin with.

Enjoy your reunion!