I'm so disgusted with myself. I've only been on the diet 3 weeks and I cheated. My husband was away for the 4th year in a row (we've only been married 4) on our anniversary. I was here for 2 weeks with a preschooler and a toddler. The toddler broke his front teeth down to the nerves. I didn't go for the comfort foods. I was strong and said I was doing good and I wasn't going to mess that up. I've been sooo proud of myself. Then what do I do? My husband comes home and says "Let's celebrate our anniversary." I say "I don't want to cheat on my diet." We go to the Steak House and it says "Sorry, we are permanently closed." We go to the next steak house and it says "Closed due to fire." At this point I'm so hungry I feel like I'm going to throw up and the nearest place to eat is a pizza place. I ate 2 slices of pizza and had a fruit punch. Then I came home and had 2 glasses of wine. I didn't even enjoy the food, the drink was too sweet and the pizza just didn't taste as good as it used to. Why wasn't I stronger? I feel like I gained 5 pounds in one evening. What worries me the most is now I have a craving for popcorn. The one thing that I truely think I'm addicted to and have managed to stay away from for almost 3 weeks. I haven't had any cravings for anything in 3 weeks and now it's starting and all because I screwed up one day. You're probaby thinking "It's just one day. Get back on track." But, I had already woke up this morning and noticed no change on the scale and it had put me in a funk. I went from being really enthusiastic about the diet to feeling like I am going to be fat forever.

I'm sorry for rambling on. I just really needed to vent.
mthrmayi2

First, congratulations on the anniversay, and dealing with the little one's injury AND for trying REALLY HARD to stay on your plan. TWO steakhouses! You really tried to find a place that would allow you to make good choices. But when you are tired, it is hard and you just gave in. Don't get too upset.

Clearly things are changing since you didn't really like things you used to love. So just get busy drinking water for the next day, eat ONLY lc foods and you're back. When you crave carbs, eat protein right away.

Life happens. You go back down a level and get back to it. Don't go near the scales for a week and you may never know it happened.

You have your mind in the right place so you WILL get back on right away.

Gosh, they have pizza places in Germany? globalization strikes. Well, I had a similar experience, place we were headed for was closed, ended up going chinese, "best choice" for me stilll had cornstarch and hidden sugars cause my post meal blood sugars were up something like 40 points. So I guess, easy to say, cause Im not very assertive, we just have to say, No, there's NOTHING there that I can eat. Stop by the market, grab some nice steaks and put them on the grill. Don't beat yourself up about it, its not you, its those addictive carbs. Bill

Dont sweat it. Just jump back on board and forgive yourself. Add in some extra water and follow the plan.
You will see you bouce back quick if you even gained any at all. We all have been addicted to carbs our whole life and we are not perfect. We all have slipped up the differance between success and failure is to accept our faults and move on and stay on plan.