oh, NO I ate a pop tart!

Hi all-
i feel so guilty...I bought pop tarts for my four year old twins and ended up eating 2 today! I am so upset that I would do this! I can't believe I let myself get off my program like this. I am so down about it....anyone ever had this happen to them? How do you get back on track?

sadly-
vanessa

If you are like most people that are obese, you are a stress eater. The best thing to do now is to think about what might have been stressing you, and next time MAYBE you can find another way to deal with it. Personally, just having 4 year old twins is  a stresser, lol. Good luck and STOP BEATING YOURSELF UP. Learn and go forward from here.

Don't kill yourself over this, I think at some point we all eat something we know isn't good for us. As my NUT says it's ok to have a taste and if you fall down remember to get back up and keep on going. All the best!

Been there did it ..We all have Opp's days ...next time you try eating one it wont taste so good...i used to love them...Mmmm with a diet coke ...LONG gone are those day..I ate a 1/2 of one a few weeks ago that my granddaughter left out...OMG I really used to eat those Ekkk

Everyone has slip ups now and then, just think what caused it, what you can do next time the urge comes over you, and move past it.  Beating yourself up over it isn't going to change it.  Tomorrow is a new day.  Have a great one!!!!

Vanessa,

We all make mistakes. The key is to recognize the mistake and try to learn from it. It might be that you can't have 'contraband' in the house right now ... maybe pop tarts are contraband for you. Your four years olds can live without Pop Tarts if that's what's necessary.

I'd like to suggest something that I think may help ... in the short term and the long term. While the surgery helps us 'strip off' the weight and gives a tool to keep keep it off, you are seeing that it didn't do a thing for the mental and emotional issues we all have. I found a program called the "Beck Diet Solution." It's a book and a workbook created by Dr. Judith Beck. It's not a diet, but a 6 week 'program' that you pace through that helps you to rework your thinking about food and your relationship to and with it. I've been using it for a while and I'm still not through the whole thing, but it's been a great help to me. It will take me a lot longer than 6 weeks to get through it, but I think it will help me to learn to 'think thin.' One of the first things she says is that you have to realize that we all make 'mistakes' ... but it's what we do about them that will make the difference in the long run.

Hang in there!

Barb

P.S. My twins are 26 ... I hope you are enjoying yours!

Hi Vanessa! Let's get you off the hook here (that you seem to have hung yourself on I might add)... unless you are diabetic-and unless your reactions are severe to sugar, even if you are- OMG!! YOU ATE POPTARTS!! ... so..........um........., yeah? I truly believe (and I have this on the authority of a nutritionist lest anyone threaten to slap me with a protein-shake packet) that food is not good or bad, it's FOOD, and is better separated into 3 groups: ALWAYS, SOMETIMES, and RARELY... I'm sure you know which ones go where... Poptarts could be called a sometimes food to a lot of people, but I see them as a rarely food just because fortified though they may be, they are basically processed junk (even the UNfrosted ones are sugar-laden, and what's the point of eating UNfrosted Poptarts anyway??) and being the food-snob that I am I try to eat "whole foods" as much as possible, not necessarily healthy ones either!...Alfredo sauce is a whole food........ You ate a "rarely" food, which is perfectly OK...rarely! My doctor was just joking with me a few weeks ago about how he had a piece of chocolate cake for lunch, and had to talk straight-faced to a patient afterward about nutrition... even "they" do it! DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME questioning yourself or feeling  guilty until you are polishing off a box every two days for like 3 straight weeks, then it might be time to think hard about your choices. The biggest point I'm trying to make is that you didn't "slip up" or make any "mistake", you ate something you wanted to even if it wasn't the optimal nutritional choice, which is why the supermarket sells more than quinoa, chicken breast, salmon, and spinach... because it's OKAY!!!!.... By the way, were they the S'Mores ones?? Martha

coward here..............wont try sugar.........i dont want to know if i can eat it.........lol but hey.......dont beat yourself up.........get back on the wagon.......2 pop tarts are not going to cause you to undo all your hard work........... tracy

I have been struggling quite a bit with my food choices and grazing lately. I feel totally out of control and I can't seem to reign it back in. Everyday I wake up with the best of intentions to get back on track. The early part of the day goes great, and then bam...I start grazing, eating carbs and getting totally out of control. Maybe it's a twin thing...mine are almost 7 yrs old and the cause of quite a bit of stress. I am really freaking out and feeling like I am doomed to fail this surgery. When I hear people who are dropping weight like crazy and never hungry, I am so jealous that this wasn't the way my journey worked out. Don't beat yourself up over a couple of pop tarts. Just get yourself back on track before it gets totally out of control (like me).

  I am with Marthjc, stop beating yourself up that is what got us all here in the begining. Food is Food, should you have pop tarts all the time NO, instead of beating yourself up for it , just count it towards your daily stuff and go on with the day. I hope it was toasted as a raw pop tart is not so good.     Today is my birthday and I will eat part of a cupcake and celebrate my day, I will also take my vitamins , have some protein and hang out with my girl friends. Food is not the enemy, the way we perceive it is...don;t fret