Hey,
So I’ve been on a diet for about 8ish months now and have been doing good and lost weight. I’m staying with my friend now for 2 days on a trip, so I wasn’t able to have my little routine meal plan (I have OCD so once I get a routine it’s super difficult to vary it) and I actually wound up getting food at 7-11 because I was so obsessed with having to get items with nutritional information instead of getting something at a restaurant (the only restaurants around were mom&pop places with no calorie counts)
Today is my last day here and we all went out to breakfast at this amazing speciality biscuit place (I loooove biscuits lol) and they got stuff but I didn’t get anything because although they had calorie counts on the menu, every thing was so high, that I didn’t want to waste calories on it and only have a few left over (I’m doing 1,200 a day.
I can go to a chain restaurant now and get stuff where I know the nutrition but I saw an ice cream parlor that I’m obsessed with, and really want to get it. And I’m nervous and scared that if I get the ice cream I’ll wind up wanting to get something to eat for dinner that actually tastes good, and then I would have had way way more than 1,200 cals, and I’m scared I’ll have gained weight.
I know it’ll be “healthy” mentally to allow myself to indulge for one day where I can actually eat out and get things I enjoy vs. only ordering based on the lowest cals. I’m so strict to the point where I revolve my life around my stupid “diet” (which I know is a lift style). I let it affect me going on trips and making plans because I’m worried about sticking to my calorie goal, and that’s crazy and bad. Like it’s so bad that I was already planning on not eating on Thanksgiving and still sticking to my normal meal plan, but I realize I should know that I can take one day to eat normal and not be obsessive, but it’s so difficult.
Logically I know that one day of not sticking to 1,200 isn’t going to blow all my progress away, and that realistically I won’t gain much weight (if any at all), so I don’t know why I’m even posting here. And I’m probably going to post to the other weight/food related subreddits I’m in because I’m crazy lol. I guess I’m just looking for reassurance that it’s okay to take a day to eat what I want, like today for example, and Thanksgiving also. But then I’m anxious saying that if I eat bad today and then eat bad on thanksgiving that’s already 2 days, and I don’t want 2 days to cause weight gain
I would love love love to say I’m going to get the damn ice cream and then go to a restaurant that I actually am interested in without obsessing over calories. I KNOW it’s good for my mental health to take a day “off” but I’m just so nervous and don’t want to fall of the wagon.
Thanks for any advice and sorry for venting.
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