On the way home last night, I heard a commercial on the radio for the new Domino’s fudge squares. Having had some of them recently, and discovered how completely awesomely fudge-ilicious they are, I immediately started craving them. (LilZ says they are “too chocolatey” to which I reply, “YOU ARE NOT MY SON.”) I called my husband and asked if it was okay to bring Domino’s home for dinner (he’s a Little Caesar’s fan) which he didn’t mind at all since it was his night to cook dinner.
Those brownie boxes come with, like 10 squares. Along with hot-fudge dipping sauce. I think I ate six (or maybe eight?) of them. I also ate some of LilZ’s cinna-sticks. All on top of three pieces of sausage pizza. And then later I had a bowl of raisin bran.
This is how I binge.
Now matter how hard I work at being “healthy,” once I have my first unhealthy food for the day (yesterday - chicken biscuit from Chic-fil-A) it is all downhill from there. I just eat and eat (and eat…and eat…) until I physically can not eat anymore. I even stayed up later so I could eat more because in my head, the day was already wasted, I should take full advantage of it. I almost made myself sick, I ate so much.
Oh - and last night was supposed to be a gym-night. Needless to say, that didn’t happen.
So, my current mission: If I eat an unhealthy meal - I will try not to look at it as a “day wasted.” Instead, I will try to just forget about it and focus on eating healthy the rest of the day. I want to be able to say, “I’m healthy.” Not, “I’m healthy today.” Sometimes healthy people eat cake, that’s okay. I just don’t need to follow that cake up with chicken tenders, ice-cream, french fries and waffles.
Mmmm…french fries and waffles…
I do the exact same thing. If I screw up at breakfast and have a really huge muffin or cookies, then I can just forget the rest of the day. I’ll eat like a pig, and then by the time evening rolls around I feel guilt AND sick to my stomach.
I read some diet book a couple of years ago that said that overall, you should try to balance out an unhealthy eating period with three healthy eating periods. That could be meals, days, or even weeks or months. Her reasoning was that it’s unreasonable to expect to achieve perfect healthiness in your eating patterns at all times, but that if you balanced it out over the course of you lifetime using that ratio, you’d be okay. I can’t even remember what book it was, but I still remember that tip.
So did your clothes look like that little girl who hugs Fudgeums (sp?) on the Domino’s commercial? Just for the record, I think those are like the sickest, most scatalogically unpersuasive commercials for a food product I’ve ever seen in my life.
I have days like that too, but I try to avoid them as much as possible. I ate a ton of nachos last night and almost ate dessert too, but then heartburn came to the rescue and convinced me to not eat anything else. But damn, now chocolate sounds good.
I’m the same way! But lately I’m on the bad “year” plan.
You have a Little Caesers near you?! I haven’t had that pizza in so long and it is my FAVorite.
I’m with ya on the “might as well stay up late to binge on this junk food day” mentality. It’s like Cinderella–at the stroke of midnight the spell is broken as I fall into a sugar-induced coma. Then I totally crash the next day and swear never to do it again.
I do that about once a month.
Hey, the Raisin Bran IS healthy food!
And yes, Michelle, those ads ARE “scatalogically unpersuasive.” That’s a perfect way to describe it. Just … ew. Even if I were a fan of chocolate that would gross me right on OUT.
Yum. Fudgems. I saw the commercial yesterday and wanted them hard core. I still haven’t tried them, but HAVE to now that speak of them so highly LOL.
Add me to the list.
Every single day I wake up and say, “I am going to chnage my eating, starting now.” And every single day I make it to dinner and blow it.
I blow it on food, though, not sweets (too often). I will take meat over cake any day of the week.
I am a failure.
hmmm - I don’t like to think of it as an “unhealthy” meal/day. All food is OK, in moderation. My experience is that if I deprive myself of treats, I end up craving them even more and then I go overboard. The trick for me is stopping at one portion:-)
My opinion only, your’s may vary.
I just found your blog through one of my friend’s blogs, and this entry (and photo!!!) had me cracking up laughing. I am so with you on the junk food. One cookie or brownie at lunchtime would “ruin” a day of healthy eating for me. I have never heard about or tried those brownies but YUM! I could eat 10 right now!
Have you ever seen Supersize Me? Or you can read the director’s book, Don’t Eat This Book. I’ve done both and have totally sworn off major fast-food chains since then. Except Steak-N-Shake. That is too good to miss.
I do the exact same thing. If I screw up on lunch, forget about eating anything but crap for the rest of the day.
And holy cow does some pizza and cinna sticks and fudge whatever they are sound SOOOOO good right now.
Hmmm, maybe I’ll request that for my anniversary dinner. I’m a classy one.
I really want a brownie now. So bad. But I didn’t have the best breakfast and am going to take a little walk at lunch and eat a salad. Just say no! to brownies (today anyway)
I totally do the same thing though. Start out bad and stay bad all day.
Zoot in regards to your sidebar…you are the original cool kid
i totally fell off the healthy-eating/exercising wagon some time in july. and i can feel the spread happening.
but oh my god, WAFFLES. how are we supposed to resist their charms, hmm?
I am totally with you on that. One bad thing makes its way into my mouth and I’m binging the rest of the day. Yesterday was a bad day for me too. After stuffing myself at dinner (mostly on garlic bread with tons of butter) I still thought I needed a cherry turnover and half a bag of cheddar chex mix. Today, so far, is not going well either–Fruit Loops and 2 cookies for breakfast. I suppose it will be a salad for lunch today.
I tell ya, those brownie squares are AWESOME. Not saying that I don’t support your effort to eat healthier, but that I totally understand caving in to them, because they are THAT GOOD.
Really, you just described my whole problem with dieting. I hate it so much when I binge eat. I know it’s not healthy, mentally or physically. And then I get depressed, and eat a cookie. Or two. Or a box. Makes me feel a little better knowing (from you and your comments) that I am not alone!
Oh Christ in Heaven, will you mail me some Chick Fil A? God, I miss that! Do you know Alaska is without one damn Krispy Kreme as well? And just about every Alaskan I meet frets about it too. I ask you, what’s up with that? I can’t even get Dominos out here in the boonies! Waaah! I do think I have some cheese somewhere though (to go with my wine) Sunflower’s adorable!
oh, i am SO with you, sister. holy crap i really want a pizza BAD now. and it’s 11:15pm.
god.
also, i decided that i want to look at the whole food thing this way: i eat really good most of the time. but when i eat junk because it’s FUN, i just chalk it up to fun. and then i make sure i work out the next day. i figure if i can work out regularly enough i should be able to make it through my fun binges.
I had waffles today. With ice cream and banana’s. It was so good.
I’m sorry.