Will the last couple of days ruin my diet?

[Anonymous]

I have eaten really unhealthy the past few days. About 400 - 600 of my cal came from chocolate and crisps. However I have always been around 1400 - 1600 cal total and thus under my calorie need.

I know it's not good but will it ruin my diet anyways?I'll make an effort to eat really healthy this week.

But as long as eat less calories than I need I should still be able to lose weight no matter where they come from, right?

[kheserthorpe]

If you were under maintenance calories you will not have gained fat.

The 'problem' with eating chocolate and crisps while losing weight is that they do not fill you up at all, and they don't provide all your nutrient needs. The latter is not a big deal for one day. The 'filling' aspect is material going forward. It's quite easy to eat 2000 calories of chocolate and crisps and feel hungry again 5 hours later. I suspect it would take you 2 days to eat your way through 2000 calories of chicken breast and fibrous vegetables and you'd feel stuffed.

[martyfellow]

This will wreck a month's worth of good eating behavior. Usually when people say diets don't work, it's because they aren't following the diet in the first place!

Get professional diet help if you tend to binge. Sign up with Weight Watchers or other organization that will let you have some good tasting desserts that are a planned part of your diet, ad let you occasionally go of the diet so long as you don't really binge.

[bubbiexo]

If you're under your calories, you're fine.

Just get back on track. Don't let it derail you completely!

[sexyasianboi26]

My motto is "good food will never taste good".

and "A tasteless life is boring"- Gluttony, one of the devils of hell

If I were you, I would have chosen not eat. There is nothing wrong with taking a day off of not eating. Intermittent fasting is actually the best way to cut off unwanted bodyfat.

[Konnour]

If by health you mean your body fat percentage then it entirely depends of your metabolism, some people can eat junk food all the time and never getting fat, other people need to avoid them like poison.

[Anonymous]

No but stop now. Just as it is hard to lose weight, it takes time to gain it.

[madmisskelly]

No, a couple days won't do that much damage.