This diet week – weight control week, to be precise – was slightly spoiled by beginning with a bad eating day.  Of 3000 calories or more.  One mistake I’ve made in the past (and other people do this too) is try to make up for the bad day by restricting calories for the next few days.  It will all balance out that way, I would tell myself.  No, it doesn’t work.  You feel deprived and hungry on top of the fact that your body takes several days to recover from bingeing.  It took me until today – Thursday – to return to normal after overeating Saturday.  And I didn’t deprive myself at all during that time, so this was pure recovery with no added angst.  I kept eating 1850 calorie per day, give or take.  It was definitely the right move.  I have a long term strategy and a lifestyle of weight control that I am building.  Punishing myself and deprivation are no way to build your new life that you will be happy and proud to live.