ever had a cheat day? how much calories did you eat?

jke78

I don't have cheat days... I suffer through it for the most part, but..... My ex is an evil mastermind(seriously). He was supposed to drive 50 miles here and pick up one of the kids to stay the night with him. Instead he passed up my house, drove an additional 20 miles(round trip) to go get Pizza Hut food. Then he came over. I ended up eating 3 of those square pieces of pepperoni and mushroom. I should feel guilty, mostly I feel full

But wow, it puts me at 1600 for the day. I kinda feel like I should go whole hog(pun intended) and get an ice cream sandwich.....

Seriously though I've been working hard and I deserved it, I'll just consider it my first cheat day

dearannna

Hey, congratulations on what you've achieved over the past year. I would say that, physically, eating a massive amount of calories on one or two days in a year will do about as much harm to weight loss as the amount of good that 2 days of healthy eating would do in a year of burgers and chocolate. Psychologically I have to be really careful about doing that because one day tends to turn into two (for lulz?) and three and four and so on....

Graelwyn75

I have had around 10k calories before, but that does not really count as I was suffering bulimia at the time so it was not all retained.

In terms of a day where I allow myself more of the less healthy foods, I can generally hit about 4k before I get uncomfortably full.

joshpass

yes THOUSAND. if you eat a bunch of high calorie food, it's easy...at least for me. this is why I count calories so I keep it within a normal range.

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Graelwyn75

joshpass wrote: »

yes THOUSAND. if you eat a bunch of high calorie food, it's easy...at least for me. this is why I count calories so I keep it within a normal range.

I am amazed you have not done permanent damage to your digestive system, actually, if you have been consuming this much on any single day.

Also, MrM27, I thought you hit 25k once?
If serious, what did you eat to hit that?

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ftrobbie

Like others, I don't view eating as cheating, just making poor choices. My brother in law and his wife came visiting, we knew we were eating out a lot, including some corporate hospitality at a sporting event. Two days, 9,400 calories, if you want to see what that looked like, it's in my diary 20/21 September. I know weekends like that will happen, it is how frequent and my reaction to them that counts. It set my weightloss back a week. So what. I tend to look at weekly trends to see what control looks like, it has got me 38kg lost in 8 months. Works for me. Have fun and have a healthy relationship with food, it is a fuel and tastes good.

ndj1979

joshpass wrote: »

yes THOUSAND. if you eat a bunch of high calorie food, it's easy...at least for me. this is why I count calories so I keep it within a normal range.

so you packed a weeks worth of food into one day…?

segovm

25,000 calories is only like 50 doughnuts. I could go all in on a doughnut only day. 3 doughnuts an hour for 18 hours. Probably less than that, I like my doughnuts dipped in some whole milk....

I think I am going to go get some doughnuts now.

maccarossi1

Personally I don;t have "cheat days" but there are days where I eat over my calories but I usually plan for that to happen by eating in a greater deficit throughout the week. For example last weekend I had a big party to go to and I knew I was going to be consuming a lot of food more importantly, copious amounts of delicious beer so just just planned ahead to allow for those.

jnv7594

I just work things in my food plan. I don't understand why some do cheat days. Honestly, if I want something, I eat it and work it in. When I tell myself I can't have something and have to wait for a cheat day, I just set myself up to fail...past experience. This time around, I am doing things a lot differently, and I don't deprive myself. I think it's better to have a treat here and there, or even daily, then to have a day where you eat thousands upon thousands of calories. Just my opinion of course.

sallybaine

Anything over my planned calorie limit for the day feels like a cheat day. Last week I got a Chocolate Brownie from TJI Fridays - 1200cals. I know I should be kinder to myself, but I feel so guilty and like a failure. It led to a 2 day binge involving peanut butter, towers of bread, a jar of nutella and a bag of choc chip cookies.

I want to get to the place where I don't feel I need a cheat day because my diet is enough to sustain me without feeling deprived.

I go by the saying "You're not a dog. Don't reward yourself with food."

ana3067

sallybaine wrote: »

Anything over my planned calorie limit for the day feels like a cheat day. Last week I got a Chocolate Brownie from TJI Fridays - 1200cals. I know I should be kinder to myself, but I feel so guilty and like a failure. It led to a 2 day binge involving peanut butter, towers of bread, a jar of nutella and a bag of choc chip cookies.

I want to get to the place where I don't feel I need a cheat day because my diet is enough to sustain me without feeling deprived.

I go by the saying "You're not a dog. Don't reward yourself with food."

what kind of food do you normally eat, are you restrictive? What is your net calorie goal, is it too strict/large? Having a reasonable deficit (20% below maintenance needs, or ~1lb/week, is more than reasonable and is the biggest deficit most people should use) and not restricting the foods you love can easily reduce if not entirely eliminate binging. It eliminated it for me. I have 5 large chocolate bars in my room, I'm probably going to have the Reese's or at least part of it. Or maybe the Mars bar.... mmmmmmmm.

T1DCarnivoreRunner

I think last time I had a cheat day, I was around 8,000-9,000 calories. I had hoped to go higher than that, but my stomach apparently cannot hold as much as it used to. I didn't have space to eat everything I was hoping to get to eat on my cheat day. I'll do that again when I get to 175 lbs.