Calorie Bomb Recovery

rrhood78

i just had my first calorie bomb since I started two weeks ago. What do I do now? I don't even know how to calculate it.

Tubbs216

Not sure what a calorie bomb is. You ate something that puts you way over your calories? It happens. Just make a best guess with something from the database, dust yourself off and move on.

PaulaWallaDingDong

Yeah, you really don't have to do anything. Just go back to business as usual. Unless you usually eat calorie bombs. Please don't do that.

rbiss

Poptarts! Why didn't I look at the package before I ate them? Live and learn.

TheVirgoddess

Don't dwell, and just do better next meal

slucki01

Let it go and just get back on track -- and maybe do some extra exercise and eat at the lower end of your calories tomorrow to offset it.

brianpperkins

How much were you over your goal? Did you eat more than maintenance?

iwlf

Every day is a new chance to lose, stay the same, or gain. So, this one was a "gain"; it's only one day--there are lots more ahead in the "lose" column!

SnuggleSmacks

I try to think of it this way:

If I have a 250 calorie deficit each day, and I go over my goal by 500 calories, then I just wiped out my progress for today and yesterday. No biggie...that just means I'll hit my goal 2 days later than I might have otherwise. Two days isn't that long. And maybe I'll slightly overestimate things for the next week, perhaps toss the last bite of something in the trash instead of eating it, perhaps give my dog a bite of my turkey burger, and maybe it will all even out.

AmyRhubarb

Yeah, define "calorie bomb" for us, please.

If it helps - I was 300 over goal (and my goal is 2000 a day) on Sunday, did zero exercise that day, and my scale didn't self-destruct the next morning (was actually down a smidge), and all my clothes still fit me. :drinker:

It's one day, log it and move on. No need to change anything tomorrow or come in way under "to make up for it", just eat normally, drink plenty of water and carry on.

bulk_n_cut

what is this calorie bomb and where can i get it? Bulkin aint eazayy

rrhood78

I would define a calorie bomb as a meal that is equivalent to more than half of your suggested calorie intake for the day. I'm sure that might change based on the individual. I had three bowls of chicken cordon blue casserole. There is at least a stick of butter in there. Not to mention the cheese and the breaking. I honestly couldn't stop eating it it was just so good. Starting over today. Going to do some extra cardio to make up for it.

brianpperkins

rrhood78 wrote: »

I would define a calorie bomb as a meal that is equivalent to more than half of your suggested calorie intake for the day. I'm sure that might change based on the individual. I had three bowls of chicken cordon blue casserole. There is at least a stick of butter in there. Not to mention the cheese and the breaking. I honestly couldn't stop eating it it was just so good. Starting over today. Going to do some extra cardio to make up for it.

You still haven't addressed the points several people brought up.

Did that meal put you over your MFP caloric goal?
Did that meal put you over your maintenance calories?

If the answers are yes to the first and no to the second, you were still in a deficit.

rrhood78

That's the point is I don't know. I know it is a calorie bomb but I don't know how many calories are in it.