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    I ate over 4000 calories today....

    Posts: 1 Member
    edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
    what do I do?!

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    • Posts: 11,751 Member
      edited April 2015
      Go to bed, sleep, get up tomorrow and eat to suit your goals. Don't stress about something you've already done... Stress isn't good for weight loss :p
    • Posts: 115 Member
      Accept it and just move on and do better tomorrow and stay in a deficit. It happens. I bet it tasted good, lol. No worries, we all trip a little now and again.
      What is your recomended daily calories?
    • Posts: 2,408 Member
      darien1013 wrote: »
      what do I do?!

      What can you do? Who cares really. It happens.
    • Posts: 459 Member
      Move on. :)
    • Posts: 334 Member
      Or you could go out and exercise half of them off. In either case, move on and realize you set your goals back a few days.
    • Posts: 9,150 Member
      It happens. Log it and move on.

      Was it good stuff? I'm asking for a friend. ;)
    • Posts: 2,408 Member
      namelesshere wrote: »
      Or you could go out and exercise half of them off.

      lol....doing what?
    • Posts: 2,742 Member
      Or you could cry yourself to sleep, be depressed tomorrow, and eat another 4,000 calories, telling yourself, "I'M NEVER GOING TO LOSE WEIGHT!"
    • Posts: 5,235 Member
      I hope you enjoyed them. The standard procedure is to log them and avoid exceeding your calorie allowance again if possible.
    • Posts: 2,408 Member
      atypicalsmith wrote: »
      Or you could cry yourself to sleep, be depressed tomorrow, and eat another 4,000 calories, telling yourself, "I'M NEVER GOING TO LOSE WEIGHT!"

      Wait. What's a bad idea right?
    • Posts: 115 Member
      Well Smith it would depend on what it was that equaled the 4000 cals. Now if its potatoe chips sour cream and peanuts, I may come and cry with them and help them eat it.
      No worries, tomorrows a new day and you know where the mistake was.
    • Posts: 60 Member
      Recognize that you've taken a stemp by acknowledging that these were not good choices, take a deep breath, and try again tomorrow.
    • Posts: 1,673 Member
      edited April 2015
      Some days, 4000 still leaves me in deficit.

      It ain't The End.

      Tomorrow is another day, right ...
    • Posts: 70 Member
      Let ye who is without bingeing......Blessings.
    • Posts: 6,124 Member
      So? If it put you over your maintenance for the week, expect a potential blip in your loss. If it didn't put you over your maintenance for the week, expect a slower loss. It's one damned day.
    • Posts: 807 Member
      I'm probably gonna end up with that many today. Won't affect much in the grand scheme of things. I let myself pig out on Saturday evenings and carry on the next day. Don't stress. Back at it tomorrow.
    • Posts: 2 Member
      first of all - thank you so much for sharing this - it makes me feel so much better to know I'm not the only one.

      Second - I've had a couple of pretty significant overeating days since I started. These have probably slowed down my progress, BUT NONE of them have made me gain weight. The most important is to accept that this has happened and then renew your resolve to get back on track the next day.

      For me the trick with these days is to LOG EVERYTHING (even though it makees you feel a bit *kitten*). It sounds like you've already done this, so that in itself is a massive achievement.


      Another thing I found really helpful was to identify reasons why I stuffed up (too tired, bored, cold, too much cake in the house). Once you identify the factors that contribute to your overeating it's easier to eliminate them or, at the very least to identify them next time. (I'm getting better at putting myself to bed when I'm tired instead of munching in the kitchen.

      I quite like writing, so I have a habit of sending myself e-mails including, acknowledgement that I've made a mistake , a disccussion of how it makes me feel, identification of the likely causes to watch out for in the future, and a resolution (i.e. to stay on track for the next five days) and reasons why I want to do this.

      Then I can look at this during the week when I feel myself faltering.

      Good luck for getting back on track tomorrow.

      Thanks again for sharing!!!
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    • Posts: 8,626 Member
      obviously you're going to explode in your sleep from over consumption.....
    • Posts: 2,408 Member
      callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »
      obviously you're going to explode in your sleep from over consumption.....

      I'm close to my calorie limit today and was planning on a scotch binge. Re-thinking that now.
    • Posts: 1,938 Member
      Well.

      What's your TDEE/NEAT?

      How big a surplus was 4K calories?

      And, as in all indulgences....what choices will you make differently tomorrow?
    • Posts: 26,368 Member
      Keep eating at a deficit... you'll make up for it in 3 days... not a big deal.
    • Posts: 2,144 Member
      forgive yourself, get back on track tomorrow, one day wont make that much difference, if you keep on that is when you get in trouble
    • Posts: 89 Member
      Take a big crap???
    • Posts: 33 Member
      keep going? you could make it to 6000
    • Posts: 2,742 Member
      edited April 2015
      ncboiler89 wrote: »
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      I'm close to my calorie limit today and was planning on a scotch binge. Re-thinking that now.

      CICO - doesn't matter when you eat your calories, as long as they are less than you burn. Whatever works for you. Just as it doesn't matter when you fill up your gas tank, the gasoline won't burn until you use it. You can fill it up a gallon a day or seven gallons a week. As long as you don't use all of the gallons, you're at a deficit. ery wise
      ncboiler89 wrote: »
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      I'm close to my calorie limit today and was planning on a scotch binge. Re-thinking that now.

      Very wise.
    • Posts: 31 Member
      Learn from it and move on. It's what you do everyday that matters not what you do one day :smile:
    • Posts: 724 Member
      With such a small surplus, you have nothing to worry about. Just continue logging and prepare for a new day.

      I don't know if you're a binger because it is fairly easy to eat 4000 calories of fatty goodness without stuffing yourself. If you are then figure out what you need to do so this won't happen again... Should I say that? Because there will still be days where you may exceed your goal.

      I'm a serious binger. I gained 5 lbs in less than a week... I kept up with my calories... Those are 5 real pounds. I have been falling off and getting back on the horse since I started dieting last August...

      It's only failure when you throw in the towel, so be a great example to yourself and others like me by not letting today deter you from your goals. Don't regret today, just learn from it, see what you can change, and move on.

    • Posts: 1,117 Member
      Well, tell us what it was so we can eat vicariously through you.... I'm hungry!

      It's all good. Nothing much you can do. We're so lucky to get a fresh start every day. :)
    • Posts: 2,408 Member
      edited April 2015
      atypicalsmith wrote: »

      Very wise.

      Apparently not. Partaking in scotch binge.
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