I ate over 4000 calories today....

darien1013

what do I do?!

livingleanlivingclean

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

Looncove_Farm

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?

ncboiler89

darien1013 wrote: »

what do I do?!

What can you do? Who cares really. It happens.

_QueenE_

Move on.

namelesshere

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.

zyxst

It happens. Log it and move on.

Was it good stuff? I'm asking for a friend.

ncboiler89

namelesshere wrote: »

Or you could go out and exercise half of them off.

lol....doing what?

atypicalsmith

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!"

999tigger

I hope you enjoyed them. The standard procedure is to log them and avoid exceeding your calorie allowance again if possible.

ncboiler89

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?

Looncove_Farm

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.

thursdayswoman

Recognize that you've taken a stemp by acknowledging that these were not good choices, take a deep breath, and try again tomorrow.

SergeantSausage

Some days, 4000 still leaves me in deficit.

It ain't The End.

Tomorrow is another day, right ...

grandma107

Let ye who is without bingeing......Blessings.

brianpperkins

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.

Hungry_Annie

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.

sepaterson87

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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callsitlikeiseeit

obviously you're going to explode in your sleep from over consumption.....

ncboiler89

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.

HeySwoleSister

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?

Francl27

Keep eating at a deficit... you'll make up for it in 3 days... not a big deal.

brenn24179

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

brcossette

Take a big crap???

stellet_licht

keep going? you could make it to 6000

atypicalsmith

ncboiler89 wrote: »

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.

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: »

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.

Very wise.

TinyRaccoon19

Learn from it and move on. It's what you do everyday that matters not what you do one day

llUndecidedll

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.

Cortneyrenee04

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.

ncboiler89

atypicalsmith wrote: »

Very wise.

Apparently not. Partaking in scotch binge.