What should I do after a major binge?
joeycole1
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I ate healthy all day but I just raided my kitchen and ate 2 smore sandwiches and a bag of pretzels and 3 spoonfuls of peanut butter and 2 strawberries and a bowl of popcorn and a chicken strip and a bag of peanuts. I feel disgusting. Should I abstain from food tomorrow to get back on track?
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No, do not abstain! That is proberly why you binged in the first place.
Just start over tomorrow. Everyone falls off the wagon! Just get back on track, don't deprive yourself.0 -
Just drink a little bit of water and tomorrow be mindful of what you eat. Tomorrow is a new day, you get to start off fresh!0
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pick yourself up, dust your self off, and start all over again. we all have our moments -- just don't let this take you off on a tangent. Don't stop eating because of a slip, just get back on track and follow your eating plan.
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No. I just went 600 in the negative. Log it. I will do double my exercise tomorrow and stick to my calories. I will still be in the negative for the week.
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Pretend nothing happened tonight, and carry on with your plan. What you usually do is more important than what you sometimes do. Also, you might want to check your diary to find out the reason behind this binge. Maybe you didn't eat enough, maybe you've been making yourself feel deprived but you didn't know it, maybe you're under big stress recently...etc. People do binge eating for different reasons. Find it and make some adjustment to your plan. Good luck
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georginabain wrote: »No, do not abstain! That is proberly why you binged in the first place.
Just start over tomorrow. Everyone falls off the wagon! Just get back on track, don't deprive yourself.
So much truth. It's often excessive restriction that drives binge behaviour. You may feel like you are the only person who has ever done this, but I assure you, it isn't as rare as you'd think.
Just put it behind you, and try to to move forward from where you are right now. Dwelling on it will only make you feel bad, which, in a particularly nasty irony, will probably make you more likely to do it again.
Look at your food diary for the day leading up to the binge. If your protein, fat, or calories were very low, that's quite likely to have been a contributor.0 -
Yeah as the others have said, careful down the road of abstaining or exercising to compensate otherwise you'll get stuck in a vicious cycle that could lead to an eating disorder.0
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Seriously though, this is exactly why excessive restriction from specific foods isn’t necessarily a great idea. You can make things fit into your macros all the time if you’re smart about it and pre-plan. Don’t beat yourself up - tomorrow is another day! 0 -
I ate healthy all day but I just raided my kitchen and ate 2 smore sandwiches and a bag of pretzels and 3 spoonfuls of peanut butter and 2 strawberries and a bowl of popcorn and a chicken strip and a bag of peanuts. I feel disgusting. Should I abstain from food tomorrow to get back on track?
Take a deep breath, accept the mistake for the day, and start from scratch in the morning.
Never ever use fasting as a punishment-it will lead to another binge, and food being punishment can also lead to eating disorders.
Ask yourself what triggered the binge. Are you emotional? Were you hungry? Did it just taste soooo amazinnng? Then ask yourself what kind of plan you can set up for the future to avoid a repeat. Maybe your calorie intake is too low. You're not huge and trying 2 lbs a week at 1200, you probably will be hungry. Maybe you're sad, journaling, reading a book, or even digging in to a game might help. Maybe it was the taste. Setting up warnings for future you can be helpful.
For example, I have a TARDIS cookie jar with all of my sweets-generally gifts from people. Every time it opens, it makes the noise. It discourages me from opening it too often. I have a note on my chip bin in the cupboard reminding me 1 is a treat, not to combine treats, and 2 is a binge. I also stopped buying the foods I was likely to binge on if I got them, and filllled my veggie drawers with both fruits and veggies.0 -
Have a normal day and if you can do it without messing yourself up..
Mediate on some healthy snacks
It seems you didn't have a plan
We all get snack urges, or at least I do!
Rock on
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What was that 1,500... 2,000 calories max? That doesn't sound like a binge to me; it sounds like you're hungry and the calories will do you good. Just log it and move on.0
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Just make sure you drink plenty of water and jump back on the wagon
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Keep going as normal. Everyone does it once in a while 0
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You are 18. And your profile indicates you have very little to lose. Forget about it, move on with your life.0
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I kind of did something similar on purpose yesterday. I never gained from one day of binging. I had Ice Cream and ate vietnamese food, then came home and made myself Sauerkraut with Saitan Steak and some Soy Sausages...in addition to breakfast and an entire bag of roasted soybeans. Every body is different, but I never had issues with doing this once in a while (once or twice a month). I just eat normal today and still feel good about yesterday
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So, what's wrong with 2 strawberries?
. You'll be alright. It happens to the best of us. 0 -
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I promise you will be fine. Just try to be better next time. no worries.
food should not be shameful. It's just food.0 -
Like people have said: tomorrow is a new day. Just get back on track and leave this incident behind you.
If you find yourself repeatedly having this issue, then just take some time to really figure out why it's happening so you can find ways to avoid it or to handle it in a way you feel will be better for you.
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Log it all as best as you can and just move on. Harder said than done, but if you are not eating like this every day then you'll be ok.0
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Drink some extra water. Move on with life.0
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Any time I go overboard, I spend the next day drinking plenty of water and watching my sodium. I don't starve myself or work out so much harder that it feels like a punishment, but I do put in a little more effort. Just be good to yourself.
Be mindful the following day. Log it, and learn from it.0 -
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Just coming of a week long binge myself. One evening is nothing to worry about. Unless you are on a self imposed time frame for your weight loss, one evening won't even make a dent.
If you don't want to get discouraged wait a couple of days before you weigh so the "extra" food will be out of your system and won't give you a false gain.
I'm waiting about a week myself of being back on track before I *kitten* the damage of this last encounter with the reason I needed to lose weight in the first place.0 -
Learn from it, log it, move on, dont fret and be a bit philosophical.0
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