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    What is the highest amount of calories that you have consumed in one day ("cheat-day"?)?

    Posts: 38 Member
    edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
    5'10", 135 pounds male here - for me it is about just over 5000 calories (I fast until lunch and begin then (on my, "cheat-day"), as to to not eat "too much" :-) ).

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    • Posts: 859 Member
      That I've logged 6621 on days I've not logged could have been more who knows?
    • Posts: 38 Member
      I feel like I am under-eating then! Nice one, guys. I got to up my calories. :-)
    • Posts: 38 Member
      I feel like I am under-eating then! Nice one, guys. I got to up my calories. :-)
    • Posts: 2,865 Member
      neldabg wrote: »
      Not a cheat day, but I once walked 80k+ steps in a day and ate 4,916 calories. It was a great day indeed. Lol.

      I've had a couple of those days (well over 70,000 steps anyway) and I have to say, that meal afterwards sure tastes so much nicer than a normal meal! Even then my calories were only 3,150 but that could be out as I was on holidays for the day I just checked and that meant no scales. I should add that I am wee high to a grasshopper so don't burn as much while exercising nor need as much food to maintain as the average person.
    • Posts: 38 Member
      Lillymoo01 wrote: »
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      I've had a couple of those days (well over 70,000 steps anyway) and I have to say, that meal afterwards sure tastes so much nicer than a normal meal! Even then my calories were only 3,150 but that could be out as I was on holidays for the day I just checked and that meant no scales. I should add that I am wee high to a grasshopper so don't burn as much while exercising nor need as much food to maintain as the average person.

      Nice!

      Personally, it takes me about an hour to hit 5000 steps (with about 200 calories burned) - how do you even hit 50000 steps is beyond me (would be an extra 2000 calories for me); congratulations!
    • Posts: 2,865 Member
      DvoycY wrote: »
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      Nice!

      Personally, it takes me about an hour to hit 5000 steps (with about 200 calories burned) - how do you even hit 50000 steps is beyond me (would be an extra 2000 calories for me); congratulations!

      I walked for over 45 kms that day. Most of it along a deserted beach. A beautiful way to spend a day!
    • Posts: 26,084 Member
      Maybe about 5000 calories ... on day when I was cycling all day long.

      I've done four 1200 km randonnees ... cycling 1200 km in 90 hours or less, including all breaks. In order to keep that up for the 90 hours, we're trying to consume about 5000 calories per day. But that gets old pretty quickly. It's hard to keep doing that for 3 days in a row, so the number of calories usually starts to dwindle.
    • Posts: 71 Member
      I used to go over 5000 quite a bit when I first started logging. Used to have a bad soda problem, and that adds up real quick. I still hit 4000 quite a lot, but usually my steps even it back out.
    • Posts: 697 Member
      DvoycY wrote: »
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      Nice!

      Personally, it takes me about an hour to hit 5000 steps (with about 200 calories burned) - how do you even hit 50000 steps is beyond me (would be an extra 2000 calories for me); congratulations!

      I once hit 50k, it took from morning to midnight, not constant walk but mostly walking.
    • Posts: 12,019 Member
      No idea. Thousands I'm sure.

      I regularly go up to 3000 calories, but have other less hungry days that may go as low as 1000 kcal. If I'm hungry, I eat. It evens out in the end as long as my extra calories are not from foods that negatively affect my health or lead to cravings and hunger.
    • Posts: 28,055 Member
      A former poster here clocked 8,000 plus calories one Thanksgiving. He was really tall - like 6'8" IIRC.

      I wasn't logging when I used to have super high calorie days.
    • Posts: 3,982 Member
      edited October 2018
      I thought it was around 7k, but apparently I've had a higher day. This was physically my limit as I well into uncomfortably full, but there was so much good food and drinks to be had at a post marathon get together :grin: . I'm a 5'11" 150 lb male for reference.

      edit: Added spoiler tag because the picture is rather long as you'd expect for a daily diary of that much food...
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    • Posts: 4,979 Member
      kshama2001 wrote: »
      A former poster here clocked 8,000 plus calories one Thanksgiving. He was really tall - like 6'8" IIRC.

      I wasn't logging when I used to have super high calorie days.

      I remember that but can't recall his name ... texan or texas something. I loved that thread.
    • Posts: 9,097 Member
      edited October 2018
      When I worked(comercial carpenter), trained, played baseball, rode a bike, ran, etc...it was more than most could phantom. Since I don't log calories but maybe two months of the year its hard to tell. I'm tall, low body fat, & a athlete with plenty of muscle so it's been a eat fest most my life.

      I know one summer I was never consuming less than 6k a day and up in the 12k range some days with total cals consumed.

      I'm not a believer in eating anything is cheating as long as it fits your goals and compliance.
    • Posts: 919 Member
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      5’4 female 114 lbs, my day today and I’m still hungry lol... I feel like I could have easily eaten 3,000 more calories. Now i understand runger.
    • Posts: 36,187 Member
      I'm 5'5", weight in 130s, age 62. I've eaten 6000+ multiple times (though with some estimating involved - but I don't think it was way lower), and 5000+ isn't even hard. It's not "cheating" . . . it's just eating over goal, with the implication that I need to eat/exercise under goal over a period of time before or after to keep maintaining a healthy weight . . . something I've done for around 3 years now.

      It's just food, not sin or moral turpitude. "Cheat days" are the weight management anti-equivalent of Santa Claus.
    • Posts: 3,814 Member
      I've learned recently that people here get really sensitive if you use the term "cheat day" haha. Since I have been logging, my max is about 3000 calories. But before I started logging, I wouldn't be surprised if I had days that were 2 or 3 times that.
    • Posts: 859 Member
      New high yesterday 7388 :o whoops
    • Posts: 9,151 Member
      Xmas 2016 iirc was 5500 calories. Ate a lot of cookies and chocolates.
    • Posts: 1,120 Member
      Since I started a healthier life style and joined MFP, I went over 3.000 calories a couple of times. Starting weight 170 kg, 375 pounds. I used to be able to eat about 7.000 calories once in a while, but that was some years ago.
    • Posts: 384 Member
      edited October 2018
      FL_Hiker wrote: »

      5’4 female 114 lbs, my day today and I’m still hungry lol... I feel like I could have easily eaten 3,000 more calories. Now i understand runger.

      And then you have people saying " look at so and so, she eats so much and doesn't gain weight. I have bad genes" without looking at the CO part of what you do.

      Personally I don't know my max. Whenever I track it's because I have decided to eat less. I'll see when I reach maintenance.
    • Posts: 919 Member
      MsBaz2018 wrote: »
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      And then you have people saying " look at so and so, she eats so much and doesn't gain weight. I have bad genes" without looking at the CO part of what you do.

      Personally I don't know my max. Whenever I track it's because I have decided to eat less. I'll see when I reach maintenance.

      Yep I work hard for my food LOL! Of course on my birthday and thanksgiving I’m probably not going to log... those are special days and I’m not going to worry about it 😊.
    • Posts: 1,817 Member
      angelsja wrote: »
      That I've logged 6621 on days I've not logged could have been more who knows?

      This. And I’m 5’1” and about 113 lbs currently 🙈🙊
    • Posts: 8,423 Member
      I don't know what the most high calorie day in my life has been. I have logged the past couple of Thanksgivings though and had between 1,400 and 2,000 calories.
    • Posts: 610 Member
      Before consciously watching what I eat I had to log a typical week for a nutrition project. 3000 calories a day average.

      Now that I'm logging daily I recall a 4100 calorie day of emotional eating.
    • Posts: 2,248 Member
      12000-15K in a day🙋‍♂️
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