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Is this disordered eating?

bear2303
Posts: 251 Member
So, I had a bit of a breakdown today and went to McDonald’s for lunch. Needless to say I BLEW through my daily calories and I didn’t have time to exercise this evening due to work. I ended up skipping dinner to compensate for the calories even though I’m still quite hungry. Am I on a slippery slope to disordered eating?
I’ve been tracking for about 7 months and I never skip meals. I just love food too much 😳
I’ve been tracking for about 7 months and I never skip meals. I just love food too much 😳
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Having one day of eating a big lunch and then skipping dinner doesn’t sound like a pattern of disordered behavior. Some people intentionally eat one meal a day because they prefer to do so.
However, if you’re still hungry, then I’d recommend eating dinner and calling today a learning experience. If you’re skipping meals and letting yourself get ravenous, then you risk binging later. You don’t want to be in a cycle of binging and then skipping meals to make up for the binge. That could become disordered eating.
Just eat, and get back on track tomorrow.19 -
what she said ^^0
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Quite awhile ago I read a book about fitness and nutrition.The best suggestion in the book was to allow myself to cheat one day a week assuming that I was on track the rest of the week. That took so much pressure off me to allow myself to be human and go for it if I needed to. I still lost weight but it was not so difficult to stay on track. I still do that to a certain degree.1
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