What are your binge day calories?

Love4fitnesslove4food2

3500-4000 calories

Rebekah718

I try to plan a day like my daughters Birthday I know we will go out to eat and I might have some treat but I try to stick to only once a week.

Francl27

Since I started, the worst has been 2800. My TDEE is 2000 or so.

kdiamond

No, I guess my real question is when you have a day (usually weekend for me) of overeating a bit, how high do you go?

My weekends can get up in the 4,000 calorie range (pretty sure that's what this past Friday came in at :laugh: ). But I don't consider that binging because I eat in a high/low calorie pattern (carried over from my weight loss days of doing alternate day IF). I have higher calorie weekends and then my week days are usually lower calories. It all evens out and I'm maintaining really well

ETA: So for example-
Friday-4,000 calories
Saturday-2,500 calories
Sunday-2,500 calories
Monday-1,500 calories
Tuesday-2,500 calories
Wednesday-1,500 calories
=14,500 calories.
~ My maintenance calories for 6 days is between 13,500-15,000 calories (depending if I get in all my work outs)

Now, I just do the math in my head, so there's a bit of wiggle room in there with the numbers, but you get the idea I will say Friday was a bit higher calories than my normal weekend higher calorie days-had BK for lunch, local pizza place for supper, a deep fried hot fudge sundae to finish the night up, plus a few other things earlier in the day, like a 500 sweet potato breakfast. It was a fun day :bigsmile:

I do this sort of thing too. It's worked for 10 years! I never gain more than a couple pounds a year (usually the holidays) then I'll just tighten the belt and lose them. During football season I easily have 5000 calorie days.

SLLRunner

I don't do binges anymore, but sometimes I've eaten 200 over my goal, once about 600-700, but not more than that. I just make sure I meet my calorie goal by the end of the week, which might mean creating more of a calorei deficit on another day. This is done through eating less or adding a bit more exercise.

Bingeing is such a trigger for me to go back to old behavior that helped me gain 30 pounds of the 70 pounds I'd lost several years ago.

GemmaRowlands

I don't have designated binge days, but even I give in to food sometimes, despite having managed to sort my life out and maintain my weight.

Before I started to lose weight, a good day was 2,000 calories (but I was very sedentary) and a bad day was more like 5,000 calories.

Now, I would consider even 2,500 as a bad day unless I've exercised.

Followingsea

Threw a girl's night last night so I guess last night was my calorie spike. I hit about 3500 calories, I think (I logged about 3k but I some parts of last night are just down the memory hole). That's about 1500 over burn for the day. Took a nice chunk out of my weekly deficit!

I haven't done that in months, though, so whatever.

RoadsterGirlie

No, I guess my real question is when you have a day (usually weekend for me) of overeating a bit, how high do you go?

My weekends can get up in the 4,000 calorie range (pretty sure that's what this past Friday came in at :laugh: ). But I don't consider that binging because I eat in a high/low calorie pattern (carried over from my weight loss days of doing alternate day IF). I have higher calorie weekends and then my week days are usually lower calories. It all evens out and I'm maintaining really well

ETA: So for example-
Friday-4,000 calories
Saturday-2,500 calories
Sunday-2,500 calories
Monday-1,500 calories
Tuesday-2,500 calories
Wednesday-1,500 calories
=14,500 calories.
~ My maintenance calories for 6 days is between 13,500-15,000 calories (depending if I get in all my work outs)

Now, I just do the math in my head, so there's a bit of wiggle room in there with the numbers, but you get the idea I will say Friday was a bit higher calories than my normal weekend higher calorie days-had BK for lunch, local pizza place for supper, a deep fried hot fudge sundae to finish the night up, plus a few other things earlier in the day, like a 500 sweet potato breakfast. It was a fun day :bigsmile:

Holy crap, we are like twins. We have very similar eating patterns!

I never have a binge day, and I don't even understand the concept of binging. Binging is having absolutely zero control of you body, and what goes in your mouth. If you are committed to this lifestyle, binging will not bring you results.

Now, a higher calorie day that's planned in advance? Of course - that's a different story. I always eat more on the weekends because I am what with friends, parties, etc. The key is to find a livable, sustainable pattern and stick with it.

Frittycat

I logged my binge day on Saturday and ate almost 5,000 calories. I am not going to lie -- it was wonderful to enjoy lots of carbs and sugar again, and to eat what I wanted. I love bread and pastries especially, but I cannot keep them in the house for this very reason. I have some work to do this week, though!

Nightdust

Mine today was 2,318. Normal is 1800 or less a day. I'm starting to think having the weekends off are a bad idea. I don't go way overboard but it's hard to get back on track.

missyont

I don't binge eat but some days I have 2500 and don't work out so I guess that would be my binge day That's usually in wine. ( errr the EXTRA cals )

Mcgrawhaha

5000 ISH

celtbell3

On days where I eat more than usual (traveling, harder workout, special occasion) I will typically eat up to about 2500 calories.

Americannabis

I don't purposely have a "binge day", but on days where I do overeat, I usually have a (willing to say maximum, here) total of 3,000 calories or so - plenty of that is usually the fault of pizza, my biggest vice aside from Doritos and ice cream.

onyxgirl17

I don't really "binge" per-say. A high calorie day for me is about ~2000-2200.

DeterminedFee201426

my binges is normally 3500- 3800 calories a pound and a little over i dont pick a cheat day or binge day it just happens ..

Francl27

My last 'binge' day was 2600 calories but I was really hungry (damn hormones). Not sure it counts.

My worst day since I started was my anniversary 3 weeks ago - around 4200 calories, because I had a 3200 calorie dinner. My birthday is in 2 days, so we'll see how that turns out.

Corsetopia

I do a reward meal on Thursdays, log it, and it puts me over anywhere from 500-1000 calories depending on where we go eat.

beastmode_kitty

I wouldn't call it binge days. I usually have a treat meal. I follow Ashley Conrad's Clutch Transformation and in her guide it says when having a cheat meal, to have it about 500-700 calories more than what you'd consume for that day. So for me it would be about 2500 calories on a cheat meal day.

MickeyCastello

I don't log my Friday cheat days, but I do keep it under some kind of control. I'd guess about 2300 - 2500 calories.

canadjineh

Yeah, I understand what you mean by 'binge day', but I call it my Funday. I will log what I ate the next day but on the day of... I just eat what I feel like. Generally though I don't crave fast food, and I can't eat a lot of the high cal foods that are on offer due to severe gluten allergy. Generally that means that my extra calories will be good wine (I have a small cellar) and maybe quality dark chocolate or a big hunk of artisan cheese or going out to eat once in a while with friends. Sometimes margaritas (I like mine quite limey - with a lot of salt, not sweet) and pub nachos. Haha, that usually means I'll be burning it off with hours of dancing anyhow.
Generally not more than 1500 above my maintenance cal. And that's for a full on 'careless' day. When I was younger, I used to eat 1/2 a lb of old cheddar at one sitting but usually only once a month - wink, wink.

skinnybythanksgiving

Less than 100 calories over my maintenance calories.

hgycta

When I had originally started, they would be 10,000+ calories, easy. All day, constant munching on whatever sweets I could find.
Now, however, I have become much more disciplined (luckily).
I doubt you'll even accept this as a "binge" day, but I went over today by 200 calories. Now I feel guilty eating more ice cream than I should have. Or if I don't log as accurately as I know I should have.
Sure that may seem insignificant, but all that insignificance can add up if you're not careful, so I still regard it as almost a binge, because by the end of a week doing this, it roughly equals one.
I may have lost all my weight, but the fatty still lives inside me begging me to eat junk food more than ever.
I just physically can't eat as much now because (well, a smaller stomach from portioning foods for once, and) I seek out low calorie options, such as Arctic Zero frozen dessert pints and So Delicious No Sugar Added Coconut Milk frozen dessert pints.
Yeah, they're not going to taste as good as Ben & Jerry's, but they fill me up and leave me more satisfied than 1/2 a cup of Ben & Jerry's ever would for the same amount of calories.
Seriously.
Who has enough self control to stop at 1/2 a cup? I could never do it, that's for sure.

smc864

I wouldn't throw around the word "binge" when you simply mean overeating.

My "overeating" days are 2400-3000.

My last binge was around 6000... it was bad and I'm hoping that it won't happen again.

smithed812

When I have actual binge days (usually an emotional eating kind of episode) where I feel out of control I usually max out around 4500-5000 calories. After that I feel like I'm going to explode.

I normally eat 2000-2500 which is plenty to keep me satisfied.

nikkihk

Just eat what you want everyday but keep it under control that way you never feel the need to seriously over eat.

raindawg

Sunday's are my "free" days. I eat 1,850 per day Mo-Sa then go about 3,500 + on Sundays.

whisperfitandhealthy

I had a binge week last week. 4000-5000 calories every night. It was awful.

whisperfitandhealthy

That's why I don't allow myself cheat days. I go way overboard.

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