Please help!!! Detox emergency

Quantumanthem

OMG HELP!!! I went over by so much today! I really want to go on a one day detox tomorrow

I will be eating 800 calories. Should I do juice detox (mostly celery, lettuce, cucumber, 2-3 carrots, 2 small apples at most, ginger) to cleanse my system and feel refreshed. OR should I have a juice- 2 carrots, lots of celery, ginger and 1/2 apple AND two plates of vegetables in soup/stir fried? I do realise that this adds oil to the detox, but I've heard people say that you need some oil to absorb the veggies.. arrghh SO CONFUSED!

Thank you!!

Cranquistador

NO.

mockchoc

NO.

OMG you meanie!!!!!!

ShapeUpNancy

Please, please eat more than 800 calories.

Google "BMR Calculator" and find out how many calories your body needs to sustain itself. Without that many calories, you will damage your health, hair, skin, nails, and waistline in the long run.

Quantumanthem

NO.

Okay... please expand a little

PikaKnight

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1159755-looking-for-a-detox-cleanse

Cranquistador

NO.

Okay... please expand a little

you dont need a cleanse....your body is perfectly capable of doing that for you.

stop stressing.

it will be ok.

RunMyOregonBunsOff

Eating 800 cals one time won't hurt you in any drastic way just like going way over one time isn't cause for a detox. I still don't think it's a good idea because you could be establishing a bad pattern of binge and restrict. Instead, try to get in an workout tomorrow, eat really good choices for the day (healthy and well balanced) and drink lots of water.

Achrya

I was 1200 calories over yesterday. It's nbd. Ate normally today, did my normal amount of activity, and will keep on keeping on. There is no reason to even dwell on it.

ashleyisgreat

It's not a good idea to have this mindset....if you go over, you go over. It's okay. Try to be more consistent, but you have to live your life, ya know? It happens, and that's perfectly fine.

If you get into the mentality where eating is something to be punished (even if it's overeating), then this is not going to be a lifelong lifestyle change. It's a quick diet in which you will go full force and then burn out. Try to be a little more forgiving of yourself and realize that yeah, in your whole life you're going to have days where you go WAY OVER. It's cool.

Booksandbeaches

Your liver and kidneys can detox just fine. Get a good night's sleep, eat right tomorrow, exercise, hydrate...you'll be fine.

jayjay12345654321

Did you eat cyanide? Heroine? Toxic waste? Half a cupcake? You could not have possibly done enough damage to warrant an emergency "detox" eating regular food.

fificrazy

Weight loss (or weight gain, for that matter) doesn't happen overnight like that. Weight changes happen when you make it a daily habit! Don't stress over one crazy day.

_Zardoz_

Don't be so silly and eat normally. All eating 800 calories today will only make you hungry if you need any detoxing your liver will do it the way it has for the whole of your life so far

Alatariel75

When you punish yourself with a 800 cal "cleanse" after a bad day, you set yourself up on a binge and restrict cycle which can really screw you up. Take it from someone who has been there.

Have a normal day tomorrow. Eat your regular calories. If you don't lose, or don't lose as much this week, learn from it, accept it and move on. Because if you start restricting to make up for binging you:

a) teach yourself its ok to binge so long as you restrict after (slippery slope to an eating disorder);
b) don't do anything towards learning NOT to binge; and/or
b) get into the food as reward/crutch vs. less food as punishment mindset.

Not to mention the high change of getting near the end of your 800 cal day and then binging all over because you're hungry/deprived.

Don't go down that path. You didn't put on weight in one day, one day isn't going to derail you forever, or even in the short term.

ILiftHeavyAcrylics

When you punish yourself with a 800 cal "cleanse" after a bad day, you set yourself up on a binge and restrict cycle which can really screw you up. Take it from someone who has been there.

Have a normal day tomorrow. Eat your regular calories. If you don't lose, or don't lose as much this week, learn from it, accept it and move on. Because if you start restricting to make up for binging you:

a) teach yourself its ok to binge so long as you restrict after (slippery slope to an eating disorder);
b) don't do anything towards learning NOT to binge; and/or
b) get into the food as reward/crutch vs. less food as punishment mindset.

Not to mention the high change of getting near the end of your 800 cal day and then binging all over because you're hungry/deprived.

Don't go down that path. You didn't put on weight in one day, one day isn't going to derail you forever, or even in the short term.

QFT

msf74

When you punish yourself with a 800 cal "cleanse" after a bad day, you set yourself up on a binge and restrict cycle which can really screw you up. Take it from someone who has been there.

Have a normal day tomorrow. Eat your regular calories. If you don't lose, or don't lose as much this week, learn from it, accept it and move on. Because if you start restricting to make up for binging you:

a) teach yourself its ok to binge so long as you restrict after (slippery slope to an eating disorder);
b) don't do anything towards learning NOT to binge; and/or
b) get into the food as reward/crutch vs. less food as punishment mindset.

Not to mention the high change of getting near the end of your 800 cal day and then binging all over because you're hungry/deprived.

Don't go down that path. You didn't put on weight in one day, one day isn't going to derail you forever, or even in the short term.

QFT

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neandermagnon

When you punish yourself with a 800 cal "cleanse" after a bad day, you set yourself up on a binge and restrict cycle which can really screw you up. Take it from someone who has been there.

Have a normal day tomorrow. Eat your regular calories. If you don't lose, or don't lose as much this week, learn from it, accept it and move on. Because if you start restricting to make up for binging you:

a) teach yourself its ok to binge so long as you restrict after (slippery slope to an eating disorder);
b) don't do anything towards learning NOT to binge; and/or
b) get into the food as reward/crutch vs. less food as punishment mindset.

Not to mention the high change of getting near the end of your 800 cal day and then binging all over because you're hungry/deprived.

Don't go down that path. You didn't put on weight in one day, one day isn't going to derail you forever, or even in the short term.

QFT

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x3

OP the main cause of binge eating is undereating. Undereating as a way to "fix" a binge is just asking it to happen again. Just like rolling a heavy rock up a hill is asking for it to roll back down again.

Find a way to eat that enables you to enjoy all the foods you want to enjoy, while still losing weight. Usually the way to do this is to find the highest number of calories that you can eat, and still lose weight slowly and steadily. And trust me that number is a lot higher than 800. Don't swing from one extreme to the other.... find the happy medium and stick to it long term.

delicious_cocktail

hahaha! Oh boy is my face red. I thought this was about someone or their friend who had so poisoned themselves through drug or alcohol addiction that they were facing potentially lethal withdrawal symptoms. Instead it was someone who ate too much one day. :embarassed: :laugh: