does binging stretch your stomach?

chloeealicee
chloeealicee Posts: 204 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Hey there, so to get right to the point for the last 6 days I have been severely over eating for personal emotional reasons I know I need to learn to deal with. Basically I have been eating until the point of feeling stuffed and sick, easily 4000-5000 calories a day (after a year of non stop strict 1400 a day, only a few treat days)
Will this stretch my stomach and make it harder for me to feel full and satisfied when I recover from this? Would a fast day get me back on track or make things worse? I just want to be healthy and learn how to have a healthy relationship with food and any input would be greatly appreciated. I don't want to throw my body out of sync or damage it. I know its only been 6 days but I have no self control and I'm really worried.

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  • chloeealicee
    chloeealicee Posts: 204 Member
    Bumping my own post, ooh I'm a little embarrassed haha
  • PapaChanoli
    PapaChanoli Posts: 178 Member
    I can't answer your question, but hang in there! I imagine that if you want to, you can recover, no matter what the consequences of a few days of binging are.
  • Velum_cado
    Velum_cado Posts: 1,608 Member
    Eating a higher volume of food does stretch your stomach, just like eating a very small amount shrinks it. I'm not sure how long it takes for that to occur. I do notice that if I've eaten quite a bit over the weekend, I tend to be hungrier on Monday.

    I don't know if a fast day is the answer. I don't know if one day would hurt anything, but after consuming so much, I imagine you'd feel pretty miserable eating nothing for a whole day. Plus, after a stretch of binging, you may just snap and binge again once you start feeling super hungry. A few days of eating relatively normally, but lighter in calories would probably be more helpful to getting you back on track.
  • Archer9304
    Archer9304 Posts: 113 Member
    Hello.

    I highly doubt it. I'm also a frequent binger (conciously, on my cheat day) and I seem to stay full. And I'm not even eating that much. I eat 1200 a day. (I'm petite.)

    If you're worried about staying full, just eat lots of protein and fibre. They take a longer time to digest. And drink 2 glasses of water if you get hunger pangs. It fills your belly long enough, so that by the time you flush it out, your hunger will be gone, if it was just "mind" hunger. :flowerforyou:
  • chloeealicee
    chloeealicee Posts: 204 Member
    ah thank you all! Every answer was incredibly helpful!

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