All my calories are GONE & its only noon.. Help

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  • errollmaclean
    errollmaclean Posts: 562 Member
    Start pre-planning and pre logging! It's easier to stay within your calories if you know what your going to be eating ahead of time and can make it all fit. You just need to figure out how to out smart yourself. We're the clever ones finding excuses to over eat. You're definitely smarter than your tummy (clever little bugger).
  • DavePFJ
    DavePFJ Posts: 212 Member
    It all depends how many calories you eat.
  • jonathandavid_t
    jonathandavid_t Posts: 107 Member
    He said all calories gone, so let's assume he's pretty-much on target at lunch time.

    Good options are either:
    1. lift weights, eat as per normal at dinner (say 500-600kcal?) essentially be at maintenance today.
    2. do cardio, burn say 500kcal, eat dinner as above, still be on target
    3. do nothing, eat dinner as above, essentially be at maintenance.

    Bad options would be:
    1. Decide it's a bad day and eat another 4000kcal of junk and you'll "start again tomorrow"
    2. Give up completely
    3. (Probably, but I'm willing to concede that this may be perfectly fine:) Try to eat nothing at all for the rest of the day -- unless you have no hunger.

    This is all assuming weight loss is the goal, which it may not be -- we need OP to clarify.
  • ecphillips1286
    ecphillips1286 Posts: 331 Member
    Unless I was really really hungry I probably wouldn't eat again until the next day. Assuming you're not diabetic or suffering other health issues that can make this a problem, it won't kill you to miss a couple meals. Most of the time I only eat once a day anyway.


    Eating only once or twice a day is very unhealthy! You do more damage than good, your body stores fat for energy and strength when doing that method, so gains in muscle and loss of fat won't happen. It does the opposite. Eat smaller meals more frequently through the day that way you naturally burn off the calories as your body then knows more food will be coming soon. After a workout you continue to burn calories as well as fat and your body needs fuel in order to achieve the goals you are striving for. Best of luck
  • AllOutof_Bubblegum
    AllOutof_Bubblegum Posts: 3,646 Member
    The stair stepper for an hour burns 500 calories for me. That's a decent meal right there.
  • GiveMeCoffee
    GiveMeCoffee Posts: 3,556 Member
    Unless I was really really hungry I probably wouldn't eat again until the next day. Assuming you're not diabetic or suffering other health issues that can make this a problem, it won't kill you to miss a couple meals. Most of the time I only eat once a day anyway.


    Eating only once or twice a day is very unhealthy! You do more damage than good, your body stores fat for energy and strength when doing that method, so gains in muscle and loss of fat won't happen. It does the opposite. Eat smaller meals more frequently through the day that way you naturally burn off the calories as your body then knows more food will be coming soon. After a workout you continue to burn calories as well as fat and your body needs fuel in order to achieve the goals you are striving for. Best of luck

    No you don't need to eat smaller meals more frequently. Eating once or twice a day is healthy.

    OP if you ate your calories and are not hungry then skipping a meal is fine, if you are hungry and want dinner then eat a normal dinner log it and move on.
  • sunburntgalaxy
    sunburntgalaxy Posts: 455 Member
    I would exercise and then go with a light dinner and light snacks if I was hungry later - lots of veggies most likely (but I love veggies and eat them often anyway). But it happens. No need to panic. Just plan to do better tomorrow, don't let one day throw you off track. I do one crazy day a month - just think of this one as your crazy day.
  • Birder155
    Birder155 Posts: 223 Member
    Unless I was really really hungry I probably wouldn't eat again until the next day. Assuming you're not diabetic or suffering other health issues that can make this a problem, it won't kill you to miss a couple meals. Most of the time I only eat once a day anyway.


    Eating only once or twice a day is very unhealthy! You do more damage than good, your body stores fat for energy and strength when doing that method, so gains in muscle and loss of fat won't happen. It does the opposite. Eat smaller meals more frequently through the day that way you naturally burn off the calories as your body then knows more food will be coming soon. After a workout you continue to burn calories as well as fat and your body needs fuel in order to achieve the goals you are striving for. Best of luck

    How does your body know more food is coming soon?
  • ecphillips1286
    ecphillips1286 Posts: 331 Member
    Your body adjusts to the times you eat and how much. I used to have a very fast metabolism, so fast I could not gain weight no matter what I ate or the amount. Is slowed way down due to lack of exercise "laziness" and age. Once I hit that point I had to re train my self and speed my metabolism back up. Hints the eat more frequent smaller meals. Once you do this your body does not depend on what you just ate so you burn through it faster giving you the ability to gain, maintain or lose weight depending on the route you want to take. Your body adjusts to everything.
  • SuzieQNutter
    SuzieQNutter Posts: 6 Member
    Myfitnesspal is exactly for people like you.

    You can put in what you are going to eat before you eat it and change it to see which is better.

    You can go for a walk and add in walking briskly or even jogging which then allows you more calories for the day to eat.

    Eat Breakfast like a king, Lunch like a Prince and Tea like a pauper, so you shouldn't be having much for dinner anyway so shouldn't have to do much exercise to be allowed to eat it.

    Just swap foods for lower calouries during tthe day. Swap icecream for yoghurt, Swap cordial and fruit juice for water (Don't drink your calouries) Swap vitawheat for bread. Eat fruit and vegetables instead of chips, cakes and biscuits. Believe me I am not starving myself.

    Here is a recipe for you for the dinner with dessert as well Pancakes and ice cream - you can have it as a meal or you can have it as dessert after a meal.

    Before hand cut up strawberries and put them in a bowl in the freezer, when they are semi frozen bring out and stick blend and put back in the freezer - Strawberry icecream - one ingredient icecream and I have done the same using white nectarines and red grapes, whatever is on special and cheap. If you are making banana icecream it is the same, just peel the banana and cut into coins, freeze, stick blend, freeze.

    2 ingredient pancakes - 1 ripe to overripe banana - 2 eggs. Use a fork to mash the banana, add the two eggs and mix with the fork. This makes a batter that cooks the same way as normal. It will bubble to say it needs turning over.

    I bought one of those Dutch pancake makers - it makes 18 pancakes so with the recipe above 3 people had 6 pancakes with 2 scoops of strawberry icecream and then 2 people had 9 pancakes with 2 scoops of ice cream.

    Which means in my fitness pal I had less than 1 banana, less than 2 eggs and only strawberries to input for the icecream.

    Not only are eggs and fruit good for you, but this mixture is processed sugar free, white flour free, dairy free and okay for vegetarians.

    and most important of all = YUMMY
  • SrMaggalicious
    SrMaggalicious Posts: 495 Member
    depends on whether or not i'm hungry later on.

    i've definitely had days where i've gone to all you can eat brunch buffets, eaten all my calories and then wasnt hungry for the rest of the day.

    then if i do get hungry later i'll have something light like yogurt and fruit. but really i try not to put too much value on hunger, especially if i know i've eaten my food

    ^^^^this...and i'd drink tons of water.
  • GiveMeCoffee
    GiveMeCoffee Posts: 3,556 Member
    Your body adjusts to the times you eat and how much. I used to have a very fast metabolism, so fast I could not gain weight no matter what I ate or the amount. Is slowed way down due to lack of exercise "laziness" and age. Once I hit that point I had to re train my self and speed my metabolism back up. Hints the eat more frequent smaller meals. Once you do this your body does not depend on what you just ate so you burn through it faster giving you the ability to gain, maintain or lose weight depending on the route you want to take. Your body adjusts to everything.

    At 27 you are blaming age for part of the reason your metabolism slowed down....

    If this were the case when I started losing weight, I could not exercise and ate 1-2 meals a day but yet I lost weight and I'm a few years older than you... so I'll still with CICO it seems to be working pretty well
  • SuzieQNutter
    SuzieQNutter Posts: 6 Member
    Yes water is very very important.

    However do not substitute water for food, water is to be added on with food.

    I have seen some people who get into a lot of trouble when they started drinking water when they felt hunger instead of eating food, do not fall into that trap. In that situation it is possible to drink too much water and this has health warnings.
  • _Zardoz_
    _Zardoz_ Posts: 3,987 Member
    There is some seriously nutty and bizarre advice in this thread.

    Eat as you normally would for the rest of the day and tomorrow carry on as normal. One day went destroy your progress
  • icrushit
    icrushit Posts: 773 Member
    Chasing your losses in anything rarely works. Dust yourself off, salvage anything that can be salvaged from the day, carry on as normal, learn anything that can be learned from your slip, and start again tomorrow.
  • bonjalandoni
    bonjalandoni Posts: 136 Member
    Exercise like crazy to replenish your calories or make it a weekly thing and go low the other days of the week. If you keep postponing weight loss till tomorrow, it will never happen.
  • crosstraindylan
    crosstraindylan Posts: 124 Member
    Gym it up! Also, plan my day better next time
  • yesterdayusaid2morrow
    yesterdayusaid2morrow Posts: 121
    He said all calories gone, so let's assume he's pretty-much on target at lunch time.

    Good options are either:
    1. lift weights, eat as per normal at dinner (say 500-600kcal?) essentially be at maintenance today.
    2. do cardio, burn say 500kcal, eat dinner as above, still be on target
    3. do nothing, eat dinner as above, essentially be at maintenance.

    Bad options would be:
    1. Decide it's a bad day and eat another 4000kcal of junk and you'll "start again tomorrow"
    2. Give up completely
    3. (Probably, but I'm willing to concede that this may be perfectly fine:) Try to eat nothing at all for the rest of the day -- unless you have no hunger.

    This is all assuming weight loss is the goal, which it may not be -- we need OP to clarify.

    ^I like these ideas. FYI, choosing bad option #1 several times a week over the course of 5 years is a really good way to gain 100+ lbs. lol. Wish I'd had this advice at 20. :)
  • Bijou86
    Bijou86 Posts: 5 Member
    First off... don't be so hard on yourself! Learn from your mistakes and what triggered you to eat so much if this becomes a re-occurring incident. Assuming you have no medical conditions, I would drink lots of water and if you get hungry later in the day make sure to have a healthy dinner (lots of veggies, etc.). I like to use bento boxes to hold all my food for one day since I'm a student and away from home most of the day. That way, I know exactly what I am going to eat for the whole day!

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