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How bad can one cheat day really be?

havesomejoe
havesomejoe Posts: 31 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I have been dropping weight very quickly these past two months due to my consistent diet and exercise, but Saturday I decided to finally have a 'cheat' day.

This was a particularly bad cheat day, as I ate an entire large pizza hut supreme pizza with stuffed crust AND a 14 pc boneless wing (I'm vegan, so this was meat and cheese to the MAX!)

I was down to 203 lbs on Friday, today I am at 210.4!

Just thought I would post how detrimental a decision like that can be.

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  • wellbert
    wellbert Posts: 3,924 Member
    IF that was fat gain, it would amount to 25,900 calories eaten OVER your maintenance calories. While pizza and wings both have lots of calories, we're probably talking 3500-4000 for this meal (About a pound of fat, if directly stored.)

    Additionally: Your body really looks at week-long snapshots for calorie intake. One high day in a week of calorie deficit isn't going to slab on adipose.

    Usually huge and sudden swings in bodyweight is good old fashioned water. Possibly has something to do with the 10,000+mg of sodium that food must have had in it.
  • havesomejoe
    havesomejoe Posts: 31 Member
    Yeah, you are right, water has to be the culprit here. But I should still never eat like that...a whole pizza AND 14 wings..for frig sakes!
  • wellbert
    wellbert Posts: 3,924 Member
    No kidding. That's super hard on your digestive system.
  • Scorpioangel
    Scorpioangel Posts: 951 Member
    I have noticed when I eat a lot of sodium (which I usually go over on) my weight goes up by as much as 5 pounds at times.
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