One meal off the diet....

VeinsAndBones

What do you guys think of one meal off the diet per week? I don't want to sabotage my weight loss but I want to get a little enjoyment too

Keiras_Mom

I say go for it. If it helps keep you on the straight and narrow the rest of the time, no harm, no foul. I only diet every other day anyway, so I may not be the best example. :drinker:

knightreader

no problem.

JesterMFP

It's not really my style, as I prefer not to restrict myself so much that I feel like I'm "on a diet". I eat the foods I like anyway.

However, if that's the way you want to do it, I don't think that it would ruin your efforts. I can't imagine that you would consume enough calories in one meal to wipe out the deficit created through the rest of the week.

fusion777

I can't handle going off plan, it creates too many cravings and makes me want to not get back on track.

But if you can do it, I say go for it and enjoy!

moustache_flavored_lube

I do it, Ive done it for years without issue.

Pick it carefully, don't do unplanned cheat meals ....

BarackMeLikeAHurricane

I can't handle going off plan, it creates too many cravings and makes me want to not get back on track.

But if you can do it, I say go for it and enjoy!

I agree. I just stick to my plan every day.

cmriverside

Yeah, well OP admits in his profile that he is battling an eating disorder (binge/purge). He is 18, 130ish pounds and tries to eat below 1200 a day, according to his past posts.

He keeps posting threads looking for validation to binge. . . OP, get some therapy. Before you do damage to yourself and your family. You don't seem to want to recover, you want ways around it....this type of behavior is not allowed on MFP....read the Guidelines about "Unhealthy Weight loss techniques." Posting these types of threads is not helpful to you or anyone else with restrict/binge tendencies.

Please get some help.


**edit to add, OP you say you are 5'11". Your goal weight is 135. (your words...) Really - you've done a great job losing weight - I see you were very overweight - but you have taken on some unhealthy thinking along the way. You are very young, and you're flirting with disaster here. You really could hurt yourself or die if you don't get a handle on this. The bunge/purge thing becomes a habit, an addiction. I hope you have a long life ahead of you, but your lack of proper nutrition has begun to erode your ability to think clearly.....you say in your posts that your goals are 1200, but you say you are always under that. You need more food, regularly. Your body and brain are still developing. Take care of it.

moustache_flavored_lube

Yeah, well OP admits in his profile that he is battling an eating disorder (binge/purge). He is 18, 130ish pounds and tries to eat below 1200 a day, according to his past posts.

He keeps posting threads looking for validation to binge. . . OP, get some therapy. Before you do damage to yourself and your family. You don't seem to want to recover, you want ways around it....this type of behavior is not allowed on MFP....read the Guidelines about "Unhealthy Weight loss techniques." Posting these types of threads is not helpful to you or anyone else with restrict/binge tendencies.

Please get some help.

^^^ I take back my previous recommendation and agree 100% with this ^^^

Keiras_Mom

Yeah, well OP admits in his profile that he is battling an eating disorder (binge/purge). He is 18, 130ish pounds and tries to eat below 1200 a day, according to his past posts.

He keeps posting threads looking for validation to binge. . . OP, get some therapy. Before you do damage to yourself and your family. You don't seem to want to recover, you want ways around it....this type of behavior is not allowed on MFP....read the Guidelines about "Unhealthy Weight loss techniques." Posting these types of threads is not helpful to you or anyone else with restrict/binge tendencies.

Please get some help.

Well, now, that changes everything. I tried to view his profile after reading your response and it's only viewable by friends. Hmmph!

JesterMFP

Yeah, well OP admits in his profile that he is battling an eating disorder (binge/purge). He is 18, 130ish pounds and tries to eat below 1200 a day, according to his past posts.

He keeps posting threads looking for validation to binge. . . OP, get some therapy. Before you do damage to yourself and your family. You don't seem to want to recover, you want ways around it....this type of behavior is not allowed on MFP....read the Guidelines about "Unhealthy Weight loss techniques." Posting these types of threads is not helpful to you or anyone else with restrict/binge tendencies.

Please get some help.


**edit to add, OP you say you are 5'11". Your goal weight is 135. (your words...) Really - you've done a great job losing weight - I see you were very overweight - but you have taken on some unhealthy thinking along the way. You are very young, and you're flirting with disaster here. You really could hurt yourself or die if you don't get a handle on this. I hope you have a long life ahead of you, but your lack of proper nutrition has begun to erode your ability to think clearly.....

This certainly puts a different spin on things. Please get professional help OP.

quirkytizzy

Hey - just sticking my nose in here - the OP is getting help. I'm the first to leap up and wave my arms if a poster isn't willing to seek help for their disorder - but he's doing some good work in culling destructive and addictive behaviors. He has recently actually upped his calorie goal to 1200 and is doing so much better at getting close to that.

Slow and steady is how we lose weight. Slow and steady is also how we get better. I just don't want him snowed in completely is all.

bgelliott

Never mind...I just read the other info and I take back what I said earlier!

VeinsAndBones

You know it's hard to ask for help period, I've done that I've got a appointment tomorrow as a matter of fact. But it seems a little harsh to suddenly go from addressing the question to turning our focus on another topic all together. I'm not "butthurt" nor am I offended mind you. Just a little common courtesy of NOT DRAGGING someone else's problems into the open where all can see would be much appreciated. Thank you

EatClean_WashUrNuts

OP, you're confusing me...what's this diet you speak of going off?




Answer: change your mindset of what you interpret to be a diet. A healthy lifestyle is not a short term fix, of which most of society believes is a diet.

moustache_flavored_lube

You know it's hard to ask for help period, I've done that I've got a appointment tomorrow as a matter of fact. But it seems a little harsh to suddenly go from addressing the question to turning our focus on another topic all together. I'm not "butthurt" nor am I offended mind you. Just a little common courtesy of NOT DRAGGING someone else's problems into the open where all can see would be much appreciated. Thank you

Best of luck OP!! we all struggle in our own ways. Take it seriously and get better

cmriverside

Hey - just sticking my nose in here - the OP is getting help. I'm the first to leap up and wave my arms if a poster isn't willing to seek help for their disorder - but he's doing some good work in culling destructive and addictive behaviors. He has recently actually upped his calorie goal to 1200 and is doing so much better at getting close to that.

Slow and steady is how we lose weight. Slow and steady is also how we get better. I just don't want him snowed in completely is all.

That's great! I hope it starts to make sense to him....but to keep starting these threads is just going to make it worse for him...have you read them?

I'd like to see him post about that recovery in the forums, then. I too, will be the first to say "Great job" but the posts he's made today are concerning. Posting about how to work in a 6000 calorie binge meal ? Not going to get a lot of support here....even if it was couched in "Hey, what if someone did this." Not when his profile and past posts are so extreme.

I have to say, the abundance of eating disorder profiles here is alarming. I've found over 150 here in the last few months. I don't report them, even though they are against site rules, because there are so many it's futile. But I'm not going to ignore this either. This is a very young man (he says he's 18). I fear for their lives, and I don't think they belong here at all, where their obsessive tendencies can be fed by the food journalling.

So I am extremely sensitive to these things, it scares me, and I can spot them by the language they use. I've been around enough addiction in my life to recognize it. He only locked down his profile today, I've read it and it's alarming.

quirkytizzy

That's great! I hope it starts to make sense to him....but to keep starting these threads is just going to make it worse for him...have you read them?

I'd like to see him post about that recovery in the forums, then. I too, will be the first to say "Great job" but the posts he's made today are concerning. Posting about how to work in a 6000 calorie binge meal ? Not going to get a lot of support here....even if it was couched in "Hey, what if someone did this." Not when his profile and past posts are so extreme.

I have to say, the abundance of eating disorder profiles here is alarming. I've found over 150 here in the last few months. I don't report them, even though they are against site rules, because there are so many it's futile. But I'm not going to ignore this either. This is a very young man (he says he's 18). I fear for their lives, and I don't think they belong here at all, where their obsessive tendencies can be fed by the food journalling.

So I am extremely sensitive to these things, it scares me, and I can spot them by the language they use. I've been around enough addiction in my life to recognize it. He only locked down his profile today, I've read it and it's alarming.

I understand. It sounds like we might have something in common, the whole being around addictive behaviors, and picking up on language cues for disordered eating. I'm pretty sensitive it, too. And a lot of what I see is alarming. It's hard to just brush it off and move along - seeing the kind of damage someone sets themselves up for. Yeah. I totally get that. Anyhow, you've been very nice about this. Nicer than I would have been, surely, if I had not been talking to the OP personally. So thank you. I really appreciate that.