Lost weight after binge eating

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,091 Member
    edited July 2020
    Oh, gosh, it's a thread from 2013 with a bunch of outdated, and even in 2013 unscientific folklore-type advice in it. Boy, golly. How swell.

    @Runecrafting: It'll be OK, really. Just get on with your healthy routine. You didn't gain an actual 3 pounds from treats and a random sub, unless that stuff took you 10,500 calories plus above your actual maintenance calories for the day. The scale gain is just water weight and extra digestive contents. (How much did the sub weigh in your hand? It weighs just as much in your stomach and beyond, for quite a while afterward, and the water's involved with digesting the carbs and balancing electrolytes from the sodium - that's just how healthy bodies work.)

    And sometimes a reasonable refeed. within a day or so, can kick loose some water weight that's been hanging around, so lead to a scale-weight drop, because the water retention drop unmasks some fat loss it'd been hiding from you.

    If you haven't before, read this, for sound information:

    https://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations

    This for some more science-based information and discussion about what refeeds are and why they might be helpful:

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10604863/of-refeeds-and-diet-breaks/p1

    . . . and maybe this because it might be amusing/reassuring:

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10603949/big-overfeed-ruins-everything-nope#latest

    Most of us, when we want to lose weight, want to lose fat. Since sodium doesn't have calories or add fat, it can't "ruin your diet". It can affect water retention so make the scale weight behave atypically temporarily, but water fluctuations are part of how a healthy body behaves. Stress about that is optional, and can be counterproductive. (Did you know that persistent stress is one thing that can lead to higher water retention? ;) ).

    Learning more about how bodies work will help reduce alarm and drama over minor deviations from routine, even when they may shift the numbers on the scale.

    If you've been losing steadily and sustainably before this, not alarmingly fast or in a way that leaves you feeling weak or draggy, it's fine just to carry on as you were.

    Best wishes!

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