Not a pleasant question, but necessary

kateyb

Question. If you're sick (as in vomiting) approx 2 hours after eating do you disregard what you ate before that and start your calories afresh, do you assume you must have digested at least part of what you ate and account for that in your diary?

KarenECunningham

When I am sick anytime (vomiting) I don't worry about how to count. Be sure you get plenty of fluids to combat dehydration and when you are able to eat go for the more bland foods like rice, applesauce, soups and potato. I hope you feel better.:flowerforyou:

sweetrevenge

Ouch, I'm not sure.....but my guess is that it's probably only going to be one day of vomiting so I would say don't stress it to much. If it was me it would depend on if I felt hungry after throwing up and how long AFTER I ate did I throw up. I would say log half of your calories and if you do go over a bit today, don't stress. It's only one day. *kitten* happens that can't be forseen.

PJilly

When I am sick anytime (vomiting) I don't worry about how to count. Be sure you get plenty of fluids to combat dehydration and when you are able to eat go for the more bland foods like rice, applesauce, soups and potato. I hope you feel better.:flowerforyou:

AGREED!

kateyb

cheers guys x

miqisha

If if I threw up what I ate, because I vomitted, I would still count it, and not assume anything...body is very weird and just to be on the safe side, I would count what I ate prior to throwing up and not assume I have a clean slate to count calories of what I eat after finish throwing up.

weidner

When I am sick anytime (vomiting) I don't worry about how to count. Be sure you get plenty of fluids to combat dehydration and when you are able to eat go for the more bland foods like rice, applesauce, soups and potato. I hope you feel better.:flowerforyou:

AGREED!

DITTO - Don't sweat it - take care and hope you feel better soon. The last thing on your mind should be logging food!!!! YUCK

skygoddess86

Here's what I think, vomiting burns calories, it makes you sweat like crazy, add it into your exercise diary. Hope you feel better!

kwardklinck

When I'm sick I don't really count either. Usually if I feel that bad I'm not going to go over on my calories for the day.

badloki13

If I am sick enough to vomit (Which rarely happens) I am not going to be worried about my diet lol..

Yurippe

Here's what I think, vomiting burns calories, it makes you sweat like crazy, add it into your exercise diary. Hope you feel better!

LMAO!

I don't even feel like eating for the rest of the day if I throw up. If you think you can, I would just count half of what you ate right before throwing up because you probably kept some of it down.

pandalady8

Not to get all science-y (pardon the grad student), but food only stays in your stomach for about 45 minutes to an hour before it moves into the intestines, where most of your food absorption will take place. So 2 hours out or more, chances are you have absorbed a majority of the major nutrients/calories in whatever you ate previously. But as others have said, when you are sick don't worry about the diet/calories! You will mostly lose a lot of water and some vitamins so you need to replenish those and eat to keep your strength up!

courtney_love2001

I learned in one of my classes that bulimics only vomit up about 25% of their food/calories when they purge. And that is immediately after. I'm not much for statistics, so not sure if I believe this statistic, but I would say that after 2 hours you're not losing many calories. Hope you feel better though!