I had a massive binge :(

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  • JeneticTraining
    JeneticTraining Posts: 663 Member
    I would either
    a)work out asap
    or
    b)distract myself
    or
    c) go to bed.
    I would do all of above.
    You will learn from this and you are in control of your choices!

    Jen
  • Brads2ndLife
    Brads2ndLife Posts: 72
    Have a blowout binge once every 9 months?

    Count me in :)

    Won't make even a tiny difference over a year.
  • TekMom
    TekMom Posts: 10 Member
    I recently heard that if you "binge" the following day on citrus fruits - oranges, grapefruit, lemons & limes - it helps to flush out the calories that you binged on the previous day. It's worth a shot!
  • losing5555
    losing5555 Posts: 18
    a few weeks ago i had a sort of binge. i just worked out how much i ate, considered that to gain a pound you have to eat 3, 500, and just worked my butt off the next few days to lose it... and i did! don't worry about it, it happens to everyone. the only bad thing here would be to give up. :smile:
  • NYCNika
    NYCNika Posts: 611 Member
    Can you have your "guilty" foods in a planned way and not binge? Say a favorite meal at a restaurant once every 6 weeks. Or an extra 400 calories every Friday night. Or a donut once a week... Something like that. I have an almond croissant for breakfast once or twice a week, on workout days. I still come under calories on those days.
  • baptiste565
    baptiste565 Posts: 590 Member
    first find out why u binged. an adresss that. diet 2 strict? need to remove temptation from the house? need to schedule a cheat meal every couple wks? U got this!
  • lisacast123
    lisacast123 Posts: 1 Member
    I just saw Dr. Oz where his speaker said that if you have a binge day make sure to follow the next day with 5 servings of citrus (grapefruit, oranges, lime). My doctor told me to have 5 servings of apples after a binge. If you pace yourself and count the calories, it couldn't hurt to have both. Oh, and don't forget your water. Good luck! :)
  • Suffer4beauty
    Suffer4beauty Posts: 44 Member
    I actually plan of having a few binge days - like once or twice a month. I just had 2 last weekend, and yes, I gained, but it was minimal and I already lost the weight. I wait to "binge" after 6 PM. I found that if I force myself to be healthy the rest of day, I can only binge so much in the evening. I still gain because my choices are high calorie (like I had chocolate lava cake when going out with some friends that I only see once or twice a year due to distance) - but still, I can only eat so much food after 6 PM - meaning that I only go about 1,000 to 2,000 calories over my maintenance level - so I gain less than half a pound. I find that if I give myself permission to have these days, I don't lapse in-between unplanned days and I still get to enjoy the foods I miss (like the Chili's baby back ribs with loaded mashed potatoes and a side of sweet potato fries with a girly alcohol drink and a chocolate desert :)) then I stick to my "diet" of healthy eating all the rest of the days because I know that the desserts aren't in a "never" category or even in a "I must have self-control" category - sometimes just letting go and eating whatever you want helps you to enjoy the food so much more since planned (at least for me) equals "no guilt" just move on with the diet.
  • Graelwyn75
    Graelwyn75 Posts: 4,404 Member
    You might like to join this mfp group, if binge eating is something you regularly have an issue with.
    Lots of support there and we do a challenge each month of ourselves vs the binge monster, so we can keep tally of our good days and encourage each other.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/726-binge-eating-support-group
  • herblackwings39
    herblackwings39 Posts: 3,930 Member
    I do have a history of it which caused me to gain a lot of weight. I was doing so well though and didn't binge for 9 months. Now I'm going back to my old habits :(

    No, you are NOT going back to your old habits. You had one day that you didn't make the wisest choices. Out of 9 months one day is nothing to give up over.
  • cubbies77
    cubbies77 Posts: 607 Member
    I recently heard that if you "binge" the following day on citrus fruits - oranges, grapefruit, lemons & limes - it helps to flush out the calories that you binged on the previous day. It's worth a shot!

    You can't flush out calories. Sorry. :( Fruit is good, but it doesn't work like that. Lemon can have a diuretic effect, though, which I think Dr. Quack was honing in on, just with the wrong terminology. Regardless, the calories from fruit still have to be tracked. Eating five apples, as another poster mentioned, can add up to 400-500 calories, depending on the size of the apples.
  • ragingmrs
    ragingmrs Posts: 34
    The benefit to eating a lot of citrus and fruit the day after a binge would be to rehydrate, add nutrition and basically detox your system with all the fiber.

    I do not think it will hurt. I think it has a lot of benefit. Really you just need to forgive yourself, start over and try to figure out what triggered it, but do not obsess.
  • cubbies77
    cubbies77 Posts: 607 Member
    The benefit to eating a lot of citrus and fruit the day after a binge would be to rehydrate, add nutrition and basically detox your system with all the fiber.

    Bingo. :)
  • SteelySunshine
    SteelySunshine Posts: 1,092 Member
    1. You can't undo a life style in one day. It takes a decision to stop making healthy choices altogether.

    2. Don't have binge foods in the house.

    3. Just try to binge on fresh vegetables, I dare you to eat an entire bag of baby carrots.

    4. Exercise a bit more for the next couple of weeks and ask yourself would I walk 500 miles for a box of Twinkies?

    5. If the answer to Would I walk 500 miles for a box of Twinkies is yes, ask yourself why Twinkies are so important.

    6. If you really love Twinkies that much figure out how to have one everyonceinawhile within your macros for that day. Another words something else in your daily calorie goal has to go.

    7. 100 year olds can eat whatever they want.

    8. Eat a lot of fiber, I would say make sure everything you eat has a lot of fiber in it. Just try to binge when you are full of fiber, I dare you.

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