How would you plan a 5000 calorie cheat day?

I'm always amused by the self righteous "I couldn't possibly eat that" crowd. It's like they've found religion for the first time and are now trying to convince everyone else of the truth in their cause. We only know what the OP has told us. Either have fun figuring out what you would eat or move along. The claims of "oh, I couldn't possibly" are ludicrous. She might have an ED but I'm not here to diagnose her. Besides, if you're here to lose weight, then I'm pretty sure you've eaten over 5000 calories in a day at least a few times in your life.

I have hit 5000 calories so often I couldn't tell you the number of times I've done it. And that's AFTER I started tracking.

And OP, for me if would be something along the lines of the following:

Breakfast - pancakes, syrup, bacon, sausage, eggs.

Lunch - beer, ribeye steak, veggies, loaded potato, and ice cream.

Snack - beer

Dinner - wine, caesar salad, prime rib, french fries, and cheese cake.

I read that meal plan and now I want to hump your leg . . .

given her previous post history, she has an unhealthy relationship with food and readily acknowledges that she carb binges (eating a box of cereal at a time mindlessly) and does crazy amounts of cardio to not gain weight. not sure how a 5000 cal day is gonna help things.

I LOVE IT, SOMEBODY WHO DID HER RESEARCH. I STAND BY MY "EATING DISORDER" COMMENT 1000% NOW!!!

AND TO YOUR FAN CLUB, rtalencar85,
... SUX TO BE RIGHT!

::raises eyebrow:: So you are going with: "Na na in your face!" Immature much? What are you, 5? I thought I was supposed to be the one with the cubby...

Even though you are not her psychologist and have no medical backing to your accusations, you still assume you are right. He didn't say he was right, he was merely saying eating disorder was not the only answer.

Even if she does have some sort of eating disorder, you think calling her DISGUSTING for eating those calories is going to help matters? Oh yes, eating all those calories is DISGUSTING and I'm totally judging you, that'll help.

If you truly thought the OP had an eating disorder, then you could have written a supportive post regarding the need to seek medical attention instead of judging and calling her DISGUSTING. If she did have an eating disorder, that would just feed into her warped perceptions about feeling guilty about eating. Great approach there.

OR maybe she is recovering from her previous warped thoughts about food and decided to try a high cal plan with a certain workout regimen. However, by calling her DISGUSTING you just caused her to relapse back into thinking it is bad to eat. Way to go.

Lots of scenarios here. Either way, your comments aren't helpful. So just go away like you originally said you were going to posts ago, OR kindly support the OP into getting help if you honestly think she is troubled. Pick one.

I called the whole large pizza, cinnamon bread, buffalo wings .... MEAL plan "disgusting." Go reread b4 you start your $h!t!
And while you are REREADING, notice in the SAME comment I merely said "hmmm, maybe I am leaning towards a 'binge/eating disorder' because someone said it before me. In fact lots of someone's said it before me. I agreed to comments that had already been made.

You wanna go all day all night? You won't "WIN" anything. Be careful what you say, you may be eating them words later.

Full disclosure: I am a member of the rtalencar85 fan club...


...because the guy has a solid record of making well-reasoned, valid points.


This thread is no exception.

I wasn't his friend before a few minutes ago, but i did appreciate his posts.

and I just put my first person on ignore! never thought I would.

I took a look at the OP's diary and just about went into a diabetic coma from the sugar content.

I am more concerned about this than about the calorie goal. All that sugar day after day after day CAN'T be good for a person.

This was maybe 5k? That was an hr and half or so

Pina colada donuts


Grillades, grits n' greens (Creole smothered short rib steaks with spicy tomato sauce, two eggs and creamy grits)

Banana cream pie french toast (banana custard, fresh banana, nilla wafers, salted caramel)

Banana sticky toffee pudding (lime, banana tuile, salted cashew ice cream)

Pear and almond tart

Fresh mozz and sopressata sandwich

I love and hate you all at the same time.

given her previous post history, she has an unhealthy relationship with food and readily acknowledges that she carb binges (eating a box of cereal at a time mindlessly) and does crazy amounts of cardio to not gain weight. not sure how a 5000 cal day is gonna help things.

I LOVE IT, SOMEBODY WHO DID HER RESEARCH. I STAND BY MY "EATING DISORDER" COMMENT 1000% NOW!!!

AND TO YOUR FAN CLUB, rtalencar85,
... SUX TO BE RIGHT!

::raises eyebrow:: So you are going with: "Na na in your face!" Immature much? What are you, 5? I thought I was supposed to be the one with the cubby...

Even though you are not her psychologist and have no medical backing to your accusations, you still assume you are right. He didn't say he was right, he was merely saying eating disorder was not the only answer.

Even if she does have some sort of eating disorder, you think calling her DISGUSTING for eating those calories is going to help matters? Oh yes, eating all those calories is DISGUSTING and I'm totally judging you, that'll help.

If you truly thought the OP had an eating disorder, then you could have written a supportive post regarding the need to seek medical attention instead of judging and calling her DISGUSTING. If she did have an eating disorder, that would just feed into her warped perceptions about feeling guilty about eating. Great approach there.

OR maybe she is recovering from her previous warped thoughts about food and decided to try a high cal plan with a certain workout regimen. However, by calling her DISGUSTING you just caused her to relapse back into thinking it is bad to eat. Way to go.

Lots of scenarios here. Either way, your comments aren't helpful. So just go away like you originally said you were going to posts ago, OR kindly support the OP into getting help if you honestly think she is troubled. Pick one.

I called the whole large pizza, cinnamon bread, buffalo wings .... MEAL plan "disgusting." Go reread b4 you start your $h!t!
And while you are REREADING, notice in the SAME comment I merely said "hmmm, maybe I am leaning towards a 'binge/eating disorder' because someone said it before me. In fact lots of someone's said it before me. I agreed to comments that had already been made.

You wanna go all day all night? You won't "WIN" anything. Be careful what you say, you may be eating them words later.

It does not matter if you called other people disgusting for eating 5,000 cals/certain meals, or the OP. If she truly has an eating disorder as you think, she could internalize that. All she will see is people talking about those cals, or those foods, or that meal choice, as DISGUSTING. So I stand by the fact that I think your comments were not being helpful to the OP, if she in fact does have an eating disorder.

Even if she doesn't have an eating disorder, those comments were still rude. Period.

Oh and so it is okay for you to say the OP has an eating disorder because "other people said it first"? You really are 5.

I DIDN'T CALL A PERSON DISGUSTING. GET IT STRAIGHT! I CALLED A MEAL DISGUSTING.
BYE BYE -
YOU ARE SO ANNOYING!
LATER!

Beer. Naked. All day long. And then a burger and whiskey before bed lol