5000 calorie thread update

Sounds to me like you got a tummy bug, that's all.

I have thrown up after over-eating (no where near as much as that though) and usually for me it's a one off occurrence and for two reasons 1) I've chucked too much fat and sugar at my stomach and it's decided to stage a protest or 2) because I've known I was going to overindulge I've skipped a meal, put a ton of food on an empty stomach full of air and, rather like an overblown balloon, I've popped.

Being sick several times over a period of time and feeling rough, as I said above, sounds like a bug to me.

I think cheat days have their place. For me personally they stop me from feeling deprived, especially if I've been hankering after something for a while. They also dispel some of my thinking where I eat something I've been craving and it's not been as 'fabulous' as I've blown it up in my head to be. Then I think 'Well, that wasn't really worth it'. Which is actually strangely helpful.

A lot of the foods I used to eat (pizza, grilled cheese, etc) I can't eat anymore because my body isn't used to the high fat content or something. I've been eating mainly healthy food for 2.5 years now and I get terrible heart burn and feel sick if I even have 1 grilled cheese sandwich. I used to eat 6 at a time with no difficulty. I don't really mind because I love the foods I have now but it would be nice if I could have it once in a while.

Volume of food, probably.

This was what my question was referring to. The praise of having a poor relationship with food that is technically a slight case of Orthorexia nervosa....

I'm confused-- how is this a case of orthorexia?

Because she ate food. That can't be healthy. Food isn't healthy!

Sounds like a binge to me. That's why I do IIFYM. So I don't have to pack all my indulgences in one cheat day.

get psychiatric help.

Here we go again...........:ohwell: :huh: :yawn:

Love all the disparaging comments in here.. hilarious!

If you're on point most of the time, even once a week eating like that is not going to turn you back into the couch king or queen. Take it from me, I do work my *kitten* off and stay pretty strict during the weekdays, but I would say I probably easily surpassed 5000 calories on Sunday myself.

You know what I like about a good spike day? Granted, I would not say it's necessary to go 2500+ calories over your daily goal, but at least in my experiences, you rev the metabolism back up. My biggest burn days have always come right after spikes - generally Monday/Tuesday.

OP, I think what happened is you ate large amounts of types of foods that you haven't been eating in a while, and your body couldn't process all of it, so it "rejected" it.

Have you ever had a pet (cat or dog, specifically), and ran out of food, and then bought a different kind of food, and fed your pet the new food "straight up", without mixing it with any of the old food? With a lot of cats and dogs, what you'll get is a very sick pet, for the first few days at least. If you were to mix the new food with the old food and do a more gradual change-over, the pet will not experience the same sickness.

That's what happened to you. You changed your diet overnight, and you got sick.

Next time, I suggest you have a week (as opposed to one day) over which you eat smaller quantities of whatever you want, along with whatever you usually eat. This will give your body some of what it's used to, and some of what you crave, and you'll be much less likely to be sick.

I'm glad you enjoyed the day itself!!

I feel sick if i don't eat 4000 cals