Just had a binge attack :(

20 years old 220 lb 6"4' Moderate exrecise 2080 calorie goal.


So i was eating SOOOO well today! But when dinner came, I had chicken and broccoli... and then some more chicken!

NEXT THING YOU KNOW I'M EATING CHOCOLATES, CHIPS AND COOKIES!! which wracked up another 900 calories ontop of my goal. Now I just feel like ****

What should I do??

Forget it its gone ...just be sensible today and get back on track...no sense obsessing about a fall....we are all human

i just found out a friend of mine died, and have done exactly the same.

it never helps.

Log it and move on. Accept that you're not perfect and that you're going to make mistakes in this process. The end.

Well, if you were in front of me I would thrown stones at you, you evil, evil person!

Yeh but no, but really, but ... no

You acknowledged it, get it logged, remember how you feel right now and brush it off. You're HUMAN, welcome to the club

Neither, I was just super hungry! I was telling myself that I've been good all day and I'm aloud this. But went overboard

The "I've been good all day, I'm allowed this" mentality isn't a very helpful one.

If you feel like you are struggling or your current eating plan is too difficult it might be that you are restricting yourself too much.

This should be a lifestyle change, not a diet, and your lifestyle should allow for the occasional cookie without feeling like you need to earn it and shouldn't account for binges

forget it, sometime you have to have a day like that, on sunday went out had a few beers and enjoyed it i just make sure im back to my weight i was at my day i last got weight, and just count that week has nothing lost or nothing gained.

hey!

thought it was just us girlies who had binge attacks!!

i have them all the time. like today..4 slices of cake and its not even lunch time!

you have to draw a line under it and move on. easier said than done but you have to do it, otherwise you continue on a day of self sabottage.

good luck

2100 calories for a 6'4'' 220lb male? nope nope nope, where did you get that figure?

Thank you all for your replies.

I try to eat about 2100 calories but tonights the first night we're ive been SO HUNGRY!

You're all right! Tomorrow is a new day! I just hope it doesnt happen again in the next few weeks

if it happens again and its not for any other reason than you're hungry, then there is a good chance you're not eating enough.

^^^^ this

I really think you're not eating enough, don't just ignore this, either it will happen again or you'll constantly be in battle with yourself. Additionally, according to BMI you're barely in the overweight category. So you're already fairly lean. Too big a deficit is likely to lead to loss of lean tissue along with fat. Do you know your body fat percentage? Not everyone who is "overweight" according to BMI is actually over-fat. Large framed and/or athletic people can fall into this category while their body fat percentage is healthy, or even low. If you're already lean, then the risk of losing lean tissue along with fat when you diet is much greater (the leaner you are the greater this risk). Combine that with eating too little (i.e. too much of a deficit) and you can pretty much guarantee loss of muscle mass and bone density. In addition, like I said, eating too little can lead to bingeing and finding it extremely difficult to stick to the plan. Why put yourself through this is the result is likely to be lean tissue loss along with the fat? Why not eat more, lose the weight more slowly, but also much more easily and sustainably?

I really think you need to recalculate your calories.

With your stats you probably didn't even reach your TDEE............forgive yourself and forgetaboutit.

i had a binge that lasted five days