How to recover from cheat meal?

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  • Timmmy40
    Timmmy40 Posts: 152 Member
    I had my cheat meal of the week last night and gained 4lbs. Ugh :(

    All i had was pan seared/roasted salmon and mixed veggies for dinner at a 5-star restaurant and then a small popcorn (no butter, no salt) at the movies.

    I drank 2 liters of water throughout the day yesterday.

    What do i do to get back down to my original weight :(

    What about your meal was cheat? No way you gained 4 lbs from this meal.
  • VelveteenArabian
    VelveteenArabian Posts: 758 Member
    1 pound is 3500 calories.
    4 pounds is 28,000 calories.

    You would have bad to go over your TDEE by 28,000 calories to gain four pounds. Which wouldn't have happened in one meal.

    Weight fluctuates normally. You might just be hanging on to water or something.

    PS - how was that meal a cheat meal? Seemed pretty healthy. If you're considering a decent meal to be cheating there may be something wrong going on in your diet.

    ALL of this. I had my cheat meal last night too. Double burger from Wendy's. I gained 0.2 pounds. Weight fluctuates. If it's going to drive you THAT nuts, don't weigh yourself so often.

    4# is 14,000 calories.

    Math is hard! There's ten different numbers involved that you have to keep track of.
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  • mamadon
    mamadon Posts: 1,422 Member
    1 pound is 3500 calories.
    4 pounds is 28,000 calories.

    You would have bad to go over your TDEE by 28,000 calories to gain four pounds. Which wouldn't have happened in one meal.

    Weight fluctuates normally. You might just be hanging on to water or something.

    PS - how was that meal a cheat meal? Seemed pretty healthy. If you're considering a decent meal to be cheating there may be something wrong going on in your diet.

    THIS


    This X2.
    My cheat meal is usually wildly unhealthy. It has included sharing a large buttered and salted movie popcorn a few times. One crazy meal or even day has never negatively effected me. It when I was eating that way month after month and year after year.
  • VelveteenArabian
    VelveteenArabian Posts: 758 Member
    1 pound is 3500 calories.
    4 pounds is 28,000 calories.

    You would have bad to go over your TDEE by 28,000 calories to gain four pounds. Which wouldn't have happened in one meal.

    Weight fluctuates normally. You might just be hanging on to water or something.

    PS - how was that meal a cheat meal? Seemed pretty healthy. If you're considering a decent meal to be cheating there may be something wrong going on in your diet.

    ALL of this. I had my cheat meal last night too. Double burger from Wendy's. I gained 0.2 pounds. Weight fluctuates. If it's going to drive you THAT nuts, don't weigh yourself so often.

    Your math perplexes me
    isnt 4 lbs 14000 calories????????????????????????????????

  • elandralee
    elandralee Posts: 11 Member
    You need to find out why you cheated on your food in the first place. Only once you understand that can you really make amends to the food. If you really understand what happened, and know how to stop it in the future, you need to then apologize sincerely to your food and explain what happened, and how it will not happen again. After that, you need to remain vigilant and watch your motivations and keep an eye out for those character defects which led you to cheat in your food in the first place. That said, it is possible that your current food isn't the right food for you. That donut down in accounting might be exactly the right food for you, and you will be the happiest person on the planet if you fill your body to bursting with it every chance you get; behind closed doors in your office, at home - hell, even outdoors. And if that's the case you need to come to terms with that and level with your current food, or you'll really be cheating both of you.


    Am I the only one who found this hilarious?
  • ahoy_m8
    ahoy_m8 Posts: 3,053 Member
    You need to find out why you cheated on your food in the first place. Only once you understand that can you really make amends to the food. If you really understand what happened, and know how to stop it in the future, you need to then apologize sincerely to your food and explain what happened, and how it will not happen again. After that, you need to remain vigilant and watch your motivations and keep an eye out for those character defects which led you to cheat in your food in the first place. That said, it is possible that your current food isn't the right food for you. That donut down in accounting might be exactly the right food for you, and you will be the happiest person on the planet if you fill your body to bursting with it every chance you get; behind closed doors in your office, at home - hell, even outdoors. And if that's the case you need to come to terms with that and level with your current food, or you'll really be cheating both of you.
    Am I the only one who found this hilarious?

    No, you are not. I found it hilarious, too.

    To the OP, so many variables effect weight fluctuation. I agree with the poster who questioned if TOM was at play. I'm level or gain between menstruation and ovulation and lose sharply between ovulation and menstruation (at ~16%BF). I think women have to look at a 4 week pattern before they know anything at all.

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