Ate 1500 calories for breakfast today. What should I do now?

Log the food. Someone on another thread said they log everything before they eat it. I think that's a great idea. Sometimes seeing it in the log, before you eat it helps a lot. Do I really want to eat this? Answer this question before you eat. it.

Now about today, if you aren't already someone who has fasted in the past or you have EDs, then no, no fasting today. If you are hungry eat. What I found when I ate heavy hitting nutritious food, that I also liked, was the desire for less nutritious food went away.

If you are a juicer/smoothie person, start the day with one.

The local juice bar charges $7.50 for a drink, but I figured out my own version and it is delicious and comforting, even on a cold morning. It's 1 banana,(129 g/4.5 oz) 16-20 grams of pitted dates, 2 oz. of TJ's unsweetened coconut milk(the kind you would use instead of dairy milk so it doesn't taste particularly coconutty), and 1/8 c./11 grams of TJ's organic rolled oats, a splash of vanilla extract, and a sprinkle of cinnamon on top after pouring it into a glass.

I bet something similar for you with a bit of cocoa & perhaps coconut extract would do the same trick and come in under 300 calories for you.

Good Luck! And don't sweat the 1500 calories today.

It's that time of the month again and I've been craving so much chocolate and sweets. I ate half a bag of coconut chips, chocolate and 2 cookies along with breakfast. This is all around 1500 calories. Should I fast for the rest of the day? Or would I be better off burning 400 calories through exercise and eating 200 for dinner? I feel super duper guilty for eating so much. Help?

Okay for one: start your workout by getting a sweat on and emptying out your cabinets of that empty calorie junkfood. Then go work out for real. You can not starve yourself for the rest of the day. Just do the time at the gym or wherever you work out and move on. Eat apple slices if you get hungry or another low cal snack idea and drink a lot of water. Go to bed as early as you can and then just start over new tomorrow. That is all you can do. Take this as a learning process and make a plan on what you could do better next time. YOu like sweets? try sugar free cocoa for that fix and make yourself have an apple BEFORE you reach for a junkfood item. It will be okay, we all have slipped.

Although I am for fasting from food or something specific and believe it to be a healthy tool that creates discipline and confidence, it should be a planned event not a spur of the moment quick fix. If you want permanent results, you need to make permanent changes. Don't live in the past, learn from it and move on. Learn a sustainable and healthy balanced lifestyle. I removed those trigger foods from my house. If you are an alcoholic that is sincerely trying to quit drinking you don't fill your shelves with vodka. I gave up the trigger foods until they stopped calling my name, retraining my taste buds. The brain has the same type of reaction to sugar as it does to cocaine. When I indulge now it is planned out so I don't go overboard. I get one specific amount of one specific thing and it is not called a treat. Don't treat yourself with food, make treats a real reward to a hard fought goal like buying smaller clothes. You can do this.

Although I am for fasting from food or something specific and believe it to be a healthy tool that creates discipline and confidence, it should be a planned event not a spur of the moment quick fix. If you want permanent results, you need to make permanent changes. Don't live in the past, learn from it and move on. Learn a sustainable and healthy balanced lifestyle. I removed those trigger foods from my house. If you are an alcoholic that is sincerely trying to quit drinking you don't fill your shelves with vodka. I gave up the trigger foods until they stopped calling my name, retraining my taste buds. The brain has the same type of reaction to sugar as it does to cocaine. When I indulge now it is planned out so I don't go overboard. I get one specific amount of one specific thing and it is not called a treat. Don't treat yourself with food, make treats a real reward to a hard fought goal like buying smaller clothes. You can do this.

^^THIS. :drinker:

I would recommend eating normally for the rest of the day. Exercise more if you want, but otherwise put it behind you and move forward as if it never happened. Remember the awful feeling you have now and use it as a deterrent for the next time you feel the need to binge on sweets. Though honestly, during TOM that’s not always going to help. Hormones can be a mighty force.

Thank you for this thread! I've been battling binge eating for a while, I'll binge eat for a couple of days, then diet for couple days, and the cycle continues. I've recently joined MFP and some days are good, but yesterday my diet went out the window. Oreos, Pop-tarts, and Cheese-its are my mortal enemy.

It made me feel better knowing that other people here fall off the wagon. The next day I was tempted to eat badly, however one trip at the gym completely stopped the urge. I plan on going to the gym more this week to makeup for bad day I had, and reach my calorie goal better.