Eating over maintenance

WhisperAnne
WhisperAnne Posts: 453 Member
edited February 14 in Health and Weight Loss
In the last 7 days ( first time was last Saturday) I ate over my 1640 maintenance. Last Saturday I ate 3460 calories give or take. For 5 days I ate 1200-1300 calories to balance out that splurge and was relieved to see I was still the same weight. Then today happened. Ate 2 large slices of take out pizza and a chicken sandwich and I estimate I ate at least 1200- 1500 over my maintenance. I'm going to work out more these next few days and eat normally again. Is it possible today's splurge caused me to gain? I cant believe this happened twice. I have been eating so healthy for years and now this week happened! should I cut back on calories these next few days? what do you do when this happens to you?

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  • hill8570
    hill8570 Posts: 1,466 Member
    *kitten* happens, no big. Nice thing about a major splurge is that most of the calories don't stick around. Personally, I'd just take a look at my weight at my normal weigh-in, and go on a bit of a calorie deficit for a while if it looked like some of the weight stuck.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,368 Member
    I just move on. Eating less than I normally do to make up for it really doesn't work out for me... I end up craving things and binging again.
  • benefiting
    benefiting Posts: 795 Member
    I ate maybe 9000+ calories in the last 3 days. Even if you do gain weight, accept it and continue like normal. I posted a similar thread and people said that I'd most like 'binge' if I lowered my calories so maybe just continue on your regular eating and see how you go. :)
  • fificrazy
    fificrazy Posts: 234 Member
    Wouldn't advise heavily restricting like that... Eating over your maintenance is good for you every once in awhile! Whereas eating 1,200 calories a day isn't, and will lead to reactive eating making this a neverending cycle. For a healthy, non-disordered person there are days where they will (naturally!!) overeat, and other days where they undereat, and they generally end up balancing each other out on their own.
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