Binge Days: Why they can be beneficial for your weight loss

This content has been removed.

Going over your calorie budget is one thing, but actually binging is another. I'm glad you've had success but binging is associated with a number of very serious eating disorders. Hopefully you just got your wording wrong there.

Oh for crying out loud. Does anything not involving weighing your food and eating "sensibly" immediately require a lecture about eating disorders? We're so PC now we can't even use the word "binge" in any colloquial sense? Jeeeeeeez -us.

lots of folks here with a history of eating disorders. Perhaps that's why folks object to throwing the word binge around.

Going over your calorie budget is one thing, but actually binging is another. I'm glad you've had success but binging is associated with a number of very serious eating disorders. Hopefully you just got your wording wrong there.

Oh for crying out loud. Does anything not involving weighing your food and eating "sensibly" immediately require a lecture about eating disorders? We're so PC now we can't even use the word "binge" in any colloquial sense? Jeeeeeeez -us.

OP is a 18 year old male who says he is 6' and 138 lbs with multiple posts about binging. I think that is where the concern is coming from.

Going over your calorie budget is one thing, but actually binging is another. I'm glad you've had success but binging is associated with a number of very serious eating disorders. Hopefully you just got your wording wrong there.

Oh for crying out loud. Does anything not involving weighing your food and eating "sensibly" immediately require a lecture about eating disorders? We're so PC now we can't even use the word "binge" in any colloquial sense? Jeeeeeeez -us.

OP is a 18 year old male who says he is 6' and 138 lbs with multiple posts about binging. I think that is where the concern is coming from.

Please stop being snarky. My height, weight, and age is none of your concern, and you don't need to be so snarky with your responses. My personal information is none of your business. I am not looking for trouble. No one is telling you to be involved with this topic. Thank You.

NOTHING snarky about that post.

^^^ LOL at Lyle McDonald being a bro scientist. About as far away from bro scientist as I can think of.

Going over your calorie budget is one thing, but actually binging is another. I'm glad you've had success but binging is associated with a number of very serious eating disorders. Hopefully you just got your wording wrong there.

Oh for crying out loud. Does anything not involving weighing your food and eating "sensibly" immediately require a lecture about eating disorders? We're so PC now we can't even use the word "binge" in any colloquial sense? Jeeeeeeez -us.

OP is a 18 year old male who says he is 6' and 138 lbs with multiple posts about binging. I think that is where the concern is coming from.

Please stop being snarky. My height, weight, and age is none of your concern, and you don't need to be so snarky with your responses. My personal information is none of your business. I am not looking for trouble. No one is telling you to be involved with this topic. Thank You.

You should probably eat brownies more often.

one of the worst ideas I have seen on an MFP thread in a while..yea, lets encourage people to binge eat, which is a border line eating disorder…

OP you are brilliant….

I don't binge eat. I don't have an eating disorder. You need to go back and read through some of the previous posts. I'm not dealing with these rude, and unintelligent responses.

perhaps you'd be best refraining from starting threads like this and THIS : http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1279368-your-worst-binge-food

After reading this string I wonder if I will ever post anything. People are so mean to each other on here. Can a person not post their opinion or what is working for them without everyone jumping down their throats. Geez.

Seriously. It is very difficult to be proud of an accomplishment when there are so many people who love to argue. Why are you here if you disagree? You don't have to agree with something.... But it is not nice to be so rude to people who are just trying to make suggestions.

I don't see gorging yourself until you are physically ill as an accomplishment. Nor do I think having a blowout day once a week where you gorge yourself is a good idea. Days where you go over calories? Sure. They happen. But depriving yourself most of the week and then having a "cheat day" where you "reward" yourself with food for being so good the rest of the week just seems like disordered eating* to me, as well as a recipe for disaster. It's very easy to blow your deficit doing that, and it makes it easier to start justifying behaviors that can derail your lifestyle because it's your "cheat day."

And as to why I'm here if I disagree….lots of people read these pages. You don't have to be a member here to view the forums. Lots of people are not well versed in food and nutrition. Posts like this have the potential to set people up for failure without there being some due diligence of presenting the other side.

*Disordered eating, not eating disorder. Two separate issues. Disordered eating has to do with the person's relationship with food and one can have disordered eating without being diagnosed with an eating disorder.

And then, after a weeks hard work, we go into the pantry, and go way over our calorie limit.

This is by far the primary reason I have been obese since I was in elementary school - the belief that at certain regular intervals I could depart from an otherwise relatively healthy way of eating and disregard the calorie content of food as if it was "free". This advice is definitely not for everyone, and for even more people, rather than have a "free" day, most people would benefit from logging all these calories to ensure they aren't going way over their calorie targets. Otherwise this leads to the "I did all the hard work but got no benefit" panic that sends people into emotional eating.

I honestly dislike the term "cheat day" or "cheat meal" as bad as "binge". I'm not in a relationship with my diet and I'm not misbehaving if I have a day where I don't stay at a calorie loss. Yes, word choice does matter and affects how you think.

Instead I have days where I plan that I'm not going to track. They aren't regularly occurring, but do crop up. For example on Mother's Day I will eat whatever appeals to me that day and not bother to track, but I'm not going to approach the day like "I'm out of prison I can have ANYTHING, so let's have EVERYTHING." Saturday was a "not going to bother to track" day because I took my son to the zoo. I still had my normal breakfast (around 200 calories), had my 80 calorie coffee at Starbucks while he had a treat of a blueberry muffin and chocolate milk, but when we were at the zoo I had a slice of pizza and an ice cream cone, and had my normal dinner. I might have finished the day in a deficit, and I might not, and honestly don't care. But I take comfort in knowing I didn't go nuts and have three giant meals and a Frap, etc. and kept using what I've learned.