Honestly - how much weight do you think I gained?

tennischick22
tennischick22 Posts: 24
in Health and Weight Loss
Alright, this isn't going to be one of those "oh my god, I ate SO much yesterday, and when I weighed myself today I was up 10 lbs - what am I going to do?!?!"
well, i WISH that was my situation (because everyone knows that's largely water weight and will go down within a couple days). unfortunately for me, it was not just one, but FIVE terrible days.
It started last saturday, June 28th. I'm currently studying abroad and we took a day trip to Geneva - after seeing a photo of myself taken on my iPhone I instantly felt horrible about my body image. In retrospect I shouldn't have, considering I was standing next to my very thin friend.
Anyway, we were in Switzerland, aka the land of chocolate, and after seeing this picture I said *kitten* it and ate SO. FREAKING. MUCH. at one point I consumed a huge chocolate bar on my own. At the time I didn't feel quite as bad because my friends did the same haha. but it didn't stop there.
In short, I calculated about 5000 calories consumed that Saturday. yeah, disgusting, I know. It could have stopped there, but of course it didn't.
Sunday I felt much much worse about myself, and once again said *kitten* it, and consumed ANOTHER 5000 calories. I'm in France, it's not hard to do when you live next to a boulangerie :(
so monday I got it a little under control. Ate around 1500 calories.
Tuesday wasn't good. Ate about 2600 calories.
Then Wednesday and today SUCKED. I have been feeling like a disgusting whale, so I binged both days. Yesterday was 4000 calories, today was 3000.
OK IM DONE. you're probably grossed out thinking, how can someone eat that much?
I'm a female, 20, 5'6 and before these 5 days of binge eating occurred I'm fairly certain I was between 138 and 140 lbs.
SO MY QUESTION FOR YOU: how much weight do you think I actually gained? I'm obviously not going to step on the scale for at least a week or two. but, disregarding water weight, how many lbs would you estimate? Be completely honest.
a recap: 2 days of 5000 calories, 1 day of 4000, 1 day of 3000 and another day of about 2600.
unfortunately the most exercise I've done is walking around the cities.
i'm completely repulsed with my eating habits and I intend on getting back on track asap. I was doing really well despite being in France (i.e. staying within a calorie limit and getting in LOTS of walking; after binge eating I couldn't even get myself to do as much walking)

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  • chrissyrenee1029
    chrissyrenee1029 Posts: 358 Member
    I know this isn't what you want to hear, but the only way you're going to know is to get on the scale. If it were me, I'd rather know what the damage is than drive myself crazy with speculation.
  • MeMyCatsandI
    MeMyCatsandI Posts: 704 Member
    Rough estimate.... about 1-2 pounds max. Calm down.
  • tennischick22
    tennischick22 Posts: 24
    I am not going to set FOOT on the scale. I am certain the water weight won't disappear for awhile. That would just make me much more frustrated than speculating.

    someone must have a pretty good estimate after I've given you exact numbers of calories!
  • michaeljacksonfan333
    michaeljacksonfan333 Posts: 56 Member
    3500 calories is equal to 1 pound. So if you eat an extra 3500 calories, you will gain a pound, and if you have a deficit of 3500 calories, you will lose a pound. So I calculated the excess calories you ate. Luckily, i am 19 years old, a girl, and also 5'6. So i know that for both of us the amount of calories we should have per day to maintain our weight is 1700calories. So I calculated the excess calories you had per day by subtracting your total calories to maintain weight from the calories you had per day.
    day 1- 3300 excess calories
    day 2- 3300 excess calories
    day 3- +200 calories because you had less than calories needed to maintain your weight
    day 4- 900 excess calories
    day 5- 2300 calories excess
    day 6- 1300 excess calories
    *keep in mind, this is if you didn't excersize at all, and you said you did, so this would be the worst possible scenario*
    I added all the calories together and divided by calories in a pound (3,500) to get the number of pounds you would gain.
    So what I got is that at most, you gained 3lbs.
    3lbs!! That's nothing!!
    10900 total excess calories/3500 calories per pound = 3.11
  • defauIt
    defauIt Posts: 118 Member
    Sounds like you have some serious body image issues and sounds like you've developed a binge eating disorder... but I can't diagnose you because I'm just a guy on the internet. Please go and talk to a doctor or therapist about it before it gets worse. Uncontrollable eating and being repulsed by what you've done are generally not healthy signs, nor is considering yourself a whale at 140 lbs and 5'6".

    Best of luck.
  • chrissyrenee1029
    chrissyrenee1029 Posts: 358 Member
    Sounds like you have some serious body image issues and sounds like you've developed a binge eating disorder... but I can't diagnose you because I'm just a guy on the internet. Please go and talk to a doctor or therapist about it before it gets worse. Uncontrollable eating and being repulsed by what you've done are generally not healthy signs, nor is considering yourself a whale at 140 lbs and 5'6".

    Best of luck.

    ^^^This.
  • mactaffy84
    mactaffy84 Posts: 398 Member
    I am not going to set FOOT on the scale. I am certain the water weight won't disappear for awhile. That would just make me much more frustrated than speculating.

    someone must have a pretty good estimate after I've given you exact numbers of calories!

    Then figure it out yourself if you have given the exact number of calories! Why post this? You probably gained a bunch and a lot of it is water weight. Get on the darn scale and assess. I doubt it was "exact" number of calories because I track mine and they never add up to nice round numbers. Time to be a big girl, stop whining, face up to your actions. Accept the consequences and move on.
  • LifeWithPie
    LifeWithPie Posts: 552 Member
    I am not going to set FOOT on the scale. I am certain the water weight won't disappear for awhile. That would just make me much more frustrated than speculating.

    someone must have a pretty good estimate after I've given you exact numbers of calories!

    Then figure it out yourself if you have given the exact number of calories! Why post this? You probably gained a bunch and a lot of it is water weight. Get on the darn scale and assess. I doubt it was "exact" number of calories because I track mine and they never add up to nice round numbers. Time to be a big girl, stop whining, face up to your actions. Accept the consequences and move on.

    This.

    You won't get on the scale, but you still want someone to tell you how much you probably gained?
    Do your own math!!
    How childish.
  • oneoddsock
    oneoddsock Posts: 321 Member
    3500 calories is equal to 1 pound. So if you eat an extra 3500 calories, you will gain a pound, and if you have a deficit of 3500 calories, you will lose a pound. So I calculated the excess calories you ate. Luckily, i am 19 years old, a girl, and also 5'6. So i know that for both of us the amount of calories we should have per day to maintain our weight is 1700calories. So I calculated the excess calories you had per day by subtracting your total calories to maintain weight from the calories you had per day.
    day 1- 3300 excess calories
    day 2- 3300 excess calories
    day 3- +200 calories because you had less than calories needed to maintain your weight
    day 4- 900 excess calories
    day 5- 2300 calories excess
    day 6- 1300 excess calories
    *keep in mind, this is if you didn't excersize at all, and you said you did, so this would be the worst possible scenario*
    I added all the calories together and divided by calories in a pound (3,500) to get the number of pounds you would gain.
    So what I got is that at most, you gained 3lbs.
    3lbs!! That's nothing!!
    10900 total excess calories/3500 calories per pound = 3.11

    This.
  • jollyjoe321
    jollyjoe321 Posts: 529 Member
    3500 calories is equal to 1 pound. So if you eat an extra 3500 calories, you will gain a pound, and if you have a deficit of 3500 calories, you will lose a pound. So I calculated the excess calories you ate. Luckily, i am 19 years old, a girl, and also 5'6. So i know that for both of us the amount of calories we should have per day to maintain our weight is 1700calories. So I calculated the excess calories you had per day by subtracting your total calories to maintain weight from the calories you had per day.
    day 1- 3300 excess calories
    day 2- 3300 excess calories
    day 3- +200 calories because you had less than calories needed to maintain your weight
    day 4- 900 excess calories
    day 5- 2300 calories excess
    day 6- 1300 excess calories
    *keep in mind, this is if you didn't excersize at all, and you said you did, so this would be the worst possible scenario*
    I added all the calories together and divided by calories in a pound (3,500) to get the number of pounds you would gain.
    So what I got is that at most, you gained 3lbs.
    3lbs!! That's nothing!!
    10900 total excess calories/3500 calories per pound = 3.11

    This ^
  • BernadetteChurch
    BernadetteChurch Posts: 2,210 Member
    How much weight you gained doesn't matter now. The food has been eaten and can't be uneaten and you will either gain or lose or stay the same. Just get back on track as soon as you can and carry on as normal.
  • Beckilovespizza
    Beckilovespizza Posts: 334 Member
    I did pretty much the same calorie numbers on holiday in Italy and a big post holiday binge. I have totalled an 11lb gain, its not water weight, its real weight and i know this as i weighed when i came back off of holiday and weighed every day since. I think you need to be real with yourself and step on the scales, at least you know what you are dealing with.
  • CharleePear
    CharleePear Posts: 1,948 Member
    Sounds like you have some serious body image issues and sounds like you've developed a binge eating disorder... but I can't diagnose you because I'm just a guy on the internet. Please go and talk to a doctor or therapist about it before it gets worse. Uncontrollable eating and being repulsed by what you've done are generally not healthy signs, nor is considering yourself a whale at 140 lbs and 5'6".

    Best of luck.

    ^^^This.

    A true binge is not 3000 in a day but about 3000 in a sitting. I would call this a bad week not a binge eating disorder, and calm down. But if it were a thing that happened a lot and with the same patterns I would be concerned that you had disordered eating patterns. (from someone who is recovering from disordered eating)
  • XLMACX
    XLMACX Posts: 346 Member
    4lb, and don’t worry about it hun when i have had a binge day in past i can eat up to 4500cals mostly on chocolate and im 23 year old female 5ft 8 1/2, my advice is do not cut back carry on as normal forget it now yes you binged but so what not end of world you and your friends had a good time 2 weeks and that binge weight will be gone this is not a race people binge it happens concentrate on how far you have come think positive and put that in the past really just forget it.xx
  • Jacob021
    Jacob021 Posts: 24 Member
    This weekend I watching the World Cup, I ate lots of pizza, pop-corn and beer.... binging... everything...

    Overnight, I went up 6-7 pounds.... I panicked.... so the rest of this week I ate too clean...
    ... and now I am 8.5 pounds lower than Sunday... so on aggregate I am -2 pounds....

    So don't worry.... it is mostly water retention...
  • jkal1979
    jkal1979 Posts: 1,896 Member
    If seeing a picture sent you off the rails like that, how much you gained from it is the least of your worries.
  • defauIt
    defauIt Posts: 118 Member
    Sounds like you have some serious body image issues and sounds like you've developed a binge eating disorder... but I can't diagnose you because I'm just a guy on the internet. Please go and talk to a doctor or therapist about it before it gets worse. Uncontrollable eating and being repulsed by what you've done are generally not healthy signs, nor is considering yourself a whale at 140 lbs and 5'6".

    Best of luck.

    ^^^This.

    A true binge is not 3000 in a day but about 3000 in a sitting. I would call this a bad week not a binge eating disorder, and calm down. But if it were a thing that happened a lot and with the same patterns I would be concerned that you had disordered eating patterns. (from someone who is recovering from disordered eating)

    A "true" binge has nothing to do with the number of calories, it has to do with uncontrollable eating followed by deep shame and regret. You would think that someone recovering from disordered eating would understand that. But again, I can't diagnose over the internet which is why I recommended she see an actual professional who is qualified to make that call.

    Also, she said she ate 5000 calories per day for 2 days in a row. I'm pretty good at eating sweets, but even I would struggle eating that much without a lot of discomfort.

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