How do you recover from have eaten everything in the house at breakfast time ...

Just continue with your day as if you had a normal breakfast and don't think much of it. Forming a long term habit takes time and you are bound to have setbacks every once in a while. Not sleeping enough may have made you extra hungry, so move on and sleep better tonight starting with a more balanced breakfast (and lunch, and dinner) tomorrow. If this happens too often, then further investigation or maybe even seeking help may be warranted.

Oak cake are coming up as 50 kcals a piece so at most you should still be under 1000 kcals. How are you even close to your goal for the day?

Tonight, get enough sleep. That will help you tremendously. Log your food the day before. That works for me.
And when you mess up, you get back to the plan. No big deal.

get rid f all the sugary foods, donate or something. Then do a food shop and buy healthy stuff. I bought jelly pots as a dessert IF i fancy a treat. low in fat and no so bad.

get some sleep i always binge when im tired!

Yep... Prelogging in food diary helps me a lot.All decisions are made in advance from foods I have available. If I don't do that, I'm searching the pantry and fridge for a quick fix and it's rarely wise. Meanwhile just get right back on your plan...

Stop fretting, log it and move on. I would still eat a reasonably nutrutious meal today. New day tomorrow.

Do a good workout, and for the rest of the day, eat lean proteins and nonstarchy vegetables.

Quite a lot of great advice above.

I just want to share my experience and solutions to give you something else to think about. I was/am a binge eater. From beginning 2014, i "quit" sweets. I have stuck to this since then. It has been and still is a wonderful way to live.

Its not that i never ever get to eat sweets. Its that in my day to day life, I never buy them, or prepare them. I only ever eat sweets in what i consider low risk situations. If someone offers me sweets, i accept but only one serve.

Having made the decision to quit sweets, i spent about the first three months, building the habit with avoiding temptation and focus on sweets. Actually that doesn't really explain it properly. But lets jsut say it was all about avoiding temptation and building commitment. It got a lot easier the more time went on though it was never particlarly difficult.

Not overeating is difficult when i am stressed or upset so i work at minimising these situations and resolving them as soon as i can. I do tend to put on weight when i go through those periods and then after its over, i go back to losing or maintaining again.

Having quit sweets, i have been able to eat more vegetables and focus on improving my day to day diet. I do not tend to eat a lot of other junk food so i don't need to worry about those. But when i am stressed, I might eat some of those other junkier type foods but i tend not to lose control with them like i do with sweets.

I have a lot of structure with the way i eat. If my day to day eating returns to a eating any old time, i will put on weight. If i can limit my eating to scheduled meals and snack times i do fine. Its not that i have to eat at hte same time each time. But i try to stick with three meals and fruit or something healthy in between when needed.

I avoid getting hungry.

So its key to being organised with your food and to choose healthy carbs for the most part (because the unhealthy ones do not satisfy). I always have my fridge stuffed with healthy food. Then its easy for me to find something quickly for dinner. I would recommend avoiding coming home tired from work and not having good food ready to eat.

Avoid lack of sleep. If you skip some hours and its affecting you, try to catch up asap.

amusedmonkey wrote: »

One thing you need to be careful of. That "I blew it" feeling can be very tricky and may tempt you to ruin the rest of your day. Don't let it happen. No use crying over spilled milk, but when you spill some of your milk you don't go and deliberately pour the rest of it into the sink. Try to combat that all-or-nothing mentality as much as you can and just continue your day as if you had a reasonable breakfast.

Love this.

350(cake)+204 (milk)+ 275 (Dark chocolate)+160=999.

potatogirl741 wrote: »

amusedmonkey wrote: »

One thing you need to be careful of. That "I blew it" feeling can be very tricky and may tempt you to ruin the rest of your day. Don't let it happen. No use crying over spilled milk, but when you spill some of your milk you don't go and deliberately pour the rest of it into the sink. Try to combat that all-or-nothing mentality as much as you can and just continue your day as if you had a reasonable breakfast.

Quoted for truth.

All1971 wrote: »

You could go in the bathroom and throw up....now that you've (probably) decided you don't want to go down the path toward an eating disorder, spend a moment and think about whether there was an emotional trigger or were you genuinely physically hungry, and then work at making better choices next time.

You could get some sort of idea of how these boards work before you start posting stuff like this. We are here to SUPPORT. Not to make light of serious eating conditions that people on these boards have beaten or are currently going through. Not to give sarcasm to someone who is asking a genuine question about an issue many people here have also had to face on their 'weight loss journeys' (and i hate that phrase, but it sums it up nicely in this context).

OP, lots of good advice here, and yes; write it off, knuckle down, go do some exercise and tomorrow is always a new day. Weight loss is not quick or easy, and we all have times where we slip up. Just got to grit your teeth, tel yourself you can do this and make it happen. You get out what you put in. Good luck

onmyown70 wrote: »

I am definitely struggling with the 3pm I want to eat all in the house thing... thanks so much for your support guys x

In all seriousness, make tea. Very purposefully, with thought and pleasure, make hot tea at 3 pm. Find some loose leaf tea, buy a cute mug, boil the water, think about the steam, think about how the hot water will infuse the leaves, then pour the tea. Smell it before brewing, smell it during and after brewing. Make it something to relish. Once it's a habit, drinking 4 calories of tea will be your 3 pm habit instead of eating (oh, and make sure you are eating at an overall sensible deficit, so binges are less likely overall when you do have a snack). -- or find another 3 pm "thing" to do. Go for a walk, do some yoga poses, etc.

I'm not a therapist, but maybe you need one. Food isn't the answer to stress, and it kinda sounds like that's what you've been using it for. It can be hard to set new habits to cope with stress, but you CAN do it. We know you can

amusedmonkey wrote: »

One thing you need to be careful of. That "I blew it" feeling can be very tricky and may tempt you to ruin the rest of your day. Don't let it happen. No use crying over spilled milk, but when you spill some of your milk you don't go and deliberately pour the rest of it into the sink. Try to combat that all-or-nothing mentality as much as you can and just continue your day as if you had a reasonable breakfast.

One of the most inspirational things I've read on here. This "I blew it" situation is something I struggle with a LOT, but your metaphor makes total sense. Thank you.