Does anyone log their binges?

yea

Log each thing as you eat it. That will stop you eating the next thing, as you realise you have doubled your energy requirement for the day.

The best thing I have found about logging the really, really bad days, or binges....is that the damage I think will be done is really not as bad as I think it would be. My head says "Well there goes that, now you are going to put on all the weight your worked so hard to lose"....Reality is that my weight spikes up a little bit, but then drops back down in the next few days when I am back on track.

This has been really helpful for me personally - there was a time where I would have let a binge-fest derail me to the extent where I would completely give up.

Agree with everyone else. Track everything and use it to learn something about yourself.

Sometimes I log them and sometimes I don't. I haven't had a binge that was genuinely out of control since I was 19. Usually what happens is that I realize I'm eating to deal with stress, so I leave the house and do something fun. The last thing I want to do when I want to stop a binge is to think about food for even a minute longer.

I think you should log everything you eat. The good, the bad and the ugly. It is the only way to really be accountable to yourself.

That being said, I do feel that once you've either reached maintenance mode or have lost enough weight to know that you've developed the discipline to stick to a daily calorie limit, then it's ok to have the occasional blow-out meal/day and not log anything/everything. Sure, you'll not really know how many calories you had that day but it will balance out because you know that the next day, you'll be right back into your routine and those excess calories will be lost eventually. It may take days or even weeks (if it's a really bad day) to undo the damage but by the time you hit maintenance, logging all your calories should be second nature to you and you'll be able to bury that one bad day with the next month of good days.

Plus, for me, there is accountability fatigue. Every few months, I just hit a point where I'm just tired of logging every single thing I eat. I'm tired of thinking about fitting this or that into my diary. On those days, I'll log the "major" stuff but the little things, the odd treat here or there, I'll just eat and not bother logging it. That may not work for everyone but it does for me and it helps me keep a little sanity.

Sometimes I pre-log my binges. Maybe I don't really understand what true binge is...

I log it all

I have logged eating a whole pizza before after a 2 1/2 hour bike ride.

In a funny way logging those huge meals and still losing weight long term is proof that this is a long term project.

The only thing I have noticed about huge meals is they often have huge salt content. I like a big pulled pork BBQ meal once in a while. Serious salt bomb!

I hold water a couple days

But weight loss continues on even with a huge meal once in a while

Log it with the same gusto you hammered it down!!!

As long as it's no more than 4 Times a month, I am not compulsive about logging it. Whether i log it and the calories are high, or i don't and the calories are low, it's still easy to look back and see which days i overate. I know from experience that up to 4 "cheat" days a month works with my weight loss, so i don't stress about them.

I don't binge, but I log everything.

The benefit of logging everything and weighing (at least) weekly, is that you can calculate TDEE. Knowing that accurately will make adjusting weight loss speed (or to maintenance) easier, rather than just guessing.

I didn't used to - I would leave off the 3 glasses of wine post-dinner b/c it was late and I was too lazy to grab my phone or tablet and add them to the day, then I would rationalize the next day that yesterday is over and I should just start fresh. But, I know I am frustrating my own efforts by doing that, so I started logging it all, and have pledged to do it every day for a full month and really see what I am eating.

I am not as good about logging exercise, especially stuff like walking to dog or weeding the garden. I don't do these things every day (my husband and I take turns walking the dogs, and the garden gets tended about twice a week this time of year), but I don't think the calories I burn are really worth counting. I would use them as an excuse to eat, and I am pretty sure I would overindulge because I would have a hard time stopping at a half ounce of cheese or 3 almonds. ;-)

I log it, because i want accurate records. I also put notes in the Food Notes section of what was going on leading up to the loss of self-control. Sometimes there is something that I can connect and go "ohhhh, ok" and sometimes there's not, but at least hopefully someday it will reveal a pattern if I get enough data. Honestly I hope I never get enough data to figure out the pattern, as I get better and better at not giving in, but that's my thought process anyway

I know I SHOULD log my binges. But I'm usually drunk and ashamed.

I try to. It's hard after the fact to remember everything and estimate amounts, but I think it's a good thing to try to do. I don't think about my success or failure as each day, but as a week...I might go crazy eating bad stuff Sunday night, but if I work hard the rest of the week I can even things out. That's a big part of why I like to try to log the bad choices too.

joeordinary wrote: »

Whats the point of logging at all if you aren't going to hold yourself accountable for it? If you just arbitrarily decide to ignore some of your intake because it's a binge, you're really doing the process, and yourself, a tremendous disservice.

what he said.

I mean, why wouldn't you? not doing it defeats the whole purpose of tracking/logging what we eat

strong_curves wrote: »

I would log it. It's important to log it all, even the bad things.

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