After Pigging Out

ThisGirl860
ThisGirl860 Posts: 2 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I've lost 47 pounds and am proud of myself. And then on Sunday I went to a cookout and ate way too much. Then I went home and at more. Total pig out. I'm very disappointed in myself but I can't take it back.

On Monday, I only ate 550 calories. Today (Tuesday), I've only eaten 500. I'm trying to make up for it. But is this wrong? Should I just go back to my normal diet? How do you handle the time after a pig out day?

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  • yesimpson
    yesimpson Posts: 1,372 Member
    I just go back to eating normally, whether that's maintenance or a deficit. I don't punish myself by eating a huge amount less in the following days, because I give up and just feel worse. I tend to want to eat slightly less for the day or so after a pig out anyway.
  • delineationfiguration
    delineationfiguration Posts: 24 Member
    In my experience, you are setting yourself up for failure. Your body will get fairly desperate for food soon. So what, you had a day you ate more than usual? What matters is the rest of the time. As the saying goes; you don't get overweight because of what you eat between Christmas and New Years, but due to what you eat between New Years and Christmas. Go back to normal - that is what weight-loss success is defined by. An important aspect of this is also the psychological effect. Log it and move on :)
  • smcrimmon84
    smcrimmon84 Posts: 135 Member
    I think we all have pig out days, it is relatively normal and likely to happen.

    I move on and go back to my regular diet/exercise regimen. I wouldn't eat only 500 calories. Seriously, one day of pigging out isn't going to make you gain all 47 lbs back - I promise. Eat like normal.
  • ThisGirl860
    ThisGirl860 Posts: 2 Member
    Thank you, everyone :)
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    I try to understand why my days of disaster happen. Once I have a hypothesis for 'why' it happened, I can develop a plan to prevent that happening again. Think through the events leading to the 'pig out', and in a month or so you'll have an opportunity to put your plan into action.
  • Duchy82
    Duchy82 Posts: 560 Member
    Log it, acknowledge it, and carry on as before.

    No need to starve yourself for 2 days, if you really want to counteract it a little do some extra exercise next time, or be aware you may lose a little less than usual that week. It's life, you are allowed a day of 'pig out' everyone does it, social occasions happen and are so often food focused, you have to still live your life otherwise you would be so miserable!
  • bekim123
    bekim123 Posts: 391 Member
    Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and get back on the horse. They key isn't letting such an event lead to other similar days and then you end up back to your old ways (spoken as one who has been there and done that).
  • mullaneywt
    mullaneywt Posts: 28 Member
    Theoretically, if you ate 3,500 calories ABOVE what you normally do, you gained one pound that day, two at 7,000 calories above. That said, it's unlikely you did that, and even if you did, so what. Just go back on your diet. If you really want to make up whatever you ate that is extra, then lower your calories over several days. I.E. if you had 2000 extra calories and you feel like you have to make up for it, don't not eat for the next two or three days. Instead, set your calories for the next 5-10 days to be 200 less or something similar. Not 200 total.
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