How often do you overeat?
bioklutz
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I love food. I love trying new foods. I love low calorie foods like cucumbers, honey dew melons. I love decadent high calorie foods like cheesecake and anything salted caramel. I love protein foods like steak, turkey, fish. I will try any food that is put in front of me - even mushrooms which I don't like.
Every few months I have a meal where I just gorge myself silly. Last night was one of those nights. I was at a party where they made a ridiculous amount of steak. They had chicken and potato salad and other things. I had the potato salad and steak and some raw veggies and fruit. I regret eating the potato salad because it was not as good as the steak and probably could have eaten another piece of meat if I didn't eat the potato salad. If I had to guess I probably ate about 1.5-2 pounds of cooked steak. I topped it off a HUGE slice of chocolate cake.
I ate more than men who probably weigh over twice what I do. I ate more than a growing teenage boy. It was glorious. The beast inside by belly is happy for a few months.
How often do you let loose and just eat yourself silly? What are your favorite foods to overeat?
Every few months I have a meal where I just gorge myself silly. Last night was one of those nights. I was at a party where they made a ridiculous amount of steak. They had chicken and potato salad and other things. I had the potato salad and steak and some raw veggies and fruit. I regret eating the potato salad because it was not as good as the steak and probably could have eaten another piece of meat if I didn't eat the potato salad. If I had to guess I probably ate about 1.5-2 pounds of cooked steak. I topped it off a HUGE slice of chocolate cake.
I ate more than men who probably weigh over twice what I do. I ate more than a growing teenage boy. It was glorious. The beast inside by belly is happy for a few months.
How often do you let loose and just eat yourself silly? What are your favorite foods to overeat?
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I assume you mean truly overdoing it rather than just going over diet calories by a bit? Probably around once every couple of months. It usually involves copious amounts of alcohol and/or a holiday. I got up this morning to make our Sunday breakfast, and the smell of bacon had me thinking of my wife's homemade biscuits, which we haven't eaten in forever. I had this wonderful jar of honey I picked up on a recent trip staring at me and just begging for a biscuit. When I mentioned them to her, we agreed that Thanksgiving Day breakfast will include scratch biscuits and other traditional food we don't eat much anymore. Well, that and morning mimosas.
The point is it's rare, and I have no guilt when we do.8 -
sunnybeaches105 wrote: »I assume you mean truly overdoing it rather than just going over diet calories by a bit? Probably around once every couple of months. It usually involves copious amounts of alcohol and/or a holiday. I got up this morning to make our Sunday breakfast, and the smell of bacon had me thinking of my wife's homemade biscuits, which we haven't eaten in forever. I had this wonderful jar of honey I picked up on a recent trip staring at me and just begging for a biscuit. When I mentioned them to her, we agreed that Thanksgiving Day breakfast will include scratch biscuits and other traditional food we don't eat much anymore. Well, that and morning mimosas.
The point is it's rare, and I have no guilt when we do.
Haha! Yes - really overdoing it. It will probably take days for my body to deal with what is in my belly and intestines. I don't feel guilty at all!
Hmmm....biscuits!3 -
I picked out 4 days a year as IDGAF days where I eat what I want in amounts I want and to hells with the sodium. Oddly, my BP was quite near the medical standard of "normal" (110/70) for nearly 2 weeks afterwards.
These days help me mentally. I eat foods I don't eat all the time because of calories and/or high sodium count.2 -
I have never found it difficult to eat a lot, not before, and not now, but that's not the point - I don't want to eat too much anymore; and I just believed I liked it before, because that was what I had grown up with. I love food, almost every food, and I love to eat, but I actually prefer to be pleasantly full. Not to "be good", but because I realized it was possible to stop eating before bursting at the seams, and eating is even more enjoyable this way.
I'm Norwegian, and we have one expression for one-time overeating (forspise seg), like we do at Christmas and birthdays, and one expression for consistent overeating (overspising), which can be done at most or every meal, or by constant snacking/grazing. The latter is the real troublemaker, but the former gets the attention.
I will overeat on purpose now on special occasions when the food is especially decadent, but my everyday meals are all delicious, so I don't even have the same urge to overeat anymore.6 -
Hmm I haven't had COPIUS amounts of food in a longgg time... I've had more calorically dense foods take me over goal sometimes than "a lot"'of food...The times that I've tried going IN on a couple of occasions made my stomach hurt from trying to stuff it. Lol I think though that part of the "over stuffed" feeling was purely mental, as I'm constantly thinking about my goal as I'm shoveling... My ultimate goal has a built in cushion that a part of me can't Wait to explore. :-)0
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The really gorged feeling almost never. The next few days don't agree with me to the point I avoid doing it even on Thanksgiving.
The lightly stuffed feeling I go for as often as I can, as much as two times a week. Lunch out with friends on Saturday and Sunday dinner with family. I really enjoy that happy, warm, but also heavy and uncomfortable full feeling that I get from eating 800-1200 calories in a sitting.
Those two days I break fast with a large meal at 11am-noon and then enjoy the full feeling the rest of the day. I often come in under calories for the day because after I am just too full to eat.
Eating this way agrees with me so much I've though about doing it during the work week too but haven't put in the effort to make a large lunch yet to test it out.
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MonkeyMel21 wrote: »I don't always overeat, but when I do it's usually Mexican food.
oh my god me too, which is why I took a break from going out for Mexican food. We have a place 2 miles from my house that gives you free tortilla chips and salsa. I haven't eaten there in three weeks because it's too tempting to over indulge. When I go back there, which I am sure I will, I will ask for extra corn tortillas instead, use those to dip in salsa. Filling and less calories.0 -
I don't overeat. Nothing to do with calories, I just don't like the way I feel after I've eaten a lot. Plus I like having a flat belly and not being bloated or having that weighed down feeling.
So I enjoy the foods that I love, but I learned to pace myself, plan (check out menus and the eats at events beforehand) and have any excess food for another meal (or two) or give it away if I had enough.
Many times my eyes are bigger than my stomach, but physically I can't stuff myself anymore even when I want to.
Coming from someone who used to eat anything I wanted whenever I wanted it for a long time, this is still a very strange feeling.5 -
For me, going to a buffet and Christmas time would probably fall into those categories.
When I go to a buffet, I just have to try everything and tend to finish things off with a couple plates of desserts. That's pretty much what I did this week at a work function buffet, minus the couple plates of desserts, they took away the desserts while we were being entertained by the guest speaker for the evening, so I probably only had 1000-1500 calories of dessert instead of what would have surely been 3000+! Fortunately there aren't any real all you can eat places around here, only during special occasions like Mother's Day do any restaurants seem to offer that option.
Then come Christmas time, there's always so much food and I just want to enjoy myself during that time of the year so I don't really hold back, which is probably why I always gain the most weight at that time of the year.
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rainbow198 wrote: »I don't overeat. Nothing to do with calories, I just don't like the way I feel after I've eaten a lot. Plus I like having a flat belly and not being bloated or having that weighed down feeling.
So I enjoy the foods that I love, but I learned to pace myself, plan (check out menus and the eats at events beforehand) and have any excess food for another meal (or two) or give it away if I had enough.
Many times my eyes are bigger than my stomach, but physically I can't stuff myself anymore even when I want to.
Coming from someone who used to eat anything I wanted whenever I wanted it for a long time, this is still a very strange feeling.
I'm the same. I don't mind going over my calorie limit from time to time and I don't mind eating high calorie foods especially on special occasions or at a party. But I HATE that overstuffed feeling I get from eating too much food.3 -
I don't overeat very often. Mainly because I feel physically terrible after doing so and it effects my ability to fit in tight jeans.1
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My most recent overeat was intentional on my wedding anniversary of 7/22. Prior overeats were expressions of a bad habit of reaching into the box for more crunchy stuff because more crunchy stuff was in the box. That bad habit seems to have been broken, as in recent weeks I've not had an overeat like those earlier events. 7/22 was a big steak and shrimp dinner with a big cheesecake for desert. From the morning of 7/24 to now I've lost 13.8 lb, almost a stone, so it did no harm.1
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For me I'm strict 5 days a week weeks on end so when I do my body doesn't know what really to do with it so doesn't effect me much.
Buffets of any kind get me!0 -
kommodevaran wrote: »I'm Norwegian, and we have one expression for one-time overeating (forspise seg), like we do at Christmas and birthdays, and one expression for consistent overeating (overspising), which can be done at most or every meal, or by constant snacking/grazing. The latter is the real troublemaker, but the former gets the attention.
I love that!
It is interesting how different people are. It would take a LOT of food to make me physically feel terrible. Last nights feast didn't leave me feeling that way. In fact I had some leftover steak for lunch. Only a little over 4 ounces this time!0 -
Really never do this, I do not enjoy over eating at all. Even at Hibachi I still eat a lot, but not like eating like this.
A full fledged out of control eating like this where I feel would feel fatigued, lethargic, extremely bloated, swollen from the ankles up and and really terrible the next day... AND moreover not be able to exercise to release me from what I did to myself... LOL... not for me this would take three days for me to recover.4 -
Overeat? Is it overeating if I want to eat it, and I can maintain my weight?
I actually slightly under-eat my estimated maintenance NEAT on most days, to allow for the occasional very indulge-y meal or day every week or two. I'll eat more on a special occasion (like a social event), but also indulge if I stay at/below the bottom end of my maintenance range for a bit.
At my age (60), I know myself well enough to know that I'll want to eat or drink beyond (possibly well beyond) my daily calorie goal from time to time, so I allow for that. It's working so far, but I'm only 6-7 months into maintenance.
Probable indulgences, when I indulge: Mexican food at my favorite restaurant, extra-portion pizza, adult bevs, gelato, extra nuts, extra amounts of chips/salsa, extra cheese, richer chocolates in a larger-than-usual quantity, extreme desserts (tiramisu, carrot cake, good-quality coconut cream pie, etc.) . . . .0 -
I got by weekly calories... I'd say I eat over maintenance 1-2 times a week. For me that usually means eating 2500-3000 calories - my TDEE is 2200 and I usually eat 1800 so it's really not a huge deal. It typically involves some dessert though, as it's pretty much the only thing that I can overeat on without feeling stuffed (well, except during PMS).0
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rainbow198 wrote: »I don't overeat. Nothing to do with calories, I just don't like the way I feel after I've eaten a lot. Plus I like having a flat belly and not being bloated or having that weighed down feeling.
So I enjoy the foods that I love, but I learned to pace myself, plan (check out menus and the eats at events beforehand) and have any excess food for another meal (or two) or give it away if I had enough.
Many times my eyes are bigger than my stomach, but physically I can't stuff myself anymore even when I want to.
Coming from someone who used to eat anything I wanted whenever I wanted it for a long time, this is still a very strange feeling.
This is me, too. Totally.
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We go to my favourite buffet every 3mths or so. I psyche myself up for this event a couple days beforehand lol
I will have 5 good size plates of as much as i can stuff on there, followed by 3 plates of dessert (my fave). consisting of pavlova, creme brulet, mud cake, custard, pudding and cup cakes . I'm still full the day after!
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rainbow198 wrote: »I don't overeat. Nothing to do with calories, I just don't like the way I feel after I've eaten a lot. Plus I like having a flat belly and not being bloated or having that weighed down feeling.
So I enjoy the foods that I love, but I learned to pace myself, plan (check out menus and the eats at events beforehand) and have any excess food for another meal (or two) or give it away if I had enough.
Many times my eyes are bigger than my stomach, but physically I can't stuff myself anymore even when I want to.
Coming from someone who used to eat anything I wanted whenever I wanted it for a long time, this is still a very strange feeling.
This is me, too. Totally.
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I might go over my calories sometimes, but I rarely eat so much I feel stuffed. I don't like that feeling at all. I'd rather feel hungry.5
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Christine_72 wrote: »We go to my favourite buffet every 3mths or so. I psyche myself up for this event a couple days beforehand lol
I will have 5 good size plates of as much as i can stuff on there, followed by 3 plates of dessert (my fave). consisting of pavlova, creme brulet, mud cake, custard, pudding and cup cakes . I'm still full the day after!
That is impressive!1 -
Christine_72 wrote: »We go to my favourite buffet every 3mths or so. I psyche myself up for this event a couple days beforehand lol
I will have 5 good size plates of as much as i can stuff on there, followed by 3 plates of dessert (my fave). consisting of pavlova, creme brulet, mud cake, custard, pudding and cup cakes . I'm still full the day after!
Man that never happens to me. If I eat too much one day, I'm still hungry the next day. It sucks!0 -
Christine_72 wrote: »We go to my favourite buffet every 3mths or so. I psyche myself up for this event a couple days beforehand lol
I will have 5 good size plates of as much as i can stuff on there, followed by 3 plates of dessert (my fave). consisting of pavlova, creme brulet, mud cake, custard, pudding and cup cakes . I'm still full the day after!
That is impressive!
I should add, the plates aren't dinner plate size, they're a bit bigger than bread plates. They make sure you can't fit too much on there lolChristine_72 wrote: »We go to my favourite buffet every 3mths or so. I psyche myself up for this event a couple days beforehand lol
I will have 5 good size plates of as much as i can stuff on there, followed by 3 plates of dessert (my fave). consisting of pavlova, creme brulet, mud cake, custard, pudding and cup cakes . I'm still full the day after!
Man that never happens to me. If I eat too much one day, I'm still hungry the next day. It sucks!
Ha this only happens on the day after buffet days. I dread to think how many calories we pack away....probably 4 days worth
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I pretty much tend to over-eat at every meal. I know it is not good to gorge but 13 years at English boarding schools can do that to you. Growing up I became an opportunist feeder, like a feral animal. I also see this same behaviour in my refugee students - in this rich country where vast amounts of food are given away free they become overweight, then obese and finally diabetic.
However, what I have learned is that it's the spaces between meals that really count, more than how much I eat. These are the times when my body has time to digest and insulin levels can return to normal (usually it takes about 11 hours for insulin to lower).
So yes, I eat a lot but less frequently now. 1 or 2 times a day usually. Today, just once. I like to eat my evening meal early at 4.30 pm then I stop eating. Also, eating fatty meat instead of sugary carbs slows me down. It's harder to overeat on fatty pork belly.4 -
Like twice a week lmao3
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I wouldn't say I over eat but I will have a bigger than usual meal (or something I normally don't have-like say pizza or chicken pieces) once a week or every other week depending on how I'm feeling/if I want it. I don't over eat to the point of being overly full/sick anymore cause I don't like how I feel. I still could I just don't haha0
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It's not overeating if you consider your weekly calories. You could theoretically have a 10,000-calorie day as long as your weekly is still where it needs to be. (Arbitrary number - I wouldn't try it because the recovery would be painfully austere.)
I bank calories all the time. Do a few fasting days (1000 or less) in advance of eating like a human one day over the weekend. That kind of thing. And contrary to popular opinion, short-duration fasting does not decrease your metabolism. That takes months of deprivation for that - your body simply can't adjust that fast over the course of a few days.
Some science at http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/01/the-new-way-to-love-food/283276/ and http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-fat-trap.html?_r=0
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Every quarter some friends and I hit up a Brazilian steakhouse on a Friday and take that afternoon off. After gorging myself with all kinds of meat we head up to an Irish pub, drink whisky (never too much) and smoke cigars in the afternoon. I might feel a little bloated and lethargic that night but the next day I'm bounding with energy.3
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