4000 CALORIES

nad1996 · January 2017

Help ytd I binged 3000 calories and today I went crazy and ate 4000 im so so scared right now I have been good for 11 days and I just lost control. Am I gonna gain fat or just water weight?):

ugofatcat · January 2017

What caused you to binge like that?

TavistockToad · January 2017

nad1996 wrote: »

Help ytd I binged 3000 calories and today I went crazy and ate 4000 im so so scared right now I have been good for 11 days and I just lost control. Am I gonna gain fat or just water weight?):

both.

lemurcat12 · January 2017

You were probably a little over maintenance (although without knowing your stats, exercise level, etc., can't tell), but it won't be enough to worry about. Any swings of more than a lb will be water.

Life isn't perfect, so don't beat yourself up over it, but the thing to do is figure out why it happened and make progress. Do you have a bingeing issue? If so, are you seeing anyone. If not, how "good" have you been being? Often being overly restrictive or eating calories that are too low will lead to out of control overeating, and if you were beating yourself up and saying it's ruined that often can lead it to continue.

Not saying this is what happened, but I'd think about it.

deannalfisher · January 2017

just forget about your bad day and jump back on the horse

but like @ugofatcat said - trying to understand/isolate the reason why you binged will help in the future

ugofatcat · January 2017

nad1996 wrote: »

Help ytd I binged 3000 calories and today I went crazy and ate 4000 im so so scared right now I have been good for 11 days and I just lost control. Am I gonna gain fat or just water weight?):

What is your TDEE now? There is about 3,500 calories per pound of fat.

If your TDEE is 2,000 calories a day, you just went 3,000 (3,000-2,000=1,000 and 4,000-2,000=2,000; 2,000+1,000=3,000)over so you should not, in theory, gain a pound of fat. However if your TDEE is 1,500 calories a day you would, in theory, have gained a pound of fat.

Let me know if my numbers are confusing.

rosebarnalice · January 2017

Breathe, take a step back, use this as an opportunity to evaluate your food triggers; get back on track without unnecessarily shaming yourself, and put it behind you.

Yeah, you might be up a pound or two for a few days; but it's long term habits not single day behaviors that affect our health and weight.

kr1stadee · January 2017

Those days are gone. Worry about today.

tiptoethruthetulips · January 2017

Your previous posts indicate that there seems to be a binge cycle. I don't know if you have put on weight but one of your earlier posts indicates a petite person of about 100lbs.

Are you going for maintenance? How many calories have been set for maintenance? Looks like you have set a daily goal of 1000cals (Ate 4000, 3000cals over). This is not enough calories to sustain you, are you on a binge cycle because you are significantly and consistently undereating?

OhMsDiva · January 2017

Did you enjoy it? Maybe your regular diet is too restrictive and you should incorporate some of the things you like into your regular food plan

WatchJoshLift · January 2017

Whatever you gain can be shed in a few days. Don't sweat it too much or you will just repeat the cycle.

CasperNaegle · January 2017

It takes 3500 calories over what you burn to put on a pound (not counting water weight). Just get back on your program and keep working. It's ok to have a cheat day or two, it won't kill everything you did.

SusanMFindlay · January 2017

Depends on your height, weight and activity level. If your maintenance calories are 3500+ per day, you won't gain fat. If your maintenance calories are 2500 calories/day, you will theoretically gain about half a pound. Which you should be able to take off again in a week. If your maintenance calories are 1800 calories/day (many small sedentary females), you ate enough to gain 1 pound of fat.

What's more important is *why* you had the binges. You say you've been "good". What does "good" mean? Depriving yourself of treats can lead to binges like this (depending on personality type). Maintaining too big a deficit (in other words, eating too little) can lead to binges like this. You may need to adjust your definition of "good" and eat a little more every day so that you don't have really high calorie days like yesterday and today.

Half a pound or one pound of fat is not a big deal. Fixing your eating habits so that you don't wind up binging regularly is.

mike19902010 · January 2017

4000 calories is nothing compared to my old 'diet' of eating junk. I'm on a certain medication that makes me feel so hungry that I counted up all the calories in one night(eat like this every night) and it came up to 6800 cals... a night!

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