Emotional Binge eating is a suicide march that can set you back weeks in just one day.

Geocitiesuser
Geocitiesuser Posts: 1,429 Member
edited November 2024 in Motivation and Support
Frustrating, and infuriating. After losing 110lbs I broke down for the first time in over a year, and I stress ate. The scale immediately jumped up a full 10lbs. After two days half of it came off, a full week later, despite dropping my calories to 1,000 calories a day, I am still 2lbs higher than I was before I had a "binge".

It is absolutely incredible to me that ONE day of flipping out has set my progress back a full two weeks.

There's no point to this post other than to rant. You can respond, or not respond, I don't care. I'm disappointed in myself for letting it happen, fat loss gets harder and harder as you get closer to a human sized weight. I'm so close to being under 200lbs. I'm just 20ish lbs away from the top end of a healthy BMI. But it comes off slower and slower. It takes more and more effort exercising. The calorie calculator tells me I can eat less and less, and any variation or going off my calories does more and more damage.

This will get better at some point.

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  • fiddletime
    fiddletime Posts: 1,868 Member
    I totally empathize and at 5'2" learned that long ago. I have very little wiggle room or set myself back 2 weeks. If I binge, I try to keep it just 300 cal over either my loss goal or maintenance goal. I can manage that and it'll only set me off for a few days.
  • cathipa
    cathipa Posts: 2,991 Member
    Typically this weight is water weight which is why you lost most of it within a few days. The answer isn't to drop below 1200, but just reassess your calories and eat what MFP or another calculator recommends. These things happen and you just need to shrug it off and get back on track.
  • Geocitiesuser
    Geocitiesuser Posts: 1,429 Member
    fiddletime wrote: »
    I totally empathize and at 5'2" learned that long ago. I have very little wiggle room or set myself back 2 weeks.

    People don't understand this. My coworker saw me weighing food and was busting my chops and asked why. When I explained that when the calculators tell you to eat just 1800 calories even just 50 calories in the wrong direction is significant. He laughed and compared it to eating a few grapes.

    In reality, if you're eating 4x a day and overshooting by 50 cals that's potentially almost a full pound of weight loss you will not see over the course of a week. If you're undershooting most of us are already at the low end of what's considered a healthy calorie range and we exercise on top. Either one is a recipe for a disaster of disappointment either on the scale, or in general well being depending on which way it's tipping.

    Without exercise MFP tells me to eat only 1500 cals a day. I never thought I'd see a calculator put my diet calories so low, but judging by how the scale moves they are an accurate prediction of what the game is like for me now.
  • GrayRider61
    GrayRider61 Posts: 337 Member
    3500 calories doesn't always equal a pound loss or gain. It should but there are a lot of variables to consider. Focus on the positive. You've lost over 100 lbs., that is laying the smackdown on some weight loss. Just keep working and enjoy the journey. I want to hear about it when you lost those last 20.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,462 Member
    You do need to adjust mentally to accept a slower loss rate the closer you get to goal. I lost my first 50 in 6 months, the second 50 in 8 months, and the final 50 in a year. I kept my calorie goal the same the whole time because I gradually increased my activity level as I lost weight, so I needed more fuel relative to the weight being carried.

    I imagine that most of that sudden gain was water. It's only been a few days per your graph, so I wouldn't think you had more than 1-2 lbs fat gain, if that much. Give it 7-14 days to resolve itself.

    You've done great so far-Keep going!
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