Unrealistic Weight Gain

I really dont know, im sorry!! I wouldnt think so though...from what ive always heard .... if youre eating healthly pretty constantly.. when you DO eat bad, once, or one day...it usually passes right through you. Now, you did eat bad pretty much for 24 hours right? So you SHOULD be just fine. Do keep in mind though..Im just a 29yr old woman who has diet problems myself....im NOT an expert of any kind...its just my best guess! I think youll be fine. What youre going through has happened to me before too... sometimes I did actually gain a lb or two and said DAMNIT! But, it was better than the 10lbs. : /

I want to add my $0.02. I had a somewhat similar situation in that last week I had a TERRIBLE day at work (I mean, like the kind of day where someing you've been working for for months just completely and irrecoverably falls off track) and binged horribly, including getting very drunk (at home, not at work, don't worry!). I gained SIX pounds from that one day - and I am a relatviely thin female who already is at a BMI of about 22, so six pounds is a probably comparable, percentage-wise, to 10 for you. Now, a week later, being more careful about my diet than usual and drinking TONS of water, I've only lost about 3.5 of those pounds. (I am different than you in that I eat my exercise calories back religiously, though). My binge night was very high in sodium (chinese food) and alcohol, like yours - maybe that combination is particularly deadly?

I don't really have answers, just want you to know you're not alone!

I do agree that maybe you want to up your calories a little bit, though. If you're not in starvation mode now you soon may be. Also, I don't think it is (1) helpful or (2) true to call yourself a failure from one date gone wrong. Totally her loss.

Congratulations on the massive loss so far! Well done. 200 pounds. You've lost the amount I want to weigh. Just think about that for a minute. The amount of weight you have lost is the amount that I would like to be. That's totally awesome. Well done.

I am well past the point where I am seeing massive loss from week to week, and I have been dropping between 3 and 7 pounds per week very regularly for the last 4 months or so.

That's a pretty big loss per week, even if it is less than you're used to. If you're losing this much regularly, I wouldn't worry about one slip up. I'd be more worried about the behaviour that led to it. Is this the kind of thing you would have done regularly before you worked hard to lose the weight? If it is, then you can really use the experience as a reminder about why you started doing this in the first place.

I just really want to stress that you have come a very, very long way already and you should be proud. Use this experience as a positive. So you ate a bunch of food, you know what happens now. Also I think it's important to remember that you can treat yourself without going crazy and without completely disgregarding your calorie intake.

Anyway. Well done. You're doing brilliantly.

Calling myself a Fatty Fatass is a badge of honor, nothing less.

That makes sense. (and OMG I LOVE the barcode! The only thing I haven't been able to find with it is the loaf of bread that is made and only sold in two shops in Perth, Western Australia)

I know you might not be at the point where you see that you need to love yourself, but for me personally (and I am probably projecting here a bit!) the more I hated myself, the more I ate. The main reason I brought it up was because what you did with the food, is almost a classic example of emotional eating. A date went bad, so you ate junk food to self medicate. It might not be a conscious thing,

Yes you (and all of us on here) made bad decisions to get where we are with out body, but we are all SO MUCH MORE than our weight. You can improve your health and weight without putting yourself down constantly. Because if you don't love yourself, why should you expect someone else to?

Here's your problem. MFP recommends that calorie level for a reason, and you're supposed to eat back most, if not all, or your exercise calories. You have a fair amount to lose and will continue to do so eating much more than you currently are.

If you don't use the system as designed, your weight loss will not be sustained, you'll crash your metabolism and set yourself up for binge days like you experienced which will become increasingly difficult to recover from.

Healthy weigh loss and maintenance is a lifestyle change, not a diet. Please don't damage your health for the sake of a rapid loss.

Your walking is awesome, but I'd also worry you're doing too much. Take at least one full rest day, another easy day (under an hour!) and consider cardio that's easier on the joints for one of your sessions, like swimming. And as another poster said, start doing some weight training.

Good luck!

I have a little bit of info that may help you. Booze and fatty food together is a recipe for weight gain. Your body cannot store alcohol. It can use carbs, store fat and use protein, but alcohol is a poison in your system that the body has to deal with as soon as it's injested. So all the food you ate with your drink was stored while the liver processed the alcohol. Because the food was higher in fat than you are used to and your body could not digest it in it's usual manner because of the alcohol it went ino storage!! That is why you seldom get over weight alcoholics, they seldom eat eat while they're drinking. So it's not really the extra calories from the alcohol that makes you put on so much weight it's the way your body protects it's self from the alcohol that does it. Next time you have a drink eat a very lean meal and drink water inbetween drinks.

Don't stress too much, you've lost so much weight with the big picture in mind this is just a learning curve.

I would say that probably some of the weight could be water retention. I have gone up as much as 10lbs after a few days of eating out a lot and drinking.

But I will also say that while I don't believe that 'starvation mode' happens over a day, a week, or even a couple of months of eating at an extreme calorie deficit, I do know fro experience that after long periods of under eating you can do some serious damage to your metabolism (even if you feel fine).

I spent several years eating maybe 2,000 calories a week (on a good week) and when I did start eating 'normally' again, not over eating but eating maybe 1,000 - 1,500 calories a day and I gained 60-70lbs in about 2 years. When your metabolism has slowed down that much it doesn't take 3,500 calories to gain a pound because your body will start holding onto everything that you eat.

It sounds like you have been eating at a fairly extreme calorie deficit for a long time and I would guess that your body is at the point where your metabolism has decreased pretty substantially and that you could quite possibly have gained that amount of weight in that short of a time.

Also you said that a lot of your diet consists of fruits and veggies, I would recommend adding some protein to your diet.