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I've binge eaten and I am now gaining back my lost weight.
music2001
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I weighed 177.8 this Sunday. I've been doing a good job in not gaining back the weight I lost until this week.
This week, I did binge eat fast food on Monday (which was mostly from Panera Bread), which was a breakfast sandwich from Chick Fil A, some soup from Panera bread and a small loaf of bread, and a Subway Sandwich for dinner. Yesterday, I had a souffle for breakfast (the 436 cal one). Then, my job had a friends-giving and I had one big plate and two small plates of finger food. No fast food that day. Today, I had a small souffle for breakfast (which is around 436 calories) and chicken noodle soup and a small loaf of bread. I also had a pack of sun chips and some pound cake today.
I checked the scale and I weigh 184 from the last few days. With Thanksgiving coming tomorrow, I feel as though I've butchered all my effort of not gaining all the 10 pounds back I lost.
I've also been slacking off on my exercising due to graduate school getting too demanding (I finish this semester in 3 more weeks). I do want to go back to exercising next week to at least detox myself of the gained weight, but I feel stupid for ruining my weight loss.
This week, I did binge eat fast food on Monday (which was mostly from Panera Bread), which was a breakfast sandwich from Chick Fil A, some soup from Panera bread and a small loaf of bread, and a Subway Sandwich for dinner. Yesterday, I had a souffle for breakfast (the 436 cal one). Then, my job had a friends-giving and I had one big plate and two small plates of finger food. No fast food that day. Today, I had a small souffle for breakfast (which is around 436 calories) and chicken noodle soup and a small loaf of bread. I also had a pack of sun chips and some pound cake today.
I checked the scale and I weigh 184 from the last few days. With Thanksgiving coming tomorrow, I feel as though I've butchered all my effort of not gaining all the 10 pounds back I lost.
I've also been slacking off on my exercising due to graduate school getting too demanding (I finish this semester in 3 more weeks). I do want to go back to exercising next week to at least detox myself of the gained weight, but I feel stupid for ruining my weight loss.
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Well for one posting here means you are aware of it and now you just need to do what is right and pull back and get back on track.
The weight you gained can be from a lot of things from fluids to well in your bowels. Yeh sounds gross but yes everything has weight to it.
I have been there so many times with the losing weight only to see it creep back on and then some.
Just take a damn good look at yourself in the mirror and say you are worth it. Then get back on track and dont stress on the past. you cannot uneat calories, but you can control what you eat from now on.12 -
Learn from it and move on. Self-control gets easier with practice. I declined cake and other treats three days in a row at work this week. Something I was never able to do in the past.6
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A lot of that gain is going to be water retention from the salt in the prepared foods. You'd have had to have eaten an extra 21000+ calories to gain that much fat. Super unlikely that it happened.
Why not aim for a middle ground? Right now you're stressed, so don't go for a diet you need to completely control, and instead allow yourself a little more wiggle room for the next few weeks. Say you gain 2 pounds. Big deal. That's better than binging every day and gaining 3 times that much.8 -
Please abandon the idea of "detoxing" - you aren't poisoned. Also abandon the idea of being stupid - you aren't stupid, you are human, and you need pleasure from food. Stop thinking you have to confess or explain yourself. Nobody should give a damn about what and how much you eat or what you weigh or how much, or whether, you exercise.
To troubleshoot: What have you been doing to lose weight and keep it off? How have you been eating, how many calories daily, and how has that made you feel?16 -
Salt is a factor that increases water retainage. But if you are eating more bread than usual then you will retain additional water to digest the bread carbs.0
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I'm sorry but that's not a Binge, budget your cals better and you'll be ok...
As fas as sudden weight gain
Sodium most likely.... 9 -
Just agreeing with others comments on sodium. I'm a big fan of Panera, but when I got back to logging on MFP I was blown away by the amount of sodium in their food. One thing, too, that has helped me is to really limit the useless calorie rich side carbs - the Panera loaf, chips, or at other FF places, fries.3
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As others said, that'll be almost all water retention...there's a ridiculously huge pile of salt in the items you listed.1
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I’m late to the party- but did you find it was water retention when you got back on track?
You can do it! You’re not stupid!2
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