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What is the highest amount of calories that you have consumed in one day ("cheat-day"?)?

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  • DvoycY
    DvoycY Posts: 38 Member
    From yesterday:

    https://imgur.com/a/jVI7yLu

    6000 maximum. Begun at lunch. Honestly, was expecting more but was stuffed, although plenty of salads.

    Any tips to improve the experience? Start eating earlier in the day?
  • UltraVegAthlete
    UltraVegAthlete Posts: 667 Member
    No idea, but when I was recovering from my eating disorder and had to gain weight, I once had 4 days of basically binging on every food I had restricted myself from. All vegan, but junk food like every flavor of “so delicious” or “coconut bliss” ice cream, bread, an entire vegan pizza, raw vegan desserts, tons of sandwiches, burritos, Veg-eggs, and when I was trying to get back on track to being healthy I would just squirt ketchup onto all my vegetables. Like...lots of ketchup.
    I was probably averaging 7,000-10,000 calories for each of those 4 days, tbh.
  • mooreks81
    mooreks81 Posts: 15 Member
    On my worst days I really lose track. But my guess is about 4000 calories. My goal is 1200 so that's pretty bad, ha! On Saturday I probably had about 2500 or 3000. I did exercise a lot that day but still definitely went way over!
  • rsclause
    rsclause Posts: 3,103 Member
    One day, not sure. I did go on a four day weekend bender in Chicago once and gained ten pounds. My Aria fit bit scale displayed "welcome guest" when I stepped on, that hurt.
  • amorfati601070
    amorfati601070 Posts: 2,890 Member
    edited October 2018
    I think it was 6000 or something. This was after a 250km bike ride. I didn't even feel like eating but knew I should.
  • kami3006
    kami3006 Posts: 4,979 Member
    edited October 2018
    rsclause wrote: »
    One day, not sure. I did go on a four day weekend bender in Chicago once and gained ten pounds. My Aria fit bit scale displayed "welcome guest" when I stepped on, that hurt.

    At least it didn’t say ouch. 😁
  • Kimmotion5783
    Kimmotion5783 Posts: 417 Member
    New_Heavens_Earth wrote: »
    Before consciously watching what I eat I had to log a typical week for a nutrition project. 3000 calories a day average.

    Now that I'm logging daily I recall a 4100 calorie day of emotional eating.

    I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who has done that (emotional eating). It makes me feel better and less guilty about my bad days.
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    5000 calories on a cheat day will undo all the work I've done an entire week. This is why people yoyo. I don't do that. I just have reasonable amounts of whatever I want and work it into my daily numbers.
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