Is this disordered eating?

bear2303 · October 2019

So, I had a bit of a breakdown today and went to McDonald’s for lunch. Needless to say I BLEW through my daily calories and I didn’t have time to exercise this evening due to work. I ended up skipping dinner to compensate for the calories even though I’m still quite hungry. Am I on a slippery slope to disordered eating?

I’ve been tracking for about 7 months and I never skip meals. I just love food too much 😳

apullum · October 2019

Having one day of eating a big lunch and then skipping dinner doesn’t sound like a pattern of disordered behavior. Some people intentionally eat one meal a day because they prefer to do so.

However, if you’re still hungry, then I’d recommend eating dinner and calling today a learning experience. If you’re skipping meals and letting yourself get ravenous, then you risk binging later. You don’t want to be in a cycle of binging and then skipping meals to make up for the binge. That could become disordered eating.

Just eat, and get back on track tomorrow.

Cahgetsfit · October 2019

what she said ^^

CalgaryMac · October 2019

Quite awhile ago I read a book about fitness and nutrition.The best suggestion in the book was to allow myself to cheat one day a week assuming that I was on track the rest of the week. That took so much pressure off me to allow myself to be human and go for it if I needed to. I still lost weight but it was not so difficult to stay on track. I still do that to a certain degree.

Is this disordered eating?

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