Starving the whole day to eat an high callorie food at dinne

I do it frequently. I think you'll be okay, if it's not a daily habit or anything. It may be a good idea to try to walk around a bit or get some exercise after your big-calorie dinner, but I think you'll be okay.

I've done it when I know I have a big dinner coming up. In fact, I'm doing it today. I'm having oatmeal for breakfast (about 160 calories), mushroom chickpea soup (about 200 calories) for lunch, then leaving about 800 calories for dinner (no time to workout).

Another option is to eat normally but work out longer or harder - if you have the time to do so today.

Yep, that's my problem too. I save up all day and then my stomach shrinks and I can't eat much anyway.

As long as youre not skipping meals, I don't see how doing that occasionally would hurt.

You can also eat a little less the next day ie average out calories for two days. You probably will be less hungry the day after anyway.

Maybe you could still indulge on your favorite high calorie dish, but bring some home so that you eat half tonight and half tomorrow. Then your body can have more time to deal with all those calories, and you can work in a little exercise. I agree with what Ripgirl said -- Banks has mentioned that your body can only deal with a certain amount of calories at one time... I believe the rest is stored as fat.

From what I gather, over time it isn't a big deal because it is a simple equation of calories out minus calories in, but I think once energy is stored as fat it is more difficult to get rid of because your body will not always want to use it as an energy source.

One cheat night here or there isn't going to halt your progress, but there are consequences to going COMPLETELY off your healthy meal plan, even for just one night. Adding a salad or getting a half portion can do a world of good! I just know how happy you have been with your current success and don't want to give you a false sense of hope that you will continue to lose lots of weight even if you consume several thousand calories in one meal. It just may slow you down a bit compared to what you are currently experiencing.

IMO, occasionally- like a couple times a year- I think it's ok, and actually smart to eat moderately for the day if you know you're going to have a larger dinner for whatever reason. However, the key word in that sentence was *occasionally*.

I think it's just about the same to just have days- occasionally- where you just plain old go over on your calories. Realistically, you aren't going to go the rest of your life without going over on your calories, and if you're looking at healthy eating as a permanent lifestyle change rather than a temporary diet, it happens.

Don't beat yourself up over it, or feel like you have to work out for hours on end in order to burn off every last calorie:noway: . That's my opinion, under the conditions that it's *occasional*

Wow... thanks :blushing: :bigsmile: Good to know I know what I'm talking about

That would blow through me the scale wouldn't even see it. :laugh:

I hope you enjoyed your dinner with your friends.:flowerforyou:

well i blew up the scale
had 1200 callories left untill i ate:

a small goat dry cheese
1 loaf of french bread
1 "Francesinha" (see picture)

Fries
and two cans of diet coke

The Francesinha is composed by
Two slices of bread , that contains several tipes of meat inside including sausages, ham and cow beef, with 2 or 3 slices of cheese on top and it's filled with a slighly hot sauce, this comes with fries

i think i have about 1500 callories in these guys, oh well today i blew up the scale by at least 300 callories

It's just water - prolly from sodium!

Don't worry, just keep going! You probably didn't eat the 7000 calories required to put on 2 lbs.