overeaten all the kcal I think I had been in deficit of

[Onthehorse]

I am so annoyed.

I think I got cocky, I had been skipping breakfast and having two healthy balanced meals not quite the fast 800 but kcal came in around 1000-1500 for a few days. Really healthy foods with fats and allowing my self a small amount of chocolate etc on top.

I thought I had cracked it. Yesterday I felt cravings beyond belief and overate - abput 3000 kcal. Today I don't even dare look I felt awful my mood low I felt like I've been walking through mud. I ate some carbs thinking perhaps I haven't been having enough - well two packets of breakfast biscuits later ....

I looked at my chart 1 week away from period and my tonsils are covered in spots. I am so annoyed though all that hard effort lost in just a day of overeating... my own fault but they craving were horrendous.
I thought I would share. Sob. Sob,

Aww. The main thing is not to let this derail you long term. For what it's worth I have heard (clutching at straws, but I have heard, honestly) that if you go totally over the top on one day the body has no chance of saving all those extra calories as fat. So it may not be as bad as you think.

We all have those days, just remember how down you feel now next time you are tempted to binge, don't beat yourself up about it

I have been told that in the week before your period, you actually need more calories than at other times. I can't remember how much more, maybe worth a google? Might it be worth increasing your calorie allowance for only that week?

One day doesn't matter! One day won't make you fat. It comes down to your general habits. If you eat healthily most of the time you will be fine

Every day is a new day.

When I had periods, I often ate at maintenance for a few days to keep the shakes at bay. Weight loss is a marathon, not a sprint and the o ly way to lose weight and keep it off is to learn how to ride the ups and downs of our appetite.

As a recent anorexic I would have to say that when you really restrict your calories it is pretty much inevitable that you will end up binging.
And IME it makes you feel truly awful.
I would suggest eating a little more every day including breakfast and trying for a more sustainable way of eating.
A small bowl of oat bran with eg almond milk is low cal, but good for your health and fills up your belly so binging isnt so likely.

Wow what supportive responses :-)

Hmm pickachew weightloss is not a marathon you're right. It was odd the day of the super eating I felt really, really tired everything ached. I haven't been massively undercutting with kcal though and I have still been including some of my favourite foods. So I'm looking at the causes. Relieved and thank ful I don't feel like that every day. It's really hard to think I ca't do this when you self sabotage.

Frustrating that I can eat so much in one go! Fishonabicycle :-) thank you I find it hard to get back on the wagon though - it's really disheartening to think I reduced my intake for a week - went to great lengths to eat healthily and exercise then in one day was like a bear. I have been probably eating slightly more than maintenance since but period is a few days away and I didn't want to get into the whole eating a pack of biscuits state. I think I was fighting off a bug as well. I also feel hugely deflated and thinking how on earth do people sustain weight loss.

Greyspottedgoose it was the worst feeling yet oddly I can consiously think at the time why on earth am I dooing this and there is part of me saying I don't care - I want carbs loads of them. If I can find a way to avoid that state I''ll be very happy.

Chocorcheese - yeah I'm hoping a metabolism increase. Actually I find anything that increases my metabolism breastfeeding, exercise, being ill and hormonal really increases my appetite. When I was breastfeeding I was huge the hunger was insatiable. I side track :-)

Trickyex sorry to hear of your history - horrific for you and I hope you are having lots and lots of support for that horrific illness. Hugs and thanks for sharing. Yeah you see though I didn't have a large deficit for long I think I had one or two days that were low for me sround 1200 kcal but the rest were around 1800 (yes low but it was only a week). I do feel my body sense any weight loss and then appetite may increase.

I did my DNA testing and it came back genetics to be significantly overweight. Sigh so I'm fighting genetics a little. repeated theme I seem to see is thought that those who are slim may eat a lot at one point but then not fussed about food the ext.

What I'm also annoyed about was cutting breakfast stopped me grazing and overeating for that day.. I though it was a miracle. I was getting abit snappy though trying to get out of the house the am - more than usual but then was drinking more coffee. I wondered whether to have one or two days with no breakfast almost like a 5:2. It really did help appeite control.

It's very hard with weight loss isn't it not to self sabotage. My weight has increased by a lb or 2 each year for the past 10 years. I just wanted to break that weight gain trajectory.