I overate yesterday, big time

[fleshconsumed]

Don't know what happened, but I completely let my guard down yesterday. I posted a thread here last march asking for help and have had good progress since then. It's been almost exactly 10 months since that day and I've lost 60 pounds in that time. I've gone from 215 down to 155 (I'm 5'11.5"-6'0" tall). I've been watching my diet and exercising with more emphasis on exercise lately because I not only want to be slim, but also fit/athletic. Although I still can't see my bottom 2-pack, 155# for someone my height is probably not enough. I need to lose that last little bit of fat and put on more muscle.

Well, I don't know what happened yesterday, maybe I've had too many salads the days before, but I just felt the urge to eat and just couldn't stop. In the end I completely gave in and decided to screw it and just eat and not worry about calories for one day. I've had 1K calories from bread alone, freshly baked french bread is a weakness of mine, I've had two sandwiches one with liver sausage and one with salami I reckon for 300 calories, I drank 1 quart of pomegranate flavored kefir totaling 640 calories, a small to medium sized plate of slow cooked chicken/beans/carrots/pepper dish, I'd say about 300 calories, and two medium sized plates of curry chicken with rice, probably another 600 calories at least, plus I also drank some orange juice diluted with sparkling water for what I'm guessing another 200 calories. The total, by my conservative estimates is just a hair over 3K calories.

Anyway, I'm not really asking for help or anything, but I'm just surprised that one, I felt such a strong urge to eat yesterday and two, that I could actually eat so much. Ever since I started getting back into shape I've became accustomed to smaller and smaller portions of food, most restaurant portions are too big for me now, I struggle to finish them, so it came as a shock to me that I wanted to eat this badly and actually could eat this much food yesterday. This is just too weird.

 

[TallBill]

Every once in a while you'll have an off day. Its a game of averages though, so as long as you don't blow up all the time you'll be ok.

 

[PricklyPete]

Not the end of the world...just don't keep doing it. Don't starve yourself today either...just get back on track and it will never affect you.

 

[mchammer187]

155lbs is not low enough for someone to have a 6 pack @ at 6 ft are you kidding me?

edit 3K cals is nothing

how much were you eating before? because I am way shorter and am losing weight eating well over 2000 cals

 

[fleshconsumed]

I'm not really worried about one day, I know it won't do anything. It was just weird because it was almost uncontrollable. I say "almost" because I don't really believe in uncontrollable urges, or rather believe that will can triumph anything else, but that's what it felt like - an uncontrollable urge to eat. I also occasionally get weird states where I'm kind of hungry and at the same time I don't really want to eat. In cases like that I usually get some small snack, an apple, tomato, pickle, banana or a small sandwich. Yesterday it was exact opposite, I wasn't really hungry, at least it didn't feel like it, but I still wanted to eat.

155lbs is not low enough for someone to have a 6 pack @ at 6 ft are you kidding me?

Apparently not as I still don't have visible bottom 2-pack. Even my upper 4-pack is not clearly defined, or at least not as much as I would like. That's why I said I need to put more muscle on seeing how a lot of athletic guys here weigh 170-185lbs at 6 feet and still look good.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

155lbs is not low enough for someone to have a 6 pack @ at 6 ft are you kidding me?

edit 3K cals is nothing

how much were you eating before? because I am way shorter and am losing weight eating well over 2000 cals

Before I started taking thyriod medicine 3k a day would have me gaining like 3-4 pounds a week. Even now I'd be gaining weight at an alarming weight.

I eat out semi regularly and don't give a crap when I do. If you factor it into the rest of your diet it's not so bad weightwise; might not be completely healthy though.

 

[mchammer187]

Before I started taking thyriod medicine 3k a day would have me gaining like 3-4 pounds a week. Even now I'd be gaining weight at an alarming weight.

I eat out semi regularly and don't give a crap when I do. If you factor it into the rest of your diet it's not so bad weightwise; might not be completely healthy though.

3K a day would probably result in weight gain for me but less than half a pound a week

I was just saying in the grand scheme of things 3K once is nothing

a 500 calorie a day excess is something like 50 extra lbs in a year

 

[Blackjack200]

OP: This incident is a classic binge. I'm surprised this is the first time it's happened to you, but maybe that's a good thing and means that you're not too vulnerable to them.

Dieting is very, very weird.

 

[fleshconsumed]

OP: This incident is a classic binge. I'm surprised this is the first time it's happened to you, but maybe that's a good thing and means that you're not too vulnerable to them.

Dieting is very, very weird.

Yes it is weird. I never really had a sweet tooth, never really cared for chocolate or ice cream, and yet I've noticed that in the past 10 months I crave a lot more often for sweet stuff. Good thing is I can usually feel those days when I'm craving for chocolate and restrain myself, however it is a definite change compared to the way I used to be before.

As far as binge eating, this really is the first time I've gone ahead and ate tons of food like this since I began dieting. Typically I keep myself in check, if I know I'll be eating out with a bunch of friends later in the evening I will usually eat a little bit less for breakfast and lunch to compensate for restaurant food, I also order small to medium dish, no huge steaks or triple burgers for me. Yesterday was something of a first for me.

 

[Kipper]

You didn't eat much of the foods you enjoyed, and eventually lost control. Not a particular surprise there. Go nuts on the bread, and you figure "what the hell" and just go all out on everything else. Slippery slope.

The lesson to be learned here is that you have to consume those favorite foods in appropriate quantities, not cut them out entirely. It's not easy to walk that line, but it helps make those crazy binge eats rarer. Unfortunately, most dieters slap themselves for losing control and go right back to cutting their favorite foods out, starting the cycle all over again.

Ultimately, it is just one day and 3,000 calories. That's a fraction of what you'll eat over the course of a year.

 

[FDF12389]

I find your username and this thread funny.


Dont worry about it, everyone does it, just dont fall down the slippery slope and do it daily

 

[jaedaliu]

I'm that height and been about that weight or under my whole life. I think the focus should be on gaining more muscle. Judging against my own body, you're probably pretty slender. If you're not in a 6 pack competition, gaining muscle will probably help more than slimming more to reveal the 6 pack.

Help more with what? getting noticed. It's not every day you go around without a shirt on, and even if you did, you'd look like a skinny guy with a 6 pack.

 

[kalrith]

155lbs is not low enough for someone to have a 6 pack @ at 6 ft are you kidding me?

edit 3K cals is nothing

how much were you eating before? because I am way shorter and am losing weight eating well over 2000 cals

I was going to ask the same thing, but the weight required would depend on someone's muscle mass and frame as well. If he has little muscle mass and a small frame, then he might need to go to a lower weight (or increase mass while maintaining that weight) to see a six-pack.

Another thought I just had is that it could be extra skin (from when he was 210) covering up the bottom two rather than fat. I can't think of anything other than plastic surgery that would resolve that.

I went from 197 lbs to 174 lbs in 8 months eating 3300 calories per day. The number of calories isn't the issue for weight loss; it's maintaining a calorie deficit. Some people who eat half that many calories will gain weight because they have a calorie surplus.

 

[Blackjack200]

I went from 197 lbs to 174 lbs in 8 months eating 3300 calories per day. The number of calories isn't the issue for weight loss; it's maintaining a calorie deficit. Some people who eat half that many calories will gain weight because they have a calorie surplus.

Strictly speaking this is true, but I can't imagine that there are very many people that would find themselves in a calorie surplus eating 1650 calories per day. That is very little food.