I ate 12 donuts in one sitting!!! And I'm still alive

Yea. I ate 12 250cal/piece donuts. Entennman devils food crumb donuts to be exact. It was delicious. 3000 cals of sugar and fat. And you know what? that is less than a lb of fat I put on (Seeing as how I already met my RDA for calories today). I will easily burn it off next week with only a 500cal deficit a day. I feel so much better knowing that I can survive eating it, and I feel like never having a donut again.

Original Post by pgeorgian:

still blech.  but the fact that you can talk about "starving" and eating a dozen donuts in the same conversation revealsyou to be an adolescent in more than one way, so - whatever.  congratulations, i guess.

And you obviously don't understand how critical it can be in wrestling to be in a lower weight class. It can totally mean the difference between excelling and getting your butt kicked.

I'm sure the OP didn't mean "starving" but instead that they really watched what they ate, and after working so hard for so long for the season, why NOT eat something you enjoy?  

Geez, ugly day for the forums.

Good for you OP, I think your attitude is awesome. I guess everyone here was ready to assume you are delusional and dim-witted. It seemed perfectly obvious to me that you don't think you can do this all the time.

I laugh when I think about the joyless lengths some people go to to lose weight, and then think everyone has to be just as strict and anal as them to be successful. If it works for you, cool. But don't bring someone else down just because their style isn't yours.

I've done something similar many years ago, except it was with maple bars.  One dozen, all in one sitting.  Then I had another episode with Doritos; the whole bag.  They were bigger bags in the late 70's.  To this day I could care less about eating either one.  Unfortunately at that time I didn't go back to good eating habits the next day and continued to eat my way up 40 lbs at a time before I grabbed hold of my sanity.  I've gotten rid of all my "just in case" clothes to hopefully discourage myself if that feeding frenzy urge ever decides to darken my door step again.  I wish you luck; I know I would need it.

Original Post by carleyrapp:

Original Post by pgeorgian:

blech.  i couldn't choke down two donuts, let alone twelve.  sorry if that's not supportive.

 

Really?

From your profile:

"i found myself, at 37, on the cusp of clinically overweight.  for awhile i was in the dark as to how this happened...it was a combination of general discontent/ dissatisfaction and a number of challenges in my personal and family life, along with a disposable income, bad habits, inactivity, etc. 

i never thought i was an emotional eater, because i don't overeat with others - only by myself ... when my dog was missing and i found myself staring into the cupboards and fridge looking for something--anything--to put in my mouth)."

Do you really think you gained weight from discontent or from the quantity of food you were eating? Maybe you didn't eat 12 doughnuts, but you certainly overate something! Or a lot of things!

Have you heard of "projection?" It's when we critisize others for traits we don't like about ourselves. Think about it.

sweetheart, i gained 35 pounds in a decade.  i went from "underweight" to 1 pound over "normal."  was i happy about that?  no. 

my original statement stands.  but thanks for making it personal.

so he ate 12 donuts.  You would think the sky was falling or something.

Ha, good for you! :) I think that's just the healthiest attitude you've got, I kinda wish I was the same. It's so true; no matter what you do, you cant undo the splurge, at least not that big. So why cry and worry? After all, its SO easy to undo in a week.

Original Post by pgeorgian:

Original Post by carleyrapp:

Original Post by pgeorgian:

blech.  i couldn't choke down two donuts, let alone twelve.  sorry if that's not supportive.

 

Really?

From your profile:

"i found myself, at 37, on the cusp of clinically overweight.  for awhile i was in the dark as to how this happened...it was a combination of general discontent/ dissatisfaction and a number of challenges in my personal and family life, along with a disposable income, bad habits, inactivity, etc. 

i never thought i was an emotional eater, because i don't overeat with others - only by myself ... when my dog was missing and i found myself staring into the cupboards and fridge looking for something--anything--to put in my mouth)."

Do you really think you gained weight from discontent or from the quantity of food you were eating? Maybe you didn't eat 12 doughnuts, but you certainly overate something! Or a lot of things!

Have you heard of "projection?" It's when we critisize others for traits we don't like about ourselves. Think about it.

sweetheart, i gained 35 pounds in a decade.  i went from "underweight" to 1 pound over "normal."  was i happy about that?  no. 

my original statement stands.  but thanks for making it personal.

 You made it personal when you criticized the original poster for being candid. I merely pointed out your hypocrisy. "1 pound over normal" isn't the same as "on the cusp of clinically overweight" So which was it, honeybuns?

Regardless, 35 pounds is 122,500 calories! That's a lot of doughnuts! I mean lettuce! Yes! You were most definitely eating lettuce!

My original statement stands too: Have you heard of "projection?" It's when we criticize others for traits we don't like about ourselves. Think about it.

Anyway, enough about YOU! Let's talk about doughnuts!

Original Post by carleyrapp:

"1 pound over normal" isn't the same as "on the cusp of clinically overweight" So which was it, honeybuns?

um...it's exactly the same.

okay, let's talk donuts (or doughtnuts).  the summer after i graduated high school, i was a doughnut cook at my hometown bakery.  i went to work at 5:30 in the morning.  i would eat one cake donut from my first batch of the day, and sometimes i would take one with me at the end of my shift.  ever since then, i rarely eat doughnuts.  if it's more than 20 minutes past fresh, i don't want it.

a box of doughnuts at a meeting?  blech.

Original Post by pgeorgian:

Original Post by carleyrapp:

"1 pound over normal" isn't the same as "on the cusp of clinically overweight" So which was it, honeybuns?

um...it's exactly the same.

Obviously you're just looking to pick a fight. Go elsewhere for your support (don't expect it here) if you can't give the same in return.

i think this thread is bringing out the worst in ppl...

juleroo, if someone posted that they were running 20 miles and eating 800 calories today, you'd get the same responses from the opposite people.

Regardless, 35 pounds is 122,500 calories! That's a lot of doughnuts! I mean lettuce! Yes! You were most definitely eating lettuce!

Erm...if you want the math...that works out to be 33 extra calories per day over the 10-year span. 33 calories is one large carrot, or 1/3C of skim milk, or 1T BBQ sauce. Hardly in the same league as eating a dozen doughnuts in one sitting, so I am not sure why you delved into pg's profile to dig out that scandalous revelation.

I am a former binge-eater, and while this post kinda made me think "woo glad I don't do that kinda thing anymore", it didn't really seem like the OP is coming from the same place as the rest of us bingers. But who knows, maybe he is...I think just the mention of eating a dozen doughnuts on a weight-loss support site is inevitably going to send up big red flags with some people. As it should.

So fellow CCers, I would like to declare, if I EVER post that I ate a dozen doughnuts in one sitting and feel ok about it, please please please shake me out of my denial and  hold me accountable for my mistake and offer support to help me figure out why I did it and how to stop myself from descending back into binge-eating hell.

But that's just me. Clearly a male teenage wrestler is in a completely different boat. I imagine teenage boys of all types can eat a dozen doughnuts without even blinking!

Original Post by pgeorgian:

juleroo, if someone posted that they were running 20 miles and eating 800 calories today, you'd get the same responses from the opposite people.

If someone posted that they "ate 12 donuts in one sitting!!!" and went on to demean themselves, people would be there to lift them up!

This person is being attacked by people with unaddressed PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES simply because they have a healthy attitude (non-judgement, observance, participation, self-acceptance)!

Exercise bulimia is not the same as overindulgance. Most NORMAL people overindulge in something sometimes. I'm not an alcoholic, but I've been drunk (you know, once or twice). I woke up feeling just like this poster. I survived and felt like never having another drink again.

SOUNDS NORMAL TO ME!

I hope that whatever monsters you're covering up with your judgemental snarky attitude doesn't come out to eat you. Enjoy your lettuce!

wow.  just...wow.

I am away from home in a friend's apartment on a college campus, and I just ate 2 cups of generic kroger cocoa puffs with enough 1 % milk to wet it. 2 cups was a whole damn bowl couldnt believe it. But hey I just ate something I try to stay away from and I think I'm gonna survive too. :P

Eating a lot of something in one sitting isn't going to destroy your weight loss as long as you don't let it overwhelm you. It used to overwhelm me, but no longer. Now I just see it as one day out of many that I am working hard to achieve my goals, like you are!

And yes, I tend to eat more after physical activity. For real. Being a sedentary teen I didn't know just how hungry working out makes you, esp for me bike riding and double kung fu classes :) I listen to my body and stay within numerical calculations ^_^

Wow.  I am supportive of xmohamm1 because that is a great attitude.

What's done is done, now let's move on!

I love how people are using this as an excuse to jump down xmo's throat.

Oh man those were the good ole days.  I remember the day after wrestling season we would always go over to our one friends house and order like 15 pizzas and gallons of ice cream for 7 or 8 of us and just relax and watch movies and play video games, eat pizza and ice cream and goof off.  I completely understand why you would want to do that after not having to watch your weight any more for wrestling.  Don't even get me started on the all you can eat chicken wing nights we had in the off season.

Though that is to bad you had an injury and your season is over this early into it (has the season even started yet?), good luck with your recovery. 

The worst part of this whole thing is that the OP ate a box of Entennemans. I mean come on, if you're going to hog down 12 donuts, please go to the bakery and get the good stuff.

BLECH!

The last (and only time) I ate a dozen donuts for breakfast (well probably 8-10 anyway - they were Krispy Kremes)...I crashed out on sugar, had a visiting friend wake me up, got rid of her, slipped and hit my head on the counter by the door, crashed again, got found by my mom and my sister who made me go to the ER, spent 3 hours monitored there with a head CT.  Three years later when I was renewing my license, the DMV required me to get a doctor to certify that I was fine and I had to take a drive test.

So eating dozen donuts at once is just as likely to cost you 5 hours of your life 3 in the ER, another hour convincing a doctor to fill out paperwork (10 minutes plus the wait time), and another hour with a drive test (10 minutes plus the wait time) and the $50 copay for the ER, $50 for the doc...not high on my list of things to repeat.  Oh yeah, I forgot about the inch sized indentation in my forehead for a year from the fall.