What to do after a Binge? & How often is okay to Binge or have a "Cheat Day"

Hi there...So, I have finally reached my goal weight and I have been having some weak moments...I tend to sometiems think, okay now I´ve gone over board, i might as well go all the way and call it a cheat day...I have quite alot of problems due to lack of control...

Now that I ahve lost weight and achieved my goal, but still want to loose a little more or maintain...Im not to sure how to eat and handle my problems especialy concerning binges...:

- How often is it "okay" to have have a cheat day or binge?---like in the sense that it won´t take a toll on your body

- After a binge I feel terrible, angry, scared and sad...What do I do? How to I react...What should I do so that it wont affect my body as much as possible?

One more question aside from all that...My friends invite me to lunch and dinner and I want to spend time with them...but them or them and their families or other friends of their always question as to why Im not eating or why Im only eating this or that...Im so tired of making excuses...-how do I react? or/and then how do I resist really good food?

Id really apreciate it guys, thanks

I'm going through the same thing right now and I know I shouldn't, but I'm putting the blame on a lot of factors that I'm dealing with right now, like getting out of debt, comfortable with boyfriend etc.

I used to be a healthy weight and I worked out regularly but the factors started taking a toll and it seems that everyday is binge day and I'm mindlessly eating. Sad to say, even after a month of not watching my food intake and not exercising, my body has changed drastically.

So in answer to your question, take time to reflect why you are binging. Once you have come up with a conclusion, hence my money problems, you will more likely take a positive reaction to that problem and stop replacing your worries with food.

While I was a healthy weight I didn't so much allow myself a cheat day but more a cheat meal, like going out with friends. This way you are always on track with your healthy eating but you don't feel like going ALL out one day and eating everything in sight, because even though you term that as a 'cheat day' you still feel guilty and once you start feeling guilty, all the other bad emotions start like anger and being scared about gaining from that day alone.

Best of all, be honest with your friends. If they truly are your best friends, they will understand and won't pressure you into eating unhealthy just to make themselves feel better because let's be honest, all of us have done that at some point or another.

I am over coming binge eating, and one of the triggers was if I ate something outside my “plan” I would get the compulsion to keep going - like the other day I had a almond butter and honey sandwich because I really felt like it, instead of the tinned salmon I was going to have. Having the sandwich was not bad, but because it was outside my plan I follow every other day I then started to binge.

After a binge, just simply wait until you are hungry again and eat normally. don’t starve, don’t try and compensate by eating a certain way, just try and make it pure and simple for you self; if your going out soon after you had a binge, sure, you are going to feel bad about yourself, but the best thing you can do is to just go along with your friends or family, and if you are not hungry don’t eat much. If it has been a few hours since you binged, chances are your body will be a little hungry, it seams like if you binge then your body won’t be hungry until it has burned off the extra calories - WRONG your bodies likes consistency, so I have a challenge for you: Next time you binge and have to go out later, do it, and don’t let food dominate your mind, you blew it, you binged, there is nothing you can do about it but continue as normally as you can! If you cannot resist some fried cheese or something really tasty your friend orders, try and have one bite, if you do not order it yourself then at least you can’t go crazy on it!

Binge eating can really affect you socially, it made me avoid my friends for a long time

I reached my goal weight a long time ago and had been maintaining it, but recently I've been compulsively overeating.  I've binged 26 times in three months and gaint 22 pounds.  I hope that since I gained the weight quickly, I can lose it quickly.  I know why I overeat, but that doesn't stop me.  I go all or nothing, and if I screw up I just don't stop eating.  It's awful, really.  I understand what y'all are feeling.  And as for the social thing, it's tough.  I don't want them to think I'm undereating again, (which I would like to do, minus the criticism) but it's hard since I eat just to keep suspicions low.  My goal is twofold:  get back to my happy weight ASAP, and eat alone so that I can eat as little as I want while still being safe with calorie defecit. 

Mother found wrappers under bed.  She knows.

It is okay now and then to cheat a little.  I wouldn't recommend "binging" though.  Some days I slack off and don't count my calories.  I know that I've gone over but hey, 1 day won't hurt.  My trainer said that it takes a good 2 - 3 weeks to gain weight from eating wrong.  You may have water weight gain from bloating but actual weight gain doesn't happen over night.  Just remember that if you slack off or mess up one day...get right back on track the next day and you're good to go.  :o)