binged horribly...now what?

It's spring break (and I live in Miami) and all this month i was eating healthy and trying to be good and I exercized and I was feeling good you know? I thought that i'd be fine for spring break (tuesday me and my friends going to a beach house and we'll be at the beach all the time) and yesterday I don't know what happened. I was out with a friend and I guess I let go of my control and I had (and these are with out my real foods like lunch breakfast dinner..so these are just my desserts):

2 scoops vegan ice cream (my "reward") so its all going fine...

half of the big toblerone chocolate thing (which. is. alot.)

cookies and cream hersheys chocolate bar

and then this is the one that makes me want to cry. the thing is I love oreos. I gained weight at the beginning of this school year because i would have HALF a box of oreos everyday. I love them. I love them alot. but I knew i was gaining weight and I stopped eating oreos. but then when I had this chocolate bar with pieces of oreos in them I just wanted more oreo and i realized how much i missed them and....

a huge. baskin robbins. oreo milkshake. 2,600 calories.

I was so nauseous after i finished it because i was too much but i couldnt stop, meanwhile my friend was saying just stop drinking it you feel bad already but I didn't stop.

and now i feel... like i ruined everything i worked for.

if i add my real foods to the dessert I ate more than ANYONE should eat in like 3 days. and even more is that im 17 and...

BARELY 4'10!!!!!!!!!

What do i do today? i feel like i should I dont know have a fast or something even though i know that's super unhealthy but i have to do SOMETHING...

this pretty much just happened to me on friday, so you are not alone! honestly, it is always hard for me to believe this when i am where you are right now, but its the truth: one day wont really do much of anything to your weight loss. before when this happened i would starve for a day b/c i thought that would help. definitely do not not eat all day. this always lead to me binging a few days later again. one binge isnt a problem, but when it becomes a habit it is. here's what i did yesterday. i did everything on a basis of how i felt. i worked out for as long as i felt like, cardio and then weights. i wasn't very hungry in the morning or afternoon so i didnt eat much and thats when i worked out, but by the time dinner came around i was starting to get hungry so i had a good meal and that was it for the evening (i dont like to eat at night). also i drank lots of water and some green tea b/c i was so thirsty, and it ends up flushing out the water that you are retaining from eating so much. i went to bed hungry which felt good and woke up hungry and look the same as i did before the binge. i actually had alot of energy in my workout yesterday and feel refreshed and ready to eat well again! bottomline, everyone slips now and then, don't beat yourself up over it b/c that leads to more bingeing which will make you gain weight. sometimes i think our bodies are telling us we need something when we binge, whether it be more calories, more fats, etc. seriously though just dont worry about it and try to have a good healthy week. youll feel much better in a day or so!

thanks :) I guess I'm a little freaked out because of just HOW much it was because that day had enough calories to last me like a week! but you're right just because of one day everythings not gonna fall apart. I don't think this will ever happen again so it's ok and thank you again!

*hug*

Sounds like you have it under control now. I'm sorry that happened! But your positivity is refreshing; you're absolutely right, it probably won't happen again.  And one day isn't enough to undo everything. Take care!

oh dear.

i'm sure you'll be fine. just try to eat normally this week. and if you dont have enough time to calorie count everything, try to go with 6 oz grain, 6 oz protein, 3 cups veggie, 2 cups fruit and 3 cups milk during the day (PLUS healthy fats (a few small servings throughout the day ex;1Tpb@breakfast)). its ALOT easier to keep track of than calories in your head... for me anyways.

pluss... i'd UP the calorie intake a little if i were you. maybe by exactly 130 calories of pre-packaged mini oreos a day. it helps with portion size and with binging. plus, you could see them as 130 free calories and if your friend offers you a small brownie or cookie during the day you could accept it in exchange for your 130 cal. snack for the evening or whenever.

honestly, i just get 1 six pack (270 cal) of oreos a week, and eat it throught. sometimes i binge and eat all 6 in one day, and other times i manage to spread them out throughout the week with coffee. it works. :]

Wow. Your post is eerily familiar to what I did at your age (& have spent too many years of my adult life doing), only I'm 40 YEARS OLD now. I started severely limited diets (& then binging) at exactly your age. The binges made me feel like I was losing my mind.

Please don't starve yourself and/or go on some nutty fast now to try and erase what you did. If you keep putting yourself in deprivation-mode, then you'll just be continuing this pattern. You need to let yourself eat good nutritious foods that will feed your body & brain. That is a fundamental start and a life-routine to build on.

 A real positive is that it sounds like you have nice friends and live in an exciting place where you can really run around & get some natural exercise! A few days of running around like crazy will more than take care of the calories you took in. 

I'm new here, but I have read hundreds of posts over the past week. I can see that I'm not alone with my food issues. This appears to be a safe haven for us to put our thoughts out there & ask for help. I wish the internet had been around when I was 17!!!

I am sending good thoughts your way! :-)!!!

This may make you feel better, it may not, it may be utter bullcrap, I have no idea.  What I've heard though, is that if you haven't been subjecting your body to huge binges regularly, it cannot handle the intense excess of food, and thus is going to just ... "let it go" if you will, without absorbing a lot of it.  You'll still get MOST, but not ALL.  May have some nasty side effects....