HELP>> BIGGEST BINGE EVER (4,000 calories) CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Oh. my. goodness.

My stomach is about to pop.

I've never ever ever ever done this.

But I just ate chocolate chip cookies. the dough. the cooked ones. all of them.

I thought about it... and calculating the 20cookies x the 200 calories each = 4,000 calories. (not including my regular 1,800) But if you add it together you get 5,800. 5,800 calories in one day. oh my..

oooooooohhh they were divinee. But I feel so sick. How do you recover from this? How much weight will I gain? Have any of you done this? I feel grotesque (sorry sp.)!!!

things like that actually broke my binge habits, i used to always get a hunger for the greasest sloppiest biggest pizza in town and id just devour the thing whole, then id look in the mirror see the work ive done and how far ive come and think... **** its just not worth it...  and that guilt actually is what got me to stop, took me a few times, but ya just learn from it.  You might gain a few pounds or depending if youve been very strict on your diet for a long time you may gain nothing and your body will just get rid of everything or just manage to use it up the one time.   Dont just dwell on the porblem though, just learn from it and go on etc.

Binging like that is a sign of disordered eating ... have you discussed this with your doctor, counselor, or family?  PM if you need more information -- it is available.

And are you sure that each cookie has 200 calories each? That seems high for homemade cookies.

Maybe you should stop making cookies for a while, until you can get your food choices under better control?

Hang in there ... it's just one day. Just eat healthy tomorrow and start fresh.

=^..^= MOLLY

Hehe i have done the same thing a few times (urrgg, homemade cookies...why must you be so good?)

Best thing to do ...is just enjoy your rare super-snack and go back to watching your diet from now on. Spend the next couple days thinking about how much it probably wasnt worth it (to keep yourself from doing it again! or at least make it a lot easier to resist temptation).

If you end up eating a huge amount every once in a while, dont worry about it too much. Diets are made or ruined in a day (no matter what)... eating 5k calories in one day looks like a HUGE step backwards when you look at it in terms of a day...but when you step back and look at those 5k calories over the course of a month, its such a small small amount (something that can be made up little by little with a small change in your diet for a while).

But...maybe go extra light on the food tomorrow (theres no harm in eating under calories for a day, it will make up the mistake for the huge calories and wont bother your metabolism... wont make up for it all, but might undo a chunk of the damage).

depending on your calorie needs, you may have gained a pound, but probably no more

if you've never done this before, there's really nothing to worry about

im pretty sure you wont do it again. i speak from experience :P

 

just last week my mom brought home a chocolate peanut butter pie
i ate one slice and it was sooo good i couldnt stop myself from eating another slice.
i ended up downing nearly all of it. my mom got superrr mad at me, i felt physically sick, and the guilt i felt was pretty unbearable

i don't crave pie anymore even though its the holidays and we'll have some for thanksgiving. just remembering how sick i felt...and thinking about it now, how it tastes way too sweet...

im sure it wont happen again (though ive had a few mini binges since..mini) 

i do this all the time. its terrible :(

i totaly understand how you feel. its the most disgusting thing because you completely loose your head and then afterwards you look at what you have done and you feel so bad.

dont beat yourself up about it please. and just consider why it happened. dont let yourself get too hungry becuase i have found that that is a big trigger for me

Don't skip the next two meals in order to atone for a binge because I guarantee that you will binge again. When I have a binge, even though I don't want to I still eat the same number of meals the next day but make them a bit smaller or lighter. Do some exercise also, light or moderate depending on how you feel physically. Just get right back into your routine; it makes it much easier to spring back rather than getting into a terrible binge/starve rut. One bad night isn't going to derail your weight loss.

DO NOT get on the scale, at least for a few days. I have done this many times and it has seriously depressed me and just made me want to binge more. I honestly don't think you will really gain weight though, but the scale would probably say you did.

I agree with many of the posters. Think of this as a nice wonderful yummy treat that you won't be repeating for some time. Drink lots and lots of water within your limit. Stay within your calorie range on CC don't try and cut back. Don't weigh for several days. Think of a way to handle this differently if this were to happen again and it will happen again so be prepared next time.

You will be okay hon. Just get back up on the horse. Don't worry as someone said the other day on a post even with CC calories limits you can still have 9 cheat days a month and still lose weight.

Hugs

Oh you are all so sweet and nice!! Great motivational speakers too!

I went against your advice and stepped on the scale today.( couldn't resist the temptation my friends!) .... and i weight EXACTLY THE SAME! I was in shock I really couldn't believe it. 

The bad part is I had to suffer through the first half of the day with a stomachache.  All I ate were tangerines until dinner (because honestly I couldn't stomach any real food), when I had a nice steak and salad.  So I ended up only eating 1,000 calories (under by 500) but it wasn't me trying to limit myself, it was my stomach telling me what I needed.

Whew what a relief! I guess binging can cycle back into normality :) (of course I've learned my lesson and will never, ever do this again!)

Thanks so much for helping me through this fellow bingers/anti-bingers!

Now, I'm just wondering... but have any of you binged like this? or differently? how did you recover?

 

I still wouldn't weigh for awhile. It takes a couple days to show up on the scale. But I don't think you actually ate enough calories for weight gain so I think your okay. :)

How does the activity points work???  I walked for 45 Min's that about 177 calories that just mean I can eat 177 calries more and loss weight?

I have felt like doing that soooo many times. I don't know what stopped me from actually doing it. Maybe it was that I knew I would feel guilty and ashamed since my husband would know what I had done. I just bought a bunch of Otis Spunkmeyer cookies from our school fundraiser. The first night I baked like 12 of them. If I had baked more I know I wouldn't have been able to resist. I ate almost all of them. I also ate a few uncooked pieces. Then I was too full to eat dinner so I skipped it. I don't know why I temp myself with those cookies. I know I can't control myself with them. I have had three of them just today. Maybe four. I can't eat right with those things around.

eat normal tomorrow, and just forget it happened, unless it happens alot, then thats a problem you need to talk to a doctor about. I have eaten  over 15,000 in a day, so 5,000 isnt to bad LOL