If i have a junk food BINGE one day, will i gain weight?

A few times I have had days where i just binge on junk foods and high-calorie foods, will i gain weight form the one day? for example to day i had a whole block of chocolate to myself with about 1500 calories!

It takes 3500 calories extra to gain a pound but regardless of that it's not healthy at all to eat a whole block of chocolate in one day. Think of all the sugar and fat.

Original Post by sunkissedbliss:

It takes 3500 calories extra to gain a pound but regardless of that it's not healthy at all to eat a whole block of chocolate in one day. Think of all the sugar and fat.

 

Yeah all the crap in junk food (hence the name junk) is awful for you and has other effects on you. But mainly, you'd have to eat that extra 3500. And that'll take like a week to make up for.

Say if you are cutting back 500 calories a day - so you'll loose a pound a week. You just ruined that week. But don't loose the diet or you'll ruin the next week or even gain weight. Think about how discouraging this is before you start in on the chocolate (my weakness as well.)

 I have to give myself a small daily dose of chocolate to keep from binging. And if you crave burgers, make yourself a homemade one which is like 350 calories and is twice the size of the stupid 700 calorie fast food version.

Duh of course you will! how do you think people gain weight??

Duh of course you will! how do you think people gain weight??

Usually people gain weight by overeating on a daily basis. Binging occasionally will just keep you from loosing and it could lead to health complications. 

another thing to keep in mind is although it does take 3500 calories to gain or lose a pound -- if I have a day where I eat more -- maybe only just a little over maintenance calories instead of at weight loss - the next day I usually weigh 2 pounds more - but this is usually temporary weight - water (usually more calories means more sodium) and/or waste.  the are usually gone within a couple of days.

However, please don't take that information that I condone binging, and that there are no long term effects.  An occasional treat (for me it is usually at our monthly family dinners) is not the same as a binge 

The Body for Life plan (diet and exercise) actually requires you to take a day off from exercise and dieting. The point and theory being that it keeps your body from deciding you're starving and or in a workhouse and therefore would need to conserve fat and muscle.  By taking a day off, the theory goes, you convince your body that all is well, don't hoard (body fat that is).  I have done well on that plan when I had the time and inclination to exercise 6 days a week.  Now, I have neither. 

So, don't get real worked up if you have a chocolate day.  Just get back on the horse.

Life is to be enjoyed.  Being ascetic and avoiding what you enjoy because it might have more saturated fat that you ought to have in a day may lead you to binging more often.  One day I ate what I wanted, but it was all low calorie.  By then end of the day I felt I HAD to eat a piece of chocolate cake in order to have my calorie input be in a reasonable area.  Tough problem to have.  My point, though, is, to enjoy what you eat (read French Women Don't Get Fat) and work on deciding that you enjoy fruits and vegetables.  In the meantime, don't freak out.  If you gain a pound, exhale, chill out, and lose it again.  not such a big deal. really.