scared, ate a WHOLE BLOCK of cheese today, need help?

i've been vegan for 12 years, and a low-calorie/low or no fat dieter for about 5 years. i literally have been eating within the 1000-1300 calorie a day range and have maintained my weight for years this way. i have occasional "cheat" days and my weight fluctuates a tiny bit, maybe 5 pounds up and down

today, i don't know why, but i saw my housemate's block of jarlsberg cheese in the fridge - cheese is the ONLY thing i miss from my former omnivorous life - and i just, out of nowhere, ate the WHOLE thing! i calculated that it was 12 ounces, so about 1200 calories and 100 grams of fat!!! i never eat more than 12 grams of fat per day! i am TERRIFIED of what this will do; i feel like i can already see it on my bum and my thighs and arms. i tried to detox the rest of the day with tons of fennel tea to flush it all out but it hasn't worked. i'm very depressed.

i'm 5'3" and about 118 pounds right now (mid-range for me). i'm scared to death that i knocked my body composition horribly out of wack. not my weight per se, but the way my own body is shaped and fat is distributed.

has anyone ever had such a horrible binge before? can you gain weight from one egregious incident? please help. thanks in advance!

I doubt you will gain anything from it to be honest.  Tomorrow is a new day, just get back on track and you will be fine :)

1) even if you gain a tiny bit of weight, you know how to lose it!

2) I'm concerned that you say you never eat more than 12 grams of fat per day. Fats are very healthy for you; maybe not the fat from cheese, but definitely fats from nuts, seeds, certain vegetables, etc. Perhaps this is a warning sign that you need more fat in your diet overall-- and your body went for the first thing it saw. Remember that fat in food is not what makes you gain weight...it's the calorie total that will make you gain. Good luck!

3) consider replacing your housemates cheese that you ate. Unless you think he/she'll be cool with that. =o

Okay so no comparison but Ive been a vegeterian or whatever you call it for a year I didnt eat fish meat, cicken, or eggs for a year only but Ive been feeling sick laely so today I just decided to eat salmon I almost puked but felt so much better. Dont worry you probly really needed that cheese for energy.  Anyways 118 is thin for you.

your diet is too strict, but you could be a troll and this is your first post, and you didnt even introduce you self *suspicious*dont yell at me if I'm wrong though,

If you want to think that way, a whole lot of people are trolls, dear.  Not everyone introduces themselves.

Hell, I think a lot of the trolls did introduce themselves..

Just dont bum over it, it wont flunctuate you more than an lb. most likely. And you probably see yourself fatter, but it's all in your head. You can probably feel the fat on your thighs, because mentally, you feel gross. But just dont let it throw you off track. 5 years > 1 day. If you feel gross, just think of that cheese as an ant from outerspace! No one else can see it. There are some astronauts looking down at space. You may be like OH NO, THEY CAN SEE THE ANT. But they don't know it's there! no one knows you ate that cheese :D except you..so you took out your microscope and looked at the ant, you noticed it even though, its impossible to see.

I make no sense. I should sleep O_o lol, I am sorry about you block of cheese though, but don't fret over it, you are better than that demon cheese making you feel like crap!

p.s: yes i did have a worse binge. I went to the bakery and ate half a dozen 300 cal a piece donuts, and then came home and ate 1200 calories in ice cream. It didnt effect me but HALF a pound, even on my strict diet! but it only did, because I let it bother me, and contiued to eat that way because I felt so bad about those darn doughnuts :)

Original Post by theprincessa:

i'm scared to death that i knocked my body composition horribly out of wack. not my weight per se, but the way my own body is shaped and fat is distributed.

im curious, where did you get this idea from?

 

(its wrong, btw)

 

thank you so much, everyone, i feel a litle bit better now.  i think i really panicked because i never did anything that bad in my adult/weight-controlled part of my life, and the idea of loss of control is just... forgive me, but terrifying.

 

somebody said something about "troll" and i don't know what that is but i guess it means something bad from the context :).  i'm sorry i didn't introduce, i signed onto here for the first time last night in a state of internal emergency and was preoccupied by my cheese-binge-freakout.  my name is laura.  thanks for listening to me! :)

I would imagine that you are probably having a severe craving.  That can come from keeping something out of your diet that your body really really needs.  You might want to take a LONG hard look at how you're balancing your diet. 

You vegans *eye roll* It's much harder for you to balance your diet.  You might want to consult with a good nutritionist.

let me make u feel better

the number of years u have been behaving is the number of years that i have misbehaved. And i did so majorly again. I binged when i was not in a proper mood. All was well until after dinner. I binged till my stomach hurts. And i finished every single piece of junk food i could find. I have no idea about myself totally, except disgust.

So dont go my way, you are still fine.

If you're vegan and not used to milk fat you'll probably, well, poop it all out in the next 24 hours.

Chronic undereating is bad for your health and your body will be under some considerable stress as a result.  Undereating lowers the metabolism making it much more likely that eating small amounts extra will bump up your weight disproportionately....  I think your cheese episode is a cry for help from your poor malnourished body.  At your height and weight and assuming you're reasonably active you should be able to maintain on more like 1900.  At 1000-1300 any normal person would be getting thinner and thinner.

Have you spoken to your doctor about your need to control your food to this extent?  You're not underweight as such but your eating habits, irrational fear about your body fat composition and exaggerated reaction about eating a chunk of cheese are all indicative of disordered eating behaviour. 

don't be scared. i feel fat growing on me after a binge, but sometimes i get on the scale the next day and see it was nothing to worry about. besides, 1,000 calories doesn't even make up a pound of weight gain.

however, your digestive system might not be happy. i'm vegan, and if i slip up by ingesting even the tiniest amount of cheese, i'll get the worst bloating/constipation you can imagine. so you might want to take some extra fiber and a dose or two of acidophilus (extra digestive bacteria in a pill - it's like sending in mercenaries) until you feel normal again.

I think you're body was trying to tell you that you're missing something in your diet. Vegetarians can usually have an easier time getting in all of their nutrition, but vegans have a much more restricted diet, and if you're not careful, you could be depriving yourself of something that is needed in your daily diet. As others have mentioned, you should consult a nutritionist. Also, I hate to break it to you, but you're not eating enough. If you want to maintain your weight (which I hope you are because you shouldn't be losing anymore), you should be eating more. Even people who are dieting do not eat below 1200 calories. Those calories are needed for your internal organs.

Hi, I eat vegan too, and I have recently just overcame a bout of binge eating, so I totally understand where you are coming from. It is terrifying to not be able to stop eating. For a full 3 weeks, I binged on 3000 to 4000 calories/day, and I felt so scared and fat the entire time, but in the end when I weighed myself, I only gained 4 pounds, which I consider lucky and slightly bewildering... I should have gained at least a good 8 to 10 the way I was eating.

I know it FEELS like you are putting on a TON of weight from eating that block of cheese, but remember that it takes 3500 extra calories to put on a pound. Also remember the many times you have binged before. I have binged insanely countless times, and I should be so much heavier than I am now really, but somehow I am not. I think if you eat healthily most of the time, that is the most important, and you aren't even close to screwing up your body by eating a measly 1200 calories extra. You could try to work out some more before you go to sleep, but after that forget about it, and go back to normal the very next day. The only truly horrible worry about bingeing is if you allow it to continue! Don't let it get to you.

If you reintroduce good fats into your diet you will speed up your metabolism and will probably lose a bit of weight.  Don't worry about the cheese, you should be worried about your lack of fat intake and how that can negatively affect your overall health.

lol a whole block of cheese?

I'm suprised you didn't get explosive diarrhea from that! (pardon my, french?)

anywho, big whoop you'll be fine.

And just an fyi- when you eat food it doesn't automatically disperse itself throughout your fat cells..oh no our bodies are much smarter than that, so the chances of seeing it on your backside a mere hour after consumption is slim to none, (actually impossible)

Original Post by cellulitedelight:

If you want to think that way, a whole lot of people are trolls, dear. Not everyone introduces themselves.

Hell, I think a lot of the trolls did introduce themselves..

hi, my name is michelle, and i am a troll.

 

:p

what is a troll?