just wondering...?

Question

i'm suppose to eat only 1300 calories a day. i have a problem with overeating so i ate 2600 calories today. will it be okay if i do not eat tomorrow. i just need to know cos' i've been binging for a while and i'be been working so hard andfinally lkost 1 pound. i'm 30 lbs overweight

Answer 1

Starving yourself the next day is not going to do you any good. So you messed up one day....it's not the end of the world. There's always tomorrow.
Since you did eat double your calorie limit, use that as a learning experience. Pinpoint what time of day you ate way more than you knew you should...also keep in mind which foods you give into the most.
Another note- counting calories is okay, but if you eat 1300 calories over what you're supposed to eat, what kinds of foods are they? Say you eat 900 extra calories in fuit and veggies...400 calories in junk food. It's not AS bad as it seems. Break it down and see the source of those calories.
Like I said, just learn from it. Don't be so hard on yourself.
Good luck! :-)

Answer 2

Honey,

Yes you are a binger, so am I. Dieting did not work for me. My gold was to exercise heavy daily for about 1 hour while working on why I binge and getting control over it. I did this for 18 months and lost 112 pounds.

It was not easy. Dieting for a binger is like taking drugs from a drug addict. Here is some information on Emotional Eating/Binging.

Emotional Eating

Emotional Eating - using food to escape or to make yourself feel better.

Emotional eating means that you eat for some other reason than health or nutrition.

This sounds pretty innocent, but Emotional Eating is actually what makes you break your diets. It's what makes you feel intense cravings for particular foods. It's what makes you overeat.

It causes food addiction. It's even responsible for binges and yoyo diets.
Chances are, if you've ever struggled to lose weight and failed, or regained weight
back after some success, you've struggled with Emotional Eating.

You already know how to lose weight. You know that if you eat less and exercise more eventually you’ll see the pounds come off. What’s getting in your way? Why do you usually regain the weight you lost?

The answer to all these questions is the same “Emotional Eating.” Simply defined, emotional eating means you eat to satisfy emotional hunger; it means you use food for comfort or as a way to cope with life; and it means you eat for reasons other than what your body needs.

Whenever you reach for a boredom-breaking snack despite your commitment, or whenever you eat to quell anxiety, that’s emotional eating. Whenever you binge after a fight, or double up on portions because your day turned sour, that’s emotional eating. Whenever you feel that sharp craving for your favorite food, that’s emotional eating.

When we eat during these times while on a diet, we believe the diet doesn’t work or that we lack self control and then look for the quickest way to lose weight (fasting/diet pills, ect) after eating all we can since we already messed the diet day up.

Remember that emotional eating plays a big part in why we don’t continue dieting and why we regain lost weight and why we binge today and start a new diet tomorrow.

Best of Luck.


P.S. Stop by your local library and get some books on binge eating and eating disorders and READ-READ-READ- and LEARN !!