I eat fairly healthy during the week, under 1500 calories and drink lots of water. I also workout 4x a week, mainly cardio and weights. Plus I work as a manny and often play basketball or kickball or wrestle with 9 year old boys. On the weekends, I eat a lot. I guess you can say I binge. I calculated my weekend caloric intake and it is about 10000 calories. Could that be causing my recent weight gain despite my eating healthy and living an active life?
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Binge eating on the weekends
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Yes absolutely, you are eating so much calories on a weekend and I myself eat a lot but I don't think I have consumed 10,000 calories ever. You have to keep in mind that if you are trying to maintain or lose weight, you have to be really careful with what you eat and the amount of calories. You can still eat more on the weekends if that's what you prefer but not reaching 10,000 calories.
Another factor to also consider is the metabolism of the body, if you are around a certain age like lets say 27 usually the metabolism drops but it will also depend or vary from person to person. I also noticed that my metabolism became slower after I reached 27 so I have to be really careful with what I eat nowadays if I don't want to gain more weight.
Another factor to also consider is the metabolism of the body, if you are around a certain age like lets say 27 usually the metabolism drops but it will also depend or vary from person to person. I also noticed that my metabolism became slower after I reached 27 so I have to be really careful with what I eat nowadays if I don't want to gain more weight.
I am cognizant that my metabolism has declined (I am 33) but I have balanced it by making the gym a part of my routine. Most of my weekend calories come from chocolate chip cookies. I am looking for ways to trim my weekend binge. I already manage to cut out 1000 calories.
Foreigner
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1500 calories/day is not that much based on the active lifestyle you describe during the week. Don't let physical appearances fool you... you can be malnourished even if you look overweight. It's just a matter of consuming the right type of caloric foods if weight loss is your goal.
There is also a psychology to binging, which is that of deprivation vs. over-satiation. If you're depriving yourself during the week for the purposes of weight loss then you are far more likely to recoil on the weekend and eat way more. Dieting can be somewhat about reducing calories, but it's far more important to eat *healthy* calories. For example, if you binged on the weekend with greens there wouldn't be a problem.
The fact that you opt for cookies, which is a pleasure food, indicates that you might be in some kind of deprivation/satiation cycle. I would suggest allowing yourself some pleasure food during the week so that you don't take it in all at once later on. You also need to let yourself have more calories during the week if you're really so active.
There is also a psychology to binging, which is that of deprivation vs. over-satiation. If you're depriving yourself during the week for the purposes of weight loss then you are far more likely to recoil on the weekend and eat way more. Dieting can be somewhat about reducing calories, but it's far more important to eat *healthy* calories. For example, if you binged on the weekend with greens there wouldn't be a problem.
The fact that you opt for cookies, which is a pleasure food, indicates that you might be in some kind of deprivation/satiation cycle. I would suggest allowing yourself some pleasure food during the week so that you don't take it in all at once later on. You also need to let yourself have more calories during the week if you're really so active.
Jabberwocky
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Is there a possibility you could binge on vegetables, like carrots? I do this regularly. I'm a carrot fiend
I don't like eating junk food during the week because it takes the pleasure out of it on the weekends.
During the week, I 'binge' on celery, pineapple and bananas. I LOVE celery.
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ebola?
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Okay, but Foreigner's larger point was that lack of caloric intake during the week could play a role in leading you to binge on weekends.
ebola
Foreigner
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My point is that you are restricting calories during the week, regardless of what kind of food it is, and then when the weekend comes you make up for lost time. Starvation diets almost always lead to binging, research shows this.
It's better to have one homogenous diet that you always eat regardless of what day it is, so that your body is not going through intense restriction/binging cycles.
When you starve yourself your body gets stressed and copes by releasing cortisol, which instructs it to horde calories as fat instead of burning them. That's because cortisol throws it into survival mode... i.e. food is scarce so better store fat whenever eating happens. People who eat many smaller meals throughout the day lose weight more easily in weight loss plans than people who starve themselves or allow themselves only a couple of large meals. If you restrict during the week and binge on the weekend, you will gain more weight than if you ate that same weekend food spread out during the week.
Your best bet is to eat an all-around balanced diet and moderately include pleasure foods, without making it about deprivation.
Mr. Mayor
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I have this same problem... Like last-night I ate pop tarts mixed with ice cream aha
Diabetes in a bowl...
Today i am doing a 24hour faste to combat it and just did abs earlier.
Caffeine and coffee really curve my appetite and kratom makes it non existant
Diabetes in a bowl...
Today i am doing a 24hour faste to combat it and just did abs earlier.
Caffeine and coffee really curve my appetite and kratom makes it non existant
ebola?
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Ummm...do you use cannabis? If so, how much do you typically take in on weekends? This sounds like the shit I consider a "good idea" when baked out of my mind.
Lucky you: both increase my appetite.
ebola