But today, on new year's eve... I ate like 3000 calories!
Yup, I'm a bad girl.
What should I do in the following days? How much will I gain? Or how can I avoid gaining weight?
Please, help! :(
Okay, I'm a fitness model, I do this shit for part of my living.
First though.
Lemme tell ya hon, most people? Couldn't count dietary macros if their lives depended on it.
(Unfortunately, I'm not really kidding about the lives-- at least 30,000 diabetic shock ER cases per year happen because people cannot do arithmetic.)
I've done some boot camp things for aspiring models. We had them "track" calories/macros/etc, while we were also doing the actual math.
Result?
For girls who said they were eating 1250 kcal/day... the AVERAGE *actual* figure was 1773 kcal/day.
Um.
Ok.
Now that we got that out of the way.
Two things babes.
#1:
The answer is no, you will be fine.
In fact, "You will be fine" is the WORST possible outcome. No typo.
***IF*** we give you the benefit of the doubt about calories (which is highly suspect--see above), then you NEED some 'binge days' like this. Otherwise your progress will grind to a halt, and perhaps into reverse.
Really, you NEED binge days, or at least binge meals. You need them.
This is not a small thing. It's a big thing. It's the only thing that keeps me in fitness modeling.
The human body is awesome-- it responds best to 80-85% "healthy" stuff and 15-20% dirty junky junk dirt crap. It actively hates perfectionists. This is why I'm in this sport, and into fitness in general. Because fuck perfection.
Deep dish once a week keeps me and hubby ripped. HOW COOL IS THAT.
Also, 3000kcal is hardly a bacchanalia. Girl I'm not even telling you how many calories I throw down after a show...
#2:
How are you counting kcals?
This is mostly just me prying / trying to be helpful. Since the answer to #1 is already the answer to #1.
Thanks so much!
At first, I'm weighing food and then searching adequate calories on internet. Well, according to the calories on internet - I never eat over 1400 calories - my lifestyle is sedentary so according to the information - a human, who follows sedentary lifestyle burns ~1400 calories a day. (Is it trustworthy?)
I have been counting calories for 9 months and on New Year's Eve I decided to eat everything I want for a day, I still love eating lol.. so I ate like 3000-3500 calories.
I've checked my current weight and after 2000 calories it showed that I've gained 1kg and I'm 53 now, maybe it's already changed and I'm 54 now...
I've decided to make an apple diet until Sunday.
Am I doing right?
nothing. you'll be just fine. your body doesn't add anything to your weight, especially if you're diet is regularly controlled (<1200 a day is very UNHEALTHY. someone in your age range should be at app 2000 a day) you have nothing to worry about. calories don't have as big of an impact on weight as everyone thinks. it's more about what is causing the caloric value to elevate, using through fats. you'll be fine.
You should be fine. You could gain about 1 pound, perhaps not even that much (gaining weight is much more difficult than you think unless your body naturally tends to put on mass) but even if you did your weight would go all the way down again as soon as you started eating normally again
I eat and don't gain weight. I had a 12 oz beer, huge milkshake, bacon egg cheeseburger, and side salad all in one sitting I had to undo my pants and I was stuffed! 2 hours later I was snacking and drinking again lol
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You won't gain much fat if any at all. If you notice an increase on the scale it's gonna be water retention. Don't worry about it, it will go back to normal after a few days on your normal diet.
You should be fine for one day. I always felt like your body operates on a weekly or monthly schedule rather than a daily schedule.
^^ This.
Is not literally true, but is the right idea.
COUNT CALORIES PER WEEK, PEOPLE.
Calories per week.
Easiest adjustment you can make. Just make the whole damn week's food at once, and then NO measuring for a whole week! Cool, eh?
Just don't be an idiot and eat half the food in the first hour of the first day (hi, hubby).
You might even get an unexpected feast on the last day, AND stay inside calories. If you have been a good boy/girl.
But, seriously.
Daily calories are stupid. Stupid, dumb ridiculousness. Even if you measure every single damn thing on a gram scale, you're lucky if you are within 10 percent overall. (Ever weigh 5 grams of olive oil? G'luck with that one)
Most diets don't even cut more than 10 percent! So you're still guessing. Educated guessing... but that still ends with "guessing".
Whereas weekly calories, if cooked all at once, can easily be estimated within 2-3 percent.
Oh, also, cooking once/week? Is better than 7x/wk. I know, bad wife, crucify me.
My first sentence, by the way ("This is not literally true").
Your body doesn't burn calories on ANY "rhythm". It burns them continuously. Because, you know, being not dead. Is a thing.
People have measured *some* circadian (daily) changes in basal metabolism, in *some* people, but they are completely negligible. Like zero-point-something percent.
You could blow that out of the water with one cup of coffee. Or with one SIP of coffee. Lol.
omg give yourself a rest lol eat!
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