The Fat Loss TroubleshootThis is your place to troubleshoot your fat loss problems from nutrition to training. This section is led by Leigh Peele, author of "The Fat Loss Troubleshoot," the ultimate fat loss manual. If your results have slowed or stalled this is the place to come for advice for all your fat loss needs.
Hi everyone!
Id like to know, what impacts does binge eating have on your fat loss progress? Aside from the influx of extra calories that ruin the weekly deficit. Is it true that the body hoards fat and holds onto for the next diet famine, making it harder to lose bodyfat?
Thanx!
Hi everyone!
Id like to know, what impacts does binge eating have on your fat loss progress? Aside from the influx of extra calories that ruin the weekly deficit. Is it true that the body hoards fat and holds onto for the next diet famine, making it harder to lose bodyfat?
Thanx!
I don't know if the body "hoards" the fat or not but from my experience, I have a much harder time losing weight after a period of binge eating. I struggled with binge eating last summer into the fall. I got back on track in mid October with the whole shebang--weighing every morsel of food, 100% honesty in recording everything I was eating etc and was at a pretty good deficit (30-35%) plus good workouts and it took me almost two months to lose one pound. Then finally things started moving more normally to where I was losing .5-1 lb/week. But for a while there it was like my body did not want to give up one ounce of fat.
A refeed is planned. A binge is out-of-control noshing.
Yup. big difference between the two. Plus a lot of it is the mindset you are in. During a binge, you are eating mindlessly and often not even really tasting the food. There is usually a strong emotional component to it i.e. you are eating due to stress, sadness, loneliness, etc. Trying to fill some void or give you some comfort.
Here's one area where binge eating may affect your fat loss results:
If you eat a lot of processed carbohydrates during (which a lot of people would do) your binge, your next workout (no matter how intense it is) would not be as effective. Why? Because you have those carbs/sugar in your bloodstream which prevents your body from getting its energy source from the your stored energy which is your body fat.
The best thing to combat this is to perform a moderate, steady state cardio for 40 minutes to deplete the sugar from your bloodstream (not on the day you strength train but before it). But (big BUT), don't make this an excuse to binge. Just see it as an alternative if ever you do mess up because we do have to find that balance. Hope this helps.
During a binge, you are eating mindlessly and often not even really tasting the food. There is usually a strong emotional component to it i.e. you are eating due to stress, sadness, loneliness, etc.
You know, I've sometimes had what I would normally qualify as a "binge", except it's planned in advance. Sort of an eating smackdown, where I know days in advance it's going to happen, and prep for it. The major emotions in place would be joy and anticipation. Is that still a binge? Or is that just plain gluttony?
No. Fat stored over a long period and fat stored from a binge are used in pretty much the same way.
Also, it takes a lot more than 40 minutes of cardio to deplete carbs from a carbfest. However, cardio is just a way to burn calories anyway so exercising more when you eat more can be a good thing. Like said, it's not a good idea to count on this, though. A binge can be hundreds to thousands of calories, and cardio might burn a hundred or two. You can see that you can't outrun bad nutrition in this area.
The difference between cals burned from fat vs carbs is slight during exercise, so unless you're on a special diet and exercise program, don't sweat the carbs, just eat fewer calories than you need.
Binging and refeeds are different but in someways can have the same benefits and cons.
The one reason people think that binges curb their fat loss is usually because a binge follow period of "starvation" or basically slowed metabolic output. Eat 2500 calories during a normal lifestyle time of eating at mainteneace, training, etc and you are may be a little over, break even, etc but it wont be that bad, you won't feel it as much.
Eat 3000 calories after eating 1000 for a few weeks on a slowed metabolic rate and you are going to feel like crap and yes, store more fat.
This is why it is important to plan re-feeds and breaks if dieting down more aggressively.
Hi everyone!
Id like to know, what impacts does binge eating have on your fat loss progress? Aside from the influx of extra calories that ruin the weekly deficit. Is it true that the body hoards fat and holds onto for the next diet famine, making it harder to lose bodyfat?
Thanx!
Speaking just from my personal experience, the biggest impact is psychological. A binge can really do a number on my self confidence and erode my belief in myself and in my progress. That makes it harder to keep putting the work in and to keep trudging through the not so fun times.
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