Oh dearie me!
Went to a wedding on Friday after having had a hormonal stall for about 2 weeks, but not putting any weight on.I managed to control my food intake during the day and evening do, except for having a good few wines, but found that I was coming down wit a very dodgy sore throat and couldn't talk. The bar staff were veryt obliging and fed me a couple of brandies to help it. Of course I should have realised that this was a dodgy idea ( but my brain was already unfocused from the wine. Saturday morning I got up too late for breakfast and started off on the wrong foot. Managed to avoid the croissants my family had 'kindly' saved for me and just stuffed down a couple of quorn sausages (v low carb). However still being away from home and a veggie I found it difficult to get anything to suit bot of my needs and was suffering from both the booze and the ever worsening throat and cold. I therefore decided that to recover from these I needed to make an allowance for the day and had a lovely ice cream with cream ( I can't tell you how much better it made me feel) I then, however, felt it necessary to feel better still and had a cheese and pickle toastie, and latere on a bit of the wedding cake, a biscuit and to top the lot lasagne and chips followed by a big pavlova and hair of the dog gin and tonic ( slimline of course!) then I finished off with a baileys and amaretto, yum!!! I certainly know how to binge !
So then I thought it was all over and I could get back to normal. In the hotel the next morning I ordered scrambled eggs. Ah, I had it with toast and orange juice, brown sauce, mushrooms.... looks like I was making a weekend of it then! so just to push the boat out ( feeling very ill on sunday from the cold) I continued with a caramel chocolate bar, ribena blkackcurrant juice, half a cheese and pickle sandwich and shared a bag of crisps with my highly amused BF ( he has watched me religiously keep to the diet for a good six weeks).
On our way home I thought I'd get it out of my system ( I didn't even let myself eat like this before Atkins) and shovelled down more crisps and a bag of cheddars biscuits in an attempt to make myself feel sick and repelled by it. Then had 2 lumps of chocolate and for dinner had roast potatoes and yorkshire puddings with my veggie sunday dinner.
How naughty am I? I'm still ill now though, and was so bad this morning all I could do for breakfast was a bowl of cereal ( have had a low carb soup for lunch though, so am back on straight and narrow now...)
Can I be allowed this binge as treatment for being ill? I feel as though I've been putting my body through such a strict regime it's had enough now, in fact, the first week I went on the diet I was ill with the flu, what would you eat if you wanted comfort food?
I've been lucky, only 2 pounds were sacrificed with all of those naughty treats. Shall I do induction for a week to detox from the sugar??

I think a week of induction level carbs would not be a bad idea. Or increase exercise for the week and allow more carbs. It's so much easier not to start the binging than to end it. So you've learned a valuable lesson. keep it in mind.
Rob
310/250/180

You put the B in binge, didn't you girl? LOL I had myself a little binge this weekend and was up 3.5 pounds this morning. I am doing a mini-induction this week..maybe 3 or 4 days, just depends when I kick back into ketosis. So just know you are not alone out there! Why do we do this to ourselves? I don't know about you, but nothing I ate satisfied me or even tasted half good. It was definetly a lesson learned!

Hang in there...we are going to make it to our goal. I'm telling everyone that if this doesn't work then they will have to just love me like I am cause this is it!!!! Although by now, I know it works if I stick to it!!!!

193(march 2003, lost 10 with exercise and cutting back)
Started LCing on Aug. 25,2003
183/175.5/150

I found in my preLC days that when I had drank too much the night before I would want to eat carbs all day long to get rid of the sick feeling. This may have been partly what you were experiencing.

I agree with Rob that you should do a week of induction eating. This will get rid of the carb cravings that may come back from your binge.

I would not beat myself up over the binge, just pick yourself up and get right back to eating the right way.

I hope you feel better soon.

Susan ( AKA Northwest)
207/176/160

Thank you!! Cold's a bit better today and I'm back on the straight and narrow, the omelette's working just fine! I'll get those scales back down to where they were last week then we'll see if that stall gets going again! It's definitely the booze that ruins it for me, fortunately we don't go to the pub as much as we used to so all the midweek drinking has come to an end. Hopefully I'll be more healthy just from dropping that alone. ( I have got to say, though that everything that passed my lips was gorgeous, but so's the LC stuff I make too)

I really had to limit the drinking til I got down to pre-maintenance, and, amazingly, now I'm not as interested. It's never a good thing, it seems to cause loss of control while you're drunk, and cravings the day after.

Anyway, you did what you did, it's over, move on. Don't make it an excuse to get off of this wol, if you really don't want to. Sounds like you're already making the good choices again. I'll bet plenty of water will help (1 gal. per day) get rid of those few extra pounds. Every gram of glycogen your body produces from the carbs likes to hold on to 3 gm. of water!

John

July 03, 2003
202/174.5/170

Wow. I had a similar binge this weekend too except no alcohol. So what's my excuse? Anyway, it seemed that once I let go I wanted everything. And anything I had was not enough. It didn't satisfy, I just had to have more. I don't know what I was looking for, but I never found it. So I am back on induction this week. Gotta get those cravings out of my system. Good luck to you and know that some of us will be there with you.

shawny