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Colorahdo posted...

Depends how much you weigh to begin with, but you can calculate it on your own

Takes -3500calories to burn 1lb of fat approximately. Let's say your maintenance is 2000cal.

(9*-700) + (1*3400) = -2900

So yes, you'd lose a little less than 1lb in those 10 days

If you didn't binge that one day, you'd burn 10*-700 = -7000 and burn almost 2 lbs.

So binging has a huge effect

Sounds about right.

It's really bad for you to binge outrageously like you suggested in the OP, TC. Instead of doing 1400 for 9 days and 5400 1 day, you're much better off mentally doing 6 days 1600-1800, 1 day 2300, rinse and repeat. Knowing that the math is on your side when it comes to calories in, calories out, human error in not counting calories properly plays a big role, and things get fucked up when you fuck with your head by going to the extremes like undereating with a big caloric deficit for days on end and then mass binging on day. You just can't sustain living like that in the long term. Set yourself for progress by doing something that is mentally and physically healthy like having a less extreme deficit for 5-6 days, and having a cheat meal/cheat day where you don't go overboard once or twice a week.

It gets easier when you adapt a more consistent, happier lifestyle where you can maintain a positive mental outlook. Your appetite is going to shrink if you can keep it up for a month, and things will only get easier and easier the more you keep it up. This ease over time is impossible when you're living a roller coaster of starving and binging, starving and binging, where you're only going to feel like shit all the time and want to take a break where you'll get lazy and fat, and then try to start up the shitty diet again.
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