It's generally a bad idea to try to "make up" for over-eating by severe restriction.

I see a lot of comments on this sub by people who eat too many calories, and then say they are making up for it by not eating for the rest of the day or going on a 24 hour fast. But I'd be willing to bet that the majority of these people:

1. Lost control in the first place by restricting too heavily
2. Will within the next week "lose control" again and then binge again, and not connect the dots that the reason this happened is because of physiological processes that happened as a result of severe restriction
3. Stuck in yo-yo dieting
4. Sabotaging their own weight loss by "punishing" themselves, and further damaging their relationship with food by thinking in terms of reward/punishment and not fuel.

It happens to almost everyone. We mess up our diet, and immediately feel shame and guilt. But a one-off is not going to make us fat, as nobody got thin by eating a single salad. Our bodies are not simple input/output machines that can have their calories adjusted at a whim. They are very complicated input/output machines that need a certain amount of calories to function properly, and the processes that drive hunger are extremely powerful, which is why if you restrict too heavily, at some point you will most likely lose control and binge.

I have seen almost every professional recommend that after a binge or over-eating, you forgive yourself and move on. You eat normally the next day, or maybe a little but lighter, but you don't punish yourself. You identify what triggered the binge, or why you overeat, and take the steps to prevent it. Eating all of your calories by 9 a.m and then not eating the rest of the day is setting yourself up for a continued unhealthy relationship with food, with is how people got fat in the first place.

If you're worried about the "lost time" from over-eating and just want to make up for it as quickly as possible, most likely you will set yourself back even further when you over-eat AGAIN by the end of the week because your body does not react well to extreme deprivation.

EDIT: If you're doing OMAD or IF or something, in which the eating pattern isn't about punishment, and you work up to it, I think it's a different thing. I am not saying these eating patterns don't work.

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