Just say "NO" whats your tip?

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  • 6spdeg
    6spdeg Posts: 394 Member
    easy.. just take a gander at some old pics.. makes my mind up every time
  • kazaroona
    kazaroona Posts: 60 Member
    If it's something you do then it's a really hard habit to break and takes a lot of willpower. I was a terrible binge eater and it was either extreme diet, or binge. This is what I have done to try and stop my bingeing, which on the whole, I have.

    I have had to change my thinking, and acknowledge what my triggers are. One of them was that if I had a chocolate bar for example, previously I would think, well now I have had that, today is a write off, especially if I had gone over cals, so I may as well eat everything I want and can lay my hands on and start again tomorrow. I have changed that by thinking that one chocolate bar, even if I have broken my allowance, is not going to be the end of the world or make me put on weight, but eating all that food is going to be a diet breaker and can take days to get back on the wagon.

    It depends if you are all or nothing- I cant have nothing or I feel deprived and a binge will come on, whereas I know other people are 'nothing' and completly remove their binge foods from their diet. (Saying that I agree with not having trigger foods in your house). My thing is crisps, so every few days I will have crisps, but I'll have them at less than 200 cals and factor them into my daily allowance rather than caving and eating a sharer bag of kettle chips for like 700 cals right before bed. I am also starting to want them less now, and having other thngs as my savoury snack fix.

    Other tricks I try are if there is a load of food in front of me, I imagine it all mushed up inside my tummy. My stomach is meant to be the size of my fist, so to visualise all that food inside me, bigger than my stomach, can make me feel gross and not want to eat it all. (I'd just like to add that this a psychological trick to help stop over eating, I'm not disputing the volume of food a stomach can or cant hold, or it's accurate size, and would still eat to sate my hunger!)

    The other thing I try and tell myself if I am feeling weak and wanting to eat just because I want something 'yummy' rather than because I am hungry, is.....

    I know what it tastes like, I have tasted it before. It would make me happier to be slimmer than it would to taste it again!
  • super_J73
    super_J73 Posts: 257 Member
    I'm an emotional binge eater. I've had a few things happen over the past year where I could have ruined my progress, but I decided that I wanted to stay in control. I keep a pair of old very large jeans in my closet, I pull them out when I'm feeling a binge coming on. I keep healthy choices in the house, low cal chocolate treats or I put on my ipod and get outside for a walk.
  • d9123
    d9123 Posts: 531 Member
    intermittent fasting
  • MissSusieQ
    MissSusieQ Posts: 533 Member
    i want to eat when im bored and im capable of putting away a lot of food without thinking, so when im bored and thinkingabout eating i set times for eating things. i generally have my whole days food planned out ahead, so i'll tell myself 'you only just had breakfast. you can have this snack at 10.30, lunch at 12.30, this snack at four, and no dinner till 6.30'
  • mcibty
    mcibty Posts: 1,252 Member
    If I'm thinking about binging it helps to sit down at the computer and log everything I want to eat. Usually seeing the calories will be enough to make me not want to, or at least change the serving size.

    I'm doing this right now because I'm supposed to go out for dinner!
  • jamers3111
    jamers3111 Posts: 495 Member
    I've never really had a problem with binge eating like a lot of others do, but I do have cravings (understandably not the same thing). To combat them, whenever I have a craving I like to drop down and do 20 push-ups. If I still have the craving, I do more push-ups. Exercise seems to help me with cravings, and push-ups is something that I can do just about anywhere.

    Not sure if it would help with binging though as that has never really been an issue for me.

    I don't have a binge issue but I do cave into cravings more than I should... I'm going to remember this!
  • Annerk1
    Annerk1 Posts: 372 Member
    You binge eat because you get overly hungry. Eat smaller meals more regularly or incorporate healthy snacks into your meal plan. Drink more water, it helps you feel full between meals.
  • JulesAlloggio
    JulesAlloggio Posts: 480 Member
    Just say "No"

    Find a healthy alternative to the sweet.

    Ice Cream ....healthy version = Banana, protein powder, skim milk, peanut butter..all ice mixed in a blender mmm mmm delicious
  • Mom2ATM
    Mom2ATM Posts: 147 Member
    If I'm thinking about binging it helps to sit down at the computer and log everything I want to eat. Usually seeing the calories will be enough to make me not want to, or at least change the serving size.

    I also try to remember how I feel afterwards. And if I wake up in the morning still full from the day before (that used to happen all the time) I won't want to eat anything tomorrow.

    Of course there are days when I've just done it without even thinking about it first. But those are happening less and less lately.

    great idea!!!! I think this would help me along with occupying myself!! Im totally a boredom eater!!! Ive noticed the last few days i overeat bc i have nothing else to do, especially if the laundrys done the dishes are done the kids are bathed, its all in the PM that i binge as well so im thinking of maybe crafting with my kids every night to occupy myself
  • jjay23
    jjay23 Posts: 160 Member
    I try to keep all the binge type food out of my house, I also have a "fat" picture on my phone, its truly awful and every time I think about eating everything and anyhing in site I look at that. If all else fails I drink a tonne of water which usually makes me feel a little sick and then have to sit down, it stops me thinking of eating loads.
    This makes me a little bit sad. I honestly don't think self-loathing and making yourself feel sick are the best ways to develop a healthier relationship with food.

    its not self loathing at all, its a picture of me post weight loss at a time I wasnt happy with myself, I am loving the new me so far and am proud of my achievment, the photo is merely a reminder that I have worked hard and not to ruin it. Drinking loads of water fills me up alot and takes my mind off food. Please can I stress at no point do I make myself sick, undereat or loathe myself!
  • JesterMFP
    JesterMFP Posts: 3,596 Member
    I try to keep all the binge type food out of my house, I also have a "fat" picture on my phone, its truly awful and every time I think about eating everything and anyhing in site I look at that. If all else fails I drink a tonne of water which usually makes me feel a little sick and then have to sit down, it stops me thinking of eating loads.
    This makes me a little bit sad. I honestly don't think self-loathing and making yourself feel sick are the best ways to develop a healthier relationship with food.

    its not self loathing at all, its a picture of me post weight loss at a time I wasnt happy with myself, I am loving the new me so far and am proud of my achievment, the photo is merely a reminder that I have worked hard and not to ruin it. Drinking loads of water fills me up alot and takes my mind off food. Please can I stress at no point do I make myself sick, undereat or loathe myself!
    Ok, cool. That's just how I read your original post. :smile:
  • WVmom24
    WVmom24 Posts: 266 Member
    I drink coffee. When I get the caffeine buzz of a couple cups of coffee I notice I don't feel as hungry.
  • fit4lifeUcan2
    fit4lifeUcan2 Posts: 1,458 Member
    Don't have them in the house. Or if the rest of the family insists on having them, have an alternative which is indivisually wrapped, so you have a single reasonable serving rather than the option of dipping into the tin/pack for "just one more".

    I do this just so I can have proper portion control for all of us.
    While I don't binge eat and never did I would suggest not having those foods in the house and only buying them as an occasional treat. Before I got a handle on calorie counting and portion control i didn't allow certain foods in the house. I used to send my husband out with the kids for ice-cream instead of keeping it in the house. Now that I've reached my goal and went past it I don't bother with the junk that's in the house because I don't want to go backwards and ruin everything I've accomplished. For me its more than just losing the weight. I no longer have high cholesterol or high blood pressure. I'm off all meds.
  • goldthistime
    goldthistime Posts: 3,213 Member
    hahahaha I actually just saw this earlier today! It is PERFECT for your question! I totally do this all the time! (Sad, but true!)

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151499579697712&set=vb.285102642711&type=2&theater

    I felt myself reacting when he threw that cupcake away, like I was watching him destroy something precious. So much easier to not have that stuff in the house.

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