Said "No" to binge

HereAmyGoesAgain

I had a big breakthrough last night. I'm fighting a cold and had a long week at work. Typically that means comfort food, which turns into a binge of me; sitting on my couch, watching Netflix and stuffing my face. I stopped at the store and bought Mac n cheese, frozen pizza, chips and a giant bag of salt water taffy, with the full intention of eating it all last night. The pot of water was boiling on the stove for the Mac n cheese and I was deciding what to eat first, the chips or candy. I decided I should go weigh myself first because my weigh in day is Saturday. I figured I would just use the Friday weight, then I'd have a week to work off the binge. Thankfully the scale showed a good loss for the week. It kinda jolted me out of my complete binge mindset.
When I'm about to binge the food is all I'm thinking of, I can't wait to start eating. I feel like if I don't eat everything right now I'll starve. Since it was now 5 pm and I hadn't eaten in 5 hours I decided to have a protein drink and see if that took the famished, must eat everything in sight feeling away. It did! I went from moments away from eating well over 4,000 calories in one sitting, to going on my walk and having dinner that consisted of sauteed veggies and a turkey burger, sans bun. Lesson learned: If I feel like a binge, have some protein and go for a walk.

chism21

This is me all the way!!! You did great keep it up

JeromeBarry1

Now that you know how to handle the triggers of a binge, you can handle them. Hooray for you!

upoffthemat

Congratulations! You did great and should be proud of yourself. Keep it up.

jeeplovin

That is so me too. Good for you

2011rocket3touring

Love reading this type of post.

asgentr

Thanks for posting. I surprised myself by slipping up this week and realized how important it is to understand my patterns of overeating. Is it when I'm stressed? Bored? Too little protein? I'm trying to see it as an opportunity to learn rather than a setback.

Xpecta

Oh my goodness!!! That is an AMAZING accomplishment!! It's so so soooooo hard to pull out of a binge. I'm the same. I'll go to the store just for my binge food in thoughts of eating all of it right away. Mainly because I don't want it to tempt me the next day. Good for you. I'm seriously so impressed!

jgnatca

Good job! Lesson learned.

manderson27

I am struggling with this kind of mind set at the moment so thank you for posting. I will be taking this on board for the future.

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ljmus1

That's so awesome, a great breakthrough. You must be so proud

Cheesy567

Way to go!! It's all about recognizing old habits/ triggers and *choosing* new behaviors!! So glad you came here to share and celebrate, too!!

Mersie1

Yahoo!!!!! That's amazing!

RoseTheWarrior

Great job!

kew1952

Thanks for sharing. This might be a tip to help all of us.

DebSozo

Great job!

bellabonbons

Very impressive. And inspiration for sure. Just shows the strength of the human spirit capable of more than we think we can do.

meryl135

That is an awesome realization! Good job