Binge Eating
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Rashel_kitten wrote: »Its not exactly a binge but i just ate like 5 slices of black forest deli ham and 2 frosted cherry pop tarts (200 calories each! )...it wouldnt be so bad except now i probably only have 300 calories or less for dinner ! Ive got 3 options here ...skip dinner (which i dont think ill ve successful. .try to eat a very tiny dinner....or i could take 1/2 of one of my adipex pills i have left from when i used to take them and hope that helps me not eat over tonight. I dont know how to save this day !
Have a salad with light dressing and later a cup of lite hot Chocolate and a fiber one brownie....everyone has days that aren’t perfect!....just don’t blow your entire day because of a little bit over!1 -
@Rashel_kitten -Maybe today can just be a maintenance or near maintenance day. Somedays you are just hungry! And good choice on the ham. High protein snacks always keep me feeling full for hours.
My husband keeps buying pop tarts. When I'm really hungry, they seem so tempting, but I don't even really like them all that much! It's the packaging combined with childhood memories - they were a rare special treat growing up.
The pop tarts are left over from before I started back on MFP ! Ive logged into MFP 30 days in a row today! And i believe only 3 of them i was over my calorie goal.
On another note I thought of option 4 which was to walk 1.51miles ! I did it in 37.34 minutes! I've walked that much in a day before but i split it up into 2 walks today i did it all at once ! I hope to walk 2 miles for the first time tomorrow evening.
Now maybe i can still salvage the day as long as i dont let the food win ! Thank you for listening and replying if i hadn't thought to post here i might still be eating !2 -
conniewilkins56 wrote: »Rashel_kitten wrote: »Its not exactly a binge but i just ate like 5 slices of black forest deli ham and 2 frosted cherry pop tarts (200 calories each! )...it wouldnt be so bad except now i probably only have 300 calories or less for dinner ! Ive got 3 options here ...skip dinner (which i dont think ill ve successful. .try to eat a very tiny dinner....or i could take 1/2 of one of my adipex pills i have left from when i used to take them and hope that helps me not eat over tonight. I dont know how to save this day !
Have a salad with light dressing and later a cup of lite hot Chocolate and a fiber one brownie....everyone has days that aren’t perfect!....just don’t blow your entire day because of a little bit over!
Thats a great idea my light raspberry vinaigrette sounds amazing right now! And i might even have that light cocoa.
It was just so tempting to say heck with it today and start again tomorrow! But i know if i do that it will set me back a week or more and i really don't wanna do that! Ive been back on MFP for 30 days now and i have logged in for that many days in a row !
Also i got my 10 year badge from MFP today ive been on MFP on and off since 2010 ! Thats crazy to me ! Im also only 5 pounds away from my first baby weight loss goal ! Which was to get back to my weight from 2018 which will be 18 pounds lost ! I cant wait maybe i can be there by October 1st !
Thanks for listening to my rant...2 -
We are all here to listen and help without any preaching!2
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Hey Rashel, I know this advice is too late, and I hope you did well the rest of the day. If something like this happens again my advice is always to try to focus on doing the right thing going forward. Don't worry about your calorie total for the day, or what is past, just focus on getting back on track. Not trying to make up for getting off a bit.Rashel_kitten wrote: »I dont know how to save this day !
Hope all is now well with you!
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alligatorob wrote: »
Hey Rashel, I know this advice is too late, and I hope you did well the rest of the day. If something like this happens again my advice is always to try to focus on doing the right thing going forward. Don't worry about your calorie total for the day, or what is past, just focus on getting back on track. Not trying to make up for getting off a bit.Rashel_kitten wrote: »I dont know how to save this day !
Hope all is now well with you!
This is great advice....1 -
alligatorob wrote: »
If something like this happens again my advice is always to try to focus on doing the right thing going forward. Don't worry about your calorie total for the day, or what is past, just focus on getting back on track. Not trying to make up for getting off a bit.Rashel_kitten wrote: »I dont know how to save this day !
Hope all is now well with you!
I know that is the right thing to do and its sooo hard because when i screw up it sometimes makes me want to quit because it would be easier ! But look where easier has gotten me !
I would like to add that i had every i tention of eating that salad when i got home ....when i got to my mother in laws to pick up my kids she had made spaghetti! So i decided i had walked 1.51 miles i would just have a tiny dinner ....it was the smallest plate of spaghetti i think I've eaten since i was like 5 years old ! I was over the normal daily calories MFP gives me for the day but i still had leftover calories from the workout ! So all in all im happy with it !
I just finished walking 2 miles for the very first time in a very long time tonight.
Thanks for listening and thanks for the advice ill keep it in the memory bank for the next time as im sure there will be one.2 -
I need somewhere to vent as man oh man I’m struggling to not binge. Why am I soooooo hungry these last couple days?! I’ve been barely keeping to my cal goal but i can tell I’m starting to slip. It feels like all I can think of is food!1
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I need somewhere to vent as man oh man I’m struggling to not binge. Why am I soooooo hungry these last couple days?! I’ve been barely keeping to my cal goal but i can tell I’m starting to slip. It feels like all I can think of is food!
I wish I had an answer for you....as you have probably read in my previous posts, I have BED....right now I am in control; an hour from now or tomorrow maybe not...I can say the longer that I don’t binge, the easier it is not to....I do not want to feel guilty or physically sick or any of the other ways I feel after a full blown binge....I am not talking about eating a candy bar binge...I am talking about eating 3 to 10 thousand calories of food that you have no idea of what you are actually eating or why....telling you to go for a walk or eat celery or get busy doing something else is not much help...I can tell you what has been working for me lately....I have been on MFP for 16 months.....I have lost 93 pounds....I have had good days, great days and really bad days along the way...I keep telling myself I am in control of my actions and nobody else is...I am only accountable to ME....and right now I CHOOSE to feel good about myself....I have a treat every day...something I enjoy eating...I snack a lot and I eat a lot...food is NOT a comfort...( someone recently reminded me of this )....food is nourishment for my body...it is necessary to eat to fuel my body!...
I don’t know how much weight you have lost or any of your statistics or how bad your binges are so I hope this helped you a little...1 -
I need somewhere to vent as man oh man I’m struggling to not binge. Why am I soooooo hungry these last couple days?! I’ve been barely keeping to my cal goal but i can tell I’m starting to slip. It feels like all I can think of is food!
When I'm not logging/calorie counting, I have a lot of problems with binging, but logging really helps me keep it under control. The exception is that special time of the month when I have a day or two where I feel like I'm literally starving, want to eat everything in sight, even if it's not a very tempting food (this month it was a bag of shredded cheese...) So that's something to keep in mind - hormones may be playing a part.1 -
I need somewhere to vent as man oh man I’m struggling to not binge. Why am I soooooo hungry these last couple days?! I’ve been barely keeping to my cal goal but i can tell I’m starting to slip. It feels like all I can think of is food!
When I'm not logging/calorie counting, I have a lot of problems with binging, but logging really helps me keep it under control. The exception is that special time of the month when I have a day or two where I feel like I'm literally starving, want to eat everything in sight, even if it's not a very tempting food (this month it was a bag of shredded cheese...) So that's something to keep in mind - hormones may be playing a part.
its my "special" time of hte month right now, or at least the pre part, and hormone eating is driving me insane right now. I'm not craving anything in particular; my mind just wants to eat! *sigh*1 -
Thx everyone...your comments have helped. I didn’t binge and forced myself to go to sleep. I have read almost every post in this thread and it helps seeing people struggle but still make it through to progress. That’s how I keep getting into this mess I’m in (losing weight, binge...give up...gain weight..binge more.. all the way to being heavier than ever before.). I’ve lost 95lbs back in 2014 and felt GREAT but then have slowly..then fast..gained it all back. I’m at my all time high with gaining 45lbs since April (well was 4 weeks ago when I decided it was enough and my health needed me to stop ignoring it all) so I need to keep with this and try my best not to binge..and if I binge then to scrape it off and move on the next day. For me I think I still haven’t broken the habit of food=comfort so that is something I’m working on. And I hear ya re the binges..mine can be bad..snacking all day on everything I can shove in my mouth and doing some bad damage..so much so it can make me sick. I think it just helped for some reason to complain about it somewhere other than my head. I have lost 10lbs in the 4 weeks I’m back on MFP and yes this is good but I find myself struggling with the slow progress to get me back to where I was in April before the last set of binges as in my head I feel like that should have been my starting point..not my first mini goal🤦♀️. I am pre - time of the month so hormones likely playing into it some but I need to find ways to make it through whatever stressor “excuse” I usually use to somehow stop binging.3
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Ha!....” the best laid plans....”.... being over confident is a very bad thing!...after such a good week, we went to lunch yesterday at Red Lobster....I was really careful what I ate and had broiled shrimp and scallops....came home and went swimming ( thank God I exercised ) settled in to watch the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs and had an apple...then I had a cookie....lots of calories left so I had a ham sandwich....and then another cookie and some almonds....so much sodium!...but I stopped!...I STOPPED!....I know this does not sound like a WIN but for me it was....I ate around 3,500 calories for the day but it wasn’t 10,000 calories and I exercised....of course I was up 5 pounds this morning but I know it is water retention...I am still under calories for the week...this is a battle I will be fighting the rest of my life but I am learning...I will win the war....
So today, I am still enjoying my rest day after swimming six days in a row and I am eating the right amount of calories...I am happy and not feeling guilty or ashamed and I didn’t eat enough to make myself sick...I am not perfect but I am winning!8 -
conniewilkins56 wrote: »alligatorob wrote: »
Hey Rashel, I know this advice is too late, and I hope you did well the rest of the day. If something like this happens again my advice is always to try to focus on doing the right thing going forward. Don't worry about your calorie total for the day, or what is past, just focus on getting back on track. Not trying to make up for getting off a bit.Rashel_kitten wrote: »I dont know how to save this day !
Hope all is now well with you!
This is great advice....
I read this again and it really is good advice!....all anyone can do is go forward...you can never change the past!...thank you!0 -
I binged yesterday and later came the reflux. It sucks. I’m already dreading my next weigh in at the nutritionist office bc I haven’t been walking as much as I was last month.1
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BordeauxBee wrote: »I binged yesterday and later came the reflux. It sucks. I’m already dreading my next weigh in at the nutritionist office bc I haven’t been walking as much as I was last month.
Those types of weigh-ins can be problematic to show progress anyway. I was told yesterday at the doctor's office I had gained weight. I promptly told them I had not, I had lost. They argued because they only cared what the scale said. I told them they could view it anyway they want but since no fat was gained it was not worth mentioning. I am heavily retaining water due to the poison ivy at the moment. These people and their scales...5 -
BordeauxBee wrote: »I binged yesterday and later came the reflux. It sucks. I’m already dreading my next weigh in at the nutritionist office bc I haven’t been walking as much as I was last month.
Those types of weigh-ins can be problematic to show progress anyway. I was told yesterday at the doctor's office I had gained weight. I promptly told them I had not, I had lost. They argued because they only cared what the scale said. I told them they could view it anyway they want but since no fat was gained it was not worth mentioning. I am heavily retaining water due to the poison ivy at the moment. These people and their scales...
Way to go! I need to have such back bone when dealing with physicians.1 -
Almost binged but stopped myself before I really got into it....yay....still managed to stuff a few extra calories in...scales rewarded me with 3 extra lbs this morning....it will take me all week to get it off....sigh4
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You stopped though. And you know those three pounds aren’t real. Good for you! It’s an awesome accomplishment2
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BordeauxBee wrote: »BordeauxBee wrote: »I binged yesterday and later came the reflux. It sucks. I’m already dreading my next weigh in at the nutritionist office bc I haven’t been walking as much as I was last month.
Those types of weigh-ins can be problematic to show progress anyway. I was told yesterday at the doctor's office I had gained weight. I promptly told them I had not, I had lost. They argued because they only cared what the scale said. I told them they could view it anyway they want but since no fat was gained it was not worth mentioning. I am heavily retaining water due to the poison ivy at the moment. These people and their scales...
Way to go! I need to have such back bone when dealing with physicians.
You will get there. It is not like I had immediate confidence. I have been doing this for 2.75 years with detailed spreadsheet results for 2.25 of them. I know my numbers... well most of the time... and as much as anyone can know anything... lol.3 -
conniewilkins56 wrote: »Almost binged but stopped myself before I really got into it....yay....still managed to stuff a few extra calories in...scales rewarded me with 3 extra lbs this morning....it will take me all week to get it off....sigh
That is PHENOMENAL. Do not undersell stopping yourself. That is so great.
You are a such a great story of an overcomer.5 -
conniewilkins56 wrote: »Almost binged but stopped myself before I really got into it....yay....still managed to stuff a few extra calories in...scales rewarded me with 3 extra lbs this morning....it will take me all week to get it off....sigh
gewel is right; you stopped and that's excellent progress! ANd just think: would you have been able to do that a year ago? You've come a long way!BordeauxBee wrote: »BordeauxBee wrote: »I binged yesterday and later came the reflux. It sucks. I’m already dreading my next weigh in at the nutritionist office bc I haven’t been walking as much as I was last month.
Those types of weigh-ins can be problematic to show progress anyway. I was told yesterday at the doctor's office I had gained weight. I promptly told them I had not, I had lost. They argued because they only cared what the scale said. I told them they could view it anyway they want but since no fat was gained it was not worth mentioning. I am heavily retaining water due to the poison ivy at the moment. These people and their scales...
Way to go! I need to have such back bone when dealing with physicians.
this is a lot of why I stuck with my PCP when I moved, even though she's now a 4 hour drive away from me - she's an excellent cheerleader when it comes to my weight loss efforts, and she isn't "married" to the scale either.2 -
36 hours of binging is better than 36 days.....no matter how many times I let myself eat too much, I never learn....back at it today!3
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It’s been a while since I posted on binging but here I am repeating the same mistakes!...the last 36 hours have been a horrible binge....but here I am still fighting the battle!...I will eventually win the war!7
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@conniewilkins56 I'm on that boat with you. I was doing so good despite going through some stress lately but then today I just gave in, bought two bags of candy, and ate to the point of stomach ache and nausea. So now I'll be practicing self forgiveness and striving for better choices tomorrow.4
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@conniewilkins56 I'm on that boat with you. I was doing so good despite going through some stress lately but then today I just gave in, bought two bags of candy, and ate to the point of stomach ache and nausea. So now I'll be practicing self forgiveness and striving for better choices tomorrow.
It’s a horrible cycle...trying so hard to break old habits....I ate candy, plus frozen cookies!...and more....sick as a dog today!1 -
Hang in there ladies! I did a full on binge 2 weeks ago but a couple of days in I reflected and recognized what I was doing and stopped, forgave myself and the very next day went back to meeting my low cal goals. This is HUGE for me as that usually throws me off for months and large weight gains as a result. So get back to it ladies...you can do it!4
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Hang in there ladies! I did a full on binge 2 weeks ago but a couple of days in I reflected and recognized what I was doing and stopped, forgave myself and the very next day went back to meeting my low cal goals. This is HUGE for me as that usually throws me off for months and large weight gains as a result. So get back to it ladies...you can do it!
I have an “ all or nothing” mentality with food...I either diet or I eat ridiculous amounts of food....this is why maintenance down the road scares me to death...I never maintain and I either gain or lose!
Happy you took control of your binge!
And welcome to Larger Losers!...feel free to jump in anywhere and share your thoughts and ideas!1 -
Yes! I totally understand that thinking. I’m unfortunately usually all in or all out too which is why getting back to it immediately after a binge is such a huge step forward for me. I hope hope hope I can keep doing that when I mess up cause ..well...I usually fall into bad habits the moment anything happens that’s out of the norm (travel, illness, stressful day etc). Maybe I’m keeping with it cause my norm right now is craziness and includes all of those things?!🤔🤷♀️1
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Here I am, two days later and still not back on plan. I ate nothing but fast food, candy, and mac and cheese today and that's been my norm for the past week or so. I'm dealing with stress around my rental house and crappy landlord, to the point that I'm having to end my lease and find a new place and am now packing and doing all the necessary stuff to get moved here in about two weeks. I think most of my binging is tied to the stress and the insomnia due to the stress, and it's just old habits resurfacing.
My plan for tomorrow is to hit the grocery store in the morning and stock up on healthy but easy to prep foods, and hopefully that will make the fast food and candy runs less tempting.3
