How did you stop your food binge?

trea16

I need help with this. I eat one thing in the afternoon. The next thing I know it turns into several things. Then I feel sick and tired.

StarryEyed500

I think you need to work out why you're binging. Is it because you are bored, depressed, depriving yourself? Binging is a symptom. Find the cause and you can stop/reduce the binges.

trea16

Good idea. Thanks!

lacewitch

I binge for emotional reasons so i have spent quite a bit if time thinking about all my triggers and finding different ways to deal with the issues and ways to manage the earge to binge
change time you snack
change the location ( i.e dont eat at your desk take your one snack to the park and sit on the bench rather than eating somewhere where the rest is in easy reach)
change the activity coffee and biscuits? - have tea, get a go cup and go for a walk dont eat while watching TV / working on lap top take a break and really focus on what you eat then go back to work so the two activities are not associated
change the quantity
change the quality - by darkest of dark chocolate and have less or only buystuff you don't like enough

my best tip though is to plan snacks and only take them to work and don't take cash /cards to work.
i then caan't have a 3pm binge. I have to be sensible and tak a reasonable amount of food - healthy lunch and 2 snacks ( huumus and oatcakes /celery and penut butter / apples/ pears / smoked salmon on crackers ( see threads for ideas)
having money in the office enables my binges! ( this extreme measure only needs to happen till you have broken the binge habit )

spngebobmyhero

I cut wheat out of my diet. Almost all of my cravings and overeating impulses have disappeared with it! The only time I want to binge is when I get really hungry, but that rarely happens anymore.

trea16

does wheeat make you eat more? Why did you cut wheat?

spngebobmyhero

does wheeat make you eat more? Why did you cut wheat?

Wheat can increase hunger and cravings. I'm reading Wheat Belly right now (although I've been wheat free for 2.5 months) and there is a lot of info. I cut wheat because I wanted to see if it would make me feel better and it did. I have more energy, my belly feels better and I feel all around more healthy. I realized the other day that I wasn't having any weird food cravings anymore and that the girl scout cookies sitting on a coworker's desk weren't calling to me at all