Oh, my, god, yes! I've talked to others on here who are the same and I do so much better in the all or nothing category. I can't measure certain foods..so I don't buy then. I have NO peanut butter...but replace it with raw nuts instead because I can control those. I do not have baked goods around either because I will eat them when I'm stressed. I'll still bake, but right before I'm bringing it somewhere else. Occasionally I'll have dark chocolate raisinets and I'll be able to control it for the most part...sometimes I go overboard and throw them out because I'd rather waste food in the trash than waste it on my body : /. I'm working on it, baby steps! Salty things like chips and pretzels don't really get to me, just anything sweet!

I'm interested to see this topic in this group because, as IceyRain said, we with BED will have much different perspectives.

I seem to be giving up donuts for now. I fought a freaking BATTLE with donuts last week!! They are a huge trigger food for me, and I would never buy them right now, but someone brought them in to work, and I had this mental war with myself about whether I could enjoy half of one or even a whole one without screwing with my mindset. A friend (who also struggles with binge eating) said something that was quite valuable and that made me ultimately decide not to eat any donuts--"Donuts will still be there when you are better able to cope with them." For some reason, that made a big difference, that I wasn't saying NO NEVER to donuts, but I was saying "Not right now" because my "recovery" is too new and vulnerable. I may not have binged on donuts then and there, but I don't know that eating a half or a whole last week wouldn't have set something off, and I have loved feeling in control the last month or so TOO MUCH to jeopardize that. So while I may not have completely given up this trigger food, I have for now, until I am better able to cope with it, whenever that is.

I tend to keep regular bread out of the vicinity, but mainly because I don't see much use in bread anyway and it is full of rubbish. I do keep basic bread around, that is just rye, water and salt basically, and have no issues with that. I don't have peanut butter around anymore, I never really binged on it, just ate more than I would like and I can think of more nutritious ways to pack in a few hundred calories. Even my ex trainer who is a nutritionist said peanut butter isn't that great nutritionally. I do still buy in tubs of ice cream sometimes, or larger quantities of chocolate, because I feel for me personally, it is burying my head in the sand and taking the easy way out to not buy it at all. I want to learn moderation, and to be able to be around foods without fear, and the only way to do that is by challenging myself. Sometimes I will binge, sometimes I will go days or a week with the food sitting there, just having a portion or none at all. I don't buy in baked goods as the only reason I ever did buy them was specifically to binge. Outside of that, I never bought that kind of thing anyway. Bread and chocolate are the only foods I used to buy in regularly, in terms of potantial binge foods.

I can keep dark chocolate around safely usually, and stick to a square or two. I can now keep nuts around and generally stick to a portion. It does come down to self control and power of will, to quite a degree. I tend to only want to eat healthy foods to sate hunger, so often the only times I do eat that kind of food is when I am not hungry. Nevertheless, I don't see myself giving it up altogether. I accept that I will probably always have days where I overeat on some things, it is just the way I am. I think the issue comes when occasional overeating is seen as somehow abnormal or a problem.

I have come to realise FOR NOW refined sugar.
But it's a catch 22 by restricting I binge, but I don't think I am strong enough to just have one serving?!

2) Foods I cannot have in the house, ever. These are things like ANY baked goods, candy, plus most snack foods, especially crunchy Cheetos and potato chips. Pizza is also a big one for me. My fiance is ok with not having these foods in the house, since we both agreed that if we REALLY want something junky, we can get in the car and go get a controlled portion Hopefully, by the time I have children, I will be able to control it; since I don't want to not have snacks in the house for them.

I would not worry about your future children and snacks. They don't need to get hooked on the junky snacks. If you don't start them on them they will not like them hopefully. You will do them a favor for sure. Healthy fruits, etc are great snacks for your future children. My 2 cents.....:flowerforyou: And if I ever had kids I would make sure to tell them from infancy junk food and fast foods are unhealthy and bad for you, etc.

I'm more sweet than savoury. I've had to give up peanut butter, toast with sweet spreads, certain yoghurts, all chocolate, cereals, biscuits, cakes, I can't eat a normal portion, I've tried but it never works.