Having trouble with the binging!

I feel like this is all I ever write but it sounds like you need more protein and more often. Try eating protein every three hours. My breakfast always includes either one egg and one egg white with 1/4 cup oats or three egg whites w/oats. A few hours after that I have protein shake. Lunch is fish with veggies mid afternoon almonds or lowfat cottage cheese with fresh berries etc. It has been 2 1/2 weeks and I have no late afternoon or evening cravings and I am gaining muscle and losing weight.

I found when I first started dieting I had to take an appetite suppressant to curb evening cravings. i think it was a combination of many different changes at once. For one I am horrible at drinking water and discovered I will crave food when I am actually thirsty. Sounds weird but it is true. Also I was changing over from highly processed, high fat, high carb foods to more whole foods. I think my body was in a little shock craving the extra calories and carbs. I believe a lot of the cravings for me had to do with adjusting with the amounts of endorphins and leptin from the "less satisfying foods". I used the appetite suppresant for 6 months last year and lost 25 lbs but gave up for 6 months and gained it all back. I have restarted and decided to skip the suppressants now because to do it long term I need to do it on my own. It is way easier the 2nd time around. The suppressant is called Adicor by Kat-A-Lyst. Loved it, it may help ya. Also I try to save a few 100 calories just for evening if I want a little snack. I don't get huge binge cravings anymore.

i have trouble with this myself too.. i wanna stuff my face every time i get stressed or mad or depressed and i always regret it and its become hard to lose weight .... ive only been at it 41/2 weeks now and im down 8-9 pounds i go up and down everyday im weight but i am down like 2-3 jean sizes though

I feel like this is all I ever write but it sounds like you need more protein and more often. Try eating protein every three hours. My breakfast always includes either one egg and one egg white with 1/4 cup oats or three egg whites w/oats. A few hours after that I have protein shake. Lunch is fish with veggies mid afternoon almonds or lowfat cottage cheese with fresh berries etc. It has been 2 1/2 weeks and I have no late afternoon or evening cravings and I am gaining muscle and losing weight.

Pretty much this. If you want to binge just eat protein instead. Actually, not just protein, make sure you get some fat in it, too. Ground beef, fatty steak (lean steak or chicken doesn't work nearly as well, at least not for me), a protein shake I guess if you just don't have anything else handy, but better still if you throw some ground beef patties into a baggy and bring those to work instead.

It's a matter of exchanging sweets and other carbs for something that will fill you up. Add a veggie or a small serving of fruit to it and you're good to go. I bet with a bellyful of steak you won't look at a box of doughnuts or pizza and decide you will die if you don't get it.

I binge eat and graze. I often ask myself, before I go after the snack machine, "how are you going to feel in two hours after you have eaten that cookie? Will you want another cookie? Will you have the control to not eat another? If, yes, then don't eat it now." Or I ask myself, what if I had already had that snack and wanted another, etc. It is not easy, which is why we are here. We like to eat. Look at the calories, first. Ask yourself if they are really worth it. :flowerforyou:

I tend to bing when im not dealing with my emotions..

maybe try drinking more water and have a piece of fruit