What do you do post-binge?
Reza151
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I know many people compensate for their bignes by eating less the next day. I try to just eat raw, clean foods the day after a late night inge. (Key word try, but lately ive been having late night snack attacks AND binges at least 4 to 5 days per week, over the past month or two). Thursday at 12 am, I woke up and consumed about 800 calories. Friday at 3am: 900 calories.
I've been reading Breaking Free from Emotional Eating by Geneen Roth and trying to follow the bit about not eating unless sitting down and actually ENJOYING the food. The problem: I enjoy the food during the binge but afterwards, I hate myself. I creid in bed on Saturday morning over how much I had eaten.
SO my question is: What do you do after a binge to feel better and not do it again? What do you tell yourself? How do you let the binge affect your calorie count?
In answer to the last question, i've decided that I will not eat any food unless it has been portioned out. If it can't be measured or counted, for logging purposes on MFP, then I won't eat it. This extends to ANY foods that I can't log, i.e. if there is free food at work and I don't know where it came from, brand, calorie content, I really can't put the food in my diary so I might as well skip it.
I've been reading Breaking Free from Emotional Eating by Geneen Roth and trying to follow the bit about not eating unless sitting down and actually ENJOYING the food. The problem: I enjoy the food during the binge but afterwards, I hate myself. I creid in bed on Saturday morning over how much I had eaten.
SO my question is: What do you do after a binge to feel better and not do it again? What do you tell yourself? How do you let the binge affect your calorie count?
In answer to the last question, i've decided that I will not eat any food unless it has been portioned out. If it can't be measured or counted, for logging purposes on MFP, then I won't eat it. This extends to ANY foods that I can't log, i.e. if there is free food at work and I don't know where it came from, brand, calorie content, I really can't put the food in my diary so I might as well skip it.
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I don't have much advice, but I'm trying a similar strategy - only eating something when I can log the item with a good level of calorie precision..
I haven't binged since Dec 31 - what's helped: drinking lots of water (I think I used to eat because I was dehydrated), eating every few hours, planning out my food at the beginning of the day and avoiding my trigger foods (I haven't had chocolate or candy since Dec 31)
I also distinguish when I'm hungry vs. just want dessert. I used to fill up on junk when I was hungry - that didn't get me anywhere. Now I'll eat healthy food if I'm hungry. If I want dessert, I'll have two tablespoons of lime yogurt..is it possible that you're hungry late at night because you're not eating enough during the day?
I only record my weight once a month on MFP (I started Jan 1st - so in Jan I lost 14 pounds) - but I did step on the scale this morning and am down another 7..so my strategy appears to be working!
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When I first started MFP I was in the middle of a binge with chips and queso. I thought WAIT I have to log this food. In 15 min I had gorged 1000 cals of those damned chips! I have to log everything, or I'll just fog out like I used to. That's the whole point to MFP, for me, for right now. I haven't even started on the feelings part yet - I'm still just trying not to blow out my stomach with food. I think I've stuffed the feelings down with food for so many decades, it'll take at least that long for me to have a healthy relationship with food.0
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I reached my goal weight and I STILL battle binge eating. Its almost always triggered by stress and it also lasts usually 3-5 days for me and happens late at night.
I will literally eat until I am stuffed and feel sick from being so full but my brain keeps screaming for more. I feel mentally insane like im trapped inside my brain just watching myself do it.
I don't think there's much you can really do, I find It easier to prevent than to recover from, I just say..
"A moment on your lips, a lifetime on your hips"
Its what my dad used to say to me but I was too young to realize he was telling me to stop eating lol
If you do binge, just pick yourself back up and try to make tomorrow different, we are strong and we can get through this
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Right now my biggest issue post-binge is that I don't like to log it. So I'm working on logging every bite (as much as I can since I don't measure/weight during binges). When I see it all laid out, how I ate 500 calories of nachos covered in fatty cheese PLUS a 300 calorie bowl of snack mix and a 250 calorie chocolate bar; all in less than 2 hours
it's sobering to say the least. (and yes, that's an actual binge listing from earlier this week - ick).
So I've binged twice this week and logged it both times. That's HUGE for me. I used to just give up for the day, then figure the week was lost so why bother trying to do well the rest of the week. BUT, I can now compare my calorie intake to my Fitbit and see that while I binged, I'm still under my total burn for the day and while I'm not going to be losing anything that day, I still have a chance to show a loss the rest of the week. The two binges this week - one I was just a little over my daily burn, and the other I was still 500 under. So what in the past would have sent me over the edge now just reminded me that I need to be careful the rest of the week.0 -
I tend to purge when I binge, unfortunately. Sometimes though, I have not done that. I usually, in those cases, go to bed, or I carry on and try and distract myself by watching something or browsing the net. I feel awful after my binges because when I binge, I really do binge. I would not even call anything under 1000 calories a binge, for me personally, because my binges always exceed 2000 calories, and generally go up as high as 6000-7000 calories, usually composed of ice cream, baked goods, chocolate, cookies, doughnuts and the like. I have not had as many super high calorie binges recently, fortunately. I no longer go out, as I used to, and buy a carrier bag full of food to binge on. I seem able to pause and stop myself from doing that now, and to buy limited quantities.
I usually get stuck in days of binging once I start as the high sugar intake tends to drive intense cravings/hunger, for more of the same. It takes a lot of intense exercise to get me back on track afterwards, and that is the only way for me really. I also usually feel tired, puffy and weak after the binges, which makes getting back into the exercise hard, and tend to stop going out if I get caught in a long run of severe binge days.0 -
I used to purge and water fast (recovering from purging type anorexia and started binging three months ago) but I haven't purged in almost two whole months. Now, I either cry, workout, listen to sad music or go to sleep. Once I've forgiven myself for the binge, I carry on as normal, or I try to, I'm trying to not fast the rest of the day or fast the next couple of days after.0
