Day 35: When did your binging start?
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Day 35: When did your binging start? Why do you think it started?
My binging started last December, I was about 4 months into MFP. I was strictly eating 1300 calorie a day, because that's what MFP said. Then the holidays came, I had been deprived and from the calorie restriction, just went crazy. Unfortunately this habit has stuck, it was well into February before I was going more than a few days between binges. I've since upped my calories and have been doing better. One thing I've just figured out recently, since doing this challenge mostly, is that I get starving every 9-10 days. I eat what I'm supposed to, 1900 on non-lifting days and 2200 on lifting days (so nothing restrictive) but every 9-10 days I just get hungry, and that's when I was binging, I had been kind of anticipating it the last few times and have been able to stay in control, ate more than my goals, but not full on crazy binge mode. I think I'm going to try doing a cheat day, which I hate that term, but one day a weekend where I eat just over maintence. I think my body is telling me it needs more calories. It just happens every 9-10 days, so instead of getting to that point and boardering on being bingey, I'm going to try to head it off and eat more every 7 days and see if that will keep my crazy binge brain at bay. We'll see if it works, I keep trying new things, something has to eventually!
My binging started last December, I was about 4 months into MFP. I was strictly eating 1300 calorie a day, because that's what MFP said. Then the holidays came, I had been deprived and from the calorie restriction, just went crazy. Unfortunately this habit has stuck, it was well into February before I was going more than a few days between binges. I've since upped my calories and have been doing better. One thing I've just figured out recently, since doing this challenge mostly, is that I get starving every 9-10 days. I eat what I'm supposed to, 1900 on non-lifting days and 2200 on lifting days (so nothing restrictive) but every 9-10 days I just get hungry, and that's when I was binging, I had been kind of anticipating it the last few times and have been able to stay in control, ate more than my goals, but not full on crazy binge mode. I think I'm going to try doing a cheat day, which I hate that term, but one day a weekend where I eat just over maintence. I think my body is telling me it needs more calories. It just happens every 9-10 days, so instead of getting to that point and boardering on being bingey, I'm going to try to head it off and eat more every 7 days and see if that will keep my crazy binge brain at bay. We'll see if it works, I keep trying new things, something has to eventually!
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Day 35: When did your binging start? Why do you think it started?
I had been binging for so long that I can't really remember when it began. I think it began when I was put on serequel which hunger is a side effect. I was taken off the drug, but the binging continued as I watched my weight climb to 200 lbs before joining MFP. It started out of boredom and anxiety and became a regular habit.0 -
My binging started when I started getting really restrictive with my diet. No this, no that, "bad foods". All these things began to take over as my weight loss was really becoming an issue rather than a victory. I was shrinking back into the size of a 12 year old girl, and I'm 17 years old. Instead of upping the calories and becoming more lenient, I became more strict and controlling, which led me to sporadically binge and restrict, binge and run 10 miles. Ahhh. I have had so many issues but never knew it would go so far. I'm thankful I have been able to get a grip on reality before plummeting downward and getting caught up in everything like some girls unfortunately wind up doing.
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I have been binging since I was a little kid. I would sneak food, especially at night or when no one was around. I would simply just eat more than I needed to throughout the day and more in single sittings than my body needed. I finally got control of binging my senior year of High School, then lost to binging when I entered college.
This is my chance to get myself back on track. It has been difficult, and I still binge but I am trying not too.0
