20th April.

Kate - 16.
Binge - 4.

Went overboard before bed last night...well, early this morning actually. I ate when I was already full and although it was all heathy stuff, it was too much and I purged so I must count it as a binge.

Me - 17
Binge - 3

Worked overtime today and am tired and HUNGRY! Hubs just went to the store to get his binge food and asked me what I wanted - I just ignored him lol. Hopefully he won't bring me anything, because right now I'd probably eat it.

Me: 11 days of healthy eating in a row!
B: 9

Angela: 15
The Binge: 6

So, today closes out the week for me. I'm over calories for the week (more even than last week) but I only had one true, FULL BLOWN, binge.

That's good. Normally, I think I'm more like 2-3 per week.

My calories were higher because I didn't withhold in order to 'make-up' the difference. I'm hoping that the pay off for this will come next week when two things happen:

1) My body feels safe knowing that I am not going to randomly starve it.

2) My mind recalls that any amount OVER that I eat on any given day, WILL increase my weekly overage. There's no making it up later. Each day is its own game.

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The other part of my strategy for next week comes from something that I realized during a near-binge this week:

Logging the food that I'm craving into MFP (via the app) to eat on a later date TOTALLY seems to help me. I think this works for several reasons.

I work as a behavior analyst (ironic, right?) and something that I KNOW about behavior is that it's VERY difficult to get rid of a behavior without either a) shaping it into something more appropriate or b) replacing it with another, more desirable, behavior.

The strategy of 'logging for later', employs both techniques. On one hand, when I feel 'bingey' I get to engage in the new behavior of 'planning.' Additionally, I'm shaping the unwanted behavior (eating highly caloric foods whenever, where ever, however) into a more appropriate behavior (eating highly caloric foods at a planned, controlled time).

It's really empowering to be able to 'give yourself' all of the foods that you are wanting to eat, but without having the negative effects of a binge. Of course, it means that this weekend I ate quite a few desserts, but none of them sent me over the edge, and I believe that this will eventually even out.

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Anyhow, this might be something for some of you to try, if you're looking for a new strategy. I'm going to keep trying it out over the next week, and see if I can get my first binge free week in MONTHS.

I'll let you know how it goes!

me 16
binge 3

Had a binge last night. I felt terrible after. What I can't figure out is why I do this to myself when I know it makes me feel terrible

Today : April 21st

I've been back over my food diary for this month and re categorised as follows;

Days within calorie goal : 10
Days almost within calorie goal (within 200 calories) : 3
Over eating days (but NOT binge) : 5
Binge : 2 (originally I counted 3 binges this month, but pon closer inspection, one of them was over calories, yes, but certainly not a characteristic binge)
Days where the guilt monster made me starve myself to compensate for overeating : 0 (I'm quite proud of this one, as usually I yo yo through the month in a binge / starvation cycle)

So, all in all, so far, I say I have 18 wins& the binge gets 2.

Today looks to be another exceed my calorie kind of day, but I'm hoping to avoid the big B.

Kim: 18
Binge: 2

21st April.

Kate - 17.
Binge - 4.

Had a really bad one yesterday, but am okay today. One good thing now is that I get my act together the day after. It has been a long time since I had more than a single episode of binging. It was my cheat day, and as with the last planned one, I ate over what I had planned. Thus, I will in future be sticking to one item each Saturday as my cheat, and not several. I still ate as usual today pretty much, once I had done a good exercise session. No way I could have done otherwise as I was starving when I got home.

I have noticed that a lot here, seem to be very obsessed with numbers, details, listing things. I am fairly sure that is one aspect of what drives this sort of disorder. The over focus on details. The perfectionism.

Heather: 20
Binge: 1

April 15 - 21

Me - 4
Binge - 3

It is so difficult to eat within the 1500 calorie mark. When I mean binge I go max to 1900 when I don't excercise

April 21


Me:14

Binge:7

So glad the weekend is over.

April 21
Karen 13
The Binge 9

Days Left 8

Binge Days
4/1 4/2 4/3 4/4
4/5 4/8 4/10 4/14
4/16


Overate calories but did not binge day
4/13 4/18

4-22-13
Jul: 17
Binge: 5 (4/4, 4/5, 4/11, 4/12, 4/19)

Days left in April: 8

I can do this, I really think I can. My 25th birthday is on Saturday and it's also my best friend's weeding (ugh, sigh) so I'll be busy with social stuff and out of town which means bingeing is unlikely. I also have a boy coming to visit in 2.5 weeks..my new motivation.

Me: 21
The binge 0