I binged today.

Everyone slips, just move forward. Tomorrow is a new day

I was only going to have 2 chocolate chip cookies and ate the whole bag....360 calories. going to work up a sweat tonight and do better tomorrow. it happens to all of us don't feel bad

As long as you enjoyed them its okay!

Shake it off, move a bit more tomorrow and eat a little cleaner. Dont panic, this is a lifestyle change not a diet xx

i LOVE these posts

One of my brilliant MFP friends said to me "Let it go - your next meal is your way back".

Red bean buns ARE tasty. Are they the frozen kind that you have to steam? I know for a fact that they take ~15 minutes to steam so maybe next time just cook two for yourself and put the rest back in the freezer if you're finding them pre-made (I've never seen them that way so I apologize if I'm being silly), just get the frozen kind next time and use this method. It's a lot harder to overeat when you have to consciously prepare something to have another portion!

I do not want to offend anyone in regard to eating more than planned and definitely do not want to belittle BED. I wanted to ask for quite a while now on the subject of binging and clarify my perception.
When I studied an MA in Nutritional Science 30 plus years ago I learned that " binging " means to ingest at least 2000 or more calories in one sitting ( about a two hour time period ) on top of what the normal daily calories are. I also learned that for an eating behavior to be called " binging " it has to occur on a weekly basis usually more than once.
I also visited several times a OA group with a friend and when they spoke of binging they talked of eating 12 doughnuts, half a gallon of ice cream and a family size pizza in one sitting. My friend would eat a pizza, a big bucket of KFC with mashed potatoes, slaw, gravy and biscuits, a carton of ice cream and if that was not enough she would eat a package of cake mix dry with a spoon with a bottle of Hershey's chocolate syrup or a whole package of instant mashed potatoes. No one in that group ever spoke of binging when they ate just a few hundred calories more or when it only occurred occasionally
Is the word binging used differently in the US culture ? Has the usage of the word in English changed in general over the last decades ?
Since I joined MFP I have read a lot about binging in various threads, but no one really binges imo based on what I have learned....needless to say, I am somewhat confused.

There is a great youtube video by Durian rider about emotional eating. Check it out.

what is a red bean paste bun? Sounds different.........

Are you from the US?

Sounds unusual, hopefully, not high in calories? But good luck as well, it happens ,just make goals that you can work towards and remeber, like the one lady said, tormorrow is a new day.........

They're a Japanese food (& Chinese too, not sure where they originated) but available in the US at Asian grocery stores They're a little bread bun filled with a sweet red bean paste, quite tasty and filling but a bit calorie dense.

I do not want to offend anyone in regard to eating more than planned and definitely do not want to belittle BED. I wanted to ask for quite a while now on the subject of binging and clarify my perception.
When I studied an MA in Nutritional Science 30 plus years ago I learned that " binging " means to ingest at least 2000 or more calories in one sitting ( about a two hour time period ) on top of what the normal daily calories are. I also learned that for an eating behavior to be called " binging " it has to occur on a weekly basis usually more than once.
I also visited several times a OA group with a friend and when they spoke of binging they talked of eating 12 doughnuts, half a gallon of ice cream and a family size pizza in one sitting. My friend would eat a pizza, a big bucket of KFC with mashed potatoes, slaw, gravy and biscuits, a carton of ice cream and if that was not enough she would eat a package of cake mix dry with a spoon with a bottle of Hershey's chocolate syrup or a whole package of instant mashed potatoes. No one in that group ever spoke of binging when they ate just a few hundred calories more or when it only occurred occasionally
Is the word binging used differently in the US culture ? Has the usage of the word in English changed in general over the last decades ?
Since I joined MFP I have read a lot about binging in various threads, but no one really binges imo based on what I have learned....needless to say, I am somewhat confused.

I went to school for psychology and was taught the same thing. You are correct in the technical definition of binge eating disorder, but "binging" can also mean eating in excess against your personal desire or will. Meaning, if you eat something, or a lot of something, that you didn't want to, but you did it anyways to comfort yourself, then you were "binge eating". This is easy to determine based on how a person feels after they have eaten said food.

I do not want to offend anyone in regard to eating more than planned and definitely do not want to belittle BED. I wanted to ask for quite a while now on the subject of binging and clarify my perception.
When I studied an MA in Nutritional Science 30 plus years ago I learned that " binging " means to ingest at least 2000 or more calories in one sitting ( about a two hour time period ) on top of what the normal daily calories are. I also learned that for an eating behavior to be called " binging " it has to occur on a weekly basis usually more than once.
I also visited several times a OA group with a friend and when they spoke of binging they talked of eating 12 doughnuts, half a gallon of ice cream and a family size pizza in one sitting. My friend would eat a pizza, a big bucket of KFC with mashed potatoes, slaw, gravy and biscuits, a carton of ice cream and if that was not enough she would eat a package of cake mix dry with a spoon with a bottle of Hershey's chocolate syrup or a whole package of instant mashed potatoes. No one in that group ever spoke of binging when they ate just a few hundred calories more or when it only occurred occasionally
Is the word binging used differently in the US culture ? Has the usage of the word in English changed in general over the last decades ?
Since I joined MFP I have read a lot about binging in various threads, but no one really binges imo based on what I have learned....needless to say, I am somewhat confused.

Red bean buns are ~220-250 calories each, so if you define a binge as 2000 calories or more, eating 9 buns would definitely fall in that category...

That said, I don't think you need to have a strict definition of "binging" in order to use it in proper context... If someone eats 1000 calories in a sitting over what they normally would consume, due to emotional eating or bored eating or what have you, that's excessive enough that I would think calling it a "binge" would be proper.

Don't feel bad, it will only make it worse :flowerforyou: It happened, move on from it.

I don't know about you, but when I crave sugar it's because my blood sugar is really low. I find getting a lot of protein helps, as does trying to cut back a little on carbs.

(Full disclosure: I'm a total carb-monster, so me "cutting back" is more or less equating to me meeting my goal, but working on increasing protein helps enormously.)

Whoa! I had to look those up, but that was a pretty impressive binge. I can also feel your need to confess to MFP.

You know better. And you will know how to avoid doing it again. One day will not undo how far you've come - and don't let it! Hang in there!!

3 donuts today. SO much for my willpower and waist.