Binge :((((

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  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,221 Member
    A classic weight loss tale. Moral of the story; don't deprive yourself.:smile:
  • nightcheeselemon
    nightcheeselemon Posts: 10
    I understand that I should but I can't let myself eat bad things

    It doesn't sound dumb at all. But what things are "bad" things?

    I would consider bad things like chocolate, bread, chips etc
  • nightcheeselemon
    nightcheeselemon Posts: 10
    i go completely without the things i like for a while and then i just go crazy.

    Then don't go without.

    I understand that I should but I can't let myself eat bad things when things are going well. It's hard to explain and I know it sounds stupid :)
    Foods aren't "bad". This mentality is feeding your binge eating. Weight loss/gain is about energy balance. It doesn't sound stupid, and it's very common to think how you're thinking, but it's not healthy, and you're really going to struggle to stop binging if you keep thinking about food in that way.

    Ok thank you that helps :) I would still say certain foods are bad such as milk chocolate, white bread, chips (or fries)...all of which I love haha
  • Whambam087
    Whambam087 Posts: 170
    I just started doing IIFYM and so far I love it! I eat healthy most of the day, but then after dinner I'll have met my protein and fat macros for the most part and ilI have a little bit of an allowance for carb calories (which is what most yummy treats are) so I'll have a treat. Lately it has been icecream lol. Tried the whole clean thing but really why wait for such and such day to have a treat when I can easily fit it into my day. That way I don't feel deprived. Works for me.
  • tataylllor
    tataylllor Posts: 51 Member
    allow yourself to eat the foods you want and stay within your calories. I eat healthy overall (100% whole wheat and pasta lean meats, fruits and veggies) but I love love love chocolate and icecream. I let myself have a little treat in the afternoon and after dinner. I use to be the all or nothing dieter too and would find myself binging a lot. The way I am doing it now is teaching me portion control. With my afternoon snack I have one or two pieces of chocolate and it's usually under 100 calories and I usually have it after something healthy (not a full bar). Or I use a food scale and measure out a serving size of icecream. If I do eat a full bar of chocolate cause it's just one of those days, I regret it later cause I find myself hungry because the non filling chocolate bar took up too many calories, so I rarely have those days. I use to couldn't have any sweets in my house cause I would just binge but now I have a treat cupboard of a few of my favorites that I allow myself some of. It's also teaching my kids it's ok to have a little but don't need a lot, cause you'll get a little tomorrow too. When I use to keep all sweets out of the house I would find my kids over indulging in anything sweet when they were around it. That is not a healthy lifestyle.

    I have about the same stats as you so it is encouraging knowing someone else has beaten it :) My problem is I just don't know when to stop once I start binging. How did you overcome it? I just can't seem to change....I feel like if I eat a small bit of something bad one day I may as well eat whatever I want. I know it doesn't work like that but my mind doesn't want to let me think otherwise! sorry for the rant!! congrats on your weight loss so far :)

    This is exactly me!! I have been binging the past weeks and gained all my weight back.. I need a balance, but when I attempt it, I just go all out!! :c
  • Xenoblader
    Xenoblader Posts: 7 Member
    Does anybody else binge on the food in their house because they have an irrational fear of the food they are binging on is going to expire? I feel like that sometimes.

    I also ALWAYS have to eat the nuts or snacks I keep in my room next to my laptop. As soon as I start browsing the Internet those nuts are gone and the guilt is there forever lol.

    I don't know the solution for me is to just only have food for that day. But it is kind of pathetic that I can't get food for a week in advance for fear of basically wasting money and binging on it. Although this tends to lend itself more to snacks and not stuff like raw meats which takes effort to cook and I would never really see myself binging on at all. Nuts are just one of my trigger foods I guess.
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    I've learned to divide nuts into 100-calorie snack sized zipper bags. Now I eat nuts practically every day, and they fit into my calorie goal.

    It took a while, though. At first, I'd eat 2 or 3 packs at a time. But that was still better than an entire bag. Now, knowing I can have them whenever I want makes it easy to enjoy the hell out of just one pack.

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