binging and when to eat

Well, it's obviously making a difference to you. Being over 2 days in a row is setting yourself up. The most important lesson I have learned is how to moderate what I eat. My husband is not overweight and I'm not going to force him to give up the foods he likes. The only thing I could do was start weighing/measuring all my food. I eat all the foods I love but stay within my calories for the day.

The risk in just eating it all at once is that you are not training your brain to accept a smaller portion. Work on doing that for a few weeks. You're not going to be perfect, but every day that you are able to just have 2 cookies or 2 squares of chocolate or a handful of chips - is a victory. Keep at it and pretty soon you will get the binging under control.

Good luck.

say I have 200g of chocolate, about 1100 calories.

Seems to me the first step is understanding that that's a **** load of chocolate.

Once that is well and truly understood, the choice becomes clear.

thank you ~!! need to work on that (and stop buying cheap chocolate)

see the thing is that today and yesterday I probably had not far off 2000 extra calories? which is almost a pound

but as far as weight gain is concerned: would i gain more eating 200g choc in one day, or more if i ate it over the week?

if its calories in vs calories out is that per day or is it weekly?

A calorie SURPLUS (going over) will result in weight gain, whether it is 2000 calories in one day, or spread out over three days.

You have to get yourself mentally ready. Take some time and think about the reasons you want to lose weight, even write them down and keep them somewhere you will see it on a regular basis (like the fridge, lol).

If you have the mindset that you're depriving yourself, rather than trying to IMPROVE yourself, your attitude towards any 'healthy' vs. 'unhealthy' choices are going to feel like you're never giving yourself any leeway.

Wake up everyday and tell yourself you're going to make good choices. Chocolate can be a good choice, in moderation. You CAN have it everyday, honest! Just not loads of it.

i don't think planning for a "binge" is going to lead to long term healthy eating…

It sounds like you may need some kind of help, as you have a strange relationship with food...

it's not planning, it's more - buying the food for other things, and then caving in and eating
I am always on my feet so I tend to exist on rubbish, which is why I'm here in the frist place hahaha -- but my boyfriend wanted to make brownies and I bought the chocolate and then he said he'd got some so I Just... ate it.. UGH I have no willpower

It's not so much about will power as it is learning to eat in moderation. It's a learned skill for most people on MFP. Normal weight people do it all the time. They have learned how much they can eat to maintain their weight. I lost that skill along the way and began to believe that eating a bag of cookies one day and then starving myself the next was okay. It is NOT.

Binging is more about emotional eating than about willpower or being hungry. Work through those issues and if you can't on your own, get help from your doctor.

It's different for everyone, but for me i find it best to binge on sugary foods, and then make up the surplus with a deficit the following week, rather than eat a little bit every day. Whenever I eat sugar, I crave more sugar, so having a little every day is impossible -- I just wind up binging every day. If I can go a week or so without eating sugar, I no longer crave it. So when I decide to have something sweet, I'll eat a lot, like everything in the house, but then I won't have it again for several weeks. I know this probably isn't the healthiest option but it works for me

Just don't buy it. Buy some fruits instead.