Very Worst Binge/Biggest Success?
wordsandmusic51
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I am embarrassed to even post mine, lol, so I'll let you guys start and maybe I will be brave enough to post it later!
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Ok diving in. Wayyy to many binges to even try and think about my worst. I guess one of my consistent binges was during my first marriage. He used to love getting away to a friend's cabin - I hated going there. So on the weekends he would go and take our son I would head to the store and purchase the making for nachos and eat two huge dinner plates full in one sitting. Fully loaded with cheese, salsa, guacamole and sour cream. And for dessert an entire box of Dove Ice Cream bars. I just shudder when I think about it.
Best success is probably right now. Biggest success was a 70 pound weight loss in 1990 with Nutri System -- I think it lasted less than a year....sighs.0 -
Isn't it amazing how we comfort ourselves when we are unhappy like that. I could do a plate of Nachos easily, but the saving grace to some degree was that I didn't like all the toppings, like salsa, guacamole and sour cream. I would, however, do a meat topping, and of course, there was always extra cheese! I am a cheese lover. Not all cheese, but the ones I do like I can overdo if I am not really careful. I love most things that involve hot, gooey cheese! If I made one recipe like that a week from my Pinterest boards I would weight a thousand pounds by the end of the year, there is so much cheese in there! lol0
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ohhh don't get me started on cheese. I grew up eating Kraft mild cheddar, my first husband referred to it as soap....sighs. Then I got introduced to real cheese. Thanks goodness my husband doesn't like cheese at all, so I don't keep it in the house.0
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Oh my goodness CHEESE, my weakness too. Since starting MFP in Jan I try not to eat much at all, it's hard to stop. My worst binge
was that I ate half a bag of chips and a 8 oz tub of chip dip in one sitting. Man did I feel sick later. Haven't touched chip dip in 2 years.
I'm much better now, I can have chips and snacks for the family and not be too tempted because how salty they seem to me now.0 -
I think my worst binge was VERY sweet homemade cake. It was left over from my friend's baby shower. No one at home could eat much of it since it was so sweet. They all had 1 peice. I ate half a cake in 3 days. I would have several huge pieces in a row until my mouth was all tingly with surges from the sugar and then feel the connection in my brain. I truly felt like I was eating a drug. I a way I was. The ONLY thing that stopped me was a hypoglycemic attack because of it. I didn't care that it was going stale. I inhaled it even though I didn't really want it/wasn't enjoying it anymore. Course, I was going through some major emotional things...one of the worst years of my life. Its done and over and I've healed from the pain and broke the food/sugar addiction in my life. The best thing I've done- THIS. I've had moments of success in the past- even getting down to 190 lbs before I had my daughter, I've pushed some amazing limits physically several times BUT this is the first time I've tackled the emotional side of things. I know that I will succeed now due to facing the scary stuff and using MFP.0
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Amateurs! Half a bag of chips, half a cake, pffff! :laugh:
Chips can make me so sick if I eat many now, I used to binge on Ruffles and Sour Cream chips. I haven't had them in years, but even thinking about it now makes me a bit queasy. Same with all that sugar and chocolate.
Now, it's meat and cheese I have to watch out for, lol.
Okay, here we go...I ate an ENTIRE cake once. Granted, it was actually one layer split in two but it was filled with vanilla cream and covered with chocolate ganache. I had just gone shopping and about an hour after I got home a guy came to my door and said he had to nail a foreclosure notice on the house and that it was due to go on the auction block in a week. I was completely dumbstruck. My ex refused to let me handle any of the finances at the time and he had let the house go into foreclosure. I couldn't understand how I didn't know anything about it being in arrears, I worked from home so got all the phone calls, checked the mail, etc. Turns out he had changed the contact info with the bank and had diverted mail to his office and he had made sure nothing came to the house. I thought I was going to pass out right there on the porch. When I tried to call and talk to him he was 'busy' and wouldn't take my calls (a common thing, he had issues, long story) and for two days I couldn't contact him. I ate myself sick, and I wish I could say the cake was the only thing I inhaled during that time, but I think I ate myself through a weeks worth of groceries as I tried to figure out what to do. In the end, I had to borrow money to keep from losing the house and then spent the next year working to pay it off. That was the beginning of my spiral out of control, I gained almost 100 pounds that year.
I know this is common to women, emotional stress eating, but would love to hear from the guys here about what triggers them to binge as well.0 -
Wow! Sue - what a horrible thing to go through! BUT you are a true survivor. You made it through!
That's the thing about life - it always works out...somehow. It may not be how we want it to be, but we make it through anyway.
I, too, am an emotional eater. I simply didn't realize how much I depended on food for comfort until January, 2013, when I began - I mean TRULY BEGAN - this weight loss journey. I went to a very dark place, full of regrets and self-loathing. I didn't think my husband loved me - and I put him through hell because of it - but how could he love this fat, ugly woman? How could anyone love her? When the weight started coming off, it seemed so easy, how could I have failed so many times before? I had wasted most of my adult life being obese and why? I mean - how could I have let that happen when I had the tools in my hands all along?
One evening I was watching The Biggest Loser. I always used to watch that show because I saw people doing what I couldn't do. In past seasons, I never understood all the crying that the contestants did in their first few weeks on the ranch - but this time I had an epiphany...this is what I was going through! Food had been my drug, and without it, I was an emotional wreck, just like those contestants were!
Once I understood what was happening to me, I was better able to cope with it. I explained it to my husband, and even though he couldn't really understand it (never having been through it), things got better after that. I was still depressed, but I understood why and I knew it was temporary. And I hung on for dear life until it was over!
The worst thing I ever remember doing was sneaking food into the bathroom because I didn't want anyone to see me eat it. How disgusting is that?? EW!
My biggest success was on Saturday - when I ran 20 minutes straight. I have never been a runner, couldn't ever run a mile, even in high school. But on Saturday, thanks to my couch-2-5K app, I ran 1.45 miles without stopping. I'm slow and I'm sure I look a little ridiculous, but HEY! I RAN IT! :laugh:0
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