No-BInge Challenge

I'm currently at day 5...I feel like a binge could be coming on. I'm starting to think that as I get towards the end of the work week and question what I've done all week, my productivity, performance at work etc. I start to get down on myself. I'm hanging out with friends tonight doing something active. I'm hoping it will help to keep me on track.

Best wishes to you all!!

I posted the following on a separate post on 3/5 and I wanted to share it with all of you because it truly was my AH HA moment!! Before I looked at the math and admitted to myself that even infrequent binging was detrimental to my weight loss I justified it...while I felt ashamed after binges I also found some enjoyment in them...I was eating all the foods I enjoyed (and usually until my stomach hurt). Now I am 6 days binge free and feeling in control, FINALLY!! When I have stressful days I've started calling my friend/dieting buddy to talk and it has helped immensely!

Here is the post that led me here:

I just binged. This is one of the first binges I have ever entered all of the calories for and they totaled, with my prior food of the day to 3000 calories. I also binged last night and guestimated it to be a 2500 cal day total for yesterday. However, after today's binge I thought that more honestly last night's was probably 3000 too. Then I started to think about how challenging it has been for me to lose weight. I tend to go up and down the same couple of pounds. I decided to do some math...here goes

On average I binge 8 days in a month (we'll say a month is ave. 30 days).

8x3000=24000

On the other days I would say I eat an average of 1500..I exercise and stay below my calorie goals.

22x1500=33000

24000+33000=57000/30=1900 ave. per day

For me to maintain my weight I have to eat 1770/day according to MFP, therefore I am on average eating 130calories more per day than I need to maintain. In a month that equals 3900 calories or 1.1lbs GAINED/Month.

It's no wonder my weight just goes up and down the same couple of pounds. Depending on when my binge was my weight fluctuates but if I don't get a handle on this I will just continue to gain weight. I really thought (until I looked at the math) that my binges were not so frequent as they once were and I would be able to lose weight in spite of them.

This has really been eye opening for me and I will do everything in my power to NEVER binge again. I know I have the emotional tools to handle the things that pushed me to binge in the past and now I have no excuse not to stop. If I don't stop binging I will NOT lose the weight I so desperately want to get rid of! Here we go, my diet starts NOW!!