How Do You Come Back From A Binge?

I don't have an answer to your question but I think it is very courageous of you to post about it! I fell off the wagon big time these past 3 days and don't know how to recover. Thanks for posting...would love to hear some answers.

Every day is a new day, Every meal is a new chance to start over. Dont let a binge discourage you. Its like falling off a bike, you just get back on & keep peddling toward where your going. At least you acknowledge your fault & know what not to do :O)
~Melissa

I don't have all the answers, but 3000 calories in the grand scheme of things is easy to overcome. Just move on and start today with a fresh attitude. You may not acquire a loss this week but by next week you will be back on track. Just concentrate on maintaining your calorie goal and try to incorporate some extra calorie burn by exercising more or being more active. It's ok! You are human and we have all gone over from time to time. You may need to incorporate some foods that you love into your diet. You may be depriving yourself too much which could have led to the binge. Sometimes the opposite is true also. If I have one sweet thing, I crave uncontrollably sweets for days afterwards. I have to restrict the sweets. It is just the way I am. Hang in there!

Just remember that tomorrow is a fresh day with a full set of calories so you can start over. Drink lots of water to flush out any extra sodium and try to eat really clean for a couple days to get your body back to normal.

My favorite quote from Anne of Green Gables is in my signature and applies so well here! You can do it! :flowerforyou:

If you feel the need to binge I would thing you have not changed your diet to be something you can support for a lifetime. On silly diet things like Atkins I felt the need to inhale carbs. These days I work on a balanced approach and quit listening to the fad fools. Dump refined sugars out of your diet and replace simple carbs with complex carbs. Add some lean protein and veggies in and you are you are good to go.

A bad month or 2 in a life time is nothing ,everyday is a new begining I am far from perfect I am still learning whats right for me. we all are naughty sometimes ..work towards a treat .. learn to burn of calories to eat back.. good luck keep at it.

I'm no expert and I don't pretend to play one on t.v. so these are my suggestions. First losing weight is hard and changing habits are hard. To be blunt you ****ed up, but you're human and humans **** up now and again. So try and let go some of that guilt and forgive yourself. Otherwise you're likely to beat yourself up and feel bad and that will lead you to binge again. Then you feel guilty and beat yourself up and then binge again. You can get yourself into an unhealthy cycle. So what happens tomorrow? You try again to reach that goal and if you do great! Be proud and if you don't try again tomorrow and the next day and the next and so on. If you keep going over your goal on a continuing bases then maybe you need to reevaluate if you truly are ready and want to lose weight. Good luck and stay strong!

I've had a couple really bad days since starting here, but after my first one I decided that one bad day is no reason to give up on the rest of my life. This process is just a series of choices. Some will be good, some will be bad. I acknowledge that, and just try to keep moving forward.

Good luck!

I read your post to my mom ( it almost made me cry) and she told me to tell you this

"You can't take back yesterday but you can start over today. God gives you a new day just for that reason. You are worth it."

so yeah. from my mom to you.

I remind myself that it took me five solid years of extreme binges to put me to a point where i needed to seriously fix something and lose the weight. I then remember the many 'occasional' failed attempts at going to the gym twice a week or eating 'healthy'.

I then reverse those pictures.

It took me almost two years of daily blood, sweat and tears to finally lose the weight. Of calorie counting, grueling workouts, and consistency. I've stumbled a million and five times along the way.

I've found myself, alone, at a chinese buffet eating as much as I could to the point of being sick. I've walked into a store and bought 30$ dollars worth of chocolate, chips, ice cream and CRAP, went home and ate it all. I've eaten a whole (large) container of peanut butter to myself. I've endured the stares at fast food shops of people watching me, at 5'2 and 117 pounds, throwing back two big macs and a large fries, all by myself. I've done it because I believe that there is something in me that is broken and that I cannot possibly be fixed, that the anxiety that I'm feeling in that very moment is worth the self-destruction and escape that I can find in that Nutella jar. I do it. Endlessly. Even now. But I know that binges, if they happen once a month, or even once or twice a week will not undo the daily hard work.

Just like exercising once a week won't make you thin, eating a million calories in one sitting because you had to have it won't make you fat or even fail at meeting your goals.

I can't seem to stop eating food since Valentine's Day. It was as if my body is so happy to find food after being on a diet for so long. I had regained 7 pounds, and I am having trouble losing it again because of the eating. I didn't have this much trouble after Thanksgiving and Christmas. Although I know that tomorrow is a new day, I can't help feeling guilty and disappointed, yet the next day I repeat the same thing again.

What you are eating has a lot to do with it to. Are you eating a lot of sugary foods like deserts and fruits? Try to limit them. These foods, along with high fat and high salty foods make you crave the same kinds of foods. There's a new hype on the news about high fructose corn syrup and its negative effect on body weight. What it does is that it blocks your body from recognizing the ability that it's full, so it triggers you to overeat. It's added in a lot of juices, condiments, sodas, and other foods to make their taste and texture appealing.

Often times, the craving is not your fault. Try to learn about and figure out which foods work best for your body, and which works against you. Also, cooking may be your best way to avoid added ingredients in foods that are unhealthy for you.

Believe me, I am having to re-learn these things again. I had lost 27 pounds last year (most of it came off quickly after I joined MFP; and times like the holidays had slowed it down). This is not my first fall out, so I know eventually my self-control will return.