Food Binge Confession

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  • anniebelle26
    anniebelle26 Posts: 43 Member
    Ive had the same binges. I feel your anguish. Something that seems to work for me now is something that just popped into my head on day. I was at a coffee shop looking at the donuts,and I said to myself...I can have donuts right now if I want to, I just chose not to right now. It seemed to take all the stress out of the moment. I say it at least once a day now...
  • MrCoolGrim
    MrCoolGrim Posts: 351 Member
    This was me the other night. I ate a box cookies and boy did i feel guilty. I am not perfect but i know i had to fix it. So the next day i fasted till noon had a decent lunch and went to the gym and doubled up my work out burning more calories then usual. At the end of the week I still manged to lose some weight. Nobodies perfect and if we were what fun would that be.


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  • taraphannaford
    taraphannaford Posts: 49 Member
    I am right there with you. I have a very addictive personality and I've binged on food quite often. Mostly at night. One time is not going to hurt you. You haven't ruined things. Just enjoy your impromptu splurge and do better tomorrow.
  • elisa123gal
    elisa123gal Posts: 4,324 Member
    I don't understand why people have that kind of fattening food in the house. If it wasn't there you wouldn't have eaten it. So maybe keep all the breads and trigger foods out of the pantry.
  • McCloud33
    McCloud33 Posts: 959 Member
    elisa123gal wrote: »
    I don't understand why people have that kind of fattening food in the house. If it wasn't there you wouldn't have eaten it. So maybe keep all the breads and trigger foods out of the pantry.

    Again @elisa123gal , I already responded to one person about the food that I ate. You do know that all food is fattening if you eat enough of it, right? Just because there are calorie dense foods doesn't mean they're "bad". It just means that you have to learn restraint, and that was what I was missing the other night.

    As far as "sweets" in the house we have very few as a family. We have one bag of Hershey's fun size candy bars in the house that's been there for about 6 weeks. My wife likes to have a couple pieces of chocolate a couple times a week. And the reeces pieces were much the same. I think she bought them when she was on a road trip a few weeks ago and they had been sitting around since then. I had gone 2 MONTHS without a "planned" binge, which is why this caught me off guard.

    My kids eat sandwiches for lunch and like bagels and english muffins sometimes for breakfast. Peanut Butter? Cheese? Olives? Someone explain to me why any of these are "bad". I wasn't gorging on multiple bowls of cookie dough ice cream, a whole bag of oreo cookies or potato chips; this wasn't ordering a large pizza and eating the whole thing at one sitting. (all of which I've done at times in the past)

    I'm not even sure that if there's a "trigger" for you that you shouldn't keep it in the house. I LOVE ice cream. I eat it nearly every day. I force myself to keep it within my allotted calories though and on some level I believe that it's HELPING me to gain control over it. If I just continually run away from food, then I'll never have a healthy relationship with it even after I get down to my goal weight.

    sorry, end rant.

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