Are you willing to share one thing you used to binge on that now ...

Popcorn, especially when studying. I'd oil-pop it over the stovetop and throw a whack of butter and salt on that and eat a salad bowl's worth.

When I'd get a big box of See's candy on a holiday. ...

Entire blocks of chocolate, multiple packets of chocolate biscuits. I once ate a full jar of nutella.
I've eaten a whole entire pizza while watching a movie
You know the family sized microwave popcorn? That would do me while watching tv.
A kg of carrots
A tub of yoghurt
A 500gram packet of choc melts.
tins of condensed milk

I was baaaaaad for binging

Lourdesong wrote: »

Large take out pizza(s), every bite drenched in ranch dressing.
2 supersized value meals, sometimes with extras from the dollar menu along with it.
I could put a good dent in a Costco cake with cheesechake filling and/or cream cheese frosting.
Entire boxes of snack cakes, whole family size bags of chips, 2 boxes of prepared mac and cheese.

But really, if I wanted to binge I could binge on anything, even if I didn't like it much or it wasn't hyperpalatable. Like cans of vegetables and saltines.

What embarrasses me about my binge episodes is not so much the sheer volume of the food I ate, but remembering the dread of possibly being caught with all this food (say, right before the binge) and being expected to share and no one understanding this huge lot is just for me. That's what disgusts me, not just the gluttony, but the greed.

I totally hear ya on that one.

Ex-secret eater right here too! I would eat an insane amount alone; cheesecake, entire packs of biscuits or packs of large cookies, peanut butter from the jar....could easily pack away 3000 worth of calories in one sitting!

So glad I got out of that habit.

litres and litres and litres and litres of coke per day, the most stupid empty calories in the world

tortilla chips, cheese, crackers, nuts, even cereal. If I let myself get too hungry I tend to binge on those items. I could easily eat 2000 calories standing in front of the pantry grabbing whatever is available. Lesson learned, never go too long between meals.

It's hard to admit now but I can recall ordering two double big mac meals and a "side" of Mcnuggets, hoping that the cashier would think I was ordering for someone else. Not sure why I cared what a stranger thought of me but I did. And I would eat all of this by myself and reallllllly fast. As if eating it faster would mean it didn't happen or something. Ugh. I don't miss that.

I can polish off a box of cereal (even full-fat granola!) without milk, straight from the box or bag. And I can bake a cake and eat the entire thing. Also, jars of peanut butter, and several bagels. And chocolate! Sometimes it's weird things, like dry flavored oatmeal.

Cookies were my go-to binge food. Especially homemade Toll House chocolate chip cookies. I'd eat the raw dough (don't judge please) and then eat 5 or more of the finished product. I'd also sneak cookies at night after my daughter was asleep. This was after a full day of eating about 2500 calories or more, then I'd add almost 100 more all at once. No wonder I was nearly 230 pounds a year ago.

Oh so many awful awful things... pizza was always a big downfall for me. I used to order the $10 Dinner Box from Pizza Hut and eat the whole thing by myself over the course of an evening - which includes pizza, cheese sticks and cinnamon sticks. Just awful. I'm actually able to finally just have a couple pieces of pizza and a couple breadsticks when I do allow myself a pizza night, instead of the entire pizza and entire order of breadsticks. It's very liberating.

I bought a hot dog at a baseball game Saturday night. I had two bites and realized it wasn't very good and pitched it. Hated tossing 2/3 of a $3 hot dog, but darn it, I'm not going to eat something unless I'm enjoying it!

At my largest (around 500lbs) I specifically recall several incidents that come to mind...one was eating an entire large stuffed crust pizza from Pizza Hut loaded with toppings, an entire large order of "family" cheese bread sticks, and a 2 liter of Mt Dew....all while playing computer games and not even noticing the amount of food I was taking in. Worst part is, my friend was with me and I didn't even share haha. That was on top of breakfast, lunch, and god knows what other snacks I had that day.

My binges used to consist of anything I could get my hands on. Leftovers in the fridge, destroyed. Bowl of cereal, sure why not. Chips in the cupboard, gone. Big bowl of ice cream with a bunch of cookies and chocolate mixed in, well I've been this bad already so why not. Once I started, I just hated myself more and more as I continued to stuff food in my face.

It's embarrassing, yes, but something worth talking about to move past.

Now sometimes I'll still go way overboard and in the course of an evening eat 3/4 of a pizza...difference now is when I do that I am crippled and can barely move and just feel gross. And I think back and say wow, I used to eat this whole pizza, large order of breadsticks, 2 liter of dew, and could've kept eating. CRAZY...

My secret is not a secret at all. I know my weaknesses, so honestly the thing that has worked best for me is not buying things I want. I don't buy oreos because I know myself well enough to know that I will eat at LEAST 6 or more in one sitting if not the whole package...that and other things; Ice cream, Chips, etc...I just don't purchase them. I really enjoy having a few at a party or something like that, but I think a huge part of getting on the right track and staying there, is not putting yourself in situations that lead down the wrong track to begin with, aka stocking my cupboards with stuff I know I can't resist very easily.

For me it was chips and salty things, like cheese and crackers, occasionally I would go on a sweet streak. I could eat an entire bad of family size chips while watching tv, or on the computer. The sweet would be ice cream and occasionally cookies. Now I have put that all behind me and only keep healthy things in site!