Problem with binging?

livingfresh
livingfresh Posts: 14 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Throughout the day, i eat great and exercise well. But when night comes, i always end up binging on food like chips, candy, sweets, etc. How should I prevent this from happening? I always feel horrible after it happens :(

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  • vespiquenn
    vespiquenn Posts: 1,455 Member
    If portion control is an issue, you may want to just remove the items from the household until you can bring them back into your diet without going overboard.

    If this isn't an option, creating baggies with one portion of each food may help. That way, even if it's a binge, you're consuming less than just eating out of the package.

    And still continue to log it if you don't. It helps keeping yourself accountable. It may help you realize how much (or little) your binges actually account for in your daily intake.
  • Maxematics
    Maxematics Posts: 2,287 Member
    It depends on what you mean by eat "great"; are you overrestricting a bunch of foods during the day?
  • Tertius88
    Tertius88 Posts: 1 Member
    Easiest method would be to toss out all of the junk food and replace those foods with healthier options to snack on in the evening.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    livingfresh wrote: »
    Throughout the day, i eat great and exercise well. But when night comes, i always end up binging on food like chips, candy, sweets, etc. How should I prevent this from happening? I always feel horrible after it happens :(

    What are your weekly weight loss goals set to? I see you only have 13 pounds to lose -with that little to lose, you should have it set at 0.5 pounds per week. If you create a larger deficit, that could be too aggressive and setting you up for over eating at night.

    If that's not it, please change your Diary Sharing setting to Public: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings

  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    Tertius88 wrote: »
    Easiest method would be to toss out all of the junk food and replace those foods with healthier options to snack on in the evening.

    That doesn't stop cravings. The next time they go to the store they buy a box of swiss cake rolls and a party size bag of chips, both of which are empty by the time they get home.

    An even easier method is to make sure that the calorie goal isn't too aggressive (as kshama2001 said) then plan to have one portion of chips or cookies or candy in the evening. It will take practice, but in the end they don't have to deprive themselves of anything. THAT is how you break a binge cycle, not further restriction.

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