Thought I had cravings and binge eating beat. Nope!

You are doing well. Keep learning

I have the same issue but no BED...it's one of those things...it can be hard to get back on the wagon after a day or a week of not caring...

imagine after being at an all inclusive resort for a week...a whole week....it's hard to get back on the horse sometimes you have to want it bad enough.

I feel you on this too. I have not been randomly snacking or eating candy for months. Than one day I decide to get a candy bar, next day it is poptarts, next pringles. Regained 5lbs and now am buckling down again to get rid of it again plus the additional 10lbs i still have to loose.

Losingthedamnweight wrote: »

I haven't majorly screwed up on my eating since June. June I say! I have been so on point with my eating and weight loss I thought my entire lifestyle changed to the point where my binge eating and insane cravings were behind me. Nope!

I'm learning more about myself everyday. I can have one high calorie meal no problem. The cravings don't come back and I'm good. I'll burn it off and go back to my calorie deficit. Eat two high calorie meals? I'm back on the binge eating train where my cravings control me and I just can't freaking stop thinking about food. It all started with thanksgiving...

When we celebrated thanksgiving I thought "why not just have a DAY where I don't count? It's only one day!" Then everything snowballed from there. I ate too much food, the cravings came back and after that, I felt like I was barely hanging on. And this past weekend I screwed up again for a DAY which turned into a weekend.

Lesson learned. I can handle a higher calorie than usual meal every now and then. But I need to know my limits before I revert back to my old self and gain all the weight back.

I'll join the conversation with the same experience over a longer period of time. I started MFP on May 5th, 2013 after finally realizing that I was getting older and going to eat my self to death. I weighed about 350 pounds. I now realize I was grazing on food all day and packing the weight on. Someone at work had been using MFP for a few months and was having good results so I figured I'll try it. Well it worked great. I lost around 90 pounds by May 5th, 2014 (exactly one year later) I was down to 259. I remember feeling so confident at that time because I was having no trouble logging my food, walking a few miles almost every day, and running once in a while. I said to myself "I can keep doing this forever". But then I got over confidant. I thought I could skip a day once in a while with no problem, I'll just pick up again the next day. Then it became a few days on & off. Then I would not log for a week or two, skip my walks, and say "I can just pick back up at any time and continue on my weight loss journey". I put back on 20 pounds or so and made some half hearted attempts to start going in the right direction again. Summer turned in to Fall and then the Holidays hit and some more pounds found their way back on. 2015, same problems. A few poor attempts to get started again, a few failures, a few more pounds back on. And then, like you, the binge eating started again, as well as the constant grazing at night. So here I was, the day after Thanksgiving at 300 pounds again. I was horrified that that "first number" had changed again. I made a resolution to reverse direction. I'm two weeks back in the saddle, down 6 pounds, and exercising again. I haven't failed to log a meal or a piece of food since. Small goals, 10 pounds by the end of the year, back to where I was by May 5th, and if I can really get back moving again, down to 250 by that same date.

The point I am trying to make is that once you say "it's only one day" it can quickly becomes a slippery slope. Log it even if you go out and have the wildest cheat day ever. It keeps the good habit of logging going, and if needed, you can look back on that day as a reminder that you need to keep logging your food.

I'm new to this journey and I'm experiencing the same things.

I'm amazed at how quick I was to feed my emotions. Every emotion I experienced I managed to use food to cope with it. Happiness, sadness, anger, love, etc.

Since I'm new i'm trying to start by just logging everything I eat and seeing the calories and using that for reinforcement.

I let myself off the hook on Thanksgiving as well and for me, that's huge... ask anyone here who knows me. I didn't log and ate everything and anything I wanted. Then I went home, without any leftovers or takeaways, to my home where I had spent a day or two scrubbing for triggering food items. The next day was business as usual.

I understand what you are dealing with. I'm trying to do better day by day and take it one meal at a time.