Binges and motivation

For me personally I've found that if my calories are too low, I'll want to eat everything in sight. Do you have any wiggle room to up your calories? I also avoid night time snacking by not eating after 8pm, otherwise the kitchen would never close. I used to be a bad night time/boredom eater, but for me it's much easier to manage if I cut myself off at a certain time.

I would start off making small changes in how you eat. Trying to change all the bad at once is just difficult. For example, I recognized that my biggest problem was drinking too much regular pop. So I cut out all drinks that had calories. I drink mainly water now with a few diet pops or teas but everything else stayed the same. Once I had that habit down, I went on to the next problem area which was fast food. I stopped making trips to fast food restaurants. I'm slowly making changes to my lifestyle that I want to keep around forever. My favorite motivation is saying to myself, "If I never stop, I never have to start again."

I used to binge at night and then I realized it's because I vastly prefer eating at night. So I don't eat breakfast, have a tiny 200-300 cal lunch at 1ish, and eat everything else after 5. Lost 73ish pounds, now in maintenance.