What Has Been Your Worst Binge Since Joining MFP ?

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  • Graelwyn75
    Graelwyn75 Posts: 4,404 Member
    nowine4me wrote: »
    I'll spare you the details, but it was just before Christmas last year when the notorious piles of food gifts arrived. I quit logging at 7000.

    Wow, were you just a little bit bloated after this? Admittedly, I feel full to the point of pain after around 4k
  • grinning_chick
    grinning_chick Posts: 765 Member
    edited November 2017
    Last Thanksgiving. Dined out at a really good buffet for a change vs. mediocre plate dinner. Bad idea. Tasty, but a bad idea nonetheless. I'd never done that at a buffet before, and never will again. I was in so much gastric distention physical pain I actually had to cut the 4 mile post-feast walk planned to...oh, about a mile round-trip. Longest mile, evah.
  • abi111
    abi111 Posts: 50 Member
    About 12,000. many times, usually I don't log as I cant remember what I ate but this is based on the few times I have logged from wrappers etc. BED sucks. I am making progress though. :)
  • xvolution
    xvolution Posts: 721 Member
    The last time I binged was last Monday, when our city had a free festival to celebrate the beginning of our Winterfest season (aka winter tourist season). Lots of free food and drink, but luckily a few healthy foods as well such as cider, beans, apples and chili.
  • UltraVegAthlete
    UltraVegAthlete Posts: 667 Member
    Went through a period of extreme hunger after losing enough weight to be underweight and after my marathon training ended. I would binge every other day for a month and then 1-2 times a week for 3 more months. Then twice a month for another month. I couldn’t say which binge was my worst, but I remember after Christmas I got 2 lbs Medjool Dates in my stocking. I had a smoothie in the morning for breakfast, but then decided to eat all the Dates which triggered me to want to eat everything. I ate an entire jar of almond butter, 1/2 loaf of low sodium sprouted Ezekiel bread with blueberry jam, a pint of vegan icecream, a bag of vegan teriyaki chicken with mustard, and a handful of tortilla chips and hummus.

    My New Years Resolution is to not binge. If I don’t for the entire year, I’ve decided to treat myself and go to Disneyland or maybe tour national parks for the summer.
  • jjpptt2
    jjpptt2 Posts: 5,650 Member
    Graelwyn75 wrote: »
    jjpptt2 wrote: »
    I've eaten a case of Hi-Chew candy (similar to starburts) in 1 sitting. That's 220ish cals per pack, 12 packs per case, 2600 cals total, roughly.

    I've eaten a package of pull-apart cookie dough on the way home from the grocery store... 180 calories per cookie, 12 cookies... 2160 cals total.

    I've eaten a box of munchkins on the way to work... ~1700 cals.

    I've eaten 2 bacon, egg and cheese bagel combos from McDonalds on the way into work... ~ 1850 cals.

    And don't even get me started on take-out/fast food...
    - boneless wing bites + bacon cheeseburger from Applebee's: ~ 2000 cals
    - baconator combo + chicken nugget combo from Wendy's: ~ 2800 cals
    - breakfast pizza from local pizza place: ~3000 cals


    So yeah... I have an unhealthy relationship with food.

    Could I ask what on earth munchkins are and pull apart cookie dough? Never come across that here.

    Munchkins are bite-sized donuts. It's a big bite, but I'd call them bite sized.

    Pull-apart cookie dough is premade cookie dough that you buy and simply break apart into cookie-sized pieces then bake. IMO, baking is optional.
  • itsfitnessnotrocketscience
    itsfitnessnotrocketscience Posts: 27 Member
    jjpptt2 wrote: »
    I've eaten a case of Hi-Chew candy (similar to starburts) in 1 sitting. That's 220ish cals per pack, 12 packs per case, 2600 cals total, roughly.

    I've eaten a package of pull-apart cookie dough on the way home from the grocery store... 180 calories per cookie, 12 cookies... 2160 cals total.

    I've eaten a box of munchkins on the way to work... ~1700 cals.

    I've eaten 2 bacon, egg and cheese bagel combos from McDonalds on the way into work... ~ 1850 cals.

    And don't even get me started on take-out/fast food...
    - boneless wing bites + bacon cheeseburger from Applebee's: ~ 2000 cals
    - baconator combo + chicken nugget combo from Wendy's: ~ 2800 cals
    - breakfast pizza from local pizza place: ~3000 cals


    So yeah... I have an unhealthy relationship with food.

    I relate... it sounds like a problem with eating in the car/while driving.

    That was a recent new “rule” for me. No sneaky car eating. Snacks after a hike while riding, my prepared breakfast while driving, okay. But I know when I’m doing the sneaky car eating. Being alone & bored driving is tempting to me. Had to be outlawed hahaha.
  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    I have never been someone who binges thankfully ... Unless you count eating two 30g packets of crisps (chips) at the same time a binge...

  • its_me_april
    its_me_april Posts: 57 Member
    Whoa! I am kind of impressed by how much food some of you have put down. I must say this is comforting knowing other people struggle probably more than I do with eating too much. To be honest, I usually just overeat more than “binge.” Thanksgiving was a bit much for me. I had 2 pretty normal meals during the day, maybe a bit less than usual, then dinner was huge and made me feel so sick that I couldn’t eat dessert.

    When I do choose to overeat, I almost always go for cereal (cinnamon toast crunch and Golden Grahams have been two recent faves), chocolate, Oreos if we have them, PB ok its own or with pretzels, crackers or chips. CARBS!!! :D
  • SilverRose89
    SilverRose89 Posts: 447 Member
    Moxie42 wrote: »
    I've struggled with Binge Eating Disorder (BED) ever since a traumatic experience that happened 13 years ago. I just recently broke a 75-day streak of not-binging but had one yesterday. I still feel good about my progress though because it used to happen VERY often and sometimes for several days in a row. Now it's a rare thing, and they're not nearly as bad as they used to be.

    Binge eating disorder here too. I previously did really well using MFP and moderating my food but over the last year my mental health spiralled drastically and the binges increased again. Started back on here January 1st and did great that first day but got up in the night and ate an entire block of cheese before realising what I was doing. It could have been way worse though.

    Am currently working through a course of emotional coping skills therapy, to learn other ways of coping rather than the unhealthy mechanisms I have gotten used to and I think it will be really helpful. Overcoming the emotional eating and is undoubtedly my biggest hurdle to overcome for weightloss. But I am positive :smile:
  • acorsaut89
    acorsaut89 Posts: 1,147 Member
    I have been an emotional binge eater for a long time. It's not even that I want the food, but I actually cannot stop myself from eating sometimes. I just get the idea in my head and it's done. I haven't had a binge in about 2 months and before that it was about 3 months. I am able to go about 2 or 3 months, and then they just happen. I struggle with dealing with certain emotions. I was in a very toxic and abusive relationship, which is actually when I started with the eating. I also have a very perfectionist mindset: I want to do something perfectly, or not at all.

    Since I've started losing weight, here's some of my biggest binges

    Episode 1 - McDonalds. This was after a day where I was feeling super lonely, like I didn't fit in and was completely on my own in the world.
    2 x Junior Chickens
    2 x McDoubles
    2 x Large Fries
    1 x 10 pack of chicken nuggets
    1 x quarter pounder with cheese
    1 x smartie mcflurry

    Episode 2 - Pizza. This was after I failed running the 3KM distance I set out for myself.
    2 x Hot & Ready Pizzas from Little Caesars with 2 containers of the garlic dip
    2 x Crazy Bread from Little Caesars

    Episode 3 - Subway
    3 x footlong BMT subs - with all the extras like cheese and mayo

    Episode 4 - Great Canadian Bagel
    6 x Sourdough bagels with veggie cream cheese - ate this for breakfast and then went back to bed for the day

  • Momepro
    Momepro Posts: 1,509 Member
    Short term was eating a couple boxes of Kessler fudge sticks in as many days. Long term was from a fee days before Christmas till New Year, when I ate everything.
  • Tinkachu
    Tinkachu Posts: 25 Member
    I actually just made a thread because I ate an entire box of french toast crunch while watching a gaming livestream. xD Yummy!
  • Tinkachu
    Tinkachu Posts: 25 Member
    SilverRose89 wrote: »
    Moxie42 wrote: »
    I've struggled with Binge Eating Disorder (BED) ever since a traumatic experience that happened 13 years ago. I just recently broke a 75-day streak of not-binging but had one yesterday. I still feel good about my progress though because it used to happen VERY often and sometimes for several days in a row. Now it's a rare thing, and they're not nearly as bad as they used to be.

    Binge eating disorder here too. I previously did really well using MFP and moderating my food but over the last year my mental health spiralled drastically and the binges increased again. Started back on here January 1st and did great that first day but got up in the night and ate an entire block of cheese before realising what I was doing. It could have been way worse though.

    Am currently working through a course of emotional coping skills therapy, to learn other ways of coping rather than the unhealthy mechanisms I have gotten used to and I think it will be really helpful. Overcoming the emotional eating and is undoubtedly my biggest hurdle to overcome for weightloss. But I am positive :smile:

    I used to struggle a lot with binge eating, the only thing that has worked for me was taking appetite suppressants. Today was my first binge in a long time and I never felt out of control like I used to. I just really enjoyed the cereal and the livestream distracted me. I take appetite attack by Her Diet if you're curious. I hope you get it figured out, eating for emotional reasons can be tricky to overcome, I did it regularly for years until recently.
  • SilverRose89
    SilverRose89 Posts: 447 Member
    Tinkachu wrote: »
    I used to struggle a lot with binge eating, the only thing that has worked for me was taking appetite suppressants. Today was my first binge in a long time and I never felt out of control like I used to. I just really enjoyed the cereal and the livestream distracted me. I take appetite attack by Her Diet if you're curious. I hope you get it figured out, eating for emotional reasons can be tricky to overcome, I did it regularly for years until recently.

    I have been drawn to the idea of appetite suppressants many times, but ultimately I feel I will only get past my binging problems by working through the reasons I do it, namely as a way of managing my emotions and also just habit. I need to replace this with better mechanisms. Taking something to suppress my appetite I imagine would only work short term for me and not deal with the underlying reasons, so I would probably relapse or perhaps end up feeling reliant on taking something.

    I am glad you found something that worked for you though and happy to hear you're free of feeling out of control when binging as that is just the worst. Enjoying food guilt free is so important :smile:
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