Volume Eaters Thread

Not sure what the secret is for properly representing scale in these photos, but this was a huge amount of food - this was a big, wide pasta bowl and it was a little under 2lbs of food. Fighting hunger all afternoon so wanted to nix it with dinner!

psychod787 wrote: »

ladyzherra wrote: »

I eat a lot of volume. I am also a binge eater and overeater. Is the difference really just a name? I am a whole food vegan and my choices are veggies but does that really nullify the fact that I have no control over my portions?

We have to make our own way in this life.

I’d venture to guess that this is the whole thing.

Can you live peacefully with your choices?

‘Binging’ in clinical terms is usually defined by a reasonably intense caloric intake in a short period of time, but (maybe more importantly) also usually accompanied by shame, secrecy, and a characteristic ‘loss of control.’ Followed by, usually, a good deal of guilt.

Most Americans struggle to get adequate servings of vegetables, and hide the ones they do eat under sauces or clusterkitten them to all hell by deep fried prep and ketchup toppers (hi, corn syrup. I’m looking at you! French fries and ketchup are the top ranking ‘veggies’ consumed by American kids.)

I’ll easily kill half of a spaghetti squash, and a tub of spinach. Follow it up with an Apple the size of my head. Guilt? Loss of control? Nope. I struggled for a while with feeling weird about it. Then I took a hard look at what it means to eat ‘normally.’ Normal eating, from what I can observe in my friends and the grocery carts around me, is not anything I want to sign up for. If granola bars and bagels and tortillas made me happy, felt good in my body, and met my goals, I’d eat them. They don’t, so I don’t. I’m ok not being normal.

The food habits I’m still working on changing are more intention-focused.

When I struggle to fall asleep or with physical pain and I find myself trying to ‘fix’ it with apples or grapes or chia pudding eaten by the light of the fridge at midnight - that feels bad.

We work with what we have, and continually refine the process. The path sometimes gets narrower, the more we learn and the more we do the work. Years ago I struggled with midnight granola bars. Now it’s apples. Same struggle? Maybe. But definitely a different stretch of the road. Most of us have gravitated to MFP because we want to look at our relationship with food in some way.

I’m done layering shame on top of behavior that already feels bad. I don’t find it helpful. Last night’s grain/nut/oil/sugar-free brownie, eaten at 10pm? Maybe not my best choice, and certainly didn’t take me closer to my goals. But I can live with myself today, and be transparent about where I am and who I am. That wasn’t always the case.

nowine4me wrote: »

@Noreenmarie1234 that looks delicious! What wrap brand is 80 cals? The drizzle is just runny PB2? I’ve never tried the chocolate flavor.

Yes tumaros sourdough wraps. They are huge 10 inch wraps. Best tasting and biggest with the lowest calorie amount out there. They have everything sourdough pumpernickel cracked pepper in the big ones. I don’t buy the small ones but they have a ton of other flavors in those.

Yes I make the drizzle by adding 3 tbsp of water per 4 tbsp powder, then just add drops until I get it to the right consistency. The chocolate pb2 recently changed their recipe and now it’s more like pure dark chocolate. Less pb in flavor. I liked the old recipe a lot more, but this one is still good. It is less sweet though. I add a lot of truvia to the wrap too because I have a major sweet tooth and like everything super sweet, lol.