Do you binge when you lose appreciable weight?

My binge issue seems to start with stress or a loss of control of my life in some form and then spirals from there. I am desperately trying to get myself out of a binge hole currently that I have dug very deep. My advice would be it's easier to stop yourself going there in the first place than it is to get out of the hole once you've dug it, so stay strong girl and keep going.

After many (many) fits and start with weight loss, I've learned that the binging does catch up with you sometimes the following week. After sticking my finger in the socket multiple times, I've learned that if I binge, it will do more harm than good and then I'll feel unmotivated.

Hang in there! Celebrate by doing something nice for yourself! A non-food gift to celebrate your weight loss!

I seem to find enough reasons (aka excuses!) without the self-sabotage but that's what I have been doing, on and off, for a month or more now

Time to kick my own *kitten* and cut it out.

This morning, i stepped on the scale and had lost more weight, looked at my ticker and saw it was about 10lbs to go. Suddenly i wanted to eat the whole world. It seems to happen to me a lot, when i lose weight, i just feel like.........yeah, now i can start junk eating and stop working out, my head keeps saying 'afterall you have lost the weight'

When you start getting towards your goal weight do u feel tempted to start eating and stop working out/become lazier?

Well I am a far distance from my goal weight BUT I cannot say that this has happened (this time around). My binge eating usually is more due to major stress or life changes. I have lost weight a few times before and I regained as a result of a major life change... job loss, got engaged, etc. Those are the triggers I have to be careful of. I will say too, the couple of other times I lost significant weight I did it more as a result of some type of unsustainable diet rather than eating at a level that could be sustained long term... I often advise, to lose weight, determine where you want to be and exercise/eat as though you were at that level... Hence when you arrive where you want to be, you continue doing what you are doing rather than changing anything.

If I manage to lose some weight through the week, then I allow myself a treat at the weekend. No weight loss, no treat. A few years ago, well quite a few years ago I lost a lot of weight, and treated myself too often, so I'm back to calorie counting.

you just have to remember that it is a lifestyle change and not a diet otherwise the weight will just pile back on when you reach your goal weight and stop "dieting" what i do is when i loose weight or reach a target i reward myself with a non food related treat eg. go see a show with friends and let loose made have a couple wines even- within reason of cause

This is so me!

When I reached the 70's I was like wooo party! for the next 2 weeks and ended up back at 82

so me too!!!
Reached my goal and have put on since CAN NOT maintain AT ALL!!!
:mad: :explode: :sad:

I couldn't get past a few pounds lost before I would start eating the house. This time I am redefining what is good food. I am focused on energy and fuel. I have never thought like that ever.

No, I'm the opposite...I'll binge if I don't lose! If I can see that something is working, I'm very motivated to stick it out.

I am a binger. its awful and its so hard to control sometimes, But I have little sayings posted all over my house for inspiration and one that I find helps me lately is....

Do not reward yourself with food... you are not a dog.

I used to do that, only it was more self-sabotage than anything else.

For me now, it's taken me a little over a year to reach the 97 lb loss place and I'll be darned if I'll start going back up again. Plus the changes I've made in what I eat -- I can't eat a lot of fatty stuff like the cheese I used to oh-soooo-enjoy, as I pay the consequences in the bathroom.

It depends whether this is a healthy lifestyle eating change for you or JUST a diet. If it's JUST a diet, then yeah I get it that you reward yourself with food for doing good.

See if you can change your thinking to it just being a healthier way of eating.....and you may find that you do this less.

Also: What shows up on the scale today reflects what you ate two to three days ago. That's always good to keep in mind when your weight goes up.