Your Worst Binge Since Starting Here?

Probably on Father's Day. I didn't log it but I ate a ton. I couldn't breathe. It was great.

So much for THAT. I didn't touch the pizza, but I ate the *entire order* of cheesestix.

Mothers Day my brothers and I took my mom to an all you can eat buffet for brunch. I had mac and cheese, stuffed chicken breast, mashed potatoes and gravy, waffles with syyrup and strawberries, eggs benedict, bacon, hash browns, fruit and a cookie (just one everything in moderation you kn0w ;-) My sister in law and brothers were like "What about eating healthy? What about working out?" I said "Abs shmabs this aint cheap Im gettin my moneys worth"


I have zero regrets.

Did you feel a little bit stuffed after all that, lol?
One thing I hate about eating a lot, even for only one day, is that I feel I have instantly gained 6 Ibs, with the swollen tummy etc.

Oh sheesh, that's easy, it was the day I hit rock-bottom. I had been allowing myself one "cheat day" a week a few years ago. It started simple - one bag of something from the grocery store on the day I went shopping. It was always a bag of Brach's caramels. Simple and quick, when they're gone, they're gone. Then the store stopped carrying them. So I started experimenting with different candy...and upping it from one thing to I can have as many things as I want, but on that day only, and I would usually get sick of it pretty fast - maybe 4-5 pieces of candy. Plus I was super busy and didn't have time to sit and snack. Then Halloween clearance hit and my schedule settled down....I had about 7 bags - the BIG bags - of fun sized candy. On one day. And I was eating all of them. Wasn't hungry, but I couldn't stop putting them in my mouth. Felt immensely huge and sick afterwards.

It didn't really impact my weight loss, but I learned that a "little cheat" doesn't really work for me. I've since cut out all refined sugar and now I don't crave it anymore.

I am considering, for the umpteenth time, trying the quit sugar and wheat route, for 3 weeks as I have heard that it totally kills the cravings, but the question is, does it last? And does it mean you have to refrain from ever having a dessert or chocolate for life, as I imagine that once you have a little again, it will lead right back to being hooked ?

I suppose I am fortunate in that more days than not, I can get by without feeling the need for this stuff, but perhaps once every few weeks, I will get insane cravings for bakery stuffs and that is that. It is almost like a compulsion actually.

My worst, I think, was a day where I had 2 pints of ben and jerry's. 4 ben and jerry's cookies, and earlier that day, a mcflurry, some mini chocolate brownies, a chocolate cookie, mini flapjacks, 2 muffins and some millionaires shortbread. It added up to rather a lot and the worst thing was, I knew I was going to do it. It is almost as if some of my binges are pre planned so I know that if I really work hard on it, I can stop it more times than not.

I suppose I have the mindset that if I try everything at once, I will have tasted it, know what its like, and not feel deprived at all when I don't buy it again.

I know some recommend beating the addiction by buying in all this stuff, and fighting the fear and panic, and keeping having it around, and eventually the desire to eat it apparently peters out. I read that in a guide to overcoming overeating and heard it from someone else. Something about taking out the whole idea of restriction and having foods that are 'unsafe', Obviously, initially the people would eat rather a lot of the food they had around, but less than they had expected and after a week or less, they found they still had whole boxes of cookies still sitting in their kitchen untouched because that time of having it around, unlimited, in quantity, sort of took away the craving. It was always there, thus nothing novel or special.

Foie gras is being banned in a week here in CA so many restaurants have been doing "Farewell to Foie" type dinners. I splurged on an eight course dinner at Melisse (a Michelin starred restaurant)... each course easily used 2 oz of foie, yielding an entire pound by the time the evening was through. That dinner set me back about 3-4 days' worth of caloric intake but the biggest issue was the raise in my LDL levels. (So worth it though!)

Foie gras is being banned in a week here in CA so many restaurants have been doing "Farewell to Foie" type dinners. I splurged on an eight course dinner at Melisse (a Michelin starred restaurant)... each course easily used 2 oz of foie, yielding an entire pound by the time the evening was through. That dinner set me back about 3-4 days' worth of caloric intake but the biggest issue was the raise in my LDL levels. (So worth it though!)

Is that the government trying to legislate your eating habits, or is there another reason? Personally I've never had Foie Gras, and my doctor would probably freak out if I did!