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The biggest “trick “ for my continued success Is to weigh myself every morning and record it in my journal along with planning out how to handle upcoming challenges for the day. Going out to dinner tonight? How do I prepare? What were yesterday’s successes and failures? What did I learn and how can I carry that lesson…

There is probably more than one source of this concept, the concept of losing then going into a short “maintenance “ period was in the Dylan Diet book. But you had to go back to the strict diet mode 1 day a week for the rest of your life. For me it’s much easier to build my life around a maintenance plan that is…

lol this again

There is a binge eating forum on here in the community. Check it out. I belong to it. My trigger is stress. I had been binge-free for over a year until a recent encounter with some major stress. And voila back came the binge. So the comments about investigating the source is spot-on.

I thought I had my bingeing under control with the removal of a majority of my stress. I thought I was “cured”. But lo and behold I had a big stressor happen a few weeks ago and found myself bingeing again. So much for a “cure”. I have the luxury of being able to control most of my stress by removing myself from the news…

I’m rooting for you. Personally I can’t keep a running total in my head yet of where I am if I don’t log. As someone else said, it really helps me to prelog if I have an event coming up that.

Here in the States we have the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) whose programs include a free support group for people with a mental health disorder. The group is called NAMI Connection and is co-facilitated by two trained volunteers with lived experience. I am one of those co-facilitators and suicide ideation is…

For me, I focus much more on my eating plan when I start the day with a weigh in. Nips upward trends in the bud before the weight settles on my body.

I normally sleep on a king size mattress. I went camping and slept in a sleeping bag on a queen sized inflatable mattress. Before my weight loss that size mattress would bind me up and make it hard to sleep. Now there’s plenty of room.

My motto is what I don’t put on I don’t have to take off

Kimma41. I’m sorry that you’re feeling this way. I’ve been where you are. For me, I got help from a therapist to identify the source of my problems and help with reframing them. It’s taken awhile for me to chip away at the problem but it’s possible. Keep us in the loop.

Yes the maintenance struggle is real. No parades, no celebrations for maintaining. It’s a different mindset than losing.

I went on a 5 1/2 week cruise and managed to feel my clothes feel looser.

That protein goal (100-125 g for me) was a tough nut to crack. The good thing is that when I tried to make that protein goal, the rest of the food seemed to fall into place. My go-to has been Muscle Milk, at 150 calories for 25 g for the win.

I too was successful with Phen/fen because it changed my brain chemistry to mimic people with normal relationships with food. With Phen/fen, I was able to get full when I ate. Without it I could continue eating and never feel full. With Phen/fen I wasn’t obsessed with when my next meal would come and what I was going to…

I would love to see more activity on this thread. I struggled with BED for years while I was working. Pressure mostly off now and weight loss was successful. Stress brings back the BED but I can control it if I can figure out it’s happening.

Some of the comments here are in the same realm as the “pull yourself up by the bootstraps like the rest of us do” world of people with severe mental illness (like me). Different brains work differently. Sometimes it’s all-encompassing physical hunger brought on by medication or stress. If a drug can take that focus on…

If I start to eat something that I don’t want to eat, continue to eat more food that I don’t want to eat and can’t stop eating it, that’s my definition of a binge. So I guess it depends on whether the OP wanted to eat the food they started to eat, and whether they could stop eating it when they didn’t want to eat any more.…

Unfortunately for me, it has taken me over a year to get my range of motion “back” (never back to normal). Healing was a slow process and I constantly worried about my muscle atrophy and what my range of motion would end up being. 18 months later I’m back on track. You’ve got this.

For me, binges are all about mental hunger. I have to dig deep when the urge comes on to see what it’s really about. Sounds like you did well on that this time.

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/profile/Lclawson2015 I’m also on the high protein plan- also around 130 g. Seems to work for me.

The mindset of maintaining was for me quite different than when I was losing. Tough adjustment

I’m glad you’re posting here. You’re not alone and you’re right - the new mindset to maintain takes a different skill set. For me, I had to replace the motivation that kept me losing with motivation that keeps me maintaining. That will look different for each person.

The best advice I ever got from this forum was to keep the weight loss plan similar to the weight maintenance plan. If I can’t have it during my diet I will have to continue that eating plan after my weight loss or I will regain. That’s why diets didn’t work for me. It was one yo-yo diet after another until I realized…

It’s hard for me to remember how it felt when I didn’t understand the concept of calorie consumption. So is their question really about calories? Or is it about getting permission from random strangers to eat a cookie?

Walking in the beach sand, I noticed that my footprints didn’t sink down as low as everyone else’s. And I wasn’t exhausted from walking in the sand like I usually was.

For me, food was my only stress relief and sense of comfort for a few decades. My subconscious realized that the last thing I needed was to take that away, but my conscious self had no idea what was happening. All I knew was that despite my best efforts, I couldn’t lose weight. As a result of my psychotic break, my stress…

I’m only speaking for myself, but I’ve found that when I’m under severe pressure my go-to is comfort food. It’s my therapy. So taking that off the table while I’m going through a stressful situation was not possible for me. I needed that food for my sanity. Once that burden was lifted off it became much easier for me to…

Here in the Washington and Oregon areas we have Beechers cheese. My favorite used to be called No Woman No Cry but it’s now called New Woman. Their Mac N Cheese is to-die-for. We also have a cheese monger associated with our favorite winery in Woodinville (near Chateau St Michelle)