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@Mini_Medic It's funny you should mention carrots celery and crunchy foods, because I have had some success in the past with choosing to spend my binge urges on carrot sticks, since almost all of my binge trigger foods are crunchy foods.

@31shines I identify with this so much it hurts. I know it's throwing the baby out with the bathwater, but I still do it. How does one get away from this kind of all-or-nothing mindset? Focusing on the progress I've made so far helps some of the time, but my inner perfectionist still seems to want to wave that white flag…

@RuNaRoUnDaFiEld I've been maintaining a 30 lb weight loss for the past 2 1/2 years (holding at 190 to 195 lbs.) and this is the first time I'm really knuckling down to lose weight again. So, yes, I have reduced my calories, but they aren't that low; just to 1660 and I'm eating my exercise calories half the time as well.…

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I've only recently begun paying attention to my protein macro as part of a strategy to decrease my binge eating. It's only been a couple weeks, but so far it seems to be working. I aim for at least 25% protein and try not to go more than 4 hours without eating something.

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I'm going to tell you a truth that someone told me that I didn't want to accept when I first heard it, but I find it helpful now years later: It isn't motivation you need, it's discipline. Motivation is that feeling you get when you make a healthy choice, and that first good decision turns into a chain of good decisions.…

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I think mindset is more than important; it's critical. I'd like to recommend my favorite podcast, Half Size Me. It's hosted by a woman who's lost over a hundred pounds and has kept it off. She has guests on all the time who are in different stages of their weight loss journeys, but they all talk about learning to love and…

TL;DR - Kids aren't just getting junk food at home, they're getting it from school too. I'm seeing comments to the tune of 'parents are the ones buying the junk food in the first place,' and I want to play the devil's advocate a little bit. While I agree that good food choices begin at home, I think school-provided meals…

I keep collagen powder in my pantry and add a few scoops a day to smoothies, soups, waffle/pancake recipes, even to my iced coffee. It's an excellent source of nutritional protein, and keeping my protein macro to about 25% helps keep me from binging.

Just this week I decided to switch from coffee to tea, and so far it's a gentle transition. Tea still has caffeine, but it's a lower amount and, for some reason, tea caffeine never makes me tense or jittery like coffee caffeine.

Binge eating. It's a major saboteur, but I'm finally aware of it and I'm actively working on it.

Recipes that advertise themselves as only having 5 ingredients, but they've included a boxed mix as 1 ingredient.

I started gaining weight when I was about 12 years old, and I started the yoyo dieting and exercising cycle when I was 14. I bounced from fad diet to fad diet never really achieving my goal weight before I gave up and ballooned to a higher weight than before. My highest weight was 219, then I got pregnant. I was terrified…