Why do we binge?????

Anything that helps you not to?

Eat enough during the day, don't deprive yourself, don't try to eat "perfectly". Avoid foods you know you can't control yourself around (chips and french fries for me :[ ) Drink lots of water.

And if you slip up, forgive yourself and move on. Good luck.

Why we binge (a partial list):

• We don't enjoy our food when we eat it
• We eat when we're distracted
• We deny ourselves certain foods and label foods as good/bad
• We don't eat enough and our body needs more
• We use food in response to feelings
• We use food to fill up the time
• We have an eating disorder
• We have poor self-image and feel like we don't deserve better
• We eat because we are emotionally hungry, not because we're physically hungry- and while physical hunger goes away with food, emotional hunger does not
• We beat ourselves up when we binge, which makes the bad feelings worse

Usually when I binge, it's because I've been a good boy for far too long, time to do something a little self destructive yet so, sooooooo good. I justify it by telling myself that I have to live while I lose.

The next day I curse myself for being up a pound or so (usually cuz of sodium intake), I clamp down hard on the food and bump up the cardio, and make it go away.

Lather, rinse, repeat on a week-to-two-week basis.

I eat when I'm lonely, bored, angry, stressed and when my mind has nothing else to focus on. God I'm hopeless lol. And it took me till yesterday to figure it out. (denial much...)

what helps me;

if i feel a binge coming on, i'll just not eat ANYTHING for about an hour.

and/or i'll try to find a distraction. (ex;turning on the tv to some fitness channel (gilad fitness program cracks me up))

savin a good amount of my cals for the night helps me not to binge, alsooo, keeping busy, gettin on cc and journaling helps ALOT.. also music and writing