BEFORE YOU BINGE ...

So I decided to make a forum for all of us that have happily picked up that cookie/chocolate/piece of cake/chip/fri and asked themselves, "Am I doing the right thing?"

Now, before you tell yourself, "I deserve this, I am so hard-working and I've come so far, I really do deserve to enjoy this mouth-watering substance of joy!" BE SURE to click on this link and post what evil sin you may have been close to comitting .. And then talk about how happy you were to know that you stopped yourself by confessing to all of us here at CC what you almost did =P

I just thought this would help, I know it will definitely help me because I always make excuses to eat treats--and large amounts of them! =$

Good luck!  

I agree , the is an Awesome post idea. I needed this last night when i made an excuse for myself to eat more sweet potatoe than i should have.. which my excuse was i was going to run . but that never happend. BUT from now iam going to come here.. ill probably be back sometime today ; ] lol

I WISH this was here last night >_< I had an awful binged. I tagged it though!

i wish this was here last night too. i binged horribly as well. and i want to just start binging now, but i saw this thread and i refuse to!!! it's not worth it. it's so hard though, but i will get through this.

Same here! What a great idea.  I suspect that I will frequent this particular thread often, but anything to kick this binging!

hopefully I won't be here at all haha but great thread! I binged last night, not that horribly but still. Shouldnt have.

But now I have to stop! Not binge for two weeks = I get to buy a bag I want so badly. Not binge for a month= In a month Im going to Queensland to meet my boyfriends parents and that means running around in a bikini so hopefully that will keep me from binging. I have to do it!  

aww guys, i know we can all do it!! =D lol, i thought this was better than everyone having their own individual cry for help, which usually happened AFTER they binged .. but this is like some sort of moral support thread! *hugs* i'm so glad i'm not alone =P

i'm a semi-recovering anorexic and i've had some binge eating problems and have had a few bulimic episodes. yesterday i'd gone a whole week without binging but the feeling was SO strong. i wanted chocolate bars, and candy, and icecream, and muffins and sugary cereal, and lasanga, and so on. but i still wanted to lose 3 more lbs and just said to myself "if you binge, you realize you'll have to lose like 7 more pounds, and you'll feel like sh*t" so i tried something new i'd NEVER done before.

i had a small treat. i ate a hollow milk chocolate apple thing (about 300 cals i'm guessing) and felt really really guilty, so i didn't eat anymore. i avoided the binge. my caloric goal was 1200 and i ate around 1500-1600 and went for a nice run, and woke up this morning 1.6 pounds lighter no joke. so today, i'm gonna eat 1300-1400 of HEALTHY stuff and go for a run. i felt bad yesterday, but i know that 1) if i binged i would have felt 10 times worse, and 2) i've gone a week and a DAY without binging.

(:

i wish this post was here yestaday ive binged 2 days in a row and i was doing so good for 2 weeks without bingeing i even lost a few pounds but then put it back on from yestaday and today >=(!!! i binged in secret until my guts feel like they were twisted inside and i felt soooo so sick with over 4000 calories each day grrrr i hate this cycle so much i just wanna stop!. tomorrow is a new day to eat light for a few days then im gonna start upping my cals to 1200 instead of going under but i gotta admit that i admire the people who can eat under 1000 calories for so long and never binge coz i just wish i was like that =(

Yesterday was terrible. Today I thought maybe I would get ahead of my binging by allowing myself a bowl of Peanut Butter Captain Crunch (which I practically begged my dad to throw out a few days ago) for breakfast, but then I had two more and now all I want to do is just eat and eat and eat. My "all or nothing" mindset is telling me to throw the day away and just give in, but I know it's just going to make things worse. I know this, and yet I still want to, and I don't know if that want is stronger than my willpower.

And...it's even worse when you're a recovering anorexic and in a lot of ways still have that "if I touch food I'm going to gain 10000 pounds" mindset but have had to eat way more than you're comfortable with (and what a normal person would be comfortable with) to regain health and weight, so your body then gets used to you eating massive amounts of food when you're not even hungry and can't tell you when to stop when you're satisfied anymore and none of your parents or doctors take you seriously and even enable or encourage you to eat more and you even convince yourself that it's okay so when that binge comes a-knockin'... you're royally, totally, completely screwed.

I know I keep saying the same things over and over all the time but that's because the same things keep happening over and over all the time. Every day is turning out to be "tomorrow I'll do better," and I'm getting so tired of it all. I feel fat and stupid and miserable, and I still have a ridiculous amount of homework to do that I can't focus on because of how awful I feel about myself and this binging.

I feel like you're all saying exactly what I'm thinking! I've gotten into a terrible binge cycle lately, and I don't know why or how to stop it. I'll restrict all day, barely eating my minimum, but once 10 or 11pm hits, I get famished. I start out eating healthy enough stuff, like yogurt or a few peanuts, but it progresses to stuffing myself with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, ice cream, cheese slices, pretzels, chips, dry cereal, peanut butter from the jar, cookies, and whatever else I can get my hands on. Then I get bloated and feel awful about myself, and wake up the next morning resolved not to do it again, but that evening the cycle takes hold and it's same song different chorus all over again. 
But I have a new strategy that I think could work. I've resolved to stick more closely to my chosen food plan, like not deviating at all (because I know that's what starts the binge-ball rolling, that little push over the edge) and not let myself eat after 11pm. At all. Period. Since that's the time I usually end up binging, I think if I can cut out food after that time, it could work. Anyone else have any ideas? 

okay .. so i ate 11 chocoloate-covered almonds .. about the same calories as a chocolate bar (260ish) .. well, that's my treat for the day .. and even though i have a WHOLE BAG with SO MANY LEFT .. they can be saved for another day .. =) good thing all the other stuff i ate today was pretty healthy! =D

torpidire: have you made your meal plan ahead of time in the past? i know where you're coming from .. trust me, i've been there! it all starts so innocently and BOOM! you find yourself clearing out 3 full plates of food! well, with me i know i've been eating breakfast in the morning, which has kept a lot of my cravings down during the day .. and make sure you eat protein in the morning like eggs, oatmeal etc .. i find that those two help a lot because they are very filling! also include fibre from fruits in the morning .. they're a good pick-me-up because they have lots of natural sugars which keep you going! and they are filling because of all the water and fibre they have inside! anyway, just come here if you need support!

I love this link. I am going to use this!

I also have been eating alot at nights.. in the last week and I feel horrible my mood depnds on this... If I dont bindge then Im a happy person, or else I feel like a freak Iv been doing it since Im 15 and now Im 22.... what a waste... I feel so stuck sometimes.. and at the same time I kind of like it its an excuse for feeling sorry for myselve.. pathetic!

I had the WORST binge ever last night.....eurgh I hate myself and I hat ethe way people look at me on the street and think im happy with myself and give me dirty looks for stuff and just ahhhh!!! I hate myself!!!!!!!!!!!! Why do I have to be this way with food?!?!?!?!?!?! I want to be normal!

Insecure teen, I know how you feel. Like last night, the guys who live below me were having brownies and cake, because one of their mother's sent a cake from home. It was chocolate with a caramel swirl and white frosting. Heaven. When one of them IMed me to ask if I wanted some, I could have said no. I could have stayed upstairs, safely away from the allure of said cake. But what did I do? I went downstairs and had a piece of cake and a brownie. Not a piece of cake OR a brownie, which wouldn't even have been that bad. Both. Binge binge binge. But hey, at least I was able to stop there and not go on to eat my entire cupboard bare like in the past. That's a start, right?

off course its a start! When you binge the important this is taht you stop before you cant stop! yestarday was the first day without binging at nights.. I wrote on this page.. so it might help to see your not alone that ita somehing normal... also i had a healthy breakfast today which I usually dont and for hte first time I felt satisfied all during the day... its not something you can stop by waking up.. its a process, like an alcoholic has a process to stop drinking. Another this is to find what triggers your binging, for example when I drink I ALWAYS binge... so when Im trying to stop binging.. I try never to drink... IT HAS A SOLUTION!!

torpidfire, that sounds like some good ideas, maybe I'll borrow some of them. 

_teen, please don't hate yourself.  you're not the only one who messes up, as you can see here, so I hope that makes you feel a little better.  At least you are here trying to do better!

 I already binged on crackers tonight and I want to eat more because I'm stressed about some work that I need to get done on the computer here tonight.  I'm glad I ran into this thread. I'll try to write here if I want to procrastinate, instead of going to the kitchen.

tof, that's some good inspiration in your post.

 Okay, I have to pay attention to my work, have pay attention....

we just can't let food get the best of us .. we have to remember that we're really worth it and that we can overocome our instant means of finding comfort in food, we should look inside ourselves instead <3 i know how you guys all feel .. it's become so routine that it's a hard habit to kick .. we just gotta keep at it!