BINGEING support group

Hi everyone.

I'm a very healthy eater from day to day. VERY healthy. And I'm quite proud of my diet and my will power. I eat whole grains, lean meats, fruits and vegetables and low fat dairy products. I also eat portions of nuts and drink lots of water.

But I have a problem. I'm in university, and tend to go out to the bars on the weekends every now and then. Now, I can deal with a night of drinking, because I can control how much I drink and I dont drink really hefty sugary drinks. My problem is my loss of will power to junk food when I drink. I eat so much... SO MUCH chocolate when I'm drunk! So much that sometimes I feel ill the next day, but of course, I get back on track and dont drop my calories the next day because I know it's unhealthy recoil.

After this rant, I propose creating this group to support and track / log how many days myself and any others interested in joining can go binge free. I still dont mind having small portions of chocolate throughout the day because they might be just 5g portions. I just want to be able to motivate myself to stay on track and not destroy my healthy diet every weekend.

So, I'm going to start out. Since I went all out last night, today is...

Days without bingeing: 1 (I know the whole day hasnt gone by, but I know I'll control it today haha)

Thanks! 

There's a quaker oats granola bar called "smores" thats only 90 calories!!! it's pretty good!!!

thanks, faustic and hookem. i'll try to see if there is a grocery store or something around here where i can just get a single donut (most of what i usually see are the boxes). and i'll also find that granola bar. it's hard to give up my sweets, haha! :)

Wow, people, looks like we've all neglected the thread! I'll be the first to report on my weekend. I sadly fell off the wagon. Not huge 6000-cal days, but still, I binged today and ate pretty unhealthily Saturday. I walked a lot and jogged yesterday, so it's not all bad, but I'm hoping to do better this week.

Hi, I'd like to join this group too! For the most part, I'm very healthy and a health food conscious eater. About 5 months ago I changed my diet and exercise routine, following the 80/20 diet (eating healthy 6 days per week and having 1 naughty day) and doing mainly strength training. As a result I now have the 'taste' for naughty foods and can't help but be tempted EVERY DAY as a result. Coupled with taking antibiotics, I put on weight so fast I now find myself at my heaviest. Okay so I know that I am in my healthy BMI range, but this is about how I feel. And I'd like that to change because I'm not happy with how I feel and look.

My last really bad binge day was Saturday. I made several desserts and ate far too many sugar laden sweets whilst drinking some wine! I felt so bad for doing it that I have been spurred on to do well this week!

i just binged for 7 days - my longest ever. however im now on day 2 binge free and finding it hard ALREADY!! but i really need to kick this habit now so i am absolutely determined not to give in this time. set myself a weight loss goal for a bit of motivation.

today i got sent home from college at lunch because i did all the work and they didnt have any more for me to do HAHA.. bit of an over-worker.. but i was really annoyed because college keeps me occupied. was terrified i was gonna come home and binge out of boredom and being home alone but managed to control myself. go me! 

welcome julez :) and good luck! 

Hey bugsylover,

I just had my worst bout of binging days ever also. The days before passover I was like, well I have to eat as much bread stuff as possible because I won't be able to have it for a week and then now that passover started I have been eating a ton because that is just what everyone does for seder (it is like 2 nights of thanksgiving in a row).  So now I need to really cut back and get back on the wagon.  I have a formal dance this thursday and my goal is to loose 1/2- 1 pound by then.  Wish me luck! Today is day 1 for me... :)

good luck dbook!! if you need any motivation, i keep reminding myself that the pleasure of eating something unhealthy is only TEMPORARY - meaning once it's over it's over, but the feeling that i get when i know i havent binged and i feel healthy and successful, that's something PERMANENT - meaning i can carry around with me all day :)

well it worked tonight anyway... ive been eyeing up the peanut butter & saying "temporary temporary temporary!!" LOL

I like that chant... TEMPORARY TEMPORARY! I am sure it will help! Thanks for the support :)

dbook, my family doesn't get together for passover until the end of the holiday and I overeat just because I will be w/family...always a reason to overeat! yikes.

I have been doing poorly in eating faustic...I am swamped in my work suddenly (and happily!) but my discipline hasn't carried over because along with being swamped and happy about it there is a lot of anxiety too that apparently comes w/success! dam_ed if I do and dam_ed if I don't is how the saying goes!

take care all! I'm still fighting the good fight, I think!!!???

I understand your situation, sharon. Being busy sometimes makes healthy eating less of a priority. It sucks, but it happens to everyone once in a while. But food isn't everything, and you seem happy about your work situation, so I hope you will keep doing well work-wise!

Today I got back on the wagon. I ran this morning, had a light breakfast and lunch... Dinner was pretty big calorie-wise, but it wasn't binging and I stayed within my calories. Day 1 completed.

TEMPORARY! I agree in the fullest!!

Welcome julez! I think thats somethign that really affected me too, I was being told that I should try to incorporate a bit more fat ont he side every once in a while into my diet. So once a week I started having some portions of chocolate etc, and ever since, the bingeing kicked it all through the year. Im trying to cut sweets out of my diet now. Its tough, but im reducing it one bit at a time.

sharonclaire im sorry to hear things havent gone too great. I can comletely understand being swamped with work, its such a bad influence. I hope things are starting to improve within the past few days!!

On a positive note, I JUST FINISHED EXAMS WOOOOOO. There goes year 3 of university. Sheesh. No more stress, for 4 months = truely amazing. Well, not school stress anyway hahah. This will help with cutting candy/sweets out of my diet soo much!

So guys.... I am on DAY 22 without bingeing!!!! ohh man. I think I can make it for april, I can do it I hope!!!!

Take care everyone!

alexwilliams - 22 DAYS, that's FANTASTIC!!

I haven't been on here in a long time...and I'm struggling pretty badly. I've contracted some sort of mutant outer ear infection that seems to have been (up to this point) resistant to every antibiotic ever sprouted. So after waiting almost a week for approval from my insurance company to see a specialist (all the while I've been getting worse), yesterday I finally went and saw an ENT doctor. He's told me to stay home from work & rest.  But I tried that almost all of last week, so I HAD to work yesterday & this morning just to dig out from under the pile of crap. Add to that how STRESSFUL my job is (I work for a company that is understaffed by about 6 people - so 4 of us end up doing the workload of ten), and I've not been doing well. My workouts, once regular and butt-kicking, are now sporadic and feeble. I'm feeling like a weak, puffy slug.

I did go for six days without b/p, but today I did eat something bad and brought it back up again. This s*cks. I feel like I have no control over anything, and now I'm not even able to exercise (which has been my saving grace since November 2007).

Thanks for reading, everyone. I'll get back on track soon, I know...but being sick and not getting better in the self-imposed allotted time frame causes me even more stress. (More stress = not what I need right now.) And my goal of 149 lbs by the time I leave for Hawaii on May 8 is quickly becoming a sad, bent little pipe dream... *sigh*

Gosh, I don't know how to catch up w/all of you!  I'll try to read every post this weekend ;) but I just wanted to check in and let y'all know I'm alive...although not doing so hot.  My bingeing isn't really bingeing anymore, now my eating seems to just be out of control all day, every day...I've gained 10 pounds in the past month and I can't seem to get myself to care (although I def don't feel good about it)!  More later...

liora i got to that stage. it was like i'd get up and start eating and not stop until i went to bed, basically.. every meal time was a complete gorge-a-thon, which i knew was wrong but there was a little part of me that just didnt seem to care or didnt have the energy to i dont know... is that how you feel? i will read more when you post again but if that is how you are feeling remember that there is a way out of it. you'll start making small steps and before you know it you;ll be working your way through.

im on day 5 now :) may seem small but this is the longest ive gone for months.. it looks like my motivational farmyard animal stickers are doing the trick LOL

alexw i find your success so motivating! day 22 is amazing congratulations!!!! technically if it takes 21 times to form a habit, you're well on the way to kicking the binge beast outta your life. :)

Congrats alex! You've gone over three weeks without binging... That's a major achievement. You must be so proud!

And bugsy, 5 days is also a major achievement. The first days are always the hardest, and you're off to a great start. Keep it up!

I haven't binged for the last 2 days. I did, however, go out for ice cream yesterday, which sent me over my cals. But the good thing is that I almost wanted to get myself a second sundae, but I forced myself not to. Within minutes, I wan't even thinking about the second sundae anymore.

bugsylover, that is pretty much EXACTLY how I feel!  I've been consuming 3000 calories a day or more, wake up hungry (I never used to be that person -- I always had to force something for breakfast down) and then eat ALL day long!  This morning, my pants didn't fit, and I realize I've gained all this weight because I'm not listening to my body or treating it well...but there's something in me that just doesn't seem to care, and gets me to continue eating and eating and eating...I just feel miserable :(

Original Post by liora513:

...but there's something in me that just doesn't seem to care, and gets me to continue eating and eating and eating...I just feel miserable :(

You just need to break the cycle. Take it slowly, cutting down on the amount you eat one day at a time til you can get back to normal. If you need to decrease your calorie count by 200 a day. That's just one chocolate bar a day, I'm sure you can do it luv :) Even though it doesn't feel worthwhile make sure you log ALL the food you eat, keep everything structured and you'll be less likely to go overboard.

My last binge/purge was 4 days ago. I had a whole 10inch pizza to myself. I've managed to get back to my normal routine, and I've started losing weight again :D My weights been fluctuating between 128/131 lbs at the moment. Only a couple more pounds til my goal. The next couple of weeks are going to be hard though because I have exams coming up...

I binged last night unfortunately. After Three days of being good I let in. I don't binge during the week usually but I did. I have eaten well today and I plan on it for the rest of, forever if I can. Listen to my body more and not eat so late at night, I wish I could eat dessert after dinner and have it not trigger further eating into binging. But my goal is to get over this stage. I have started working on this early enough I can do it, I only really started binging this badly/often since the beginning of this semester (not just overindulging ocationaly, which is normal). I will be positive and eat well. I really do enjoy good healthy food. Fruit and veggies are wonderful, just dessert gets to me.

I mostly wrote this because I need to remind myself and keep positive. I should be feeling better/normal again by Saturday if I eat well. And my skin will go back to being clear.

So this is day one! of forever

i've just not had a good week. i decided to try this "cycling calories" thing that is supposed to trick your metabolism out of the fat-conservation mode into which your body inevitably goes when dieting. my higher-calorie days turned into binge-fests, and today was a bad one as well because i had to go out to lunch with my boss and the bread at the indian restaurant was SO GOOD i could not stop eating it (although i did well not eating a massive amount of rice). then when i got home it was on to the peanut butter, chocolate icing, homemade banana bread, store-bought apple/raisin bread, cereal, pasta, and veggie meatballs. yikes! end result: cycling calories does not work for me.

so once again, i begin my journey toward the non-binge. i really think it helps to read and post on here regularly as it keeps me conscious of my habits.

skyedove, i have the same problem with desserts. i've found that if i ban desserts altogether, it just results in a massive binge after a few days to a week. what i usually do is try to take my dessert to work with me (it sounds like you have class, so that might work for you instead). it keeps me from eating more because it's not there, and once i get home, the dessert is no longer on my mind, and i've satisfied my processed-sugar needs for the day. this USUALLY works. we all slip up from time to time! :)

keep on keepin' on, everyone, and best wishes for freedom from the binge!

skyedove and samesofam - this may sound like a bit of a silly idea, but could you buy like a single portion of dessert in the morning and keep ONLY THAT dessert in your house, so once you have eaten one portion there's no more there? like you can get little mini ice cream tubs and single slices of cake and things. my mum has these yogurt coated fruit and nut bars she absolutely adores but she took to buying them in packs of three. before you know it we were both eating three a day, not good as they are about 250 cals. so now she only lets herself buy ONE if she wants one, that way there's no more to go back to.

it means you dont have to completely ban desserts but might be a way to show yourself that you CAN be satisfied with just one?

on to day 6 :) tomorrow will be a week! keep it up guys x