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! 

i think this right where i need to be. getting married in just over 2 weeks and the stress is finally getting to me. without going into too much detail about my weight loss/fitness history, the fact is that i no longer have a healthy relationship with food and i am VERY prone to binges. beginning today, i will go binge free. i'm going to countdown, rather than count up, for now and see how it goes.

my goal is to keep from binging until:

goal 1: june 1 (day after my wedding)

goal 2: july 17th (my birthday)

 

that being said, i now have 19 days to go binge free until my first goal, including today.

19....

Welcome prettyladcmu! I hope we can help you reach your goal, and congrats on the marriage! thats so exciting!

bugsy, howre you holding up? Im sure hoping you made it through your unlucky number day! I think its an alright plan to binge on the 0 cal stuff RATHER than the heavy stuff... but still will continue to provoke bingeing behavior. I think to get real end of the behavior, it cant be 'replaced' with something a tad less harful and still alike it...if that makes sense. But still, hope its all going well :)

ilovechai I hope youre still on a roll!

As for me, im done day 15 without bingeing. Halfway through the month! WOO

Take care!

Hey, this is my first post in this group! I hope it's still okay for me to join. 

 

I'm currently trying to maintain my weight, but I've got a bingeing habit that's making it really tricky. I've been doing better lately, but it's still pretty hard. For me, this is day 4 without a binge. :D

ilovechai... 21 days is awesome! hey prettylady and meleba :) 

alexw it's good to hear your still doing well :D half way through yay! i totally agree with what you are saying about my 0cal foods, i dont want to end up just bingeing on them all the time instead of other junk. yesterday i managed without them so i think ive kinda proved to myself i can do it now and probably wont be buying them any more! :)

day 14 for me :D yay 

hey just found this group-not sure if i binge or not but i do tend to have lots of little snacks at night, nothing that ruins me, but I just dont like being unhealthy like that. So tonight I had a cookie and some stacys pita chips but i wasnt hungry-bored and stressed I suppose? Im gonna try for a week without eating after dinner and see how I feel--i need tips though so any help is really appreciated~ thanks :)

2 binges in one week. I can't take it... finals are killing me. I feel like I'm failing

I'm on day 2 after 4 bad weeks.

I usually do fine throughout the day -- work out in the morning, have a good breakfast, generally a good lunch, and then the second I have a candy bar or a muffin, or something not in the "healthy" realm of things it's all downhill from there in a bad bad way. I'll eat until I literally hurt, far far beyond when I stopped being hungry (if I was even hungry to begin with).

The worst part is I have no idea why I do it. I'm not unhappy, I'm not under any unusual stress, and when I look back at a binging day, it's literally like my mind took off for the afternoon while I ate everything I could possibly get my hands on.

I need to get better at stopping myself. Eating a candy bar doesn't mean I need to eat 5,000 calories worth of food in an evening.

Well, here's to day 2. :)

Hey everyone!

I'm in recovery for anorexia and recently freaked out about needing to gain weight and binged for about 4 days on granola cereal, pb, soy ice cream and all sorts of carbs. I know I need to eat and I was doing great with my MP but the binging was out of control, even the therapist and nutritionist agreed with me on that. Today is my first binge free day. I'm really trying to learn to listen to my body, respect it, and understand the differences between hunger, fullness, etc. Best of luck to you all!

-tori

livetolove, stress is so horrible in terms of binges but just think soon it will all be over, finals will be gone. dust yourself off and keep pushing through! konbu, well done for getting over your bad days, i really believe we all can do this. :) we're all here to support you guys, never forget.

hi toridl :) i gained from being underweight pretty much just by bingeing, and it's lead to me having problems with it still now, so i completely respect your decision to listen to your body and gain in a healthier way. i have read some of your posts before and find you very strong and inspiring so i really believe you will be able to be strong and do this. i wish you the best of luck! :D 

im at the end of day 16. it hasnt been an easy one but bring on day 17 :)

toridl i feel like we have the same life (i'm not a cc-stalker, we just post in the sameums a lot). I "do good" all day, only to realize, YOU DIDN'T EAT ENOUGH TODAY, YOU IDIOT! and then i go crazy, and feel even worse than before.

ah but today, i heard that "binge" voice, and instead had an 80 cal soy ice cream bar and silk!yogurt. So i didn't stay according to the day's meal plan...but atleast i didn't totally blow it.

This is the hardest battle i've EVER been faced with.

Stay strong, everyone. peace,

Emilie.

Yesterday completed day one and I'm on to day two! I can do it!!! Thanks for the support bugsylover--you're right now that exams are over it's not half as bad!

Hey everyone!

I think I'm finally getting somewhere now. I remember picking up a book in Borders last month about how to overcome binge eating - the first page I turned to simply said that if you wanna overcome this you simply have to forget about deserts i.e. never have them again. A bit hardcore I thought. I've come to realise that IMO that's total tosh (in the experience I've been through). I've managed to reach the stage where I can have desert once or twice a week and just keep it at that - i.e. one average portion without craving for more and more. I'm nearing the end of day 18 now and I'm feeling really optimistic and managed to get my weight down to how it was at around 10.3 stone (according to my scales).

I really hope you're all doing fab. This forum really has been such a life saver so yay to all of us wherever we are on this crazy journey :)

Alright I'm going to be active in this group again.

ilovechai- I agree with you 100%, this is by FAR the absoulte hardest battle i've been faced with as well.

BUT WE CAN DO IT!

I'm starting over with day 1 down!

I agree ilovechai! It is so hard when you realize you need to eat more not to overeat. Congrats on not listening to your binge voice, either! And thanks, bugsylover for the support!

I really focused on figuring out when I was and wasn't hungry this weekend and sticking to my MP pretty good. I think I need that kind of structure to stay on track which is OK but I can't live like this forever. Also, my nutritionist told me that it takes your body 20 minutes to realize when you are full, so I'm trying to remember this. I feel like after starving myself for so long I've lost the ability to realize when I am truly hungry.  But hey, we have a whole week ahead and we can all be succesful and binge free this week!!

Wow, I'm so glad i stumbled on to this.  Since your counting, I will count the days too.  This, for some odd reason, might work.  Kinda like a contest or something.  (I say this as Im staring at the box of crackers by my computer).  But heck, I might as well try this.  I binge on a daily basis, even if I have worked my butt off at the gym earlier.  Its so crazy, but I cant stop it seems.  So, thank you for posting this.  Its quite an inspiration to read about real people just like me with the same struggles.  Days without bingeing-- 0--, but stay tuned.  Thanks again!!!!!!!!!!!

can i just say i think this is my favourite thread on this whole website. i swear everyone is so friendly and supportive. it's great!

i'm glad people are doing well and also wish the best of luck to everyone who has just stumbled on this thread.. im on day 19 now which is the longest ive gone for a long time. ive felt emotionally all over the place today, came home from college early and started to obsess about all the lovely things id like to eat.. honestly guys i was THIS CLOSE to ruining all my hard work (there were biscuits in the cupboard and everything) but i didn't and i am glad. day 20 tomorrow. yay! wednesday will be 3 weeks! sorry im babbling on, but im quite surprized at myself, ive gone from feeling so out of control and desperate, to being almost on week 3, and it feels like a huge leap. a nice one, though :)

Ugh, I had a few beers last night with my brother and before I knew it I was over eating--I wouldn't call it a binge by far but I did eat more than I had intended to... I'm going to count it as a maintence day though since I ran 6 miles and did a nice afternoon walk before it.

Days binge free: 3

When you do not eat enough, your body will sense this as a "famine." Also, hardcore exercising poses an additional famine threat to the body, so you may want to ease up a bit. The reason for bingeing is because your survival instinct is working. After a day (or week, month, year...whatever your case may be) of restricting calories, your body will come to the point where it cannot take the restriction any longer, and you will go for the highest fat/highest sugar food available to you because your body needs it. (if our survival instincts did not work like this, a lot of us would be dead). A lot of times the person will not understand it because they didn't really feel that hungry to begin with, and they had such a healthy diet & exercise plan in place. So what went wrong? If you ever hear that you're not eating enough and you try to fight off that remark by saying you eat fine and are quite healthy, just think if you ever binge or not. If you binge it is because you need "make up eating" to make up for those lost calories you should have eaten earlier (that could mean either earlier in the day, week, month, or year(s)--however long the famine has been a threat to your body's survival.) So if you eat proper amounts all through the day, whenever you are hungry, of all types of real, quality food, carbs included, eventually the bingeing will stop. I just want everyone to give long thought to the notion that America is supposedly getting fatter and fatter, all the while the diet and exercise industry is raking in billions and billions of dollars. What's wrong with this picture? Shouldn't a wealthy country with access to all of these diet and fitness resources be getting thinner and thinner? It is because "dieting and exercise" poses a famine threat to your body, and you will, sooner or later, overeat to compensate. The diet will cause your metabolism to slow, and when you binge you will probably eat a lot of sugary & fattening food that will be stored as fat (because your body doesn't know that perhaps you WANT to diet weight off--all that it knows is that you are imposing a famine on it, and it wants to make sure you stay alive) When bingeing makes you feel "out-of-control" it is because your survival instinct is stronger than your will. And that's a good thing. As much as you want to avoid bingeing, your body wants you to stay alive even more. We need to stay away from diets, because they are at the root of all of this bingeing hell. You see, there's a reason weight watchers offers a "Lifetime Program." Because dieting promotes bingeing, and when you binge panic sets in because you don't know what is happening, and since you don't want to gain all of the weight back, you will have to go on another diet, and there you go, back to weight watchers again. And the cycle continues. Your body needs you to eat well, and then your metabolism will regulate itself and you won't have to diet. You will be able to tell if after dinner, you do not feel compelled to binge, that you have eaten enough during the day. It is so easy to avoid eating breakfast, and have a skimpy lunch, only to have your appetite snowball at the end of the day. Try reversing it and eating a nice big breakfast for a change. Even if you need another one an hour or two later! Then a nutritious lunch, and quality snacks whenever your body calls for them. The key is body-controlled eating, not mind controlled eating. You will be surprised that the more quality food you fill up on, the less likely you will desire sugary, fattening sweets & dessert-type foods, which do not do a body very much good anyway.

risabelle, i read your the entire thing you posted and glad that you offered some insight.  i'll try to keep this in mind.

are you a former binger who recovered?

back to day one... :(