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| Health & Support | ~~Bingers Anonymous~~ | Jun 19 2007 02:07 (UTC) |
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| awful day. i've been doing pretty well. exercise was steady, running and abs workout/push-ups. and i was following the whole "no extreme" philosophy which i had suggested to a few of you, where it's important to treat yourself every so often, and not just do the whole fruits/veggies strict thing.... anyway, it started when i made banana bread this morning. i hadn't baked in a while, and it was a nice relaxing morning, i had time to kill. so i baked it and it came out pretty great, considering i combined like three recipes. anyway, so i actually didn't go overboard, just a taster slice while it was still hot out of the oven. and then i stopped myself and occupied myself with cleaning my room. then i had to go to work, and there, i had some soup, then a croissant, and then a flapjack, and then half of another flapjack, and then some creme brulee--- all these things that are always at work, and which i don't usually eat (or at least not all at once), but because i had had that banana bread earlier, it was then okay to just eat all the 'goodie' stuff i could find....! and then i come home, and it just gets worse, more banana bread, yoghurt, two english muffins with melted cheese, crackers, and then, i just finished off the whole freaking loaf of banana bread. it's insane! i should be able to bake something and at least keep it in the house for one day. but it just spirals out of control so quickly. i hate it. and now, i just feel so disappointed in myself, and so aware of the idea that all those squishy, bready, sugary things, just make my body all squishy and bready and sugary, and i just resent that idea. bah why do we sabotage ourselves so easily? |
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| Health & Support | ~~Bingers Anonymous~~ | Jun 02 2007 12:17 (UTC) |
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| hi jackie, you sound similar to me. the back and forth cycle is so not fun. and it can't be good for our bodies either. i'll get into those awful binge periods, and then set a date or something for myself, and say that after that date, 'it will all get better'. the problem is that, even if i can manage to turn it around after that date, ill give myself freedom to just stuff my face until then. its awful! but lately my new deal is to just try and go for balance. so like, even if i break out of a binge period and try and be 'healty', or compensate for the binge, i still will try and not starve myself, or just be really restrictive. because i know that that jsut leads back to the binge. so ill make sure i eat enough, and especiially eat foods other than just fruits and vegetables. hope theres been progress. |
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| Health & Support | ~~Bingers Anonymous~~ | May 29 2007 14:08 (UTC) |
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| hi everybody! i haven't posted in a while, so... it is kind of reassuring to come in here and check in. anyway, this weekend i had kind of a slip-up. it all started with the huge slice of banoffee pie (doesn't it always...) that i treated myself to, from the kitchen of the cafe i work at. why can i never seem able to let a treat be a treat and not have it quickly dissolve into a stuff-my-face contest?? anyway, one thing i did notice is that whereas yesterday and sunday could easily have turned into the usual monster binges, they actually weren't that bad compared to past episodes, and i felt like i had a little more control. in addition to this being great, i think it is because i wasn't on such a tight starvation plan in the time leading up to it. what i mean is, in past times, the binges would always follow one or two weeks of healthy, but very restricted and often starvation-mode eating. this led the binges to be catastrophic because in my mind, i was trying to compensate for all the stuff i didn't allow myself to have. instead, this past week, i was eating healthily, but allowing myself more room. a dessert every other day, some pasta, cheese, tapioca pudding after lunch....etc. whatever. and i think because i wasn't so restrictive, when i did get into that 'binge' mode on sunday/monday, i didn't feel quite so desperate to stuff my face with everything possible. hoe everyone else is doing great |
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| Health & Support | ~~Bingers Anonymous~~ | May 18 2007 01:14 (UTC) |
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well, today. not so very good a day. it's always these damn school assignments. i stress myself out, push it all to thelast minute, and as it gets closer and closer (i'm talking hours), i just starting munching more and more. ive been 'binge-free' i guess you could say for eleven days, since the first day i signed up on here. i think counting the calories has helped me a lot, just having that vague idea, in terms of something quantifiable that has a limit that i can plan around, and control. and last night i went out for pizza with friends, but i knew i deserved some kind of reward, so i made sure it fit into my day's count for yesterday, and it was good! and it fit! and i even managed to skip dessert at the restaurant, which i must say even surprised me. so, great. but then, like always, i can never keep the "rewards" or "treats" under control, and it was like my body woke up this morning still in "treat mode" and all day it was a struggle to go back to regular, which isn't deprivation or anything, just normal, healthy, full-portion eating. i just kept wanting more, until for dinner i did indian take-away, and gorged on the big, big portion of vegetable massala, and big, big naan bread. ate it all. and then a little bit later, half an hour ago, i finished off more naan with some yoghurt, and had some leftovers from lunch. it's like, WHERE IS THE CONTROL? i had it so well this past week and a half. it's just discouraging. especially because the assignment is still staring at me, blank, in the face, and my stomach is achingly burstingly full. i wonder, what is the effect of this kind of action on our bodies? i mean, if i've been doing about 1200 calories a day, and my body's been getting used to that, and then i have this whacko day of 2000+, how do our bodies respond? anyway, this is no good! well done to everyone else tho that have been having victories! |
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| Health & Support | ~~Bingers Anonymous~~ | May 08 2007 14:06 (UTC) |
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| hi furry, i'm new too. i agree, this forum is comforting. i would say to you, two suggestions. one involves psychology, the other is more pragmatic. first, you have to just get down and dirty with yourself and say no, this is ridiculous. i am not going to let this control me. YOU'VE got to take control back. with that in mind, when those binge modes go into over-drive, you just have to literally pry your hands away from the cupboard, shuffle your feet out of the kitchen, and go for a WALK! just walk, bring your walkman. just get your mind out of that mode, and wait. wait it out. it will pass, and you will feel better. second, this is a suggesiton ive seen on this forum, i tried it and it helped me, so i won't take credit, just lend it a little credibility: soup! make a nice pot of vegetable soup. if you're any good at all in the kitchen, its very easy. broth, vegetables (carrots, peas, zucchini, potatoes, broccoli, leeks, onions....anything!), spices/salt, and presto, you've got a healthy, filling, tasty bowl of goodness to munch on when you need it. otherwise, a can works! i started logging on here just sunday night and somehow have found this surge of willpower to change things for the better. hope this helps! |
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| Health & Support | ~~Bingers Anonymous~~ | May 07 2007 00:46 (UTC) |
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| well hello, i'm alex. reading some of these posts has calmed me in a few ways, and made me feel a lot better, knowing how there's others who go through the same kind of thing. i have a pretty healthy lifestyle with lots of vegetables, fruit, tea (no coffee), rice (brown, not white), and no fried things. but this year i moved to this new appartment, and have felt more and more isolated, and i get into these crazy out of control binges. if i'm out, then ill start roaming the city like a madman, looking for the place where i can "best" satisfy my craving and get a big portion of somehting, noodles, a sandwich, pizza or something....and then even after that, i'll keep roaming, looking for a good flapjack or pastry to 'finish it off'. and then if i'm at home, ill just basically take out all the crap that has the strongest flavor, hummous, pickles, avocado, spaghetti hoops, cheese (always loooots of cheese), and make toast and munch it all down. theres no order to it. ill just open it up and chow it down. and that, of course, will usually be in addition to a normal meal which i've just finished. i totally agree with what joanne said. once you feel like you've blown it, with a bowl of ice cream for example, you just say ''screw it'' and give yourself license to just keep eating. and then one little (forgivable) indulgence turns into a completely out-of-control binge. i had one tonight. an hour and a half after a good chinese takeaway dinner, procrastinating on my paper, i went in to the kitchen, finished off a new tub of hummus, half an avocado, left over bowl of stir-fry, (this was the "screw it" point), then since i knew i was in binge mode, WENT OUT and bought a cadbury's chocolate filled chocolate muffin, had a rice cake and two french fancy cakes. i just can't stop the urge to keep eating. and it gets the better of me. this week has been the worst. and it needs to stop. i know exactly what i'm doing to myself, and yet feeling so alone and away from my friends and family gives me no immediate motivation to get a hold of this problem. it actually makes me want to be as self-destructive as possible. No good! |
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