Posts by runswithdonuts

BTW, I've heard REALLY good things about a new v. expensive treatment called Acoustic Wave Therapy (AWT) on cellulite. Seriously miraculous. You can Google it and watch the videos you find on YouTube.

Question: Does CC'ing make my head look fat?  Thx in advance!

Update: I've been doing the OCM for a month or two now on my t-zone 2-3 times a week and it's cleared up my blackheads and white heads! Thanks, jewelsmcblah! :) 

AND my adult cystic acne? GONE! I can't credit the OCM for that (unfortunately)... nothing has ever touched it and since age 21 or so it typically had settled in to a pattern of week long exxon valdez disaster around my chin, once a month, around my cycle. If I'm stressed it got worse.

I went on Loestrin Fe 1/20 4-5 months ago for hormone therapy and by happy accident, I noticed my cystic acne had stopped after the first month or so. I've had other (bad) side effects from the Loestrin, mainly in the first 3 months, including a never ending cycle lasting 3 weeks (!!!!! so much fun) but I have to say, on balance, TOTALLY worth it. YEAH!!!!

Anyway.

I hate it when no one responds. I just saw this and thought I'd answer after the great few days I've had.

People can and do stop bingeing - it is totally possible and completely achievable for anyone.

I just got back from a workshop where the lady running it was just as bad as anyone / the worst of us on here.

She stopped bingeing when she allowed herself permission to eat whatever she wanted whenever she wanted. She is a social worker / counselor and just reasoned her own plan out.

Her guides were that she had to sit down when eating, she had to eat slowly and enjoy the food, and she had to listen to her body and stop when comfortably full, because it would all be there for the next meal. And just keep doing that and you'll gradually stop bingeing.

She decided to trust the process, even though she knew she'd gain a bit of weight. She said you have to be secure and trust the process and love yourself enough to go through this step, and trust that it will work. She used to be heavy but now she's quite thin.

Apparently it has worked for a lot of people some of who were there as part of their recovery process. They had all recovered from bad bingeing and EDs ad looked so happy.

Anyway, it was really inspiring and I just thought I'd pass the good juju along. :)

If I can be secure enough in myself, I'm going to do this, and stop counting so hard. Maybe even going midway and making low fat versions of what I want and letting myself have as much of it as I want.

Since you aren't overweight it sounds like you are more or less burning = what you eat, give or take a few hundred.

But I understand your being ravenous all the time- same here - and wanting to drop a few, but your appetite makes it really hard to cut back on cals the way you want, at least without going crazy and bingeing.

You might not be eating enough protein - I find that's my problem.  Especially if you are exercising - you are building and maintaining muscle and your body needs even more protein for that.  For a snack, try cooking eggs up the way you want and having them on lowfat whole grain toast, for a snack.  Also lowfat soy protein shakes. I also keep other lowfat protein sources ready, as well as cut fruits and veggies on hand to help feel full. I'll have sliced chicken or peanut/almond butter on an apple.

It sounds like some part of your challenge is that you are busy while at work or whatever so have less time to eat and arrive at home really hungry. Try snacking more often during the day - I need to do that and it helps my murdering the fridge when I get home.

I would prepare 1-pot meals on Sundays and have enough for the week so I could quickly eat healthy dinners as soon as I got home. Also really bulky, low calorie satisfying foods. Like for dinner I'll have 9 oz. chicken, a whole eggplant, a large zucchini, bell pepper, mushrooms, some brown rice, and a lot of ginger and garlic in oyster sauce or black bean sauce for 500 cal.  I stay kinda full with that.

That, plus enough water and coffee ( lots of it) and as much lettuce and celery as I want (blah) will help manage my cravings and appetite.

I feel you. I was so close to taking my fiance's car after he fell asleep and going on a food run last night but somehow I stopped, after going online and looking up some of the links, below.

First, you might want to attend OA meetings in your area. If you can't in person, they have online ones every three hours:

http://www.therecoverygroup.org/

http://www.oa.org/index.htm

Start investigating into therapists who specialize in binge eating disorders in your area. Maybe your therapist you are seeing now doesn't specialize in it and doesn't know how to treat it. You might be able to get some good names of therapists through OA.  Also investigate with any therapist whether medication like SSRIs that are good for EDs, combined with something like behavioral therapy, might work for your binge eating.

In the meantime, check out some of the articles on associated content. Reading these and then going to a meeting was what stopped me last night.

For some reason, CC adds an extra space between some of the letters in the links so that they don't work, like where it says "pa ge=4" in the one right below, it is supposed to say "page=4" and the one below, "...eliminating.html" If you correct it, it'll work.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2329 07/living_with_a_bingeeating_disorder.html?pa ge=4

Also, you might start structuring your meals by developing a meal plan where you eat good food every few hours, so that there's something to look forward to and you don't feel deprived. I know you've been eating more often but try eating MORE food more often. Like, 300-500 for main meals, and a few 100-200 cal snacks, one right before bed. Then plan a really great breakfast to look forward to first thing the next morning. That helps me.

At times when I have more control over my binge eating, i try to cut back on stuff that makes my food addiction worse, like white flour, wheat, caffeine, fats and refined carbohydrates like sugar. I think my bingeing is made way worse by my addictions to that stuff so I try to help myself by detoxing as much as I can from them.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2980 36/compulsive_overeating_totally_eliminating. html

Good luck, and feel better soon.

I'm multiracial, German, Chinese, and indigenous Ojibwe. Which means my political incorrectness gets to roam free.

So I suppose I have hybrid vigor and get pissed off about having to check the "other" box all the time. I'm also terrifyingly efficient, have meglo tendencies, know kung fu, and can play a musical instrument (but I'm bad at math??!). Oh, and I get drunk quickly, and I want my dad's land back.

My kids will have it even better - they'll be OjibwaGerMexiCanese. AND he has Sephardic Jewish heritage. Yesssssss. Good with money, climbing fences, and traveling long distances across deserts.

Gotta go drink lager, bind my feet, and eat some frybread now (I especially hate that last one). 1 plate of frybread made with lard = 700 calories.

That sounds to be a good strategy.  Easing into different portions and out of CC'ing so often feels "safer" than stopping CC'ing cold.  I'm trying to recuperate from a minor knee injury that is acting up, so my inability to exercise and keep my metab to a level I am familiar with is triggering some anxiety as well.  But this is meant to be a 3-4 month break and part of a lifestyle change. It is good to hear and be reminded that small workable steps are a key to this.

Thanks for your advice - it makes sense to me and truly is appreciated.

Original Post by trhawley:

A 20 oz. - $100.00 hamburger? Well you might as well eat it 'cause you can't take it with you.

Hm. Cha-LENGE. 

When I die in 60 years I intend to be buried with a doggie bag of all the foods I crave/binge on, including burgers.

The doggie bag will be velvet and the phrase, "Takin' it Wit Me" will be embroidered, in bling.  

Maybe I'll have the foods embalmed too. Hey, if it was good enough for the Egyptians back when, you know.  I'm just morbid and loopy enough to do it.  Way to cure my ED. No more deprivation - I will always have my fav foods... forever!

Which brings me to my next drama thread title: "Do I have to log a huge onion blossom if my digestive system is no longer working?"

Calories burned in weighing oneself repeatedly!??  How many calories in a calorie?!!!

I must stop.

Recipe Analyzer miscalculated calories in 1 liver, male, medium sized ; 14 oz. fava beans, 1 pint chianti -- serves 1!!!  PLZ HELP!

Original Post by cecilyb03:


Unfortunately, he can open doors. My husband suggested putting the child proof knob on the inside and shutting the door. I think it's kind of mean, but he has no reason to leave the room. He's not potty trained yet. I do have an air mattress that I can put on his floor if he'd rather sleep on that.

I think the family bed idea suggested by patsu and dbackerfan is a good one. Or the Supernanny solution is good too.

But perhaps putting a childproof knob on the door or shutting them in if they can't reach the doorknob might be setting you and them up for problems later. Especially if they happen to be prone to night terrors, etc.

However, you might not want them to think they need a parent to lay down with them in order to fall asleep.  The supernanny solution seems best if your little one isn't prone to nightmares, etc.- just keep walking them back to their room without saying anything, apart from "these are the rules."

I think it might depend on the child...Some kids are more sensitive than others. Maybe you need to evaluate his situation based on his disposition and his age. My brother for one might probably have been able to deal with being shut in. If it'd been me, I'd have gone nuts.

In any case, I think the more we can offer the kids relationship dependability and fulfillment vs. deprivation, the better foundation we set for their future well being.

Its pretty good. I use it all the time now.

In re: your question, I've read (see below) that it has almost no effect on and may improve glucose tolerance. 

Some of the extracts out there may have a bitter aftertaste in higher concentrations. Some of the products advertise that they have "no aftertaste," so you might want to look out for those.

I've recently read a book, Healing With Whole Foods, where the author warns to "Obtain only the green or brown [whole] stevia extracts or powders [wild oats, health food stores esp. have this]; avoid the clear extracts and white powders, which, highly refined and lacking essential phyto nutrients, cause imbalance."

Go for quinoa (a whole grain). The info on wikipedia for it isn't bad. It is considered an unusually complete food source and is being considered by NASA as a possible crop for long-duration manned spaceflights. Yay.

Cook it and flavor it like oatmeal - I love it with cinnamon, honey, and vanilla.

How inspiring! Thank you!