This suggestion may get some digs from others, but honestly it works for me. I'll be going along my life eating pretty well and losing weight, and then something happens. Usually I'll either go home or my boyfriend will come here and I'll eat out a few nights in a row. Then when things go back to normal...I'm now craving that food and that amount of food. Never a good cycle to start.
What typically works for me is to just, for a few days, radically rev up my diet. I find a new diet "trend" per se, and stick with it for a few days (usually 3 or 4). Like right now, I've had to implement a low-carb style for a few days (by low carb I mean about 100-120g a day, or 40-50% instead of 60-65%). This kind of helps stop my cravings for carby foods (which is what I've been munching a lot of lately! cereal, candy, oatmeal, you name it!) but in a few days I'll add back the healthy carbs, and keep the sugary ones out!
It may not be the most brilliant thing health-wise...but it works, and puts my mind in a new gear so to speak. Also, write little notes to yourself if you can. I have notes up all over (I'm in a single rm so I can do this w/o other ppl looking at me strangely..lol) but they remind me not to eat fake sugars this week, or to avoid candy bars these days, etc.
and remember, exercise is always a two-fold fix for cravings and food!
The first time I tried to lose weight by counting calories I had the same problem. I had initially gained weight from emotional eating, and then, when I tried to restrict my calories a lot, I found myself binging like there was no tomorrow, even if I was happy. I was just so hungry and got a bit intoxicated by that satisfaction feeling of fulfilling a strong craving. Needless to say, I didn't lose much weight then. This time around, I am trying to stick to a more reasonable intake (1600-1700/day instead of 1200-1300). This way, I'm eating enough to not get super hungry. I don't find myself binging anymore because I'm never completely famished and my overall defecit is much more constant.
While it's tempting to reduce to a really low number, it just doesn't work for me. Maybe you should try upping your daily intake a little bit.
2000 calories is a bad day? Girl you don't even know how to eat, eat and eat. I think you're probably overthinking this.
Original Post by spirochete:
2000 calories is a bad day? Girl you don't even know how to eat, eat and eat. I think you're probably overthinking this.
Well For Me it makes me feel SO Uncomfortable and Fat, so it just Seems Like a lot to Me.
I will Defanitly Will Work out More.
Thankyou.
And Thankyou. I have the Binging Problem and I should just try eating more and constistantly.
Thankyou.
i def understand, cuz sometimes i just eat and eat and eat more, till my stomach hurts! i find that when i get cravings and i know i will eat like that i either drink a big glass of cold water it helps calm my stomach or i will chew gum..i think it fakes my stomach into thinking im eating..of course use low calorie gum..hope that helps
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I seem to have the same problem. Tonight I was making a box of mac n cheese (I know its soooo bad for you), and I was only going to eat the recommended serving, and then I noticed that there was only a little left in the pot, and I thought it a waste to put such a little bit in the fridge, so I ate it ALL. THE WHOLE BOX!!! It felt like dead weight in my stomach, and I got so sick from it. To top it all off, I went out running about an hour after, and I thought I was going to be sick on the road. Needless to say, I had to stop eating. What makes us do this to ourselves???? Please Help!!!!
Original Post by missypunk:
Original Post by spirochete:
2000 calories is a bad day? Girl you don't even know how to eat, eat and eat. I think you're probably overthinking this.Well For Me it makes me feel SO Uncomfortable and Fat, so it just Seems Like a lot to Me.
if 2000 calories is considered a bad day you definitely are beating yourself up over nothing...2000 calories is likely your maintenance level anyway. maybe you should have one day a week where you eat your maintenance level which will allow you something to look forward to and keep you on track during the week. if you just say...2 more days and i can have that then you're less likely to overindulge in the moment =)
I can relate to this thread. But I am pretty sure you are not eating enough on a day to day basis.
When I started CC I thought I had to over eat all the time because I had not lost the 20 lbs I gained from medication. I figured I was pretty much a pig with no self control. So I started counting calories and discovered that I was maxing out at about 800 calories a day. I was not hungry, I was fat. How could I need more? But after a couple of weeks of excercizeing nearly every day I seemed to be starving all the time.
I moved my calories up to 1200 and decided that was enough, But I excercise 7 days a week. After a week or two I woke up famished - starving in the middle of the night. Ah a binge! Well, a bowl of cereal that I felt really guilty about.
But after reading and reading I have decided to up my calories again. I hope this will get me off my plateau. This time I am aiming for 1400 on low exercise days and 1600 on high days. Nothing to feel guilty about.
I decided that if I dont lose any weight I am OK with that. My diet is 100% improved and so are my excercise habits. My resting heart rate is down 10 beats per minute, my blood pressure is low, my cholestoral is low, I am healthy.
missypunk, junelaine is right about the calorie intake. Your body adjusts itself if you eat less. If you don't have enough fuel for your body, it has to turn down your metabolic rate and by the time you do eat more again, you will find yourself gaining weight faster. Sometimes the best way to deal with your fear (eating) is to face it and not think about it after its done. I used to feel guilty all the time after I ate a lot. I would think of ways to cope with it by eating more which never solved any problem, but made it worse. Then one day I decided to just leave it and went to sleep even though I was still worried the stuff I ate would turn into fat. That's all we think about when we are stuck in the battle with food. We are obsessed with it. We have to get out of that loop. It is OK to eat more sometimes, the point is we should stop feeling guilty about it and stop thinking tomorrow i will do better so it is ok to binge today. Tell yourself "it is OK that I just ate so much food. I will be all right. I should do something else now." Another thing that helped me reduce worries about my weight was I stopped getting myself on the scale every day or couple times a day. I put away the scale for a while until I felt like I didn't need to depend on it to know how well I am any more because I felt great about myself.
I am now eating a lot more than I used to and I feel free and absolutely awesome. I am at around 2000 calories each day and I am in great shape and health. Eating more in fact makes it much easier for me to keep my weight off because my metabolic rate is kept high and mentally I am much happier and less stressed. The key for me is to get rid of the obsession and start treating with good, healthy food. Your body is like a temple. It deserves the best things.
The biggest enemy a binge eater has is his/her obession. Like people with OCD, the best way to conquer their prob is to face it because if you do face it, soon you will find out it is not really that scary. Once it's gone, you'd feel like a winner. Don't let food control you. Good luck.
Update: I was trying to share with you you something i wrote about my calorie intake by inserting a link to my blog, but the admins warned me to remove it or else my account will be suspended. That's so harsh! I just wanted to share something with you and they did that to me :-(
Amy
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