Hold me please!!

There I am.. Excersising like h*** and eating healthily as much as I can in a house where everybody is skinny but eats lots of crap..

For the past couple of days I have been receving compliments on how I managed to lose weight and how I started to look better etc..

So yesterday I overate like a mad cow... I said I'll get back on track today and I did. I went to the gym at uni and spend 30 mins on the elliptical and 20 mins on the bycylce, in addition to some strength training. I had weighed myself and found myself 4 lbs but.. that didn't stop me, did it?!

I get home and eat: a banana, a WHOLE pizza, 6 bread sticks, a chocolate brownie, 1/2 a jar of nutella, 4 slices of toast...

Why do I do this. I can't stop binging every once and a while. The wall infront of me is full of notes and stickers I wrote of how binging makes me feel bad about myself.. And I'm supposed to have a motivational boost because of the compliments I have been receving.

I'm sick of hurting my body and hurting my brain this way.. Last time I binged (23rd September I think) I made a similar post and felt as terrible as I feel now.. but here I go again, and again, and again, and again................

Hey don't worry, it is bad if you only let it be and continue doing it. I just started trying this whole calorie counting exercise thing and its a pain if i let myself see it like that. You know that you can get back on track it is all in you, you have done it before. Hope you feel better about it, and you are not alone, a lot of us go through the same situation.

We all have the desire (and often act on this desire) to bing.  I have found it easier to (when I must bing) hold off until the weekend.  That way if I know I get to relax on the weekend, then its easier to stay strong during the week.  Good Luck.

Thank you guys.

I just had a warm shower and I'm willing to drink lots of water and I guess tomorrow is yet another day...

Hello

I trully understand you, cause I suffered this kinds of attacks (I still dealing with them). My advice is to reduce your self pressure, because in this cases it produces a CONTRARY effect of what you want to achive.

I know that sometimes you want to lose all your extra weight in 1 day or week, but it is imposible, and that makes you feel bad.

The next day after a very very bad eating day, start your morning as if you have had a great day ( clean your mind of all that horrible gosts). In this manner, you will feel better, relaxed and as a result, make good decisions.

Finally, be careful with your exercising. I think that it is the same "pressure" that produces the after workout cravings. Some substitutions in my daily thinking that I have been practicing: instead of "I HAVE TO EXERCISE because I ate terrible yesterday or because I am too fat ..." switch to " I WANT TO exercise because I LIKE to feel better... "

Good Luck

Sofi8

I am sending you a virtual hug.

I agree with all the posts.  We are all in this together.  You are doing well. A binge once a month is not bad. I have just started to count calories again and if I could get to the point that I do not surpass my calorie goal 29 out of 30 days for multiple months, I would be dancing for joy.  You're my hero!

Ahh you sound alot like me! I just binged pretty badly yesterday-may I say that nutella is seriously a killer! so easy to binge on, it was part of mine yesterday along with ben and jerry's and a load of other crap! I live with 3 other girls, and 2 of them aren't very health conscious, if it was up to me, there wouldn't be any nutella in the house! I don't know about you, but I find that I binge most often when I'm restricting/exercising too much. Today I was tempted to only eat 1000-1200 calories, and I worked out so that would have been bad (what I've been doing lately after binges). So I made myself stick to 1400 today and am going to eat at 1500-1600 tomorrow. Every Tues./Thurs. after class lately I come home and eat until I'm too full to work out. So tomorrow I'm bringing my gym stuff to class and just heading straight up there that way I don't give myself the chance b/c I need to get out of this rut! I felt terrible earlier in the day-but after just one day I am already feeling better! I'm sure by the weekend I'll be good as new! Good luck