I can manage during the day, but when I get home I want to eat EVERYTHING!

If I could control the after work binging, I would lose weight so much easier, but I have tried and tried and nothing seems to work other than avoiding going home at all  - what to do?

I find that as long as I don't keep my trigger binge foods in the house (peanut butter, candy, etc) , then I won't be interested in binging in most food I have on hand. If I do have my trigger foods around then I make sure they are packaged as single servings. For example, I have it bad for peanut butter. I could sit down with a jar of peanut butter and whole pack of ritz crackers and go to town. I recently purchased "Jiff to go" single serving cups (4 to a pack--each has 2 svg's worth). That way if I do feel a binge coming on, I'm pretty sure I'd only grab one of those and not all of them. Since I got those, I don't even mess with them. I only even have it around because my son loves PB.

Maybe try eating a filling snack right before you leave. What makes you want to binge? Are you not eating enough during the day?

You have to keep yourself busy.  Boredom is my food trigger.  Go for a walk, clean the house, drink lots of water, draw, paint, write a short story anything to keep yourself occupied besides sitting in front of the TV.

I had the same problem.  What works for me is keeping busy.  When i get bored i eat.  Plus i make sure i have plenty of snack foods i can eat in the house.  Make sure you have plenty of fruits and veges to snack on.  If i need something that's sweet i have those 100 calorie packs in the house (chocolate chip cookie and oreo cookies - pepridge farm also has a chocolate chip 100 calorie cookie pack).  Or now they have candy bars that are 100 calories like twix bars.  I got some of those for those chocolate craving days so i get the taste of chocolate but not all the calories.

I clean usually, or workout right when I get home. By the time I'm done its almost time for dinner, and then I'm ok.

only keep healthy snacks in your house so that when you do feel the urge to eat at night your eating healthier things.  I have the same problem, at night i always want something crunchy... sometimes the cravings are so hard to fight.

Well I'm with you here..some nights especially if my hubby is working I don't go home right away...if I do I will snack the evening away...

I do very well until about 4:00..then then it doesn't take much for the binging to start...right now I'm trying very hard to go to the gym 3 afternoons a week....find something to DO after 7:00pm and never eat in front of the tube...

Hang in there...

Cece

OMG, I love PP & J too, that and potato chips are my weakness.

I don't know, sometimes I am not even hungry and I eat because I feel like I deserve it or something, and if I tell myself I shouldn't eat it, I feel sorry for myself.  I don't exactly know how to change my frame of mind in that area.  I know that being healthy is the best thing for me and not eating whatever is GOOD, but getting the two parts of my brain to connect on it hasn't happened yet!

 Thank-you all for the great tips!!!

I've noticed with myself, maybe it's a laziness issue, but if the foos preparation takes too long, I will not eat it. So, I have started buying more foods that I cannot just grab and eat. I, too, binge when I get off work and it's because I am bored. I've started playing with my dog more and staying away from the kitchen. :-)

100 calorie packs are a good safe-guard against binges.  At least if you have to have some chocolate, you're more likely to open just one 100 calorie pack instead of an entire bag of cookies.   And if you can catch them on sale they're pretty affordable.

Hi- I had that problem too and got a great tip on here that I thought I'd share. I commute to work and I keep in my car a portioned healthy snack to eat after work when I hop in my car for the commute. Usually it's a handful of almonds, carrot sticks, etc. I snack the whole drive home and nine times out of ten, I don't feel like rushing to the fridge and eating whatever I want right when I get home, since during the drive I got my snacking urge out and had time to let my belly feel a little full.

Hi!  I have been there, especially when the tv comes on!!

I find that a square of ghirardelli or godiva DARK chocolate - savored slowly helps, because of the intense flavor, they are individually wrapped so that helps too.  Go as dark as you can.

 if you need crunch, find the healthiest crunchiest cracker or tortilla, if they don't come in small single serving bags, I divi them up in zip locks when I get them home. Baby carrots are good sweet and crunchy.

we are all pulling for you!!! you can do it!!!