hey there
just wanna say, I agree that a "nothing after 3pm" rule doesn't seem too likely to work out. Not only is there the allure of what you can't have, but there is also the fact that you will be forcing yourself to go for a long period of time without food, which is bound to be setting you up for failure. People typically eat lightly or not at all early in the day, then binge at night - seems eating lightly or not at all later in the day would set you up to binge in the early part of the day! Not to mention it will slow your metabolism.
re: the 3 o'clock bingies coming on... oh do I hear you. I don't understand it. For me it's more like 4 o'clock but that's a small point. I can be fine up until that point, and then it's like I have to eat. I just HAVE to! And it amazes me what i can find to eat when i swear there is no food in the house. It doesn't make amuch sense to me, either, since I am alone all day, my husband gets home around 7... you'd think I'd be more likely to behave later in the day, wouldn't you? You'd think I'd be more likely to not binge when someone else is in the house, wouldn't you?
Why does this happen??? I am glad at least I am not alone in this.
The worst is when I have already binged (and sometimes purged) by dinner time, and then I have no desire to eat dinner - yet somehow I still feel like grazing on junk after dinner! How does THAT work?
I have been struggling with bulimia for about 12 years. I used to have dilussions of being grown up and married and magically cured. Ha ha!
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