Hi ladies, i hope its ok for me to jump on in here! I know its the end of the week, but I was hoping I could introduce myself, lurk and then jump on the bandwagon with you all Monday...
Im just feeling very out of control again at the moment, Im binging for no apparent reason, and I feel bloated and uncomfortable. I am a classic comfort eater, unforunately Im a happy eater, sad eater and a plain old bored eater too. I have some pretty screwed up issues with food in general, have been trying to gain control for my whole life. Sigh. I just need to get back to controlling food rather than it controlling me. Looking forward to getting to know you all better!!

No reason to wait until Monday, PP, jump in TODAY! Not binging is an ongoing daily challenge for us all!

Hello again Tyler, I think your my 3FC stalker, or am I stalking you?! Who knows!!! LOL!! Yes your right im jumping in and becoming aco****able for my actions as of now. Im off to the gym tonight, we are having steak and tomato and mozarella salad for dinner tonight, and then thats it. NO snacks for me. Hot bath, movie and low cal hot chocolate! hope everyone has a good Friday night.

Okay, so it's evening here now, and I'm chewing gum and drinking water. I had a FEW sun chips, but then I managed to put them away. Thanks to you Jude and Josephine! It's my 10th wedding anniversary, so I think I might have a little celebratory libation . Thanks for the help, and I'll keep you posted. BTW, Josephine I checked your blog entries and really enjoyed them!

I'm on day 5 and if I'm successful that would be a record in recent memory. I have no idea what is working to help me. I have made a lot of changes in my life to battle BED including quitting my job, entering treatment, starting medication, adding new psychotherapy regimens, having a nutritionist, trying to follow a food plan, exercising every day, blah blah blah.

The biggest change is I'm motivated to stop and I am doing things that keep me from bingeing like keeping trigger foods out of the house, keeping busy, exercising, not thinking I can "taste" something, etc. Also, I am trying to keep stressors out of my life temporarily like certain family members.

Anyway, my plan for today is to hang with friends most of the day and to do no food shopping. My cupboards are pretty bare, but I do have just enough food for a healthy meal & even a light dessert (jello). I'll have lunch with some friends & they know I'm in treatment so they are supportive. I get in trouble when I'm alone.

I'll keep you posted over the weekend. Today is a real milestone for me. Thanks for being there.

-Caroline

Wistfulgirl -- I hope you had a lovely wedding anniversary! Great job pulling away from the sunchips (anything munchy like that is a huge trigger for me, so I couldn't have done it!)! Thanks for the nice comment on my blog.

Caroline -- CONGRATS on DAY 5! Whoo hoo! I hope you have a great day today, it sounds like you are on a roll and have an excellent plan for continuing your success!

PP -- How did your night go? What movie did you watch?


Today is amazingly Day 66 for me. Last night was a little rough as DH decided to eat buttered popcorn, tons of pizza, and beer while we watched a couple of shows we had been saving (The Office finale, last week's Saturday Night Live). None of the foods were vegan so I couldn't have eaten them anyway, but just the act of smelling them and sitting with him while he ate and ate and ate was really hard. Made me wanna run to the kitchen and fix myself a bunch of snack food. I didn't do it, but I wonder if those moment will ALWAYS be that difficult.

Happy Saturday everyone! Let's have a strong, healthy, binge-free day!

Day 66! That is so awesome. I am really inspired. It is 3:30 and the day is half way over and I haven't binge. I'll let y'all know tomorrow if I broke my binge free record.

Tyler: day 66! OMG u r amazing. Is your DH one of those guys who can eat anything? My brother used to be like that, it was so annoying, but now he's got an office job where he sits down all the time and is actually starting to get podgy
Motivated, you're doing awesome too. Keep it up!
Hi to wistful and pigginpodgy, I LOVE your icon, if only I was that cute when I was fat
I'm doing good, I did go back to normal weight after TOM (phew) and am not gonna weigh till next w/end now because I'm sitting my final exams this week (gulp). One Thursday, one Friday, one next Tuesday. I won't get less than a 2:1 unless something goes disastrously wrong. If I get amazing questions and perform at the top of my game, there's a small possibility I'll get a first, but I'm not counting on it. I go to Cambridge (UK) and it's really competetive, the people who get firsts are usually like super-geniuses. I'm smart but not that smart. So...wish me lucks! xxx

Me23 -- No, unfortunately DH would like to lose 60 or more pounds, but it just isn't as important to him as my weight loss is to me. It seems different for guys. He actually looks fine with extra weight on while I look horrible. Drives me crazy. Anyway, he has not been able to get into the weight loss groove and on weekends he tends to really eat and drink ALOT. I feel like a bit of a wet blanket these days because I used to be his "partner in crime" and binge and drink with him and weekend nights used to be one huge party and now I won't. So it is an uncomfortable dynamic, you know?

GOOD LUCK on your finals! Cambridge, yow, very impressive! Don't sell yourself short, aim for those firsts Miss Smartypants!

Good luck, me23!

Caroline, you are doing great. Keep it up!

Great job, Tyler and congratulations on day 66. That is amazing. My husband is a junk food junkie and he always wants me to eat with him. Makes me crazy (and him, too because he has no weight issues and just.doesn't.get.it.)

Anyway, we went to the luau last night. I am proud to say that I stayed on plan. I had a plate and 1/2 of two different spinach salads, some chicken bbq with no sauce, and some raw veggies and watermelon. No dessert, which is HUGE for me. There was a big table full of dessert and I didn't have any. I even made brownies and cut them up onto a plate. Didn't have a crumb. The best part is that I was rewarded this morning with the lowest weight I have seen in a while, 137.2. Oh, and today is day 6 for me.

Hey, WardHog, we are both on Day 6. So, I now have a new personal best. I hope I can keep things going. I have a pasta dinner this afternoon. Checked the menu of the restaurant and ugh almost everything is pasta. The things that aren't pasta are less appealing...veal. Hmm, this should be interesting. But I will make a plan.

Anyway, happy happy day six. This calls for celebration

Oh, awesome thread.
I'm starting to binge-off tomorrow, and at least for tomorrow I'm pretty confident that it'll go well, because I've got school, shopping with mom, swimming, going out and there's really no time for me to remain alone and binge away.
I can only hope I'll have the will power to keep it up.

Can someone please define "binge?" I mean, is it something different for everyone or would everybody agree on one def? I try not to, but sometimes chocolate, ice cream call lol If I just have a taste, do you think that would be considered a binge?

A "binge" can be whatever you what to define it as and I'm sure many of us differ a little in what we confider a binge. I doubt anyone would call "just a taste" a binge, though. Just a taste is something I can rarely do with foods that are "triggers" for me (like ice cream). A binge, for me, is a wildly out of control eating session where I am eating just CRAZY amounts of food, often very fast, with no regard to anything including how full I might be, what it taste likes, etc. I have eaten until I was sick. I have eaten great quantities of things I didn't even like. Most of these binges are done in secret and I have purchased massive quantities of food, eaten until I was sick, then hidden the rest to binge on later. Very disordered relationship to food. These are the behaviors I'm trying to conquer.

You can do it, hang in there, t sounds like you have a plan for tomorrow!