Something CousinRockingChair said in the "Binge Free" thread really hit home. To quote:

I have had years of eating disorder experience and I've noticed that when my behaviours are worst, it's usually to mask something else I don't like in my life or that I feel I have no control over.

With binging it is never about the food. It's always about something else. We have to figure out what is going on in our lives that triggers binging. Once we know why then behaviors change.

lol, im surprised that so many people are crazy about cereal!
I am, too, haha i thought i was the only one.
I go on cereal binges, too. blaaah!!

cereal is my ultimate temptation also! seriously tho, i could easily polish off a box in a day. it's sweet, mushy, cold stuff i can just woof down. like ice cream without the brain freeze.

one thing that has helped me is to switch to a kids bowl and spoon. this way, i eat it slower. usually i would shovel it into my mouth with a tablespoon from a huge bowl!

also, kashi's high protein/fiber cereal is pretty good and filling. at first, it tastes sort of like cardboard or something a gerbil would eat. but i've learned to like it.

I love cereal also! A definate binge food for me!
The only way that I can deal with these kinds of foods is to make them zero tolerance foods. There are some foods that I cannot even let touch my skin. I cant have just one. I can't have just a nibble. I can not start at all! As long as I get that through my head I can have the foods in the house and not have a problem...but I never touch them...even to prepare them for others.

I liken it to foods that I am allergic to. If I have them bad things will happen to my body that are out of my control. Therfor...I can't have that food.

No sweet cereal is allowed in my house either! Fibre1 is now the only cereal I eat and it's portioned at 1/2 a cup mixed with 3 oz of fruit yogurt. I've found that's the only tasty combo that keeps me full beyond half an hour.

Otherwise I can go through 2-3 heaping bowls of sweet cereal in the morning and a whole bunch of munching as long as it's there. the evil excuse to have sugar anytime you feel like it!

Every time I read this title of this Thread, I crave a good handful of my Kashi GoLean Crunch clusters. Oh but I haven't given in! I can wait til breakfast... i hope! haha =]

During the day, every time i walk past the box of cereal i have to put my hand in and grab a handful. It's more like habit now!

Even on my on-plan days I eat about 3 bowls of a cereal, and I used to be WAY worse.

Yes, I have purchased boxes of cereal getting myself good and ready for a binge. Absolutely.

I try not to eat any cereal. Very big trigger. I do much better with nuts for breakfast.

I love cereal too. I can handle it sometimes and it helped me lose a lot of weight in the past as i would eat it everyday for lunch.

But it is a trigger food for me too and I pour huge bowls of it and then keep pouring and pouring until I look in the box and see Okay it is practically gone, might as well finish it. I am trying to avoid it for a while.

I even binge on healthy kinds like Special K with Red Berries.

I ADORE cereal!! All kinds of cereal. I don't even use a bowl most of the time, I just grab handfuls straight out of the box. Sometimes I take one bowl and say that's it. But it never is. I refill it and refill it. A few months ago I realized that I am just not able to keep cereal in the house.

So I stopped buying it and replaced it with oatmeal, which at least requires some preparation so I can't just eat it constantly. Then I saw Kash GoLean on sale this week and decided to try some because it looked super good for me and not all that tempting and I thought it would be good for yogurt. Of course the next day it was gone. Darnit.

I miss it SOOOO much but I know cereal is dangerous for me.

It seems like a lot of people just love that kind of food. I love cheerios! I Could eat them all the time. It's different with Fiber One cereal, I can have one bowl in the morning and that's enough for me, it also keeps me full through half of the day. I enjoy it as well, even though it takes some time to adjust, but it has a lot less sugar and that's what makes it "stop able"

Wow. I completely understand this!
I live alone (thank God) so I never buy cereal...no matter how bad I want it.
Until I moved out my sister would buy those huge value bags of...well...anything. That huge bag and four gallons of milk would be gone the second I found it.
Every. Time.
I even had a special mixing bowl for it...*sigh*
Now I try to eat hot cereal in my crockpot. That way, I only have so much at a time.

been a while since i made this thread! but i think i figured why its such a huge trigger emotionaly and physicaly.
as a kid id eat HUGE lunch and breakfasts, and then not eat at night, so in the morning cereal was what i used to break a fast. its got high amounts of sugar and carbs so that sets it off worse... and if ive had artificial sweetner then heaven help the second box of cereal!!!!!
actualy came back to this thread because ive just polished off a box of ffrosties and feel utterly disgusted. need to work out how to maintain without binging. bleh.

and what to have in the mornings if not cereal!!
porrage is good but not always practical