I am so glad this thread is here! Right now I want to EAT, I blame the biscotti I bought I had on after dinner and now I want another one(or maybe 3 more) It's hours before bed time. ACK! I'm super annoyed, I just want to eat and honestly, I'm sad that I can't :-( But I won't I'm at 1400 calories for the day so I just simply can't eat. Boy am I glad this thread is here!

Mikayla -- don't do it! You don't need that biscotti and you sure don't need the extra calories! Chew some gum or drink some tea instead.

looking forward to hearing good news at the end of the night!

Mikayla...I'm thinking about you too. It is SO hard at night, when we've hit our calorie limit. All I can say is kudos to you for counting calories...it's one of the best ways to stay accountable. Try to distract yourself by doing something you love..something that relaxes you....sometimes, I find some great songs on youtube that I used to rock out to when I was a teenager and I put them on and dance around and if the kids are asleep, I just watch the videos, even look up the lyrics. I also look up weight loss success stories online. Just hang in there...think of how proud you'll feel when you wake up tomorrow and you didn't have those extra items! On the flip side, remember the horrible feeling of waking up after eating too much. I also can't wait to hear good things about what you did tonight!

nnngh... I'm not tempted to binge, exactly, but I'm up to 1500 calories already today and I am so tempted to snack... even though I'm not hungry. I've chewed gum and drunk coffee but the urge is still there. I had SUCH a great workout, I don't want to sabotage it. Could somebody be so kind as to talk me off this ledge I'm standing on?

I have been locked away... In Binge ****... One eating episode turned into a weeks worth of cramming! I just kept going and going.... I'm trying to get back on track today, God willing. My blood pressure is out of whack! And right now, even as I'm typing this, I want to consume large amounts of food!

christy -- you're here now, that's always a good sign, that means you have a lot of support and for me at least that's half the battle

thinking of you. you CAN eat healthy today! i'm rooting for you!

Christy- I was in your same position last weekend. I know you can pick yourself up and dust yourself off. I am sending lots of hugs and happy, positive thoughts in your direction!

Today is SUCH a hungry day for me. I've had a protein shake (which usually fills me right up--not today!) and tons of vegetables and fiber, but I'm still ravenous. And there's half a cake downstairs... good news is that I don't feel particularly tempted to eat the cake. Yet. For now I'm just drinking water and hoping the hunger will pass so that I'm not tempted to eat and eat and eat.

I feel pretty committed now to this weight-loss thing. This is day 7 binge-free for me, which is a definite breakthrough. Just need to keep holding on...

hey thats awesome skyra hang in there i know you can make it just like that fih says in finding nemo just keep swimming just keep swimming lol sorry i forgot her name...i wish i had you rwill power i collapsed yesterday and binged all day...am starting new today tried to log in but no luck last night...but good for you...

This is awesome! I have had a problem with binge eating for years. It started about 6 years ago and just seemed to get worse and worse until I looked up and realized I packed on about 80 lbs by doing this. I have kept it under control for about a week. I had a weak moment in the store yesterday while a rack of candy was staring me in the face. Normally, I would have bought several items and eaten them all in the car on the way home. However, I somehow only walked out with a 3 musketeers. It still isn't great but I figured it was better than what I normally would have done. I'm so happy I found this! I know it will be such an inspiration for me!

cabinwife -- good for you! Glad you found us. And you're right, the 3 Musketeers wasn't perfect but you did BETTER and what matters is that you're steadily improving. Baby steps and all that.

Wow what a great thread or post or whatever you call it! There have been so many times that I want 2 eat! Actually right now! I eat every 2 hours (thank God) Eating every two hours is really helping me understand my relationship with food. Thanks 4 starting this... Cathy

Ack! So I had some pasta and meatballs last night (though it was whole wheat pasta) - and I had a slice of pizza. I figured I was ok because I was still at 1800 calories for the day (I'm fairly tall so I can still lose at that); HOWEVER, this morning I feel RAVENOUS. I am intensely craving a cheese scone which I am sure is like 600 calories. And more pasta and meatballs. And bread. And cheese.

I've had some coffee, and I even went down to the gym to try to work out (which usually curbs the cravings). I could only last 5 minutes on the stairmaster though (usually I work out in the afternoons, so I don't think my body has taken to it in the morning). I have to go to the library today because I need to work on an assignment due tomorrow which has got me stressed. WHAT SHOULD I DO? I intensely feel like binging. I'm thinking of incorporating a cheat day in my plan, most likely Saturday, to help me starve off these feelings, but I'm not a fan of the idea.

Should I just ignore my cravings? I'm hoping they'll go away, but they just feel to be getting stronger. ACK! Or should I indulge them just a bit? This is day 10 of my plan and I don't want to ruin all my hard work.

Mouse -- in your current state of mind, "just a little bit" will almost definitely turn into a binge. Drink a lot of water or tea, chew gum. If you're hungry, by all means eat, but if you're not, focus your attention on something else and know that if you continue to resist the cravings, they WILL go away. They don't last forever.

10 days is AWESOME and I'm proud of you. You are strong enough to make it to day 11. Hang in there and post again if you need to.

BTW, at least in my experience, "cheat days" don't stave off binges -- they make them worse. I get into a "oh, but it's a cheat day, I can eat a pint of ice cream AND half a pizza!" mode. And then the next day it's near impossible to go back to eating 1500 calories. Besides, in one "cheat day" I can easily destroy the work of 3 or 4 days of watching my calories, so it's just not worth it, at least for me. Do what you feel is best, but since you don't seem like a big fan of the idea anyway...

Aw Skyra, thank you for the response. Unfortunately, I went for it. I had some more pasta and meatballs, about six cookies, and then I went to Subway and had one of their disgusting flatbread melts (seriously, I normally wouldn't WANT to put crap like that into my body). I'm figuring all of this comes to 1500 calories EASILY.

I think the cravings are subdued for now and I want to get back on track for the rest of the day. My only concern is that I'm a bit of a carb addict, and by giving myself another hit I am just fuelling the addiction. (Literally: I saw a video from ABC news yesterday that talked about a study which showed the MRIs of a food addict as compared to other addicts - smokers, drug abusers, alcholics - and the same regions of the brain were affected by all groups when presented with their substance of choice.)

I know the key to losing weight is consistency. I have lost weight before, at least twice, where I was able to stick to my eating plan for over two months (I have never come close to goal, however - I think my best attempt was my first: two years ago, when I made 145). BUT THEN SOMETIMES SOMETHING COMES OVER ME AND I FEEL LIKE I JUST CAN'T DO IT ANY MORE, that it's not worth it (haha, sorry for the all caps, but that's just how all-consuming the urge feels).

How long would you say it takes for the cravings to go away if you resist them? I waited for almost two hours ... haha ... and then I couldn't take it anymore.

I guess I will just pick up and try again.