Hi everyone, today I munched on dry high fiber cereal with raisins mixed in. It was good and it satisfied my need to munch. I had no cravings today that would lead to a binge. Yahoo!

Today I picked up a pretzel (a big no no for me as I am a celiac) and then I talked myself out of it and put it back in the bag.

This isn't quite about binging in particular, but it still relates to physical awareness, which I think is pretty key to breaking the binging habit. (I've been surprised how sometimes I'm not even aware my stomach is full until I consciously ask myself, "Am I full yet?" Weird! But it's been helping me a lot.)

Last night I could NOT sleep (my brain was racing and my stomach hurt). I tried meditation, a bath, writing, reading... everything, but no matter what I did I still couldn't sleep. I was up until about 4:30 am, and I have work at 8:30. When I woke up this morning I felt exhausted and nauseous. Normally I would have ignored it and gone to work anyway... but lately I'm trying to do a better job of listening to my body ... and this morning it said ... no way! I feel sick!

So I'm taking today off. My body is telling me to rest, so I'm going to do something different today and listen, for once. Hopefully that's a "good choice". I feel guilty about it because normally I wait until I'm deathly ill to take a day off. And by that point, I'm sick for the whole week, but have to go in to work anyway, so I end up feeling horribly miserable and my healthy eating goes straight out the window for days at a time. I'm trying something better this time... but I still feel kinda guilty...

Skyra, you did the right thing by giving your body a chance to rest. Take this time to really take care of yourself.

I have a severe migraine today. I have one every day, but it's much more intense today and this would normally lead me to binge on something, but instead, I had some tea. So far so good.

I just found this thread and I love it. I make so many good choices lately, but I was only focused on the bad choices. I was sick around Halloween and I binged for 3 or 4 days (the worst time to do it due to all the candy) and now, since then,I have been binge free...definitely a huge accomplishment!

luckymommy -- Good for you! wow, you've been binge-free for so long! WTG on the tea, too. it's definitely good to focus on all the good choices. it really helps you remember that you're improving even just a little every day :) i'd love to see you post more here!

and thanks for the support. :hug: I slept all morning and I'll make sure to make the rest of the day a nourishing one as well.

I feel awful I feel like I ate way to much and I think I am trying to block out what I ate because I honeslty don't remember everything that I had...i just know it was more then I was suppose to eat...last night I was also doing fine till maybe around 9pm when I just said oh wells one cant hurt but that turned into 3 then 10 I just "LOVE" ritz crackers...aaaaahhh....I FEEL GUILTY!!!

Today I exercised for the first time in a week. And I bought a ton of vegetables at the store -- so much so that my roommate commented on it, haha.

Both good and bad....Bad first. I stayed up late Christmas shopping online last night because it is the only time I can do it. (Kids asleep.) Before I realized what I was doing, I had broken into a container of ice cream and started eating it. I am glad that I realized, belatedly, what I was doing and stopped. I dumped the rest of it into the sink and threw the container away so I wouldn't be tempted to do it again.

k8t -- it takes a LOT of willpower to throw ice cream away -- I'm proud of you!

umm, can I have some pomegranate cheesecake???? Oh wow. What a gourmet treat!

well, I didn't get p-d off at the computer and go eat chocolate. I was a good girl and studied all day.

Now, I'm taking a break for me, and going to go exercise.

I stayed away from the peanut butter today ( my favorite). First time in a while. I wish i would just get sick of it! But I never do.

This evening at dinner I actually chose chicken over steak. I always order this same thing at a restaurant we go to...in fact the waiter knows exactly what to write down...for the 2nd time I have switched it to CHICKEN. Yeah 4 me!

I have stuck most religously to my diet.

Thanks, Skyra...I'm still thinking about that :censored: err....stupid... ice cream. (My mouth just started watering when I thought about it.)

Good for you all, ladies! Lots of good choices being made. Be proud!:cp::dancer::yes:

Good job fruitlady -- Cathy -- Samantha -- Jen -- Dulce Vida -- all of you! k8t's right, be proud! :yes:

I'm struggling to come up with a good choice I made today, but that's probably because I feel a little down. I haven't binged yet. And I've had two cans of low-calorie soup.

I was baking alot of healthy cookies and cake yesterday for x-mas and I ate a little too much of it this morning. I did make a good choice to still go for a 40 min. walk and to the mall to run up and down 12 flights of stairs and walk some more, hopefully I burned some of the calories off!

I didn't get my first message through. I had no issues on day one, day two I had to stop myself 4 times in one day. Competely on task all day.

I had a little peanut butter today instead of pigging out on it! I binged all day yesterday , so I really was trying hard not to eat too much of it. I got hungary tonight, so I grabbed some grapes and strawberries. Believe me, it could have been much worse!

I walked into the convenience store with my mini-me devil on my shoulder desperately trying to convince myself that I should treat myself to a candy bar. Going over all the reasons why it would be okay just this once. I've been good on my diet, been exercising, etc.

I walked out of the store with just a gallon of skim milk...exactly what I had come for :)

WTG Mkendrick! That's awesome! -- you too Fruitlady!!

went grocery shopping and didn't buy anything bad :)