happy birthday paris!!

dug, the few crackers were ok.... the main thing is that you recognized the urge and kept yourself in control! that's the REAL battle!

Hey all! I'm clearly a little slow and didn't realize there was a new thread going for a new week! There's so much to comment on, but I don't have time right now, so I'll just say congrats to those of you going strong (21 days!! wow!) and please keep trying for those who didn't have a great day yesterday! For me, yesterday wasn't too bad. Definitely not the most on plan day but no bingeing, so it's a step in the right direction. My weight is up a few pounds from my comfortable maintenance weight, so I'm really trying to reign myself in and get back on track. No crazy restrictions or anything, but just good old fashioned clean eating. So here's to a good day 2 for me and day X for all of you! We can do it!

Well, I failed miserably with not binging on my birthday. Everybody kept giving me free food and I let it get to me!

Today, I did pretty well, so I'm putting today down as Day 1. I KNOW I can make it through tomorrow!

Ward...... if you have made it 21 days with no binge... just imagine that the feeling of the jeans fitting well is better than anything your ILs will DRIVE you to eat!

Hi Peachykeen, Happy Birthday! Birthdays are really hard and it's understandable that you ate too much. I think of it this way, It's my body, my mouth and I have control of what I choose to eat. I'm the one trying to lose or maintain my weight, not my family members or friends. My family members have a habit of saying, come on you can eat on your birthday, you have to have cake, you have to eat something else. No family support for me! And why do they insist I eat everything in sight? So, in August on my birthday, I did not give in . Even went out to eat, I got a salad. I thought why is everyone so concerned about what I eat? I mean I'm the one that tastes it, not them. Can't they have fun without me eating? That's just plain stupid. It's your body, just remember that!

I'm on day 3 of the binge free challenge, and I am starting to loose the weight I gained from Halloween. I feel back to normal again. I found a good way to beat my cravings for peanut butter. I mix dry high fiber cereal ( like fiber one) w/ some raisins and make a trail mix. I keep it in a zip lock bag in my fruit bowl on the table, then when I get the munchies, it's in plain sight and I eat that instead of binging. It's healthy and filling!

Thanks for all the happy birthdays! I'm doing okay, although I'm sure my water weight is going to be crazy high tomorrow. Restaurant food + bad with water today...Oh well. I need to not focus on the number! Just on the not bingeing.

Paris - I forgot to say happy birthday!!! I think you have the right attitude about focusing on not bingeing. The water weight will go down on its own! Hope you're having a great bday!

I am finishing up day three, but it is HARD. I have been using the binging to help distract me from my stress and emotional stuff I have to work out. My DH left for a business trip and I will be alone with all the food for the next five days. I think I will have a healthy snack and go write in my journal to try to work through these feelings...

Does anyone else notice that if you DON'T binge, a bunch of emotional stuff starts coming up? Like the binging helped distract you from it so you never really had to think about it? And now I can't escape it...

PS I did not have the PB cup last night

Hooray Karen for not eating the PB cup!

As far as the emotional stuff goes, I haven't had any big thing come up when I stop binging. But the longest I've gone so far is 5 days, so maybe I just haven't stuck it out long enough.

I HAVE noticed, though, that I feel a very real fear when I eat less food than usual. For example, today I ate tomato soup and a protein shake, which was VERY filling (lots of fiber/protein) but not as much food as I normally eat for lunch. When I left the house to go back to work, I felt scared, wondering if I would feel hungry or weak in the afternoon! Turns out I didn't feel hungry at all... but I still felt the fear, and it was unpleasant, so I know tomorrow I'll be tempted to eat more than I have to again, just to keep that fear from coming back.

What is this fear of being hungry?! It's so strange! It's not like if I'm hungry for a little while, I'll starve... but somewhere in my brain I fear that hungry feeling anyway....

Karen, I may have to start journaling about this, the way you do, so I can get to the bottom of this. Even though it's kind of scary, it's pretty interesting how much of our emotions we tie in with eating, isn't it? Hm...

Karen - I think the emotional stuff is a pretty common problem among binge eaters. For me, I honesty don't think that's the issue and I've yet to identify why I do this to myself (other than really enjoying food and the act of eating!). Journaling seems like a great idea and maybe Ill give it a try this week!

Bad day today Ugh, I guess tomorrow I can just do my best to make it a good day. Hope you all are doing well!

Happy bday paris! Do we have the same birthday? either way, we're both scorpios!

Did okay yesterday for my birthday. Didn't make the best food choices, but didn't binge. And it was my birthday. Skinny people eat bad food on their birthdays! come on!

Starting day 3!

(21 days--good job!)

Happy Birthday Peachy! My birthday was yesterday--go scorpios!

So far so good. Day 2 for me.
Happy Birthday to the birthday girls!

Day 2 for me! YAY!

yeah, scorpios pretty much rock. we're supposed to be one of the sexiest signs!