Binge-free challenge ~ Apr. 5 - 11
 

Hi everyone!! Welcome to the binge free challenge!! You can come in here and post your weekly successes and struggles and keep track of your binge free days. You can also vent about anything and everything you feel like getting out. We are here to share our feelings and to encourage and inspire each other. No negativity! We are strong chicks and I KNOW we all can do this!! And we don't have to do it alone, we have each other to get us through the rough times.

ALL chicks are welcome -- no one is excluded! If you are trying to lose weight, not trying, maintaining, recovering from an eating disorder, in the midst of one, or have ANY kind of problem with food, we would love to have you join us!!

Let's have an awesome week!! :D

Hey all! Day 23 today. Yesterday was so-so. I ate too much (3 cookies and some candy) but it wasn't a binge and although I wanted to keep eating to make it a binge, I stopped myself. Sundays are so tough for me, especially when I don't have a plan--I had a food plan, but not a structure to the day. I need structure!

Hey guys! I did a quick post on the last challenge for an update. Well I made it through the last challenge and I'm on day 16! Finally made it through 2 weeks. So here are my goals for this challenge....

1. make it through another week...get to day 20!
2. Continue to not eat out during the week.
3. Study really hard and do well on my Exam this Thursday..also finishing my program for Wed.
4. Stay within my calorie range.

That's is for now. I wish everyone luck for this challenge!

paris: I'm trying to catch up to you! your already on day 23 that so great!

blairsey: 50! that's amazing! Keep it up you can do it!

WardHog: Thanks again for another challenge...you've helped so many of us through this :)

Day 14.

Hi all :) This is my first post on 3FC! I've been battling ED for about 15 years. Recently, I bought a couple of books about binge eating and I am trying to learn to control it through journaling, planning and talking with friends. I am considering today my first attempt at being binge-free.

I wanted to say congratulations to Blairsey on losing 50 lbs...that is truely AMAZING!

And to Paris, I know just what you mean about Sunday binging...it's always been my most challenging day. Way to go for 23 BF days!

And congrats to jdonato on 2 weeks!

I am taking this one day at a time, so to speak, but have the grand goal of making it the whole week without binging!

I'm on Day 12! And I just couldn't help myself, I hopped on the scale this morning just to see...and I'm down from my Thursday weigh-in! I guess I can still enjoy a holiday AND stay on plan. Amazing!

Welcome Hettie...and good luck on Day 1...you can do it!

Congrats on Day 16 jdonato...and Day 14 Bunneh!

paris...stopping is sometimes the hardest part, so you should feel proud of yourself

YAY 50! Way to go Blairsey!

Have a great week everyone!

Good Morning All,

Happy Monday and welcome to all the new folks.

I slipped up over the weekend so I will start at day 1 again today. I really should have come here to this site and I know I would have done much better. I have re-grouped and am fired up to have a great week. I've planned out my meals and I am going to stay away from sweets which seem to trigger binges for me. Junk food is my downfall and if I avoid it, I will be okay. This week, I'm trying to eat more whole foods. I've also been re-reading Dr Phil's 7 keys to weight loss freedom which always help me get control of overeating. I'm setting a goal to workout 5 days this week because exercise makes staying in control easier and I really enjoy doing it. I'm going to make it a full week of "no binging".

Hettiepie: I've also been doing some research on binge eating and they recommend journaling and having a support group. Today I am starting a journal of my feelings (when & why I want to eat) and you all are my support. I know we can be successful!

I hope everyone has a great day!

Hey everyone, I know I haven't been checking in but I'm proudly on Day 5 now. Night before last I really wanted to binge but I just distracted myself until I forgot the urge as best I could and went to bed. :) Hurray

Hi Everyone!

I'm proud to say that I'm on day 56 :carrot::carrot::carrot:

We went out to brunch on Easter, we had a great time and I was totally within my calorie range. This is a huge deal. I love this support group!! Thank you.

Carmelle, congrats on day 5!

GettinFit, congrats on your new eating plan. I love your attitude! We are here to support you! You can do this.

Foxxy, congrats on your weight loss and being on day 12!

Hettie Pie, welcome! You'll love it here! Good luck to you. I know you can do it...one step at a time.

The Bunneh, congrats on day 14! Woo hoo!

jdonato, Day 16! Awesome! Thank you for always supporting all of us. You really help us know we're not alone. I really appreciate it. Good luck with your goals!

Blairsey, Day 50!!!!! Great job, especially with the Easter Holiday! Keep up the great work!

Paris, Day 23! Awesome! I know what you mean about structure. I need that, too, to make sure I stay disciplined. But you did great yesterday anyway!!

Wardhog, thank you for starting this challenge! It helps everybody!

Let's stay strong.:dust::dust:

Tyla

I'm right before my TOM and I'm starving! I've only had 1015calories of the day and I try and stay in between 1400 and 1600, so I know i'm more than good but it's what I'm craving. I want pop, and candy....uhhhh. I've gone over 2 weeks without pop(i normally drink diet) and try to reduce my caffiene intake...now I drink lite coffee(half reg and half decaf). I feel like if I give in a little then i'll just go crazy and keep eating.....It's school, i'm in class right now and very stressed out. It's 6pm and I have class until 9 tonight then I can go home and eat dinner. I'm not going to make it! I just want a diet pepsi or diet MD and snickers or m&m's......

Today is day 10 for me and that's huge! I was away on vacation, so i didn't really watch what i ate. I did make healthy choices, but didn't keep myself to a specific calorie goal. But no binging....so YAY!

Tomorrow I will start back on an actual plan. I think it will be modified southbeach and weight watchers.

jdonato - you can make it through... it is just a couple hours... stay strong!

day 100 for me!!! and with allll this easter junk around, it was a very tough weekend... overate at my parents yesterday... NO BINGING!!! yup... just earned day 100!!! been a year since i could say that!!!

lets rock this week ladies... we can do it!!!!

day 6. Ate a lot of peanut butter yesterday... like a ridicules amount, like 3/4 of a jar... It began because my body was CRAVING fat. I had been skimping on fat this week... so it tasted soooo good, i was spooning it right out of the jar. i stopped without having a "binge" because i was mindfully eating it the whole time... i did eat too much, and I was really, really full... but I stopped without losing control. I was very very full but wasn't STUFFED. So, I am not counting it as a binge, because a binge is when I stuff anything/everything in my stomach and lose control completely. So I'm not proud of eating almost an entire jar of peanut butter. But it wasn't a binge if that makes sense..
SO I am giving myself day 6

35 days without a binge!! What a great feeling!!

im joining!..and what perfect timing :) as an emtional eater with a food addiction and now going through a somewhat rough time with my father and his own addictions, i need something to keep me on my toes!

im very excited ladies and gents and hoping tomorrow night i will be able to put day one accomplished binge free! :)

I'm going to say day 1.

I didn't actually eat all that much (over my calorie goal, but still not a huge amount) but I know I ate purely out of emotion. I had a mini break down last night and just cried. It feels like my whole life has been focused on weight loss, and specifically the past two years when I really got serious about it, but I can never seem to make myself get to where I want to be. Sometimes I feel like everyone else can do it and will do it, but all I ever do is mess up. My sister in law got a new bike yesterday (which I am very happy about, I got one too recently, and I'm the one who picked it out for her even) but when I saw her on it I had the thought now she's going to lose the weight she wants, and I'm still going to be fat. It's awful I know, but I couldn't help it.

I know that the most important thing is to just pick myself back up and move on after a setback, but sometimes I feel like there's no point lately, cause I just keep ruining it all. Even if I don't go all out and let myself binge, I still don't stay on plan. And it should be SO easy. But I just mess it up. :?:

Today is day 2. Easter wasn't as bad as it could have been -- still bad, but not as bad as it could have been.

Thanks for the encouragment everyone! Now on day 24!

Good morning chicks,

I've got day 1 behind me and I did very good. I didn't have any desire to binge or eat junk food. I stuck to my Weight Watchers plan and ate mostly Simply Filling/Core foods. I'm finally dealing with my emotions and I know that will help me to avoid binging and stay on plan. Yesterday I did a lot of reading up on dealing with emotional eating and binging and it really did help me to get my act together and have the right frame of mind. Now I'm looking forward to dropping weight again and fitting in my summer clothes.

TheBunneh - Even though we have set backs, we can never give up! We have to keep on fighting. If we didn't keep fighting, we'd probably be 500 pounds or so. Stay strong and hang in there.

chels38 Welcome and heres to a binge free day:cheer2:

happytobeamomof2 You have done an awesome job! 100 days!!! I can't wait to be able to say I've made 100 days. Keep up the great work.

Congrats to everyone else who have successfully avoided binging.

Have a great day everyone.

I'm on Day 13...so close to two weeks! I haven't had a binge-free two weeks since...before Christmas. Wow. I just had to look at my calender to figure that out. Well. It's going to be hard. Tonight I'm going out with friends to a Mexican restaurant and then I have a friend visiting this weekend that I haven't seen for almost 2 years! But, I have plans in place. So, wish me luck!

Happytobe...100 days is AMAZING and you should be SO PROUD!

Bunneh...just join your SIL on those bike rides! Tell yourself, "If she can do it, I can do it!"

Hope everyone has a great Tuesday!

Thank you, GettinFit and foxxy511.

And yeah, I know that joining her would make sense. And really I don't know why I had that thought considering on Sunday I broke my bike in with a three hour long ride. :rolleyes: I just don't know how to stay positive sometimes. I try and then all of these thoughts creep into my mind telling me I can't do it and that I'm just going to keep messing up and nothing counts anymore because of all the times I have messed up before. And I don't think it helps that my TOM should have been here already and it feels like I've been PMSing for weeks...

Happytobe: Thank you so much for your support last night when I was about to lose control!:hug: It was a great feeling getting on here and seeing that...just made me want to try harder. Congrtats on 100 days too! :carrot: Absolutely amazing! I made it through last night, I had a banana in my backpack and I figured if it's sugar I want well that has plenty of it for me. After I ate that I wasn't as hungry, then I came home ate a great dinner and that's it! I wanted chips soo bad at 11pm last night but I told myself I'd feel better in the morning when I got on that scale and I have will power! Plus it's been 18 days without pop so I want to keep going.

tyla: thanks :)....I'm always here for you whenever you need it. WE have to stick together! And so proud of you for day 56!


Man was I trying to reason with myself on why it would be ok just to have one pop and candy, or chips...i saw that vending machine...and I wanted to slip sooo bad. I know that one slip of the candy or chips and I would continue to binge. But I came on here and Happytobe said to stay strong and I did! So Day 17! only 3 more til 20.

foxxy: your almost 2 weeks keep it up! :)

HettiPie: thanks, it feels good to be there! And I want to give you a very warm welcome!:wave::wel3fc:we are all here for you whenever you need it.

Day 57!!!! Woo Hoo!

jdonato - you did it!!! all by yourself... YOU did it!!!! CONGRATS!!! way to self talk!!!!

all you ladies deserve a pat-on-the-back from yourself...day 1 or day 101...doesnt matter!!! we are the only ones that can 'stop' ourselves from binging...even if we think this site makes a difference (being accountable and all)... i firmly believe we are each ONLY accountable to ourselves!!

lets keep strong and resolved! i cannot wait to post 183 days (1/2 year!) and now that i am over 100, i really dont see why i cannot just keep this going... i had chocolate, pnb, cake this weekend... it didnt control me... i stopped when it didnt taste good anymore... no mindless eating... and because it was not 'restricted' or a 'taboo', it really didnt taste that good! go figure!!!

keep rockin'!

Day 7

Day 11...woot woot!

fighting so hard right now to not binge... guess it is because i am very tired (not sure why i am so tired but i am)... all that easter candy is talking to me... and i am doing my best to not say "well i made it 100 days"...after all, that is besides the point right!?!? 30 min until i get to talk to my bf... 1.5hrs until my bedtime 'snack' (tonight is crumpet with 1/2 tbls pnb)... tea... i will drink hot tea... i can do this... i've done it more than 100 nights now... since dec 27... breath, just breath... no need to eat... belly is gurgling anyways...just breath....

Ugh Happy2bemom! I know the feeling! Sorry tonight is your night to deal with that. :hug:

Day 51.

Thanks for all the congrats everyone!

Most everyone seems to be doing so well lately! Yay, US! :D

thank you :) i am soooo close to calling my bf... 10 more min... i will just hang out here... i can ignore this... this to shall pass... thank you !!!

Day 12 for me, but I went a little overboard eating peanut butter yesterday and i don't know if i should count it as a binge. At one point I did lose control, but then did tell myself to stop and I did. So, it wasn't as bad as usual. I did gain weight, but that was from Easter and yesterday combined. I was really working hard on building the new patio for days, maybe I just needed the extra calories for energy. So, I think I won't count it as a binge. I did good today though!

DAY ONE BINGE FREE :)) i went off plan a couple of times but never had the out of control feeling or crazy emotions involved which is a huge thing for me. i

i am learning so much about myself through this process. lately i have discovered i cant control my father and his sobriety (1 yr sober but i wonder and am concerned about new addictions), i cant be his babysitter or fix him. i can be THERE for him but i cant control him. i can love him but i cant keep him as the person he has been the last yr. it is up to him and i am not accountable.

realizing that has helped with the emotional eating wheich is GREAT bc it has been putting a huge burden on my emotional eating.

i want him to be clean and sober when he walks me down the aisle july 17, 2010 but i have to take care of me first.

okkkkay so excuse the vent ;) and most importantly DAY ONE COMPLETE!!!!!!!!! im very excited about tomorrow! :)

Happytobe: I want to see you at day 200! Stay strong and we are all here for you. I did it last night and so can you tonight! As Tom Hanks told Meg Ryan in "You've Got Mail"......."Fight! Fight to the Death!" :hug:

Happytobe...I'm probably a little late to offer encouragement...but I hope you made it through (actually...I KNOW you made it through because you're a strong, committed chick!)

Congrats on Day 1 Chels! That's awesome...here's to Day 2!

I made it through the dinner outing tonight exactly as I planned to! I was so proud of myself. We went to a Mexican restaurant where they not only provide chips and salsa, but POPCORN as well. I didn't touch any of it (even though my grandma kept pushing it on me!) I ate what I planned to have...didn't even look at the menu. I got the Chicken Fajita Burrito, minus the burrito and the cheese sauce. I got salsa instead and made myself a little chicken fajita salad. It was good! I did have a few bites of some dessert-type items that my grandma bought at this specialty grocery store. But, it was literally like the tiniest bite possible, just to see what they tasted like. And, I counted it in my daily points! So, no binging for me today! Tomorrow will be the start of Day 14! I want to make it through so I can say I'm two weeks binge free! (Plus, weigh-in day is Thursday and I want good numbers!!!!)

I Made It!!! Thank You!!! :)

Day 2.


happytobe - Glad you made it! Good for you!

foxxy511 - Yay for day 14!

amazing how knowing you ladies were supporting me and that i really, really, REALLY didnt want to come on here and say Day 1 ... it helped... and i did figure out the trigger too - i am indeed very over tired (another sinus infection seems to have set in)... so now that i am mindful of that, i will be better prepared today :)

enjoy your hump day!

Day 25 for me!

Blairsey--I love your quote about Nutella! haha! Let's hope we can resist it! And congrats on day 51, that's awesome!

Chels--good job on day 1--we always say it's the hardest, and you've defeated it!

Foxxy-good job resisting the Mexican food. What a potential minefield those restaurants are!

Happytobe--so glad you resisted!

Bunneh-you've got day 3!

Hello ladies,

I completed day 2 of no binging and sticking to my eating plan and am working on a good day 3. This morning I did something I never do; I got up early and exercised before leaving for work. I also did a 2.5 mile walk at Stone Mountain after work yesterday. I am really trying to get back to exercising at least 5 days a week. When I workout, it helps control the urge to binge or overeat.

Happytobemomof2 - I'm glad you survived. You are such an inspiration to us. Stay strong.

Chels - Glad you made it through day 1. I know you can make it through day 2. Hang in there, we can do it!!

Foxxy - Way to go on sticking to your plan while eating out.

Congrats to everyone else who is doing such a good job at staying in control.

Have a great day!