We all make mistakes, for me it tends to be right around a certain time of month, but it can also be triggered by my own tendency to compensate for overeating the day before. This compensation can sometimes get out of hand (I've been anorexic before, so I've done the whole 900 calories a day thing), and if I am not careful, I can end up having another, and sometimes worse, binge.
So I have had a bad couple of days. I overate on Tuesday, nothing drastic, and then I decided to just take down my calorie consumption the next day to ease over it. The resulting hunger at night caused a slight binge (four oatmeal cookies, which were low fat, but still really caloric and filling). Today, I tried to eat breakfast, just so I wouldn't end up hungry again, but there were bagels in the office kitchen, and yes, I ate one. For those of you who might be confused about how many calories are in a bagel, they have more calories in them (a regular one) than a glazed doughnut.
That is probably more information than you wanted to know but I have to wonder to myself, how do you recover from a binge, so that you break the cycle. I've done it before, and I will do it again, but I was thinking we could get some suggestions together about how people who are struggling can get some ideas about what to do right on the day after the binge. I think the knowledge that I am not controlled or damned by these binging sessions is an important message.
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