Binge-Free Challenge - 8/2-8/8/10
 

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!!
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Day 175! :yay:

Tater Tash, thank you for the kudos! :)

Let's have an awesome week! :cheer3:

Tyla

day 32

Cooking a meatloaf. Still following belly fat cure and loving it. I have a new found love for macademia nuts.

Day 59. Time for me to get in shape and try to lose these stubborn pounds. I was so down on myself this weekend when I was visiting my bf, who always tell me I'm beautiful. It's the worst feeling insecure, especially around him. For months I've had horrible sleeping habits and have become quite dependent on sleep aids and caffeine. I think the rollercoaster is causing me to lose grasp my emotional well-being and I've just been so down for no reason I can explain. I'm going cold turkey, saying no to coffee, diet soda, etc and going to teach my self how to sleep naturally again. Maybe this will kick this little bit of depression I have going on and allow me to gain my confidence more quickly. The more confidence I have, the more motivation I have to keep working hard.

Happy Monday. I hope everyone had a great weekend!

Great job everyone!!! I made successfully through Day 3 yesterday! Despite going to the doctor and finding out what my TRUE weight was yesterday, no binges! I felt completely in control! It felt great!!!

Looking forward to a great Day 4 today! Sending happy thoughts to all today!! Good luck everyone! Make today great!

Starting day 84! :)

Day #2!
Although it is only my second day from a binge-free life, I begin to wonder why I ever allow myself to binge in the first place. I feel so good! Eating healthy and exercising just makes me happy... especially when I see the number on the scale the next morning. ;) Thanks for posting this! Great encouragement to see those of you on day 179, 59, and 32. Just shows that it is possible! :thanks:

60 Days! woohoo the 2 month mark.. I feel like it's been so much longer, but it is what it is. Like I said in my previous post, I'm done torturing my body. I haven't in 2 months, aside from drinking wine on the weekends, etc. but I haven't binged on food. So, it's time to really focus on the amount on loosing weight, without becoming obsessed with food again.

Congrats to all of you. Pressing on, those double digit #'s will be here before ya know it!
Good Luck everyone! I have a job interview today, wish I had more confidence to being into it.

Day 176! :yay:

Tater tash, I wish you the best of luck for your interview today. You can do this! You are doing great conquering the binge thing, and now you can do great on your interview! I believe in you and so does your boyfriend. (Where I live people would kill for an interview, any interview. Some people would kill for a boyfriend.LOL) Stay strong. Hold your head up high and pretend you have confidence. Everyone else pretends. Like Tony Robbins says, "Act as if you're wearing a cape like Superman or some hero to give yourself confidence." You can do this! :cheer3:

I think it's great that you are trying to detoxify your body and sleep naturally. I think stress or lack of finances might be a culprit. It sure is for me sometimes when it comes to sleeping.

Congrats on 2 months binge-free! :bravo:

All the best,
Tyla

Ugh, I am really struggling. I let one slip-up turn into two more days of slipping up. I am ready to complete Day 1!

Hang in there Peachy:hug: If you can stay strong enough to get through 1 day the next one will be a little easier.

Congrats to all of you who have successfully avoided binging.

Today makes 17 days for me. I'm determined to make it through the end of the year w/o a binge.

Have a great day everyone :cheer3:

Day 85 here!

Day 5 is here! Feeling great! Good luck everybody!

Day 3 for me! I hope you all are doing great! If I can do it, so can you. ;)

Day 177! :D

Hi, new here but definitely a binge eater
 

Hi, I posted some of this in my Intro, but basically I eat when I'm depressed, I eat when I'm happy, I eat when I'm anxious -- and it seems to be a lot of the time. I'm living with a man who "can't perform" with a woman who is 30-40 lbs overweight like me. He has his certain "body type" he's into (he calls it his "limitations") and I'm not it. I yo-yo between working out 4-5 days a week and writing down everything I eat to baking batches of cinnamon rolls like my mother used to make and eating them all while my SO's at work. I can't have anything "good" in the house, meaning I can't have chips or crackers or sweets because I'll eat them all right away. Sometimes, if I'm really really sad I think about food; I even soothe myself to sleep at night sometimes by telling myself I'll make some cinnamon rolls in the morning after he leaves for work.

I feel so bad about myself. I need help! I'm sick of yo-yo-ing back and forth the same 5-10 lbs; I do great and then I binge and undo everything I accomplished. How do I stop this? :?:

Day 61! The interview went well yesterday! Thank for the support Tyla, it really help get my day off to a great start!
I recently quit my job that had a very hostile and negative environment (there were only 5 of us in the office, so I definitely felt the heat everyday) Tomorrow is my last day and I am so relieved! So, since I some free time in my days I decided to walk alot. Yesterday I walked 3 times and went about 8-10 miles total. Phew. I did about 5 just now this morning.

On Tuesday my grandmother and I are taking a 10 day cruise to Alaska for my birthday. I was worried about it at first, just with the amount of food, etc. But I decided to take these 10 days and really make a retreat out of it. I went only and put "low cal/low fat" and "vegetarian" for my food preferences. I want to take up yoga on the trip and get plenty of use of the gym while were 'at sea.' I've also signed up for off-shore excursion that are very active (one is a 5 mile hike!)

Congrats Tyla and Paris, Keep your head up Peachy, and good luck to everyone!
I wish this thread would be as active as it used to be!

Day 6, and going strong!

Day 18 done :carrot:

Day 4 for me today// I hope to go the whole week without binging, the weekend will be the true test. Well done ladies , and Peachykeen hope your day 1 went ok, chin up girl.

Day 62!

And day 3 of no caffeine and a goooood nights sleep, without sleep aids!

My hips hurts bad again, so I have to lay off the cardio for a couple days to let them relax. I'm taking joint medicine, so I hope that helps. I hope it doesn't set me back too far.

Good luck an congrats everyone!

Today is Day 6. Almost a whole week with no binges!!! I've had high calorie meals but no mindless, hiding away eating!!! No shame or guilt!!! Wow, is all I can say, my friends!

Positive thoughts to all today!!! Be free.

Day #4! Before I know it... I will be at day 100, and 150 and so on.
Good luck to everyone today and stay strong! ;)

Day 178! :carrot:

Aurora, Welcome! Don't feel alone in overeating. We've all eaten when stressed, bored, happy, sad, anxious, etc. I'm happy you're here with us. :hug:

Tater Tash, I'm so happy for you that your interview went well, today is your last day and that you are going on vacation! :D

Good luck to all of us. :goodluck:

Tyla

Starting day 1 today. I've really been struggling lately because of the stress of moving and being alone right now. But the binging only makes it worse! Gotta remember that!

86!

Awesome job, everyone!

I binged today i mean bad.. and i dont know what brought it up.. i just dont know.. im happy and everything but now im so depressed cause i know i did wrong.. well i guess tomorrow is always another day :)

:hug: I know how you feel. We are all struggling with some sort of eating problem on this thread. Try and think back to what your thought process was. You said you were happy, so maybe you wanted to turn to food for 'celebration'?? Or maybe you thought 'hey i've been doing well so i deserve a break.' I'm just poking around in the dark here, I'm having problems with the same issue as you so I can only speak from experience. Don't beat yourself up to much over this. Just journal some of your feelings, like how you were happy but after u binged u were depressed? And don't wait for tomorrow to start back on plan again, eat well the very next meal if you can! I always want to just take the whole day off after I binge as well and the more crap i eat the crappier and crappier I feel and I definitely regret it!

Hang in there! We are all in this together. ;)

day 34

Day 19 for me:cp:

today i am earning day 2. i am hovering around 182 pounds now though... long long story... the short version is: it is my fault for overeating and binging and i am done with it...for my sake and the sake of my two gorgeous boys whom i want to see grow up... NO MORE BINGING!!!

Day 7 for me!

For me, today IS the day, the only day that I have and the only day for which I should stay away from binge eating! I binge ate a bit yesterday, I ate half a slice of cake, 2 buiscuits and peanut butter all in one go. And although that might not sound like binge eating, I was off sugar for 2 weeks and this was a huge amount of sugar I ate and certainly not out of love towards myself. So there it is my truth, revealed, I don't have to hide what I eat any more. I am as sick as my secrets and I am not keeping this one a secret.

Today I had breakfast at 6.30 and then ate cherries throughout the morning. And it is my emotions that always drive me to binging. Not wanting to accept the way people act, fear that I am not good enough. False idea that I must be good enough and that I am not good enough. Really strange. I did get myself balanced a bit and had lunch. Hopefully today I am going to find enough love for myself, which stops me from food related self-harm.

earning day 3...something about knowing that binging could kill me, literally, really sobered me up!!! of course, today will be a huge test as i have an ultrasound on my pancreas at 3pm so i cannot eat again until after that... so 8am until 3pm with no food or water... seems like time is crawling by... not even hungry since i did have breakfast but i am painfully aware of the time ticking by....

:carrot::carrot: me too!!!!!!

I am so excited to have made it a whole week!!!! :D:D

The weekend is tough for alot of us. Here's some extra love for all of us: :hug::):hug::):hug::):hug::):hug:

We can make it through!!! Be strong.

Day 179! :D I can't believe I've made it this far, one day shy of 6 months. This is really huge for me, considering all the stresses I've been through for the last 6 months!

Congrats to all of us! :congrat:

Here's wishing us all a successful weekend. :dust:

Tyla

Day 8, going good. Have to work today, so I won't be binging. I'm gonna make it!

63! Great job on getting past a week fruitlady!! And congrats Tyla, almost half a YEAR! What a feat!
Keep up the phenomenal work over the weekend EVERYONE! And good luck to us all!

Day 6 for me, goal was to go a week// sat evening now, going to friends for dinner and drinks, hope this doesn't trigger me, I really don't want to have another monday binge hangover because of my sat sun bad eating.
Pars81, Tyla, ; well done!, i can't imagine making a month binge free, you guys are awesome.