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Today is Day 70 for me!!!

I feel strong and confident coming into the holiday weekend! Make it count everyone!!! We are all in this together!

315!

I'm back in this thread after being offline for so long. This thread was incredibly useful to me, so I'm back. Congrats to vixsin and tyla for going so long! Someday I wish to post numbers like yours

Day 1

Today is day 3 binge free for me - it was easy today- the cause of my binges are stressful situations and today there weren't any -I hope that tomorrow is the same

Day 2 for me, though I'm not officially counting--just trying to make it through the rest of the year without binging. I'm in a period of being uninterested in food, so it's been very easy the last couple days. I would love to be consistent, though, and just be interested in food the same amount every day...might make it easier to stay motivated one way or the other.

Day 17 and, once again, grateful for kid meals at restaurants. When you are trapped in a bad restaurant, sometimes ordering the kid's meal is the best option for limiting the damage.

I want to try joining in here, especially with the holidays coming up! I should be heading up to my mom's asap, but I am slow at getting cleaning and shopping done here at home. I kind of feel glad for the delay in a way, though, because it's that many more days between me and the platters of Christmas cookies!

Last week a misguided effort at cookie-baking and finals were my downfall. I'm on Day 3 today.

I'm not sure how to define a binge. What if you're just out with your friends and you eat a whole lot? I haven't had a proper, manic solo eating episode since last Thursday (Dec. 9) but calorie-wise this Saturday was way over by at least 2x with beer, dinner, drunk ice cream, and Starbucks sugary drink.

I count it as a binge if I finish a meal or snack that I set out for myself, am noticeably full, and return for another full meal or snack. But I know it's different for each person--like, I've never been someone who eats a whole gallon of ice cream or a huge bag of chips in one sitting. I'll sometimes eat past fullness during one meal (I have trouble not cleaning my plate) but I don't consider that binging, per se. I always eat a variety of things. But yeah, I count it if I'm out with friends and I, for example, eat an entré, then get dessert, then go get Starbucks, which has happened before. If I'm just eating one dish past the point of fullness, I'd call that overeating rather than binging. My labeling is somewhat arbitrary, though.

Binging for me is that ultra-high I used to get when I'd be alone with my massive amount of food and I would just tear through all of it in no time flat and regret that it was gone because I wanted to eat more. That completely out of control, out of body type of experience. But that's just for me.

Anywho, it's been 71 days since the last time that happened. Feeling good. Feeling strong.

Make today great everybody.

I am still binge free chicks! It is hard but it is doable! Day 21 for me! I really want to survive Christmas binge and New Year binge!

316!

I'm proud to say that I didn't have any sugar yesterday. Yesterday was the first day of the Fat Smash Diet, which I plan to do until Christmas. I need to get back to the basics.

That is what happens to me as well- voluminous amounts of food and in my case, always full of sugar and fat....I never binge on carrots

I am on day 4 without a binge

Day 9- yesterday was tough, I didn't want to stop eating that chocolate ice cream, but I did. Today I made my husband take the choco-chip cookies to work w/ him. So glad I did, cause I really wanted them. He'll eat them at work & there will be no more junk food in this house. Yay!!!