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Today is Day 63 and it feels amazing! For the first time in my whole life I am confident coming into the holidays instead of dreading it and planning to "start over" again after it's all over and the damage has been done.
i'm just in awe in how you can go 63 days without binging..i feel like sometimes i just HAVE to have those binge days or i'm going to be miserable...at least once in a while
Day 9 and hanging in there. Not tempted to binge per se, but I did overeat yesterday. It was tough -- I did an unbelievable amount of baking, candy-making and cookie decorating. A certain amount of indulgence was inevitable. :-) But I didn't binge and today I will be on target with calories in spite of some chocolate this morning.
I feel like I'm making progress. Like when I was eating chocolate this morning, I was able to wrap it up and put it away because I recognized that eating more would only make me feel BAD. I indulged, but didn't binge. I can't imagine a life without indulgences, but I look forward to and embrace a life without binges!
Day 10 and feeling good. Decided that my plan was to try to get through the next few weeks by staying OP as much as possible but not getting upset if there are days when I eat more than 1500 calories. If I can make it to the end of the year without a binge and without gaining weight, I'll have met my goal.
The dangerous times are when I've gone off the plan and then mentally decide that since I've already screwed up, I might as well make myself happy by eating everything delicious in sight. Even though I know the end result is not happiness, the urge to binge can be very difficult to resist when I already feel like I've failed.
Respect to you all. Cracked again tonight, after 2 days binge free. Just went crazy on chocolates etc, trying to identify tiggers but it tough. So many temptations around at Christmas.
So tomorrow I will refocus, again, again again.... Need to really set some fitness and nutrition goals been spinning my wheels at the gym and not consistent. Pah! Pah!
All excuses....so can't complain when I see my jelly belly...
Day 1 today, the last two days were real bad. I consumed 10,500 calories in 2 days. Saturday I was baking all day & eating it, the gum idea went right out the window. Yesterday we went to a buffet, I hadn't been there in a long time & it just tasted so good. The sodium in their food is so high, I gained 8 lbs of water. I was sick all night & couldn't even take my daughter to school. I felt so bad, had to wake my husband up to take her. Today after breakfast I was craving more toll house cookies I baked. I figured if I didn't have any, I was really gonna binge on them bad eventually. I ended up eating 15 anyway! I realized what I was doing and stopped, I was on plan the rest of the day. I'm really having a problem this month, can't wait til X-mas is over. I am so bloated up, I feel like a water balloon!!!
Day 11, and very proud as at the moment food is not a continuous thought in my head, some days i look up and think, OMG its 2pm, and i haven't had lunch.. great not to obssess over food, hope it lasts.
I feel like I'm making progress. Like when I was eating chocolate this morning, I was able to wrap it up and put it away because I recognized that eating more would only make me feel BAD. I indulged, but didn't binge. I can't imagine a life without indulgences, but I look forward to and embrace a life without binges!
How is it that I wrote this at 3:00 pm, and by 7:45 I was huddled in bed, sick and full and shaking and feeling just awful, physically and mentally? Ugh.
Binge Free Challenge Dec 13 - 19
