Binge Free Challenge: 1.3.11 - 1.9.11 (New year...New YOU!)
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!!
Today is Day 84!!! Only 16 days left until Day 100!!!! I have never made it that far before! Heck, who am I kidding, I have never made it THIS far before!!!
I haven't been on in about a week because I did not meet my goal of lasting the rest of 2010 binge-free and I was ashamed. However! I'm picking myself off and not avoiding this anymore. I need to stop telling myself that I am a failure, disgusting, etc. My biggest New Year's Resolution was to get some damn self esteem.
So, back on the horse. I just now had the urge to binge and ate a little extra than intended, but didn't let myself go back to make a full second meal like I wanted to. My trigger is definitely anxiety/avoidance; I start another semester today and I'm nervous about the class I've got in two hours since it will be small and involve a lot of discussion (I have social anxiety disorder). Since there's nothing I can do to change that, I wanted to just avoid thinking about it until I absolutely have to--unfortunately, as I just realized, I turn to food for that purpose.
Instead of eating, I am keeping myself occupied writing motivational sentences on index cards, something I've been meaning to do for a while. When I feel the urge to binge, I plan to read them, and I'm hoping it'll decrease the extent of my overeating.
Hi all! I really need to join this thread. I have been binge eating/restricting/over exercising on and off since developing an eating disorder at 17.
Day 1 starts for me tomorrow, since I’ve already consumed a 10oz bag of Hershey kisses, a pint of Ben and Jerry’s and 24oz coffee drink, and it’s only 1pm!! I don’t know what’s wrong with me! I had a great 2 hour cardio workout, and then I decide to stop at Walgreens on the way home to buy 15 dollars worth of junk food. The worst thing is I feel like I could still eat more!
My New Year’s resolution is to get through a whole 30 days without binging. I know I can do it! I going to try to eat light for the rest of the day, and really get back on track tomorrow.
I did really good for the holidays and visiting home, but had one bad day and had a bit too much popcorn...or alcohol!...some other days. Rather than sort it out, I'm going to go ahead and restart the count for 2011--that puts me on day 3.
I had a couple really bad days recently. But it was interesting to recognize some things about how I feel when I binge. I feel numb. I feel zoned. I feel obsessed. I feel euphoric. then I feel pathetic. It really sounds like I'm using drugs. It's registering just like a drug inside my brain. Same chemical release. Does this mean I need rehab?
Day 9- I can't believe I made it this far without over eating or binges, it sure was a struggle though. I got through it with the help of yogurt, even if I have to eat 3 of them to get the urge out of my system, it's far better than going wild on junk food til I'm sick. That's how I've been handling it, it's working cause I love yogurt, it feels like a treat to me. It's a new year, I told my husband and daughter that i will not buy food that is not good for them. No frozen stuff, junk food or high sodium canned food. They probably hate me right now, but veggies, fruit, yogurt, whole grains, brown rice & lean protein will make them feel so much better & will keep them healthy. If they want something sweet, I will bake a healthy dessert for them. This will be better for us all !
Day 6 (I think... might have lost track). Much easier to stay on track because I was back at work and into the old regular routines again.
Fruitlady - I smiled at your yogurt comments. I can mess up even with yoghurt - over the holidays I bought Liberty Mediterranean caramel yoghurt... 260 calories and 14 g of fat per serving. Delicious but probably not the same stuff you're eating.
If I make it through today, it will be day 2. I must make a resolution to stop weighing myself so often - get really teed off when no weight has been lost and this sets me on course for a binge - what insane behaviour
So today is day 4... I actually feel like there's no way I've gone only 3 days, I feel so in control, but that's a trap for me, I get that feeling and then I mess up.
I can't even remember when was the last time I've been binge free for a week, so I am aiming to achieve that goal first...
Binge Free Challenge: 1.3.11 - 1.9.11 (New year...New YOU!)
Only 16 days left until Day 100!!!! I have never made it that far before! Heck, who am I kidding, I have never made it THIS far before!!! 
