Welcome to the binge-free challenge!!

This is a place where you can come in and talk about binging. Feel free to post about your successes and your struggles and keep track of how many days you've been binge free. 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.

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thanks so much for starting this every week, Vixsin

Today is day #1
Yesterday was probably my slowest binge ever.. and I still couldn't get myself to stop.

Day 1 coming to a close. I overate and there was a high sugar to real food ratio but no binging.

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Paris: No worries about the thread. I still need it everyday.

Ohh goodness, day 1.

I have to restart. Binged last night after what I thought was a successful easter day lunch. So much crap. I need to detox my body for sure.

My first goal is no binging for 7 days then 14, then 30. Gonna try my best. No overeating too.

I'm upset a little but will move on. I need to work on my notecard reminders.

Well I guess I was meant to see this thread. I binged yesterday very badly on top of that I got caught eating way to many snack cakes by my boyfriend, he totally went off on me. I already felt bad about the bingeing but it was like I just could not stop eating. May be this binge free challenge will help me get back on some kind of track to better eating. Thanks for doing this Vixsin.

Binged again...BADLY...last night But then i woke up this morning and my weight was down two pounds to 149?! So i'm thinking my body actually needed the calories, and that's why i felt hungry. I know for a fact that i didn't binge out of being tired, stressed, sad, lonely, etc. etc. But...it was still was really bad because i ate soooo much junk food.

I'm thinking about taking a different approach or mindset. I always thought of a diet as control....i have to control my eating habits, i have to plan my cheat days and control them, etc. Well, maybe that's NOT the best way. Maybe i should actually listen to my body when it's hungry...but the next time that happens, NOT binge on sugar, but eat more healthy food. Maybe that way, i'll go over my planned calories, but i won't binge on junk food. I dunno...SOMETHING needs to change, either in my mindset or what i am doing.

Anyway...back on track today...i certainly don't need another high calorie day for at least a few days, and during that time i'll think about what i should do.

I feel like I was binge free yesterday, but I did find myself grabbing a yogurt out of the refrigerator after dinner even though my boyfriend seemed perfectly satisfied with his equal sized meal. Why was the meal enough for him and not me?

Right now I'm struggling with not eating my lunch yet. It's too early. If I eat it now I will be starving by the time I go home and then I will want to binge during the hour and a half before my boyfriend or roommate gets home. I already ate my yogurt that I brought as a snack. I have a very, very hard time not eating the food I bring with me well before I should. I'm note even hungry for my lunch, yet I want to eat it. !!!

I need this thread this week. I had a horrible stress-induced binge two days ago (think lots and lots of sugar). I was reacting to the news that my post-graduation job was deferred until December. I'm a law student and this means I have to figure out how to spend my time (and make a little money!) for four months after the bar and before my job starts. I don't do well with nothing to do... so the idea of all that free time scares me!

Surfer Girl--maybe your body did need the cals. The binging could also be offset by many other factors that could cause weight loss. Or maybe the binging wasn't so bad in actuality.

Oh man, my binge last night and partially this morning, was just bad. I am estimating maybe 2100 cals. Fig newtons and twix and bread. Ughhh. I'm disgusted with the taste of sweets now. So much.

I just feel bad now. I don't know how to cope or overcome this feeling. Just want to get my weight down already.

[QUOTE=Amberelise;3822853]I feel like I was binge free yesterday, but I did find myself grabbing a yogurt out of the refrigerator after dinner even though my boyfriend seemed perfectly satisfied with his equal sized meal. Why was the meal enough for him and not me?QUOTE]

I wonder about this ALL the time!!!

day 2
i spent yesterday and today cleaning and rearanging my room but i'm never satisfied with the way i organize it. and i have way too much clutter!!--hord alert!! i was alone for a couple f hours and i decided to make something sewwt and i baked some oatmeal cacao banana...pie and i ate it all by myself. i don't know if that counts as a binge. but i didn't go overboard with my calorie intake. i just came from bike riding and my sister came to me and said "Are you pregnant?" like wtf? i don't even have a bf. but obviously my stomach is so bloated since i'm constipated for two days and i ate that cake bymyself. and then i heard her and her bf mocking me in their room. and this the third time this week that shs's picking on me because of my weight. it's like it bothers her more than me. ughhh i hate her so much. i just want her to dissapear. i watched ruby today and cried. it was such a breaking point for me.
i'm thinking of doing master cleanse with that lemonade for a few days. anyone tried it?

I've tried that several years ago. I did it perfectly for 10 days, losing 1 pound every day, so 10 pounds. But afterwards, you're supposed to ease into solid foods again, which I didn't, eating a raw larabar and nuts day 11, and screwed up my stomach. I felt sick. I ate normally again by day 12. I gained back every pound.

It's not worth it. My advice: DO NOT DO IT. It screws up your metabolism big time. Mine didn't go back to normal for a while. Beyonce did it and gained her weight back. Jillian Michaels did it as well and same thing, gained weight back, and she said it screwed up her metabolism.

If you want to cleanse your body of the toxins or "junk" take "super cleanse" pills from whole foods, which doesn't disrupt any eating plans, and eat raw fruits and veggies for a week. Or half raw half cooked. It's so much better for you. Your digestion will improve. There are other ways to cleanse like with miso soup or seaweed soup for a day. Don't do it for more than 1 or 2 days though or your metabolism will slow down to a halt. The seaweed soup thing I read from a magazine where Gweneth Paltrow did it to cleanse. I can't remember the magazine. The miso soup thing I heard from a friend and googled it for more info. Seems like it would cleanse effectively. Bland foods cleanse your body too, like rice (I read a book called 7 day detox and they use basmati rice). Good luck and don't let your sis let you down. We all have "pregnant" days where the belly sticks out. It's natural. Bloatedness, indigestion, TOM, etc. She's jealous for some reason, and that was very rude of her to say.

Beila, thank you for your advice. i don't know about the cleanse yet, but i really want to detox, and it seems to me that i can only clean my bowel with fasting and senna tea. how else am i supposed to get rid of all that junk that has been piling up in my bowels for years?? i know that i will gain all back but mostly you loose water and you empty your gut. obviously they fill back. i am worried about messing up my metabolism. but i also want to get rid of my sugar cravings and get away from food for a while.