Your binge weakness?
 

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Mine is chocolate - I was doing so good till...

Today I saw a stack of bars at the checkout
I told myself I would get them for taking to the office as a treat for co-workers or our lounge room.
Obviously I knew I was lying to myself.....
I started eating them in the car..I am so embrassed
By the time I got gas I was through a few..I ate while I pumped gas..by the time I got home only one bar left (originally 6) whole candy bars.
Worst part is I feel SICK
GROSS
LIKE MY STOMACH WILL KILL ME
I FEEL STICKY
SWEET
AND JUST SAD
:?:
Why do I lie to myself.."its for the kids.."its for the party.." its for the bbq " i need to keep XYZ around for visitors
anything I buy I eat up so quickly
I feel out of control!

It's the same for me. If I'm in the binge mood then anything high calorie, high salt or high sugar can seem appealing. And no matter what I tell myself, I usually eat it all.

I lie to myself saying this stuff is for the entire week, so it's not that much. Or I'll share it with my sister etc.

I felt the same way, completely out of control. To try and stop feeling out of control I would stop eating for days at a time. Then I'd binge afterwards because I was so hungry. I felt horrible and lethargic and ill all the time.

Now I eat healthy foods and I try to eat enough and the binges are getting less frequent and I don't feel that same sense of doom and panic from lack of control.

I've just realised this is a really long post and most of it probably isn't that helpful to you. But if anything just hope you feel better knowing that it is possible to feel control again. I'm not going to pretend I feel in control all of the time and that I never binge anymore. But I am a **** of a lot better than I used to be, and a lot happier for it.

McDonald's. Not any fast food place but only McDonald's. I always have the same 'binge meal' and even though I know it is bad it is like I am on autopilot the whole time I am driving there, paying for it, driving back, and here shoving each french fry into my mouth AS IF I am even hungry when I am not.

I eat it all and then feel terrible about myself. Rinse and repeat.

I love Nutella with very soft white bread. I could eat that all day long. Obviously, I don't. I highly recommend not buying foods that trigger a binge. The best way I deal with it is by purchasing items that don't particularly appeal to me but they do to others. Ok, maybe they do appeal to me, but they're not like crack to me. For instance, cereal is a huge trigger. Nuts are too, but if I just don't start, I'm ok. However, if there would be donuts in the house, I don't know if I could control myself so something like that is off limits, no matter the occasion (excuse). ;)

To the OP, try to learn from this experience. Remember this sick feeling and tattoo it into your brain. This temptation will occur again but tell yourself something that you think you can remind yourself of next time. For instance, I say a quote to myself that I've read on here: being fat is hard, dieting is hard, pick your hard....something to that effect.

Too much groceries bought. It's weird to me that if I buy lots of groceries I want to eat lots of groceries especially if I end up only buying snacking type foods (mostly healthy). Even too much healthy food is a bad thing. :/

Hanging out with friends. I always tell myself "ok, I'll just try a little bit of the unhealthy food they are having to make myself not feel so out of place" and then I end up eating a full plate of bad food.

Exactly that. Even right now I have such a burning to desire to throw myself into the kitchen and just eat everything in sight, starting with chips and salsa. However, I refuse to let myself even set foot in that room. Once I give into a craving like this one (which differs from the "I'm hungry and I'd like grilled chicken!" cravings in that I am not at all physically hungry now), I'm done for. Some particular foods that usually switch off my self-control are: cheez-its (oh sweet baby Jesus), my mom/grandmother's homemade chex mix, chips, these specific peanut butter vegan cookies, and oftentimes ice cream and pizza.

I have to agree with the posters who said the best thing to do is keep such things out of the house. It is difficult to say no, especially when it comes to impulse buying, but it is always important to remember that a single binge does not define your success in weight loss. It was not one binge that made any of us gain all of the weight, and one binge will not undo all of our hard work.

I hope you feel better soon! :hug:

My biggest triggers are chocolate and nuts. If I have chocolate I think "hmm some nuts would go nice with that." If I have nuts I think "wow I could go for chocolate!" I have totally done the "eaten too much sweet crap and then ordered a pizza to balance out the flavors." What a gross and sad habit.

Being tired or constipated are both huge triggers as well. Constipation might be the worst one. "OMG I CAN'T F-ING POOP SO I NEED TO EAT SO MUCH THAT I DO."

Pizza and doritos. I just can't stop.

Ice cream. I cannot say no to its allures. If I didn't worry about my family noticing all the ice cream missing, I could eat the whole container in 1 sitting. Oh I say "All just have a 1/2 cup serving". I know I will have several times that.

Ooh good question. For me, pizza. Definitely. I don't ever get pizza if it is just me or just a couple people because of the leftovers. I can easily eat a pizza by myself in a couple days by eating it for all meals! :dizzy:
So now I only allow myself one piece and a big salad. But it satisfys me.

PIZZA!!!! I can eat so much of it. Oh and waffles with lots of butter and syrup. Basically anything breaded. lol.

I have constipation issues as well....I take exlax now. I use to use smooth move laxative tea but it doesnt work if i eat bread or cereal. I have IBS with constipation. You should visit a Gastroenterologist to see if you have it as well.

Crackers/chips I can't have in the house at all. Sometimes I will buy them for the kids, but I ask DH to take custody of them (he preps the lunches). I love doritos and cheez-its (can't even buy an individual serving of it only, it will trigger a massive, mindless binge) and saltines in particular, but even nasty stuff like weight watchers/diet snacks will be gone, the whole box, if I buy it and open it.

I will eat whatever size container of hummus I've purchased once it's opened. I prefer it with celery and cukes but if those aren't available I'll just eat it with a spoon. I thought I could circumvent that and still have it in the house by buying a costco box with a bunch of individually packaged 2 serving cups--no dice. I ate it all, and cried at seeing tons of little cups in the garbage can.

Easter chocolate (especially the candy-shell mini-eggs); I won't raid the kids' stash BUT any unclaimed I'll just eat and eat and eat the rebought stuff. This year, to help with that I put money in the eggs instead of candy; the kids liked that better than candy and this year was the first year that I did not eat a ton of easter candy from March-May.

This is me. I buy the same exact thing each time I am there.

My list is pretty extensive but basically it's anything I can dip. My favorite is scoop chips and I make this valveeta, sausage and salsa dip in my crock pot. I'd also dip those large pasta shells into sauce. I can eat the entire box and down it with half a gallon of whole milk.

I also have issues with Kraft mac & cheese, pizza rolls and basically anything in the frozen food aisle that I can slap sour cream on.

I like threads like this because it reminds me of just how sick my eating habits used to be. But it just triggered a couple cravings! :dizzy:

I could take or leave sweets. I binge with salty foods, Chinese or McDonalds, pizza or burgers. Pasta, tacos. French fries, salty snacks like beef jerky and pretzels and onion dip....

I feel better today
I am so thankful that this forum exists for this support
I just hung out here late into last night and got some well needed emotional support - thank you all. lets stick this out. no food is worth this out of control feeling.

for me it seems anything sweet thats not candy. cause then i have to have something thats salty then something sweet again and.... yeah you get the idea =(

Pizza, especially any kind of white pizza (with a garlic based sauce instead of tomato based). Also Pizza Hut's new ultimate cheese lovers pizza (has alfredo sauce instead of tomato sauce). And breadsticks/bread bites. And interestingly enough, Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce. I will put that on anything, and frequently do. Any of these things make me want to eat like there's no tomorrow.

PIZZA!!! particularly when paired with BEER! Lol, I hate trigger food!

When I'm not in crisis mode (when anything and everything carby, sugary, processed, or fatty can trigger a binge), it's generally sweets. Especially chocolate or some kind of pastry. Gets me every time. Also, peanut butter. It's like a jackhammer on my power of will. ~sigh~

Hmm... nutella and pretzels would probably be my worst 2. But anything really will trigger a binge. If I have large quantities of high cal sugary or salty foods...it's all over. I'm not actually into fried foods so I guess that's a good thing. I really hate it when I go to the store and buy candy telling myself I'm going to share this with my twin bro or with my bestie....and then I end up eating 99% of it and giving the last 1% away. So now I'm going to not buy candy no matter what the occasion is. :P

This is EXACTLY me! I never crave sweets but put fast food, pizza, or pasta in front of me and it's all gone! However, at times I do have the "balance it out" moment and will have something sweet after I've eaten something bad. It makes the binge so much worse!

hmmmm anything if I am highly emotional or stressed

but

otherwise pizza, chocolate, ice cream

Can I add to this thread? Let's see... at my smallest, I would order a dominoes pizza (so I didn't have to leave my apt and it was cheap) plus cinnamon sticks and icing for dessert. I would polish off the entire pizza, and the cinnamon sticks. I would take a break for a couple hrs. And then I would drag myself to 7-11 and buy a huge box of honey bunches of oats and a quart of whole milk. I would also at times buy a pint of Ben n Jerrys to polish it off. It would take me longer to eat the cereal though so I could continue eating throughout the night. I would finish about 3/4 of the the box after the pizza and cinnamon sticks and ice cream. I have actually passed out and woken up at 2am and continued binging until 4am on cereal, then back to bed. I haven't done this in 3 yrs but it was a pattern for a long time. Of course this is all done in hiding!!! And I would spend the rest of the week making up for it by restricting. It worked. I maintained a large loss for awhile. BUT the binges became closer together before I could "make up for them" and so the story goes. Weight gain.

Cereal doesn't bother me now. In fact, I keep a box around and eat it on occasion. The thought of consuming that much makes me ill. I still have smaller binges of 400-500 cals once every few weeks primarily made up of all chocolate. Maybe that's my new binge trigger food? I am not sure since I have chocolate quite often, even with calorie restriction. I posted about one last week. It was mild compared to the damage I could have caused or what I used to do. Now, today was my "high day" as I am calorie cycling, and I went too high. I wouldn't really classify it as a binge, but definitely much higher than I wanted. That stuff still happens.

I am really concerned (actually TERRIFIED) of an all out binge again. However, as crazy as this sounds, what's helped me to a small degree is that I have a lot of acid reflux issues and so my stomach hurts long before I can do as much damage as I used to. Blessing and a curse I guess.

Wow. I didn't realize I would have so much to say about this!

I used to binge eat when i lived alone. I lived alone in an apartment for 4 yrs where i felt i was in an unsafe area of the city, had just split apart from a long relationship onto my own. I would go at 2am to McDonalds and buy 2 meals, and order different types of drinks so they thought it was for another person. Id buy whole cakes and then just sit with a fork and eat what i wanted of it, ordered pizzas and brought them home after work etc, nacho chips, salsa. I love the salty, greasy stuff the most. Now that i am in a relationship of 2 yrs, i no longer binge. I think it was because i was lonely and scared in a way, i became afraid of people and it was even a struggle to get my dog outside for fear i would get mugged or something. Buying my house and having my boyfriend move in was the best thing for me. That is all completely in the past. I dont even really have cravings at all... the only thing i need to get away from is eating after i finish work - midnight. I am snacky at that time and while i eat healthy stuff now, i just dont want to do it anymore.

Cookies. Chocolate Chip Cookies. Chips of course. Ah, Chips... (mouth smacking).

I can't even THINK about what my binge foods are (though a few come to mind) because it'll just make me waaant them.

I would go to the grocery store and get a 36 pack of taquitos, tub of sour cream, 2 pints of ice cream, a sheet cake, triscuits and brie, and a few candy bars... and I'd eat all that in about 1.5 days. Ugh.

Nutella. With dates, or just with a spoon. Tubs of coconut frosting. Packets of chocolate chip cookie dough.

Basically, anything super smooshy in texture and super sugary in content.

Bleh! I think of it and it makes me feel both ill and lustful for these foods I can't have.

OH! And add me in as the third person with the McDonalds fetish. I hate most fast foods, but for some reason...yeah. EXACTLY what both of you said about ordering the same thing, ordering different drinks to make it look like it wasn't for two people...and especially the part about hating myself after. Whew. I laughed/cried a little when I read those!

:lol: you are so funny... I have done all of this too.

Unfortunately I have more than one binge weakness! I drool over any chocolate related cookies, Doritos, soft packaged bread desserts, and bread in general. I used to binge on "sandwiches" but they mostly consisted of bread and very little cold cuts (I'd only add lettuce, cheese, and Italian dressing).

chips. cheese.

tortilla chips with melted cheese and salsa? huge binge trigger.

I've been lucky with pizza though, I can eat a slize and not go into binge mode..

CARBS. Carbs of all kinds!

Seriously, in the past, I would just eat plain white bread and binge from that. Today I had a blueberry muffin (from a pack of 6), and was about to grab another when I realized that I had absolutely no physical hunger for it. Love baked goods though. *sigh*

I have a serious bread addiction. As soon as I eat one slice I have to have more and more. I ate 3 bagels in one sitting once, it is so awful and embarrassing. I have had to cut it out of my diet completely.

Cheese and chips. They are evil, but oh so good.

Same here! I crave actual meal items as a snack. That and pastries. Not good!
Good luck.

Sugary stuff - chocolate, candy, ice cream, etc. It's horrible. I grew up with it, and it's gotten worse as I've gotten older. I never really binged on it until I started actively trying to diet. Now it's like 8PM hits and I turn into Teen Wolf, looking for chocolate. It's a nasty side effect, but I've found I can control it by abstaining. Fruit is a good alternative for me.

Same!! Bread, pasta, (and cheese). particularly, warm bread & butter or bread with melted cheese or pasta with cheese.

For me, my list of what is not a trigger food would be much shorter.

I have a huge sweet tooth so just about any kind of sugary-chocolately bakery item could set me off on a binge if I even go near them.

The only way to control myself is to keep them out of the house.

I don't binge all the time...but some days I do and have and I remember each time clearly because I felt so disgusting! One time my friend and I got drinks from sonic then food from mcdonalds and taco bell..for one meal. I almost had fun because we did it together but I know better. Fast food is my weakness. Every time I get in my car I think about it. Even if we are so broke we have NO extra money I'll still try to think of ways around it just to get something. Once I taste something I love I can't stop eating. I'm not a huge fan of sweets I'm more on the salty side. I can eat a bag of chips by myself 10 minutes. I am just in the beginning of my journey so I hope someday I can say "I don't do that anymore" Lol