I like the journal idea. I was doing well on my diet, but we went on vacation and I got off. After coming home, it was hard for me to get back on because I felt so hungry after my carb overload. Now I've been back on the diet for only 4 days and hopefully will keep binges away.
Keep trying to find a way of eating that will get results without that intense feeling of panic/desperation. Have been doing some reading on Ghrelin and appetite so also trying to keep that at bay. HTH.
I do what those of you who keep journals probably do, but I don't write it down.
I sit with myself for a minute and I try to identify what I'm feeling. Nearly always, it's anxiety, though sometimes it's anger.
My therapist gave me a good question to ask myself at such moments: "What is the fear?"
Once I name it, one part of me, the logical, sane part, recognizes that eating rarely, if ever, assuages the fear. There's usually something I could actually **do** to help myself, some kind of action I could take that would put me more in control.
That could mean curling in a fetal position on the sofa or crying. Fine. It's pathetic-looking and dramatic, yes, but it's better than eating.
I stop and think about all my hard work going down the drain. I think about being how I was before. That feeling for me is so strong to not go back that I fight not binging. And...it's hard. It's like detoxing. There's the urge to do it but even if you back away from it you still fight that urge. Heck I've don't it and cried once because of it, but I didn't binge. But, it's hard. So, I totally don't see what you do as silly at all. You do what you have to do.
But, when I'm out and get the urge I do agree gum helps tons! Well for me haha. I always carry some with me. I'm the gum girl haha.
I think that will work for me. I'm going to try it next time I get the urge. I'm always thinking I want to be less than I am now but I like the idea of looking to the past and not undoing the hard work I have put in.
this sometimesworks for me. I add the calories of everything I am craving or about to eat in my fitnesspal app and it makes me not want to eat it. However, there are times when I don't add it because i want to eat it and adding it makes me not want to eat it! So it sometimes works and sometimes doesnt... What doesnt work for me though is going for walks or doing something to take my mind off it etc. If the urge hits, it hits
since I started a thread about binging, this is a new tool for me, but the thought of posting it, made me stop and the thought of hiding it made me feel dirty, so I didn't do that either. I just didn't binge.
Nothing helps for me. When the urge hits.. It hits.. I try not to think about it.. but I can NEVER get food off my mind.. I hate it. So I just stay up in my room for as long as I can. Actually one thing that does sort of help is If I go to bed early. (My binging normally happens late at night)
i leave the house. so far thats been the only surefire way to NOT binge. a walk makes me feel better, and then i dont want to eat because i burned some calories
Having little food in the house is a good policy. I used to buy food for the kids and ended up eating it myself! Now there is bread to make toast if they want, but no more cookies or donuts! They got used to that, and I see them eat buttered toast and enjoy the treat, while I eat a little piece with Icbinb...
If you have to go to a food store every time you crave something, laziness may prove to be stronger than gluttony! LOL!
Last edited by inglesita64; 05-13-2012 at 08:48 PM.
