Feeling Thin Triggering Binges - 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet Weight Loss Community

mottainai · 10-12-2012, 01:02 PM

Does anyone else start wanting to binge when they feel thin, or good about their bodies?

For me, the two are very associated, I've just noticed upon reflection. When I'm feeling fat and unhealthy, I really don't want to binge eat. It's only after I've been doing well, hitting the gym and eating reasonably for a few days and therefore feeling good about my body that I start wanting to binge. It's like it's not "fun" to do unless I feel like I'm thin enough to "deserve" it. It doesn't even have to be necessarily that I really AM thin or not- it's just whether or not I feel like it, depending even on if I'm wearing flattering clothes or something!

Don't know if anyone else feels like this? But at least it was something of a realization for me...maybe it will help to resist the binge urges if I can realize it might be just triggered by feeling good about myself!

beth sebring · 10-12-2012, 01:10 PM

Ya, sometimes I felt too healthy or wanted to treat myself for doing so good. Idk how to describe the feeling but when I was training for a half marathon, if I perfected my workout for the day I felt good but my cravings were sky high.

krampus · 10-12-2012, 01:30 PM

Yep. Or yanno because it's Friday and I showed reasonable restraint all week. Every single low weigh-in day for me has spelled "overeat within 24 hours of weigh-in" - I'm trying to break this pattern!

mottainai · 10-12-2012, 01:43 PM

Well, at least I'm not the only one!

geoblewis · 10-12-2012, 04:06 PM

Def not the only one! I hit a new weight low after really pushing hard to get there, I'm feeling really almost too good with my progress and I sabotage for a few days with inappropriate choices. I've been losing weight really, really slowly over the last five years. I am so conflicted, wanting to lose a pound a day, but freaking out if I lose more than three a week.

For me, I think I get scared about success. I've never been thin in my head, even though I was MUCH thinner than I am now many years ago. I don't know how to be thin, so when it starts rushing towards me, I panic. I am close to being smaller than a size 20. I haven't been that size in 25 years. It feels like life is going to be out of my control when I hit that size range. As if my good sense and ability to make my own choices is melting away with the fat.

Headgames...way more fun than XBox!