Okay- so I have been really good for the past couple of days.

This is what usually happens- and it's happening right now.

When I am really good for a few days, I get hungry. like, HUNGRY. for anybody with binge issues, i get THE HUNGER. you know what I mean?

As we all know- you have to have that...flat feeling in your tummy to be loosing- i mean, sorry if this isn't very descriptive, but you know- when you eat well, and your stomach isn't bloated, you're at a deficit - so towards bed time, there's like...an "Edge" of your body letting go of the fat? lol.

Well, here's the issue as i've noticed it. When i do really well for a while, i get this hunger, it leads in 2 things. 1. white knuckling through, and going on a binge the next day, or 2. going on an immediate binge.

i have had my 3 meals and 2 snacks, then I made myself a pretty big but light salad, with 1 tbsp of low fat dressing, i've had lots of tea, but i am slowly getting there.

unfortunately, i have a hard time distinguishing between head hunger and real hunger (they are almost the same for me).

I guess what I am trying to prevent is the binge, tomorrow. I feel it coming- because the trend for me in recent history has been- go to bed with head hunger, wake up with real hunger, eat contents of fridge before 10 am.

Any suggestions on how to deal with this?

Help a girl out! lol

I need to know some suggestions for this too!!
Sorry I don't have any advice for you, just wanted to post because I know this feeling all too well. Last night I binged after eating properly all day and that sent my calories for the day over 4000.

Ugh, I hate that and I definitely know what you mean. I started reading a book on my iPad from Kindle "Brain over binge" and I'm not even halfway through but it's already helped me do better today just from reading about the author's story.

I guess, just try not to think about the food - don't go in with the expectation that you know you'll wake up and want to binge. Expect the best. Go work out, that usually gets my mind off food.

I know the feeling! I know that for me, a routine REALLY helps. I wake up, eat a protein muffin, work out, eat my egg whites & coffee, go to work with my lunch packed from the night before. It might sound boring and monotonous, but when I have a routine I feel more "safe" and in control. Hope that helps someone!

thank you! danzingurl- i'm like that too with the routine, but it's a little hard to do on weekends, and especially in this particular point in my life.

i did avoid the binge last night- i am starving this morning, but i am also trying to control it.

worst case scenario i plan to eat like a lb of steamed veg. lol HOPEFULLY.

Hope you do all right, stimkovs!!
Getting that "hunger" myself about here in the next few days, so I'm really pulling for you!

BINGO ! planning is the key for me too IF i don't I'm sunk. I'm type A personality (prior military) & I have to stay focused if not once again I'm sunk.

I would go ahead and eat a pound of fruits or veggies, well maybe not a pound but start with one serving and if the feeling is still there have a second. So what if you eat a few extra servings of fruits and veggies in a day, it's better than greasy fatty foods... A hundred or two calories vs a thousand or two? My biggest problem is getting to that too hungry point and then going crazy, but if I eat a little more than originally planned of something quality and healthy no biggie in the long run.

I am honestly terrified to eat at a caloric deficit for more than a couple days in a row for this reason. I find myself doing things like "padding" my day's intake with a snack before bed just because I'm a tiny bit hungry, stuff like that. No matter what I am really, really NOT going to let myself fall back into binge eating. Nothing is worth that.

1spunkygal- definitely very extreme type A personality, minus the military. lots of benefits, but also some drawbacks lol


mottainai - thank you! still hanging in there!!

krampus- i have the exact same issue. when i can FULLY track - as in know exactly what i've eaten, there's no issue because i know where i stand. but right now, i live at home, with weird russian home cooking- everything is exceptionally healthy, so it's not a fatty greasy issue- but it's hard to calorie count some things, or even measure properly so i eat at what i assume a deficit, and guesstimate in my head, what i've noticed is that i tend to guesstimate up and presumably that "over-deficit" is what causes it. it actually terrifies me. the binges terrify me.

I definitely know what you mean about THE HUNGER. It's almost as though you start getting that feeling and know that it's inevitable; you are GOING to binge in the next day or two.

I hope you managed to make it through the day!

Not that I do Tim Ferriss diet, but I follow one thing which is planned 1 day binge per week. I count calories for a few days and schedule one afternoon to dinner quick binge (less than 4000 calories). this way at least I can get the workout in during morning hours which helps to deduct some binge calories. AND try to eat little bit of everything I've been craving. M&M with peanuts, ice cream, crackers, chips, nuts, cookies, pasta, rice dinner, tofu, fish, fruit.. whatever I want. I just don't eat heck of a lot of one thing (don't want to be full in one hour) so I do this for 5-6 hours and regain some weight back.
next day, I have a lot of energy like I just carbo loaded... have a great workout and get back to the calorie counting for another few days. by doing this, I think I'm confusing my body from thinking that I'm on a diet. not the fastest weight loss but I don't have yoyos either.

Is this the same as having a "treat day" ? I pretty much pick Friday as my weigh in day & use that as a treat day . I eat pretty much whatever I want but TRY not to go crazy overboard. Is this the same thing sorta ?

yes, it sounds about the same.
With the exception of PMS days, I can pretty much control it under 4000 calories even if I eat everything I want to eat that day.

I was doing basically the same thing as masterpr while I lost weight over several months earlier this year, allowing one kind of binge day a week, usually starting from around dinnertime and including whatever I want afterward.

It actually was beneficial to my weight loss, I believe, anecdotally-- not only because it was preventing more desperate binges, but it was also when I started doing that way that I got through a plateau after a stricter period at one point.