DoingMyBest79 - Wow! Good job on avoiding binges! I've nearly made it through today, meaning that I would not have had a binge in 3 days. My mum's home, so that's been helping the bingeing. My worst binges are always when I'm alone. I'm beginning to think that I might actually make it to a week this time.

I ended up bingeing. I wasn't expecting it at all. I'm so fustrated with myself. I'm going to try and stay positive and learn from it. I think it may have been because I decided to have a large lunch and a small dinner. Luckily it was only a mini binge - about 1000 calories, and I ended up eating 2300 calories in the whole day, which is about maintenance for me since I excercised. I'm still annoyed. I was actually in denial afterwards and told myself it wasn't a real binge and that it didn't count. I've decided to count it because it was way more than I eat at one time when I'm just grazing, and I had the feeling of complete loss of control.

I'm going to get back on track tomorrow. I've asked my mum not to have any binge food in the house for the next couple of days, just so I can get back in control.

Hey there Amy,
Just wanted to say I'm still keeping tabs on how you're doing!
I love the way you're staying so positive even throughout the slip-ups. It sounds like you're doing a lot of exploration and learning. That all really will come in handy!
Be kind to yourself, and best wishes for the new day!

mottainai - Thanks! I think I need to stay positive in order to break the cycle. If I beat myself I end up feeling worse, and then I binge again. It has been hard, but everything's paying off. Had the perfect day yesterday. I ate only healthy food, didn't have any treats either :)

I've also been weighing myself and the water weight is coming off pretty quickly. I've lost 7.5 pounds in four days.

I had another woosh this morning, losing 1.8 pounds since yesterday. I think I've lost most of water weight by now. I know that I will have gained some permanent weight from the binge bender, but it won't be as much as I had thought.

I also had another awesome day yesterday with no stuff ups.

Well done, Amy! (:

Thanks mottainai!
I nearly binged yesterday but managed to get away with overeating a little bit. I was actually going to give in, but I was really determined to make it to a week. I've been trying to complete this challenge for a week now, and I really want to make it. I'm over halfway now, nearly at the end of day five.

I finally made it to a week! After trying for ages!

Hello everyone! I just read this entire thread now and was hoping I can join in. I also struggle so much with binge eating and I recently regained about 30 of the about 80 lbs. that I had lost due to binges. I had weeks and weeks where I couldn't stop binging all day long and well into the night until I had terrible heartburn and felt so sluggish and depressed out of my mind.

Anyway, I got back on track last Monday and so I haven't binged for over a week now. I'm so excited and hope to avoid it for as long as possible.

Amy, I was so happy to read that you were able to avoid binging for a week! Just one question: you said that you had asked your parents to not have any binge foods in their home. Do you have binge foods in your home? If you don't , does that cut down on the binges or will you just leave the house at night to go get something? My problem is that I will binge on something as simple as bread and mayo (I know that sounds gross, but such is my crazy brain) and since I have kids and a husband I can't expect them all to avoid anything that will allow me to binge. But of course we have other things too such as evil Nutella! ;)

Again, congrats to you! Keep it up!

Thanks luckymommy. Keeping certain binge foods such as cookies and cake out of the house certainly make me less likely to binge, but will still go out and buy food if the cravings are bad enough and if I give in. I can binge on jam on toast, or I can make my own cake and binge on that, which we have ingredients for. One thing that helps me is keeping foods I may binge on out of site. You could try hiding mayo at the back of the fridge where you can't see it.

If you think mayo on bread sounds gross, I used to mix butter and sugar together and eat that out of desperation.

Way to go, Amy! A week is a huge accomplishment!!!

I had to stop coming to 3FC for awhile because reading about other people slipping up and bingeing made me binge. My mind thought, hey, if they can slip up and binge, then so can I!! The mind works in crazy ways...

I'm still in a fragile state of mind, so I'm only checking these boards intermittently until I can control myself better. On a brighter note, I've done pretty well lately and have lost almost all the weight I gained during an epic binge-fest month of August (actually, late July through mid-August). Just a few more pounds until that damage is undone...

On the bright side, I am appreciating my weight loss more, this time around. Having to re-lose the weight, and almost reaching my goal weight AGAIN, has made me appreciate being close to my goal weight more. Before, I just focused on what I couldn't eat. Now, I am trying to rejoice in how much better I look, and recognize that there IS a tradeoff for restraining myself from bingeing...I look much better and am thinner! I lost sight of that before and just focused on all the yummy treats I couldn't eat.