I do throw food away if I'm doing a very bad job controlling myself around it. I throw out a half-portion maybe once every week or two and a larger amount (like part of a box of cereal) maybe once a month.

F.

My boyfriend and I live a block away from a grocery store, so we shop every couple days now instead of buying food for a week. I'm less likely to eat something if I know it's specifically for dinner or whatever. I stopped buying treats and snacks for the most part because I can't really help myself. I know it's not an option for everyone, but I feel like shopping every couple days for food is helping me.

I throw out food regularly. I, too, hate being wasteful, but when I go through periods of weakness (as I am now), I will eat something if it is in the house. Last night, for instance, I baked a spice cake (had an organic mix in my cupboard for months, was craving some sweets but too lazy to go out, so I baked it). It was really good. Of course, I ate about 800 calories of it last night and forced myself to freeze the rest. Well, that wasn't good enough because I found myself this morning, taking pieces out of the freezer and eating the dense top and bottom "crusts" of several pieces of cake. Finally, I chucked the entire batch. I hope my husband doesn't ask me for a slice tonight because I'll have to tell him what I did, and he just cannot understand my compulsion.

Once I begin to seriously contemplate the idea in my mind I find it's best to just throw it away. I too used to be a stickler about wasting food but it will do me more harm than good and binge eating is very much an eating disorder that should be handled as such. I've never bought food explicitly for a binge so I know I won't go out and buy something else but if I get the idea to eat everything, anything close to junk in the house is a potential target and I either need to remove myself or, if it comes down to it, the food.

I try to keep foods I can't have out of the house, but it doesn't always happen because of my friends/boyfriend, etc.

The best way I've found to not indulge is to tell myself that the food isn't mine--it isn't for me. (This is sort of like giving the peanut butter to the dogs). If I don't take ownership of the food, than eating it is like stealing it.

It sounds sort of crazy, and maybe an indicator of some of my food issues, but it works for me.

I also do trades, so if I do eat something that "isn't mine" than I can't have something else that "is mine" of equal value (ie. same cal amount/same carb amount) Which means if I eat chips, or sweets, I'm really not allowing myself a lot of freedom in what I can have for the remainder of the day.

Originally Posted by lazylioness:
OR, try taking it into the office, if yours is anything like mine, it will be mooched up quicker than you can say "would anyone like some...."

I found myself eating my ice cream "treats" nightly. Hmm, I told myself "treat" does not mean "nightly". When I walked daily I could do that, but I'm just barely walking for exercise again post-foot surgery, so I don't have the extra calories in my calorie budget.

So, I brought the ice cream treats in to work. My lunch buddies got to try the weight watcher/skinny cow ice cream treats, and they were OUT OF MY HOUSE.

Never underestimate the power of hungry co-workers.

Originally Posted by MAK247:
I started to get in the habit of eating a spoonful of peanut butter each night a few weeks ago. (Am I the only one who does this? just lap up the peanut butter off the spoon? lol) It started out just once, then I did it again the next night, and the next, etc. After I read the calories I realized I was eating at least a serving size, adding 200+ calories per day to my diet. So I gave the dogs each a taste of it, then double dipped the spoon.

Now it did not go to waste, but I definitely won't eat anymore of it. :)

I guess it depends on you, I know that I can only stick to a healthy eating plan if my ONLY option is healthy food, so I get rid of (or otherwise sabotage) food that I can not trust myself with.

I LOVE P?B but do not eat it anymore due to above reason,I think I gained 5 of the 30 I had gained from p/b alone!
Now I have the weight off and am in maintainence and all during weight loss I have switched to Almond Butter Love it but measure it and DO not overdue!
As for throwing stuff away... I DO DO IT! Have not needed to since losing weight as I do not allow myself to eat trigger foods,and have pretty much lost ALL desire for it. I have found healthy alternatives. I am gluten free only eat rice products this has really help a bread addiction. {Now rice cakes and rice tortillas}
I too keep danger foods in the house as DH still eats it all!

Binges for me, at their worst, usually include a half jar of peanut butter, back when I didn't eat gluten I'd binge on prunes COATED in peanut butter. I love the stuff and stopped buying it for a while in response to the binges. I've started eating it again though as I needed more fat in my diet.

I find that I can't have it by itself (doesn't even register as a snack), cold (can hardly taste it, pb should be warm), or with fruit (this contains the calories of a small meal without the same level of satisfaction) so I've been putting it in breakfast sandwiches that I instead end up eating for dinner: pita with egg white, meat (bacon, ham, etc), spinach (cooked) and peanut butter. Delicious and filling.

I also LOVE PB2 (peanuts with the fat removed, no additives besides salt and a little sugar, completely natural) and recommend it but it's also perhaps the most addictive food I've ever consumed and I find it difficult to place in my diet as it doesn't replace peanut butter for me anymore (since I try to eat more fat in place of carbs) and I don't really bake or use my blender.

Peanut Butter is a bad food for me, and I cannot buy the shelf-stable ones like Jiff or Skippy - I'd grab a TBS and eat a quarter of the jar just standing in front of the pantry, looking for something else to eat. I'd have to throw it out to save myself.

Funny thing, I now buy only the natural PB and keep it in the fridge and when I do crave some, a regular sized tsp will do.