YES i had a lovely healthy salad. amazingly nice with roast veges and pesto and greens. delish. i feel really full altho i did go buy a donut for dessert. i ate part and threw the rest away. now i just have to keep strong for the rest of the day
ellis - it sounds like your dietitian has helped motivate you. fantastic
harpo - i get what you mean about keeping busy. i definitely eat when i'm bored or when i let myself think about how tempting foods are. esp the sweet stuff. i do binge on pizza and savoury stuff but it's usually sweets, bread and that sort of stuff that tempts me
i think i did it - a BF day. i have to go to bed quick now to make sure temptation doesn't get me before i get into bed haha
good challenge ellis. i was trying for 21 days but that was too much for me to get my head around. honestly even 3 BF days would be good at this stage so 1 is good. now how can i reward myself without food can someone please send me a gorgeous handsome man all for me to unwrap tonight?
Good for you, Sweet Pea!!! Oh, yeah... 21 days is WAY too long for a challenge. One day at a time for us bingers.
A handsome man to unwrap... I wish I could help you out there, but the good ones are few and far between.
I forgot to mention yesterday that when I saw my dietician and weighed, I've stayed the same weight!! I've managed to maintain throughout two weeks of binging. Phew!! So I'm still down 11 pounds, I had a GREAT day yesterday, and I'm planning on another today!!
Let's all have a good day, ladies!! Be good to your bodies... you're worth it!!
I'm butting into your conversation to say that I'm going to start binge-free tomorrow.. I've been in the blows of a rough one for 3 days now. Very frustrating. Do you all belong to OA?
hi chicks,
i did it again yesterday! it helped that i pulled a muscle in my back and was lying flat in bed all evening, in order to have a binge i would have had to send the kids back and forth to the kitchen to get my food, even with 3 of them making trips, that never would of worked for me so around 8pm i asked for a cup of tea and a rice cake in my best dieting mother voice. i'm feeling pretty strongtoday so i think i can follow my plan and not binge tonight either, and my back is better too.
ellis- great job!! glad your dietician (i can never spell that word right) got you back on track! great job keeping your weight in check 11lbs is awesome!! keep it up!
harpo- hang in there, it's a new day! give youself a hug and move on. here's one from me too
sweet pea- i got my head back together over the weekend, that really helps me stay on track. i do best when i plan everything out ahead of time so i don't make any bad food decisions based on emtions tiredness etc. i also find when i front load my day with healthy stuff and lots of fiber i'm not really hungry later in the day. take it one day at a time!! you can do it!
I knew you'd pull it off again today Jodi!! Hey, you pulled a muscle in your back because I hopped on it last night Binge-free today!! Strictly on plan, although totally lax on the exercise.
ellis, congratulations on not gaining! Sometimes our bodies are binge forgiving, but that's a rarity for me. I think this is the first binge-free day we shared together, lol!!!
BunnyChick, Welcome!! I don't belong to OA because it conflicts with my religious beliefs. Here's to a binge free tomorrow!!!
sweet pea, when you are done with the man, Fed Ex him to me. I'll only need him for a few hours, and then I'll ship him back
Let's be able to celebrate tomorrow as well!!! We are all actually not doing too bad this challenge. Let's keep it up!!!!
okay just because you asked nicely i'll share my man with you harpo, though honestly i don't think he'll have much energy left when i've finished with him
bunny - no i don't belong to OA either. i will never ever be able to agree to step 1, partly the religious side of it and partly because i believe it is up to me not a higher power. oh hey that's the religious thing again LOL. but it works great for a lot of people
ellis - well done maintaining. i see you are a runner i guess all the exercise is helping
i am on day 2 and i will be going out soon supermarket shopping. that's a danger time for me. all sorts of things fall into my basket that i swear i will make last a week and disappear in hours. last time i bought 4WW desserts and ate them all in the space of an hour. why do they make the dang things so small?
jodi hope your back is better. hmmm so that's why people hve kids? so they can fetch food. superb
well not yet but i've got myself in a pickle yet again
i was hungry so i had some bread and hummus before dinner while i was waiting for the guy to come see my house and make me and offer i can't refuse. then he rang and said he'd come tmrw. since then i snarfed a dessert. only little. and a few marshmallows
and now i'm FULL but i have all those delish foods i bought for dinner. it's 845pm and i know if i don't eat something i'll be eating at 1030pm or some other ridiculous time but honestl,y nothing appeals
lately i've had a lotr of trouble with buying stuff coming home and then not wanting it. i look at it and end up freezing it or giving it to the dogs and then i just aimlessly eat crap because it's in a packet and i can just open it and eat it
i have premade salad i could open and eat but i want something hot. but everything else just doesn't appeal and i am tempted to go start eating the other desserts - even tho i know i should have veges or meat. oh heck this is so hard
sweet pea ~ I fully understand the dangers of shopping!! One of my favorite supermarkets is having an awesome $1 sale, and I'm so tempted, but I really don't need any groceries right now, and I know if I went, I'd buy binge food because it's all so cheap. I would do exactly the same thing if I had bought 4 WW desserts. That's why I don't buy those 100 calorie snack packs that everyone raves about! They wouldn't last 10 minutes. I have a major weakness for marshmallows so I can't keep them around. One of my favorite desserts is chocolate covered marshmallows. Have you ever though about not keeping desserts in the house if they are your weakness? And maybe just going out to the supermarket or convenience stop and buying a single serving of something? I did this yesterday in fact. I wanted chocolate and instead of going out and buying a giant bar, I went and bought 2 small 110 calorie chocolate medallions. I just can't keep chocolate in large quantities around or I'll eat it all at once.
I've been impressed by the honesty, sincerity, humor, and heart in this thread!
I hope it is ok for me to jump into your conversation
Although I am 38y.o. and somewhat "educated" I have only recently realized that I have a real problem with binge-eating. I've struggled my entire life---from plus-sized pampers to now---with my weight. I've always felt that if I could only find the right diet, if only I could be more disciplined, determined, etc I could win the battle.
I've learned SO much for the many smart chickies here!
The most important thing that I've learned is that I am not alone
Does anyone see something in the store and you really really want it, but you are strong and you don't buy it, but it keeps haunting you until you break down a few days later and go buy it? Well this scenario happened to me today and it isn't the first time. I saw a limited edition XL Hershey bar (one with cookie bits in it) at Dillons about a week ago, and it just refused to leave my thoughts, and I finally relented and went and bought it today. I nearly finished the whole darn thing before I even got home. Now this happens when I see something new ~ it's happened twice before: with a new flavor of Ben & Jerry's and then the new Hershey's dark chocolate with macadamia nuts and cranberries. I didn't buy them when I first saw them, but they stuck around in my head until I caved. I went to a World Market a few MONTHS ago and I still think about all the different kinds of chocolate I saw there that I wish I had bought and tried. Thankfully that damn place is 30miles away or I'd have tried it all by now.
Liz, Welcome to the challenge! I like that phrase ~ plus size pampers!! Cute! I'd steal it, but we were too poor to afford disposable and my mom used cloth.
harpo that is sooooo like me. once i get the idea of a food in my head whether it is a single type of chocolate or fettucine or whatever i obsess about it until i get it. i might say no to it several times but ultimately it won't be out of my mind until i surrender to it. like when i heard about the new dessert pizzas. i resisted for 3 weeks and then went and got one. after that i got another... pretty soon i had an internet account and was ordering them a couple of times a week
other times i just have it once and i'm done but yes i hear you. i am VERY susceptible to influence. if i see some new food being advertised or people tell me about something i just have to have it. must be an advertiser's dream customer
today i am very off balance. my house has sold altho it is not unconditional yet. the agreement has to be signed off and the buyer has to get finance approved. but now i am in upheaval as i am undecided where to live. i think i may move back to the city i came from 3 yrs ago but of course that means starting over again with my friends and support blah blah
and in answer to your earlier question i always vow to buy just a few small things and make them last because total deprivation turns me into a frenzy of bingeing. so i try buying very small portions of dessert things
i honestly thought the marshmallows were safe. i planned to put them in a hot chocolate for a snack. i've never liked marshmallows. but for some reason tried them and decided that they were ok. didn't love them but it was a HUGE packet (yup a mistake) so i started scarfing them
truth is i must be in denial because i play this little game with myself where i say i can make these desserts last for a week and buy them feeling totally invincible and rock solid and then go mad. actually i didn't do too bad yday. i had 4 dessert portions plus the mallows and a few other dessertish type things. i only ate 1 dessert + mallows. by my standards that is a success. of course for the people here who eat 1200 calories a day it would be a disaster but it wasn't a binge. overeating sure. eating when not hungry tick. eating while feeling bloated tick. but a binge (for me anyway) goes beyond that. if it was a binge i'd have eaten the whole packet and more of the other lil packages
Oh, yeah... 21 days is WAY too long for a challenge. One day at a time for us bingers. 
I wish I could help you out there, but the good ones are few and far between. 
I've managed to maintain throughout two weeks of binging. Phew!! So I'm still down 11 pounds, I had a GREAT day yesterday, and I'm planning on another today!! 
Starting tomorrow
in my best dieting mother voice. i'm feeling pretty strongtoday so i think i can follow my plan and not binge tonight either, and my back is better too.
Binge-free today!! Strictly on plan, although totally lax on the exercise. 
in this thread!
I have only recently realized that I have a real problem with binge-eating. I've struggled my entire life---from plus-sized pampers to now---with my weight. I've always felt that if I could only find the 
