Binge-free week, July 3rd start!
 

Yikes, I'm late!! :lol: Sorry, girls!! :wave:
You're having a holiday weekend, right? Happy Fourth of July!! :hat:

Anyone is welcome to join us here. :welcome2: As long as you refrain from mentioning foods that might trigger a binge. ;)

We aim for a week at a time being binge-free, but ANYTHING goes here! If you can get through an afternoon without binging, then good for you! :)

And I would just like to say to Mel (MyThreeTots)...

Originally Posted by MyThreeTots:
I fell off the wagon. :( I failed for this week.

Mel, you haven't failed, sweetie. :hug: Take that word right out of your vocabulary, hear me? You're not a failure, you're a fighter. You had a minor set-back. Are you quitting? Because THEN you'd be failing!
You hang in there, girl... :grouphug:

Let's have a great week, everyone! :goodluck:

Hee hee I was JUST about to make a new thread, ellis. You beat me to the punch!!

Yes, this is our holiday weekend now!!! Let's be strong at our BBQs tomorrow (I've been invited to 2!!!!) Thank goodness fireworks are calorie free.

There you are, Harpo! :lol: Thank you again for your help while I was gone this weekend... it was much appreciated. :hug:

Hello all - it's been 3.5 days since my last binge. I started Phase I of South Beach on Friday. I finally hit my threshold Thursday night after dinner (more on that on the CyberPurgers thread) and told DH I was done. No more...

Started SB on Friday morning and have had 3.5 successful binge-free days so far. I'm finding it pretty easy but I'm at work today and there is NOBODY here...boredom is kind of creeping in...I hate that...

Oh well, we'll only be here another 1.5 hours or so - I think I can be strong for the rest of the day :)

hi all
i was BF sunday but binged again monday. have to get it together today but it's soooooo hard when you have a cold and feel miserable. okay onwards and upwards

nice to be back :D

I'm still binge free! Today it's because I've had a massive headache all day to the point of feeling sick. I watched ds launch a few fireworks and that's about all I've done today. I made myself some chicken salad and celery sticks for lunch and an egg and cheese burrito for dinner, popcorn for snack. Those are the only things that sounded good and were really easy.

I'm hoping to start a more formal eating plan tomorrow if I feel better.

Hope you all have a great and safe 4th of July!

Hi everybody!

Just a short message from me: I am very busy with learning. First (and most important!) exam will be on Thursday. So a bit more than 48 hours to go....I am nervous like ****!!
And it´s TOM...it hurts and i am balloning.
And the weather is really hot here. But it´s ok inside the house.

But I am binge free since....don´t know. A few days.


Happy 4th July (or whatever you say then..)!

I hope everybody is having a good time!

Kate

Hi!

Ok, I reply to my own message...I hope you are all happily celebrating the 4Th July at the moment. Or sleeping. Anyway....
I was binge free yesterday. What helped me is the fact that I am so nervous, I really feel sick....

I hope you all have a nice day!

Kate

i am bingeing. i have a bad cold, am not sleeping well and feel hyperemotional. i cried when i found the rubbish bag had been destroyed and i had to pick it all up! anyway tmrw is a fresh day

wow Kate a photo. cool!!! good luck with the exams.

still binge-free so far this week...this means it's been 5 whole days...Today should be ok...

Binge-free here. :)

Kate, is that you?! If it is, you're lovely, and you don't look fat at all! (if it's not you, who is it?)
Good luck this week, sweetie. :hug:

TOM here, too, and I'm sick of it. :mad:

Sweet_Pea, you poor dear... :hug: I hope you're feeling better soon.

Adrial, you, too! I hope your headache didn't last long. :hug:

Emily, five days!! :cheer:

Thank you Ellis. I am better today. I think it's the humidity and allergies, not much I can do about those!

I'm still binge free. It's almost unbelievable for me! I don't think I've gone this long in 22 years without bingeing!

I've been trying to get more exercise in too.

I decided not to wait to get my haircut. I was feeling so sloppy and the urge to binge was getting really strong because I felt so badly about myself. I got it cut in some layers. The length in the same but it's got some body and style now. I feel MUCH better. Amazing what a haircut can do for a person. I was very tempted to get a manicure and pedicure but just couldn't part with the money. I'm really stubborn when it comes to spending money on myself in those ways.

Kate, you are so pretty (from what I can see ;))! Great picture!!

Binge free for me too!!! I just walked 5 miles too, to the grocery store, to get a grapefruit. Is that dedication . . . or insanity? It felt great though, but I'm wiped out now. I'm only used to walking 3 miles. And the grapefruit was perfect. It couldn't have been it better. It was so worth it.

Good morning everybody!

Ok, 5 hours left until exam. I was calm yesterday evening, but now I am sick and in panic. Uhhhhaaaaa!! But I am looking forward to it in a strange way. You know, I want it to be over. And I did everythng I could, I did everything I was able to at the moment.

I was binge free yesterday!

I am a bit surprised & proud: I made it nearly completly binge free through the learning phase. I was able to be afraid, paniced, happy etc. without turning to food.
And I am prepared to fight till the end: I won´t give up, no matter what topic I get in the exam!

ellis& Idrial: Yes, it´s me in the pic...:o
After the discussion about everybody looking awful on pics I thought I should maybe go ahead and show a pic of myself. It´s one of the semi- good pics, made a few weeks ago at the MacExpo trade fair.
I don´t look that fat in that pic because it just shows my side...And I haven´t realized that someone is taking pics, so there was no "goofying" around.

Well, I am leaving...my things are packed (+ a lot of lucky chrams!), I am ready.

Hope everyone is having a good day with some amount of binge free time!

Kate

Went to ballroom 2x today. first for a private lesson then home for takeaways, then back for a group class and once again takeaways for dessert. i was so tired that i found it hard to think and get my mind around the moves but it's all progress. just have to keep practising and learning... the exam is just over a week away

eating has been a bit erratic but i have had some fresh fruit today and lots of water

Adrial I get allergy problems too. Combined with the colds I'm not always sure whether it is a cold or an allergy LOL. I'd just like to sleep at the mo

well done on the binge free harpo, kate and adrial. hi ellis and everyone else :wave:

grr...i want to eat today SO BAD!!

Usually with SB I lose like 6 pounds in the first week...so far (week 1 is almost over) i've only lost like 2 pounds...I know that's a perfectly healthy way to start...but still...grr...

and then a fight with DH over my flat iron being left on...grr...(ok, so i don't want to burn the house down...i'll buy one with an 'on/off' light on the outside of it...)

a bag of peanuts from the vending machin is sounding very good...still OP, but grr...

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Hi, I've been binging pretty bad on Monday and Tuesday. I think it all started when I stepped on the scale on Monday morning only to find out that I gained one pound. I know it's pretty sad of a reason, but I had been doing so great: eating well, exercising daily. When I saw this extra pound something burst inside me and for the next two days I just ate and felt miserable. Yesterday I tried to keep afloat and didn't eat great, but didn't go wild. I also slept most of the evening (I am getting depressed) Today I feel much better and stronger. Today I'm going to be BF and I'll go to the gym after work. Thanks everyone for your support.

yday wasn't really a binge. an overindulgence but not a full on binge so i'm counting it. i know the calories were high (darn takeaways were fat laden) but i didn't make a complete pig of myself

today the weather is ok. i bought some gates for my driveway. now i need someone to instal them. i also have to dig a hole and put in my letterbox. has to be a huge one for rural delivery services. ugh i hate manual work. i was born for better things ;)

last night more broken sleep and this morning i could hear mice behind my head. i think maybe in the wardrobe in the next room. i popped the cat in the wardrobe but i think the mice hid. after 15 mins she gave a small miaow so i let the darling back out again. poor honey wondered what i was doing to her!

Emily you said USUALLY on SB. that sounds like you've done it a lot. if you are dieting on and off all the time, esp on the stricter diets like the first period of SB then it affects your ability to lose weight. sometimes it's better to just have moderation all the time. and in any case i would be over the moon if i lost 2lb in 1 week:D go for healthy LOL

magdie it's easy to be discouraged but just think of it as a change for the better and keep at it. i fall off the wagon all the time :)

Binge free but had some uber good potato salad at a BBQ that almost set me off.....haha I said "uber"

other than that I'm PMS'ing and that made it kinda hard - but I did it, came close but I did it.

Hi Sweet pea! Thanks for encouragement! It just so happens that I was looking at your photo album earlier today. I'm a huge dog lover (although I don't have one) and your two dogs are beautiful. The puppy is so cute. Good luck with catching the mouse.
Thanks again!

Good morning!

So, I am back on track. Still not feeling really happy, but I am binge free. :carrot:

As I came back home yesterday evening, I told all what happened during the exam to my mother while I was changing clothes (really hot and dumpy here). And suddenly she said "You really lost a lot of weight, did you? Looks good!". Ok, maybe it was just like you say "Hey, look that bird over there" to distract kids before the get an IV or something, or maybe it´s true....
But i decided not to weigh myself at the moment. I am still PMSy and I don´t want the numbers of the scale ruin my binge free days. I think next weighing day will be 1th August.

sweat_pea: I am a bit confused- my first thought was that Ballroom is an exercise place, but that´s not right, or?
Good luck for you& your cat!

Emily, I think sweat_pea is right with what she said about your weight loss. I´ve been on very strict diets for hundreds of times. And the more diets I did, the less weight I lost.
If you are on a calorie- restricted diet, your body thinks "Oh my god, hunger strike! Famine! No mammoth available" (after all, my body is a bit old- fashioned when it comes to such things) and tries hard to store all the calories and fat. So going on a diet and having extreme weight loss, set your body to the "Emergency- Rescue-because of famine mode". Ok, but I guess you already know that....Where was my point? Ah, here: maybe it´s better to have a slowly, but steady weight loss that stays with you instead of the dramatic weoght loss which probably ends in that Jojo- effect.

mammasita: Congratulations! Staying binge free IS harder when you are PMSy. Really.

HarpoChicoGroucho: Five (5) miles walking to get a Grapefruit? That´s dedication! And insanity- in my life, insanity& dedication are a good couple....Insanly dedicated.

I hope everybody is having a nice day- with some amount of binge- free time!

Kate

Binge free day :carrot: :carrot: :carrot:

Hi!

Kokomo: Congratulations on your binge- free day (or days)!! :carrot:

I made it through Friday without binging! :D

Today is fine until now, but I am invited to a BBQ. I hope I won´t overeat then because I hardly know the people there (even though there are our neighbors. Or Ex- neighbors in a few days).

Hope everybody has a good day!

Kate

Congratulations everyone

Thanks Kate, take your mom's compliment. I find that I have a hard time accepting compliments but I'm learning to say thanks. She noticed your loss and you deserve the compliment. Congratulations on your binge free days and hope the night went well. I find it hard at social events where I don't know the people.

mammasita PMS time binge free, way to go.

2 days binge free. Even though I want to say it's sort of feels like I cheated today to be binge free I had a migranine today and that makes me queasy and unable to eat. I could of made up for it tonight once the headache went away I didn't so Yes 2 days without a binge :carrot:

Good Sunday morning Girls!

Yesterday was binge free! Even at the BBQ. Ok, it wasn´t that hard: I am vegetarian and there was very, very little food for "people like me" (no alcohol, no meat: wondering why I am not invited more often. I am the cheapest BBQ- guest in the world!).

And I did quite well until now.

For the first time in a few months I am feeling very "light". Like in "lost weight".

Kokomo: I think you´re right about accepting compiments....But i have a hard time doing that....
Congratulations on yout binge free days! And your not cheating because your unable to eat because of your migraine, you did great! Staying binge free with such a strong headache is more difficult in my opinion. For me, at the beginning of the headache, I tend to eat rubbish because I don´t have the energy to think about what to eat or prepare food (ok, that´s before the feeling sick part kicks in).

I hope everyone is having a nice Sunday!

Kate

My week went alright, i ate too much but still managed to lose 3 pounds. I have such a hard time controling myself when i get worried about something. I really hope i can make it one week without overeating! that would be great, that's my mini goal for next week.

Ok, yesterday was binge- free, means that I completed my binge free week! :carrot: :carrot:

angiepants78: First of all: Congratulations on your "alright" week and your weight loss!!
Being worried can be a huge trigger for overeating for a lot of us, I think....It so hard to stand all those emotions without the food comfort.
I definetely try to chant the Serenity Prayer from AA/OA more often....
And what a cute avatar! Is that your cat?


Kate

3 days binge free :carrot:

Kate way to go with your binge free week. :carrot: Your so right about the beginning of a migraine and the urge to just grab anything. I almost am glad when the migraine goes full force because then I don't want to eat. With the pre-migraine but extreme headache, I often munch too much. I seem to want to eat more then and tend to binge. It is a challenge to make it past that time.

angiepants78 My next week goal is the same. Good luck this coming week. Way to go with the weight loss :carrot: