I'm back... for the third time
 

So, I was super proud of myself for losing 40 lbs last year after the birth of my son. Fast forward to now, I gained 25 lbs since November due to stress eating. I'm a theater major, trying to finish up my college degree while raising a toddler and trying to keep up my relationship with my fiance.

So, I am back on board. My immediate goals are recording what I eat and starting to workout again. My eventual goals are to quit drinking soda, exercise most days of the week and eat normal without bingeing on sugar every day like I have been. Oh, and to pop in here at least once a day

Thanks for reading :)

Welcome and best wishes! I just wanted to comment that I have also been someone who binged regularly on sugary foods and found that quitting the soda first helped make it easier for me to quit the other sugary stuff.

^Thank you! I'm trying to get the willpower to quit soda. I never thought I'd be addicted but living with my in-laws who love pepsi slowly hooked me. I'm trying to drink one soda a day and am fine with that. It's getting off it forever is what's hard.

Welcome back!

Telling yourself you can never have pop again is a sure fire way to WANT IT BAD!!! Cut back slowly, but don't cut it out completely. Having it in moderation will help you not feel like you're being deprived and make you less likely to binge on pop!

lol we all know what's best. I've quit sugar and i think the way to quit something you want is to do it but have a few safe out clauses - times or situations when you can have it and you know that its safe.

I'm not a soda drinker but i am a sugar binger and my outclasses are that i can eat a serve of sweet things if someone offers it to me (uninvited - you have to be scrupulously honest about these things - it doesn't count if you have to ask someone to offer it to you lol). And i wouldn't say that offering counted if it came from within your own household.

So i can have sugar if i'm out with others at their place and they offer me something.

I can also have have it if i'm at a restaurant with others (family included).

I find both of these situations safe. Though i must say i've tested it twice recently and both times i asked if the biscuits and cakes could be removed because i found it hard having them right in front of me. I need to have temptations far away.

At home though, my father eats desserts and things in front of me but its ok because we have our own separate food budgets and fridges. And cook for ourselves. I don't like watching him eat things i like though so i look away at the tv generally which is distracting. Sometimes he leaves his packets of biscuits on the kitchen bench and i say to him, "Dad you can't leave your biccies out if i'm going to lose weight. Its too painful."

Its a friendly, not a bossy, situation. He's generally pretty good and it works.

however when i am in binge mode, if he goes away and leaves his ice-cream in the fridge, i will eat all of it. So that's not safe for anyone. I can better respect his stuff when i am on a diet.

Anyway i hope you find ways to achieve your goals.

One idea that might help is to straight away have a drink of water whenever the idea of drinking pepsi arises. And find some other sort of distraction. When i was fasting at the beginning of my diet (just for one day) i would use distractions to deal with my hunger. Change activity, go to sleep, move out side, go for a short walk. Anything to distract myself from what was in my head harassing me. Thank god it was only or a day. It was hard.

Thank you everyone! I haven't drank Pepsi in two days. No huge cravings yet :)

I just wanted to say congrats on the two days without soda. That may not seem like much now, but it is. Great job! The more good decisions you make, the easier it gets to keep making them. It seems like the bigger the pile of good choices I am sitting on, the more I want to add to that pile, and not the bad decisions pile. Keep going!

Keep hydrated and keep away from sugar and you shouldn't get any cravings. So long as you are not seeing others around you drinking it.

Good luck. Its evil stuff. Well not really but perhaps for some people.

:welcome: back! Good luck with your efforts!

Thank you both. I had a small cup of sprite today but still no Pepsi... I'll take it. :)