[papaya rain]

Hello! My name is Lori and I LOVE eating in the car.

This has definately been a big obstacle for me to overcome. There is something about eating in the car that I love. In the old days I would go to a drive thru and order extra things for myself and then try to eat them before I got home. I could just stuff my face and feelings and all was good!

Now I just limit myself to a drink. No more drive thru food and no more candy bars.

So where is your favorite place to eat and how have you overcome this obstacle?

[mariarose]

I used to love to eat sweet things in bed. I'd eat boxes of cookies, icing, candy, pop tarts-- all sorts of things, while reading in bed! I stopped by convincing myself that it was gross and unhygienic, and that I could change my sheets less often if I didn't do it! Now I never eat in bed anymore, and the thought of it does sort of gross me out. I also rarely eat while reading, which used to be a big one for me.

[luvja]

I also used to LOVE eating in the car. Fast food.
I gave that up.

[WardHog]

I eat in front of the computer. Daily.

[nancylmrn]

In front of the computer or in front of the tv...then occationally stuffing it in standing at the kitchen counter..somehow that does not seem like cheating lol. Of course those habits are dying out. Now it is an occational in front of computer or tv and I have given up on the kitchen counter

[kelly315]

I still eat on the couch all the time. Its the most comfortable place in my apartment.

[asparagus4sale]

I used to love, love, love getting to work sitting down at my desk and eating two strawberry poptarts and drinking a diet coke. I would read all my email, surf the net a bit, and just eat. I felt like it was my little reward for going to work. Well, I obviously had to quit the poptart but now I do the same but it is a diet coke and kashi go lean. I sometimes miss the poptart but it is still just a nice feeling.

[erinmagill]

Deffinately in the car...I dont think thats safe...but its convenient!

[iriswhispers]

lol, yeah, eating in the car is not safe (assuming you are driving at the same time). a couple of years ago I was trying to scarf down a dairy queen treat before I got home and I ran up over a curb and popped my tire. Thank goodness all I hit was the curb, though!

[AmberShimmer]

I used to eat late at night in front of the TV and in my car. I can honestly say doing those two things is what made me gain so much weight.

At night, usually after midnight, I would go downstairs, turn off all the lights, turn on the TV and eat frozen microwaved stuff. Like microwaved frozen fries and pizza. Sometimes leftovers from the day time. That was the hardest habit for me to break and took a few months until I could honestly say that I don't have a binging at night problem anymore. I would eat enough calories during the day time. And feel full when midnight rolled around. But still stuffed myself senseless.

The second thing was eating in the car. Unlike binging late at night in front of the TV, this is something that I still battle with. I would come home from class or work and stop over fast food places and binge on not one but two value meals. I would get my food, park in a secluded spot, and quickly scarf down my food. I dunno, maybe this is silly of me but I actually have tears in my eyes as I'm writing this. Food had become like a drug to me. I still battle with this. I've been doing this for years and it's gotten to a point that I'll be driving along and a song would coem on the radio and I would immediately want to start binging ONLY because that was the song that used to play on the radio a lot while I'd be binging. Kind of like Pavlov's classical conditioning, huh?

Today, I refuse to eat anything after 7 pm. I know many people say it doesn't matter as long as you consume less calories than what you can burn. But I had such a huge problem with binging at night that I've set up a cut-off time for myself until I know I can eat responsibly at later times.

And I refuse to eat anything in the car. If I do get something, I won't eat it until I reach my destination. In a public place. I hated the thought of eating and people watching me eat, I felt so embarrassed, thinking, that person probably thinks I shouldn't eat so much, etc. But I need to get over that mentality.

Food has controlled me so much. And I'm tired of it. Sorry about the long rant...

[pixiefalls]

We, at the moment, have a small apartment so it's hard to choose where to eat in here. I've always like to eat in front of the computer. Used to it would mean that I'd eat more but if I do it now.. I tend to eat less. I guess I'm just less focused on the food. Now that I'm pregnant I'm eating better and in turn with that I'm eating less and feeling better. It's a good feeling.

[clickchick]

The car. Hands down. I travel for my job and I'm in my car for around 2-3 hours a day. There's a certain I don't know...security blanket to eating in my car.

I used to discard the trash from one drivethru at the next drivethru to keep hiding the evidence.

I still eat in my car but it's a combination of wise choices brought from home and wise choices from fast food places.

Ingrid

[joyra]

I eat in front of the TV! Or the computer! Anything where I am concentrating on something other than what is in going into my mouth, and, consequently, probably eat a lot more. It's a great place for a binge.

I'm in Asia now so no more car. That used to be another binge place. I mean, why not buy some junk food/fast food and scarf it down before I get home? Nobody will know!

I have lived with my boyfriend for a year and a half and my binges have nearly disappeared and that's because he's always around. We still always watch TV when we eat but I can control myself when someone else is around.

(sidenote: as a kid, my family never ate together at the table. We all ate in the living room in front of the tv... no wonder I'm addicted to it!)

[kmcp]

Anywhere where I am alone and feel pretty confident that I won't be "caught".

But home is most comfortable.

[plumpnursy]

I loooove eating in front of the T.V. sitting on my comfy couch. I do all my binge eating there. I too am embarassed to eat in public. Always thinking people are making fun of me because the fat girl should not be eating, right.