[lasttime]

Hi everybody
I have this uncontrollable urge to stuff myself a few days after I have been on plan. I usually do this when I am not hungry or just a little hungry and can take care of it with a banana or piece of fruit. It's like I can't stop thinking about it until I am stuffed. It causes me to gain rapidly and it is such a downer. What can I do to stop this cycle?

[Katbot24]

I have this problem too, I think it's a reward mechanism or a sense of false security along the lines of "I've been good for such-and-such time, time to reward myself or it won't hurt just once"

I've found that either 1) caving a little bit, like having ONE slice of pizza and giving the rest to my upstairs neighbours or fiance

or 2) rewarding myself with something other than food, ie: make up or some fun activity

works pretty good for me.

[seagirl]

Try sitting somewhere quiet and exploring what you are actually feeling. Like naming your thoughts and the sensations in your body "stomach sensations, chest tightening, thought that I have to eat food, thought that the only cure for this is food, thought that I must make this sensation go away."

Talk to yourself and say "these physical sensations cannot hurt me. I can handle them. These thoughts about food are not the truth."

[Mimzzy]

Happens to me, when it does I tend to write down everything I am thinking at the time. I think that feeling stems from some insecurity or other emotion that I am simply not dealing with correctly.

On top of that I go out and do something for myself as a treat that is completely unrelated to food. Like go buy some make up, predicted/manicure, new nail polish etc. Trying to rewire my brain to think rewards don't equal food.

[AbstractSilver]

Oh man I can totally relate here. Something that has really helped me is that I HAVE to write everything down BEFORE I eat it, no matter what. A lot of times, just getting the tracking book and opening it up is enough to make me change my mind.