Hi chickies!! Welcome to the binge free challenge!! You can come in here and post your weekly successes and struggles and keep track of your binge free days. You can also vent about anything and everything you feel like getting out. This is a positive thread, so I have to enforce the "be careful about being too negative" rule. We are here to share our feelings and to encourage and inspire each other. We are strong chicks and I KNOW we all can do this!! And we don't have to do it alone, we have each other to get us through the rough times.

ALL chicks are welcome -- no one is excluded! If you are trying to lose weight, not trying, maintaining, recovering from an eating disorder, in the midst of one, or have ANY kind of problem with food, we would love to have you join us!!

If anyone has any questions or concerns, or you just need to talk privately, don't hestitate to PM me.

Let's have an awesome week!!

I havent admitted this to anyone. But I guess I am in the midst of an "on again off again" eating disorder. This forum would be a godsend to me. I will keep checking in. I need all the help/support I can get. This is hard....

Hi Ann, you are not alone, staying on track is hard, but you have done so well!

Josephine - well done on 25 days

Day 7 for me I haven't been completely good over the weekend. I've had a few biscuits when offered and a piece of wedding cake that was brought into the ward where I worked this weekend, but it was definately not binging, so that's ok right I've got all good food for today.

Good luck this week everyone (I love this smily)

Good morning all! We're starting a new week, and every day (every meal) is another chance to treat ourselves RIGHT! Today is Day 26, yippee!

Welcome Ann, you've come so far already! Congratulations!

Pachy - Day 7, whoo hoo, GREAT JOB!!!

Hi everyone,

I am a newbie to this site (I just found it today) and struggle a lot with bingeing. I seem to do ok all week and then fall off the wagon on the weekend. I used to always think it was boredom eating, but I read somewhere that you don't ever just eat out of boredom - there's always something else going on. I still think I've just made a bad habit out of eating when there's nothing else to do, but I can use all the support I can get right now! Would you mind if I joined your thread? Thanks!

Hello all. I haven't been here in a while. I've missed it. I also need some extra motivation because we have started a weight loss challenge at work and my goal was set at 36 lbs by Aug. 1st. I've had a couple slow weeks so I'm worried I won't make it. I keep having mini binges and I think I am paying for it. My hardest time is the time from when I get home from work and the time I eat dinner. I'm always finding things to eat while I'm cooking. I'm starting over with today as day one. I made a healthy meal and I'm going back to my "no food after 8" rule.

Hope everyone has a good week.

Welcome Hope81 and Ann.

Congrats on day 26 Josephine, wish I had that kind of will power.

This thread is just what I need! I like the positive aspect of it and I like the thought of being accountable to you all. I just started today, so things can look up from here!

I struggle with binging a lot. I usually do fine during the day (I am at work), but night comes and I just eat. It's now such a habit I really need to bust out some mega willpower to break it. My first goal is to go this week without binging. I'll let you know how it goes!

P.S. Feel free to PM me and check up

Hello Mander, LuckyR and Hope81, welcome or welcome back.

I had a bad day yesterday, and I'm not sure whether I need to go back to day 1 or not

I dropped my lunch all over the floor yesterday so I had to go and buy some, and all I could find were high calorie/unfilling foods. I was starving when I got home and had a packet of mini rice cakes (115 cals) I then made and ate dinner, then had another packet of mini rice cakes about an hour later! The falling apart of my planning just left me feeling hungry all evening

So my question is - does this count as binging? It wasn't uncontrollable - I stopped when I was satisfield, but it was definately off plan and against my policy of not eating after dinner - that is my "Danger Zone"

Welcome LuckyR, Mander and Hope81! I think you've come to an excellent place for support. Weekends and night time seem to be really hard for most of us, that's for sure, so you aren't alone!

I believe you CAN eat from boredom, I know I've done it in the past. It's a hard habit to break!

Pachy -- I don't think I'd count that as "binging", because you weren't out of control. O course only YOU can answer this for yourself, but I personally think you did admirably in a tough situation. Moments like that are what can sling me into a full-on episode but you managed to keep control even though you felt hungry all evening. Yes, you may have bent the rules for this unusual situation, but you didn't go nuts. That's a WIN in my book!

Day 27 for me, yay! DH brought crackers into the house yesterday and I'm really nervous about them. Crackers are a trigger food so I need to not touch them AT ALL. But just knowing they are in the cabinet makes me on edge, you know! He just looked at me like I was nuts when I gave him a frowny face for buying them.

I've been binge free for two days now, going on three. This is my third day of a structured diet, and it feels pretty good to be in control of myself.

This website is the strength that I need. It holds me accountable.

Yay Zeffryn! Good job! I agree with you about the website, I pop in all the time and it helps me stay on plan and feel stronger!

Quiet thread today, I hope it is going ok for everyone.

I am having a HARD day. I haven't gone off plan but I've fought it all day long, every minute, every second, every breath. I've been feeling so hungry and I honestly can't tell if it is true physical hunger or not. I've eaten all my planned meals but I just want MORE. Days like this make me want to cry. I don't even get to feel any satisfaction at having not given in, I just feel emotionally exhausted and depressed that it can still be this hard to just be NORMAL.

I've been MIA for a few days...just a bunch of stuff going on around here! Today is day 9 of being OP for me YAY! My daughter has head lice again...this is the second time this school year I'm so frustrated it's not even funny! It is such a long process to get rid of them, and I feel so bad for my daughter. I'm really ticked at the school though. Mattie told me that there was a nurse in their classroom yesterday checking the kids heads. Well she may want to clean her glasses because I can see the little nits all over Mattie's hair. I just never imagined that I'd being doing this again, and so soon! The thing that really stinks is Mattie's hair is super thick and fairly long! Not a easy process to comb through. I had one refill on the perscription stuff we used last time that I'm going to put on her tonight! I hate putting that junk on her head, but it worked last time. I'm of course itching like a mad women now! Food and exercise have been good though, so that is something positive to end on. Hope your all doing well

Josephine- Hang in there hun! I know exactly what your talking about...it's like you have to use everything you have not to eat. Could you get out of the house for a bit...that sometimes helps me. Maybe go walk around a store for awhile or something like that? Just try to focus on how good you'll feel tomorrow morning when you can say you made it through Hang tight~

Hey guys, awesome job. I'm Heather just wanted to pop-in. I love how you guys count your binge-free days - this never even occured to me but what a great motivational tool. It's been 11 days since I binged and hope to not have one again for a long time! For me personally I have to allow myself "guilty food" occasionally to control not having binges. What I mean is this weekend if I want to have some pizza, fine I will have two slices and a salad - make sure I'm in my calorie zone for the day with the pizza and that's okay. A binge for me would be eating the whole damn pizza. Do you all treat yourself in moderation occasionally or do you stay completely away from "trigger foods"?

Hi Heather, welcome! Like you, there are no truly "bad foods" for me, I can eat anything I've budgeted into daily calorie allotment though of course I usually try to make the healthiest choices possible to get the most from my food. A planned treat of pizza like you described is fine for me, I just have to be careful that a planned treat doesn't become a slide backward into fulltime treating (always a danger for me). So planned treats are usually just special occasions. Other people may handle treats differently, this is just me.

However, yes, I do have trigger foods and it really is best for me overall to avoid them whenever possible. I wish I could learn to deal with those in a better way, and maybe someday I will. I just know that for right now, I'm better off if I stay away from them!

Tina -- I'm so sorry to hear about the lice issue! Man that must be incredibly frustrating! Good job on not letting the whole thing affect your food and exercise! And thanks for the encouragement, it was much appreciated!

Well, I made it through yesterday and today is Day 28 binge-free (coming up on Day 30 -- I don't know if I've gone 30 days binge-free in the past decade!). Yesterday was such a prolonged internal struggle that today can only be better by comparison. Fortunately, I do not feel the intense hunger sensations and am not fixated on food like I was yesterday. I can finally feel a bit of satisfaction at having made it through the fire yesterday, but mostly I'm just relieved to feel on a more even keel.