Hi everyone!! 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. We are here to share our feelings and to encourage and inspire each other. No negativity! 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!!

Let's have an awesome week!!

join me in! today will be day 1

Joining the challenge. Day 1.

My goal this week is to use distraction strategies when the urge to binge happens. I'll let you know how it goes.

It may be a long week- this morning while getting my coffee, I wanted a candy bar. That is very out of character for me to want to binge in the morning. I resisted & I hope I keep it up.

Day 38!

I stayed the night at my parents house last night and my only option for b-fast this morning is cereal really - which I hate because I don't find it too filling. I'm already half way through my bowl and I want more.

I don't remember what day I'm on, but I think I made it a week w/ out binging.
I did overeat Friday, and slighty on Sat, but NO BINGING.

And Friday wasn't as bad as some of my Friday's have been.

Ugh today is already hard. Its my TOM and I'm stressed out! I just had a big bowl of cereal for Lunch. I had one for breakfast along with a banana and a protein bar...

Blahhhhh I can NOT overeat. I wish I didnt have the cereal - I'd much rather have something more satisfying and better tasting for lunch, but now I must wait until dinner.

Made it a week without binging Overate Sat night but didn't binge - Didn't have dessert last week with the promise that I would go the local ice cream shop last night and have a cone (but not keep it in the house) - Goal is no dessert but Sunday night treat to make the entrance into Monday slightly sweeter

Hi everyone!

I would really like to join in. I've never, ever had binging issues before. Not when I was overweight, not during my weigh loss, not even at the beginning of my maintenance. However, for the past week or so I've had really bad acid reflux, which to me feels like hunger (in fact, at first I mistook it for hunger), and it takes everything in me not to eat to make the burn subside even for a few minutes. This is really a HUGE issue for me in terms of binging.
I've been overcompensating by exercising more and eating smaller meals after my binges, which is not super, but it helps me feel more in control. Anyway, I'm getting on some heartburn medication starting tomorrow so HOPEFULLY that will resolve the issue.

Add to all that, I'm also dealing with some family issues. It's basically an ongoing argument with some members of my family that I won't get into but suffice it to say that it is really frustrating and upsetting. No excuses, but I've just been feeling a little overwhelmed lately.

Anyway, I'm feeling positive and empowered today. I KNOW I can do it. Today's been excellent food and exercise-wise. I know it's only 6PM but I'm going to go ahead and say this is an official Day 1

So, good luck, everyone! We WILL do it!

Thanks for your encouragment, foxxy (in last week's thread)! you have some good ideas. Luckily, I'm actually going to be going out with the same guy again next weekend (he's the first one I actually liked!), so that should keep me on track for a bit. Of course, that could lead to a bigger emotional crash later, so I'm trying not to be too happy about it! But I'm so relieved that I'm not the only one that feels that "this is who I am" talking, because I really don't ever think that these feelings will go away entirely. Congrats to you on 7 weeks!

I think part of the problem is that I have the entire rest of the summer stretched out in front of me, most of my friends are out of town until school starts back up again, and I'm feeling bored and discouraged...I want to start school again, I want to be teaching and studying, I like being busy!

So I'm almost done with day 62, which is very exciting.
Good luck to everyone, especially you day 1-ers!

And now I'm thinking about this, realizing that it's the prospect of MEN that's keeping me from binging, and that just makes me really angry at myself. I should be doing it for me! Why is this so frustrating!

Sorry everyone for being such a downer lately!

Day 3; despite today being a really emotionally trying day(see my post in 100 lb club) I made it through.

Can I join? Today will be my day 1 as yesterday wasn't great... I did so well all day but had a bit of a binge in the evening, am really going to try and not let it get to me and just start afresh today again though!

Welcome Jkin and Cookie! Good luck with your first few binge-free days. The first few always seem to be the hardest for me.

Peachy -- congrats on earning Day 3, even though it was hard. If you can make it through a tough day, you can certainly make it through those not-so-tough ones!

Tater -- I hope you were able to make it through yesterday. I feel the same way about cereal, one bite is too much and not enough at the same time! I think it may just have to be a permanent "no" food for me until I find some way to deal with better!

Paris -- I hear ya about being busy...makes me focus on food less if I'm busy with other things! And I can also really relate to your comment about how men keeping you from binging and how that made you angry. I'm the same way with my weigh-ins! Being weighed in by someone else on Thursdays is literally the ONLY thing keeping me from binging. And that makes me mad at myself too! Because I think I shouldn't want to binge because I want to be healthy and I want to have a sane relationship with food! Not just because I'll be embarrassed because someone else will see my weight and know I've been binging. But, then I think, I should focus on the means, but should focus on the end result: not binging. Maybe I'll be able to change the means later...and I bet you will be able to too!

Seven weeks and 1 day binge free! I have a lot of food temptations and social events that could turn into all out binges this week. I'm going to take a moment, list them here, and describe what I'm going to do instead. Feel free to skip, I'm just trying to be accountable!

Tuesday: Group Presentation in class -- they're bringing in Mexican cuisine (agh! Chips and salsa!) Plan: See what they bring, if it's something I've never had, try it. If I decide I want chips and salsa, I will have 1/2 a serving of chips (6).

Wednesday: A friend is bringing homemade vegetarian sushi over. I've never had sushi...but I think it's relatively low cal?? Is it high in sodium though? I plan on trying a few pieces.

Thursday: Another Group Presentation in class -- they're bringing fried chicken and macaroni and cheese, among other things. Plan: I don't like fried chicken, so that'll be easy to avoid. I might have a little mac and cheese depending on if it looks appealing.

Friday: Wedding Rehearsal dinner at a fancy steakhouse. Plan: Grilled chicken, two sides of steamed veggies (that's IF we get to pick our own meals, it might be buffet style...in that case, I'll have to wait and see)

Friday night: Sleep-over with the bride and other bridesmaids at a hotel. I'm hoping there's not a lot of food/alcohol involved, but again, I have no idea. My definite "no" foods will be: cheese, nuts, crackers, chips. If I start eating these, I usually can't stop. Best to just say no!

Saturday: Wedding. Dinner is buffet style, I think there will be chicken, so I plan on having that and then veggie sides. Definitely will be eating cake!!! And I'll try to get a work out in, I'm checking to see if the hotel has a gym, if not, there is a park up the street and I'll go for a run!

Okay, sorry that was so long and thanks for letting me post it here, I'll let you all know how it goes!!

Day 2, but it wasn't pretty.

I ran to the convenience store to binge at 2 am after a guy dumped me. But the ATM was broken. So instead of having a binge, I got a 2 mile walk instead.

todays is day 2 yesterday i didnt eat much at all because i worked both my jobs. today i have till 545 pm to go to work so i think im just going to clean my house today and maybe take domino out for a walk we will see though.