I haven't been on here in a while. Somehow I thought that I had changed my life, but I've slipped back in to the all or nothing life and I want out! Anyway, I noticed there aren't any more binge free weeks on here and I found those really helpful when I started coming on here. I restrict and binge. I know this. So I find at least having a place to be accountable and to unite in our successes really helps. So here's to the start of a binge free week. Check in every day, every minute, whatever you like. Just join if you feel like it. Sometimes we slip up and that's fine to report too. Anyway, hopefully I have some friends on here who want to join me in my quest. Im starting on a Friday because that's today and there's no better way to start than this one!
Today's my first day on the board, first day on the diet, first day everything so this is great motivation to get me started! I'm totally there with you. I am going to do my best to eat my small meals and not forget so that I binge later.
hey! Im starting my binge free week tomorrow (18th)...fingers crossed all goes to plan! good luc with your binge free week, we CAN do this. I too binge and restrict so i know how you feel.
good to hear you guys are binge free! I have been doing well this weekend and not bingeing. I've been keeping myself busy visiting friends and getting things done around the house. I hope everyone has a good monday!
I have been binge-free for 29 days now, which I think is a record for me in the past few years. For me, it was ever since the doctor had me try Wellbutrin for depression.
I swear, Wellbutrin is the reason why. It's done a marginal job with my depression, but an amazing job at removing binge cravings. I've just felt different this past month. I can realize now that there is a difference between intense cravings, and true hunger. Before I'd have the cravings but never the hunger (because I was overeating in response to the cravings). Wellbutrin has literally zapped those cravings, it's like someone turned off a lightswitch in my head. I feel like a "normal appetite person" instead of someone who is fighting intense cravings every single day. I mean, I still might crave something, but it isn't the same "ohmygod I must have that now and lots of it!!!" intensity as before. It's the sort where I can think, "I'd like some chocolate now, oh, I'll have two Hershey kisses, that was good, I'll go on with my day now even though there's a whole bin of them in sight of me at work." Or, "Ice cream would be nice now, but let me finish this up, and oh gosh, now I'm not really in the mood for ice cream anyway."
Now I wonder if this will last, or if I'll get accustomed to the effects. I also wonder if people without binge problems feel this way all the time. Like maybe it isn't that they have superhuman willpower, like I needed before, but their brain chemistry is just different so all they need is normal willpower.
Last edited by rabidstoat; 11-22-2007 at 04:30 AM.
Thats really interesting about the Wellbutrin. I think there is something to be said about the body chemistry involved in binge eating. I was reading a few books the other day about food addiction and it was saying that sugar and food cravings are just as strong as other addictions like alcohol or smoking. I always tell myself it is an addiction. I think very few people who dont have it would understand how strong it can be. I'm really glad you've found something that works for you!
I have been binge free for a couple days. I did have a mini binge the other night but I had had some wine and that always makes me stop thinking about whether I'm hungry or not. I'm considering giving up alcohol so that I cant use it as an excuse. What do you think?
Well, I am going to try to start a week of binge-free eating tomorrow. I kinda started today, but I ate more for dinner than I should have, and snacked too much after dinner, so I'm not sure if it counts. It's funny how subjective binges are, and how what may seem like a lot to me one day, may not the other. It's a very fine line between acceptable eating and eating that will throw me over the line and then I give up and really binge. I like the idea of a week of binge-free eating, the longest I've gone in the past is two months, but that was a really long time ago. I haven't gone more than a few days without binging since June, so I'm hoping this will help me get back on track! Here's to a good week, good luck to eveyone, and thanks to who-ever posted this
***Binge Free Week Nov 16-23***
