3 Fat Chicks on a Diet Weight Loss Community - Do you ever feel like an imposter in your diet?

Quote:

Originally Posted by munchievictim (Post 4310757)

It's amazing that so many of us struggle with these insecurities. I also am terrified I'll struggle every day, and that one week of letting my binge tendencies go will undo a month or a year of eating well. Im trying so hard to not try so hard! What is that about? It's such a struggle for me to just eat normal and even after a month on plan, if I hear about someone's crazy binge, I WANT TO BINGE! I should be grossed out by the idea, but I want to just cut loose and eat until I'm sick. Does that fade with time? At least get less difficult to resist?

If you need to binge, and feel that the temptation's there, find a way to work a cheat day into your diet. Only if you feel you can handle it -- I know what it's like not to be able to stop.

I don't think the urge to binge will ever go away, but I do believe the consequences change. If you've been a perfect little dieter for months and then have a big binge, the physical consequences can be not-so-pretty. Both times I had a cheat meal I, a) couldn't eat half as much as I used to, or thought I could, b) got a migraine/vomiting/diarrhea. TMI! I know, I know. But I'd hate for someone to feel as sick as I did that day. Do what you need to do and what you think you can handle.

It's better to have an off-day, where you don't count any calories and eat whatever the heck you want and get straight back on plan the next day, than to wait until you can't rein in your urge to binge any longer and go tumbling back down the the dieting mountain.