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| #261 | tinytot |
Oct 25 2006 03:05 |
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soo.... today so far....
2 cups of kashi golean crunch 2 oz of whole wheat pasta w/ 2 oz grilled chicken and a little bit of alfredo a chicken salad wrap from arby's i'm doing better.... real meals and less mindless snacking! that's like 1400-1500 cals for the day. yay! |
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| #262 | artemisia |
Oct 25 2006 03:19 |
| I've been reading the posts on this subject and was wondering if I can join this club? I knew I wasn't the only binger on the block, I guess I just didn't realize it was so....common I guess. | ||
| #263 | jamiesgibson |
Oct 25 2006 04:14 |
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Hi,
I also have been reading this post and would like to join you guys. It is nice to hear words from others that fight the same battles and struggles that I do. Feel free to read my profile it gives some background. This was a horrible weekend of binges starting on Friday and ending Sunday. I always binge alone and it has gotten so bad that I don't go out with friends anymore because I'm afraid of what I might eat. I don't keep any binge foods in the house, no peanut butter or cereal!! Those are the worst for me, but I can pretty much clean out anything. Keeping a food journal is not new to me, but being honest on it is. I hate to see all the things I eat during a binge in front of me but I guess I need to come at it straight on. I have a lot of stress dealing with my mom's death and being alone...but food can not be my savior. |
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| #264 |  united2gether |
Oct 25 2006 04:36 |
| #265 | artemisia |
Oct 25 2006 13:36 |
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Wait....I have to be honest in my food journal??? LOL....sorry I'm just getting my first coffee rush of the day!
That's one of my biggest problems...if I binge, I just don't add it to my journal...as a matter of fact I just stop keeping a journal until the binge is over. This last time lasted several weeks. I gained 2 lbs. The smallest thing can set me off. I'm totally an emotional eater. |
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| #266 | lynn23c |
Oct 25 2006 16:13 |
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Hi everyone. I'm Lynn and definitely an emotional binge eater. Always do it alone, door closed, TV or radio on. Also, in the past I've actually chosen to binge rather than go out. I've cancelled plans so that I can binge.
Like many of you here I've just stopped journaling when I binge...and I stop exercising. The sad thing is that my favorite binge foods are no longer tasting all that great to me, yet I'm STILL eating them! Why would I do that?! I binge on salty-crunchy snacks--all those things in the snack food aisle. Sometimes I do have an indulgence in something that I want to eat a lot of but I don't consider it a binge because of the infrequency. Like mac & cheese. I love it, but rarely eat it, so when I do want it (only a few times a year) I just get it and don't worry about it. I have only 3 goals for myself: 1) eat more SuperFoods (from the SuperFoods Rx by Dr. Stephen (steven?) Pratt 2) exercise again 3) reduce and eventually stop bingeing I know I can do this. I know that eating those superfoods will make me feel better, which will make me want to exercise again, which will help me overcome my urge to binge. I hope I can come here and talk with y'all and learn from you as well. I look forward to getting to know everyone. -Lynn |
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| #267 | jco29 |
Oct 25 2006 18:20 |
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After yesterday's ice cream binge I wrote about, my body seemed shocked. My heart raced and I could not sit down and think rationally for the rest of the day...all because of about 2-3 cups of Heath bar ice cream and 19 pieces of devilish candy corn. I usually get a pretty decent intake of sugar from all the fruit I normally eat, so I'm not sure why I was reacting this way. After I ate all that ice cream and candy I didn't even want to deal with myself and took a 2-hour nap. Later that night I was disgusted, so I worked out for an hour and a-half...doing 1 hour of kickboxing and a 30-minute run. I need to learn to stop depriving myself so these binges STOP! I enjoy healthy foods and working out, but these binges set my whole day, and even week, off-kilter.
Anyway, today so far I've had: B: 2 Kashi 7-grain waffles 1 Dannon Light 'n Fit yogurt S: 1/2 banana L: Two pieces of whole wheat bread each with generous amounts of hummus A small salad S: Apple And for Dinner I'm planning on: Amy's Organic Minestrone Soup 1 butternut squash cut up and baked (like french fries!) Sorry my entries are so long! I just like getting it ALLLL out there. |
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| #268 | yellowseal |
Oct 27 2006 00:04 |
| hi everybody! my names zoe, and ive been reading through all these, and can't believe how many people go threw the same feelings, and binging i do. i use to be annorexic, but now have become a bing eater. i, like many of you, turn to food when i'm stressed, or upset, and have my good days and bad. but its so hard to maintain a healthy diet while at college! all my friends are downing fries, burgers, candy, and if i dont accept, they give me " dont turn annorexic again zo". i'm just so lost. but just reading some of the postings made me smile. i want to be all like of you who have gone without binging for 3 days! does anyone have any more tips to help at all! ive only come to realize im a bing eater a month ago! i went from no eating to, to much eating! | ||
| #269 | rdlm1000 |
Oct 27 2006 00:16 |
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Still not binging, 4 weeks 3 days. What I feel has made the biggest difference was
1. I commited to logging EVERTHING!! The tbsp of cream in my coffee, to the tsp of olive oil with my veggies. This worked because I actually had to log 2800 cal when I ate my nachos and I had already had 1600 cal that day. Freaked me out and forced me to see in writing holy shit!!! 2. I got one of my friends who is my size and also wanted to lose 10-15 lbs to be my diet buddy. We e-mail every single day. We share stories. If we blow it we have to tell eachother and also we cheer eachother on we we lose a pound. I think about telling her I'm going to binge or having to say that I had 1500 cal for dinner. (which I have done and she's very supportive) but what it starts is a logical dialogue in my head so I think twice about hurting myself with food. 3. If these aren't enough, when I feel that binge burn, I make myself look up binge eating disorder. I read about my disorder. That one has really worked. I don't want to be controlled by food and I'm offended that I have this disorder. I get pissed and I want to make myself stronger then the disorder. All that being said, I know that a lot has to do with I was ready to let go of my drug. I have been struggling for the past 2 1/2 years and I was ready. My friend said it best when I told her about not being able to let food go. She said "Food if how you comfort yourself, if you don't have that, what the hell are you going to do?" It's a scary thought to give up what can be your best friend. |
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| #270 | jamiesgibson |
Oct 27 2006 00:49 |
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I have been working so hard on not binging...now at work with all the candy and soon with the holiday treats I have to keep my head straight so I don't go up and get stuff.
I really like what rdlm said about finding an email buddy or someone that I could be accountable to. I can't tell any of my friends about this, they would never understand nor do they have time to hear my constant crazy thoughts. If anyone is out there that would like to do this please let me know. Yesterday I was way under for calories, only 880 for the day and I had worked out twice (45 min run in the morning and 1 hour weights plus 30 min run that night). I was so hungry when I got home but made sure to eat a healthy meal and planned out the rest of the night to eat another small meal before bed to keep my calories up. Then a friend called and invited me to come over and carve pumpkins and toast seeds. I went and freaked because I knew I would get hungry and need to eat but didn't want to come home and binge. Needless to say, I got home ate an apple then a hard boiled egg...on my way to a binge....1/2 a sweet potatoe with butter...then realized I needed to stop. I logged all my calories and since I was so low for the day my intake was still 1800 which is where I should be after my workouts. Two things that help me stop....I sit down no matter what...usually my binges are in the kitchen and I'm standing in front of the fridge or cabinets...so I just sit down....then I say "This is a choice...I'm I choosing to continue or choosing to stop" It helps me...maybe it will help one of you. |
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| #271 | yellowseal |
Oct 27 2006 01:12 |
| hi again! this is to rdlm1000 and jamiesgibson! you both are so strong! and everything you both said makes great sence! its really openining my eyes, jaimegibson, i would love to talk with you about what we're all going through, but i cant deal with calorie counting. ( when i was serverly annorexic, all i would do, day in and day out, would count calories!) but i am always an open ear! that goes for anyone. this posting is already helping me my mood has lifted:) | ||
| #272 | united2gether |
Oct 27 2006 03:47 |
| #273 | lynn23c |
Oct 27 2006 13:33 |
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I have not binged but I came close yesterday. I wanted to stress-eat, even went to the local CVS to pick up some of my favorite binge foods. But I put the big bag of salty-crunchies down and instead picked up one of those 3-serving boxes of cheeze-its. Believe it or not, this is not a binge for me. I made a concious decision to do a replacement food, and it worked. I got my salty-crunchy feel good food in but I didn't eat too much of it AND it didn't start me on the path to destruction.
I think that's the biggie for me. To not say "to hell with it" and start eating whatever I want. I need to have the limits set and follow them and adhere to them. rdlm1000--I really like the idea of reading about the disorder when you feel a binge mood coming on. I think I'm going to borrow that trick if you don't mind ;-) Happy Friday one and all! |
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| #274 | kalkette |
Oct 27 2006 16:01 |
| good morning all. I hope everyone is doing okay. There are a bunch of people who haven't posted in awhile and it worries me but we are getting new people all the time. WELCOME! :) It's so good to see all of you here and acknowledging that you need to be more careful about what you eat. This was a very weird week for me. I ate too many salty and heavy foods over the weekend and didn't get nearly enough water, so I was up on Monday. Then I got sick and barely ate anything (certainly didn't eat anything healthy) for two days. I actually drank two very large cups of coffee before going to the doctor on Wednesday and since I had barely eaten and I am not used to the caffeine, my blood pressure was up a bit. Not good. I need to not do that to my body. I knew it was bad at the time too. I should have eaten more, but I just didn't. Bad Sarah. I am working hard to get back on track and this weekend I will focus on getting enough water and making healthy choices for foods. | ||
| #275 | jennelaw |
Oct 27 2006 20:53 |
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I'm still on track - one week without a binge and I'm feeling really good! Weekends are still hard for me, but I'm going to do this!!!!!
Welcome to all our new friends - keep posting and we'll be happy to give you all the support and encouragement that we can! |
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| #276 | united2gether |
Oct 28 2006 06:53 |
| #277 | artemisia |
Oct 28 2006 15:26 |
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Oy!!
United, I'm doing a lot of that dusting off stuff lately!! I'm a sweet then salty nut too....which means my eating is never ending!! I don't know what the heck my problem is!! I think part of it is hormonal because I've been so emotional lately (I think it's called peri-menopause or something). That soup idea is one of my favorite tricks too! As long as I choose to eat that instead of something not so good. Cheese is one of my biggest struggles too...oh heck right now everything is a big struggle! We carved pumpkins last night so who do you think ate the bulk of the seeds after we roasted them?? Some of the stuff I eat I'm not even sure how to log because I make up my own evil snacks!! Someone mentioned nachos...I did those a couple of weeks back and then had no idea how to log them! I put chips, a can of nacho cheese soup with only half the liquid, a can of chili, shredded cheese, home made salsa, avocado, and sour cream on them. I made two big pans of this for a slumber party....anyway, how the heck do you measure that?? |
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| #278 | united2gether |
Oct 28 2006 20:30 |
| #279 | artemisia |
Oct 28 2006 21:33 |
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That I can tell you, it's actually really simple.... cut the squash in half and get rid of the seeds and stuff....then just stab it a couple of times with a knife or fork put it into a baking dish with just a little bit of water, and cover it. you can either bake it at 350 for about an hour or microwave it for 15 - 20 minutes. |
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| #280 | lovinlife |
Oct 29 2006 16:27 |
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Have to admit to a binge yesterday: cookies, leftover KFC, pizza, chocolate chips, etc etc etc. I am feeling really guilty about it today. But I'm gonna do that "dusting off" (and maybe dust the house, too) and Wish me luck, as I have to make my sister's birthday cake. Oy. Major temptation. |
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