Motivation

Hi everyone.

I'm a very healthy eater from day to day. VERY healthy. And I'm quite proud of my diet and my will power. I eat whole grains, lean meats, fruits and vegetables and low fat dairy products. I also eat portions of nuts and drink lots of water.

But I have a problem. I'm in university, and tend to go out to the bars on the weekends every now and then. Now, I can deal with a night of drinking, because I can control how much I drink and I dont drink really hefty sugary drinks. My problem is my loss of will power to junk food when I drink. I eat so much... SO MUCH chocolate when I'm drunk! So much that sometimes I feel ill the next day, but of course, I get back on track and dont drop my calories the next day because I know it's unhealthy recoil.

After this rant, I propose creating this group to support and track / log how many days myself and any others interested in joining can go binge free. I still dont mind having small portions of chocolate throughout the day because they might be just 5g portions. I just want to be able to motivate myself to stay on track and not destroy my healthy diet every weekend.

So, I'm going to start out. Since I went all out last night, today is...

Days without bingeing: 1 (I know the whole day hasnt gone by, but I know I'll control it today haha)

Thanks! 

ice cream binge on sunday, ice cream binge on monday, ice cream binge and peanut butter w/ honey today.  This just doesn't end.  

lol kikbox and alexw...I will spare you the gory details but I am out, too! I overdid less than a real binge but enough to put me over calories. surprisingly enough, I have no interest in doing more today.

gotta run but will be back.

ive been aware of this thread existing for a long time and decided it's officially time for me to join!! tomorrow will be day 1 for me as i have already messed up today, but this is gonna be the LAST TIME. i am going to do everything i can to get through day 1, day 2.. and week 1, week 2, month 2.. hahaha big ambitions!! :) good luck everyoneeee hope you're all doing well x

lol some days we all do well and then other days...forget it! but, I think we are all realizing that it's how you do in the LONG run that really makes a difference. welcome, bugsylover and other newbies!

everyone have a great night and get a fresh start tomorrow! :  )

Hello everyone! I just don't know what I would do without this thread. It has helped me so much, and I don't feel binging is as huge a problem as it once was. It just helps having people to share my accomplisments with, or having people help me through the hard times. Thanks guys (:

So today was another good day. Day 4!

I've been bingeing a lot lately, but I HAVE gotten better at stopping! Used to be I'd start bingeing and just eat and eat and eat and eat some more until I was literally sick to my stomach. Lately, I overeat, and start to get that panicky, manic, out-of-control feeling, but STOP after a little bit. I think that's progress, at least. 

after 4 good days I blew it today.
3600 calories, I didnt let it get me down
I went and rode my horse and then went to
the gym.

Okay, so I just ate 700 over my maintenance, but I'm going to chalk it up as overeating instead of binging. I ate relatively healthy stuff, so it doesn't qualify as a binge to me. So I'm done with day 4, working on day 5 now.

It just seems that boredom gets me at night. I'm really limited with what I can do for entertainment at night. I love reading, but it's really easy to eat when reading. I love coloring, getting on the internet, and watching movies, but those don't really keep me too entertained. And usually at night, I'm too lazy to do any form of exercise. Oh well. I'm going to bed now. Good night all.

Kae, I'm exactly the same way. I usually put away at least half my daily calories after 6 pm, and I think that's because I just don't keep myself busy enough! I'm so used to multi-tasking throughout the day that at night I can' t just watch TV or read; I need something else to do, which usually brings me straight to carbs.

Recently a friend told me that it takes 21 times to form a real habit. So, I will try and work my way to 21 guilt-free, binge-free days and from there it should get a lot easier!

As motivation, I recently met up with my former high school sweetheart and he looks AMAZING. Which, really, is so not fair. I have to step up my game.

start of day 1 for me! yay!

i have a question though, does anyone else ever feel sore all over after a binge day? after days when i have just eat and eat continuously (the foods i binge on are full of sugar, probably hidden salt and also lots of carbohydrates) i wake up the next day with really tender and sore stomach, breasts, underarms, shoulders, & back.. which are sore to touch. is there a reason for this?

 

Rampant - I'm sorry to hear that seeing that guy bummed you out. I can definetly understand where youre coming from, I have had the same situation effect me in very similar ways. Though I cant say I've purged :S I think the feeling of being "sick of yourself" likely is a huge combinations of a lot of factors right now, your eating habits only being asmall fraction. It's been a few days now, Im sure your back on your feet and hopefully feeling a little better.

Helpless - ohhhh do I ever know about Ice cream binges. Theyre probably one of the most comforting things/binges of time. I have come to understand that if theres ice cream in the house, it will be devoured by me. even if I swear to only have a little, I can control myself less with ice cream than I can with chocolate. its bad news! If the ice cream is in the house, just take my word for it - get rid of it. melt it. put boiling water in it and recycle the container hahah. just get it out.

Welcome bugyslover!...I cant say Ive ever been sore from a binge before...and I coulnt really postulate about the mechanism involved.. Ill have to look into this.

crystar and kae- i definetly used to do the same thing. at night, when youre not busy, its so much easier to just get or make food. especially when youre bored! so I try to go to the library at night, usually until abotu 11, then I come home. I luckily like 5 minutes from it so getting there isnt an issue. But Im sure there are other things you can substitue to get you out of the house or busy in the evening.

torpidire - its great to hear that youre making progress! every little step counts :D

sharonclaire and kickbox - its too bad to hear we didnt get through april together. Im still going strong, but do you still want to try to get to the end of april as of now? its a solid 21 days...

As for me, classes finish today, exams start tommorow. I actually had exams, presentations and papers for the last 3 weeks, and ended up pulling an all nighter last night writing a paper for my animal physiology class. BUT it was amazing, I didnt binge! I usually eat so much candy when I pull all nighters, but I started counting yesterdays calories as of midnight that morning, and by the end of last night I had logged only 1400 calories! I was so proud!!!! Im going to keep this up, its been so good for the past week or so, I think I can keep it up :)

Days without bingeing: 9, today will be 10!

take care everyone!

aack! i screwed up big-time the past two days. night binges - you know the drill. once it was breakfast food (toast, scrambled tofu, jam - not your typical binge, but far too many calories). the other time it was soy ice cream, cereal, chocolate, and more cereal. i did pretty well for, like, nearly a week, though, so hopping back on the bandwagon today!

day 1!

Ugh, I haven't posted lately... Well, I've been doing neither good nor bad, really. I've been over or at maintenance most days (some binges, others overeating). But I've been walking a lot and jogging a lot also, so that's good. I'm still trying to reach at least one binge-free week. Tomorrow will hopefully be day 1, wish me luck. I want to post a summary of my day everyday for at least the next week. So if you guys catch me slacking off, a PM or just a shoutout on this thread would be great. Thanks!

And good job alex! You are on a roll!

OHH MY GOSH IT'S A FEW DAYS BEFORE TOM AND I JUST WANT TO RAID THE KITCHEN.

I've reached my calorie limit for the day though.

I really wish studying for final exams was more exciting. The peanut butter is calling my name from the cupboard...

ARGHHHH

oh heyyy look who just binged...pretty much all day i consumed foods i rarely eat simply bc im not even a fan of them...and now im thousands of calories deep. ewww. i suck

That sucks : P ...this is the way I look at a day like that...do NOT completely write it off and "start over" like other people would suggest. Remember it....remember what it did to that entire week's worth of work....remember how hard you worked on Wednesday....or how you dragged your ass out of bed on Monday to work out when your body was telling you "just 5 more minutes, Mom"

...Remember that one day of bad offset a week's worth of good.......now forget about it and pick back up as if it didn't happen because what are your other alternatives? ...Exactly, so do what you know to be the correct answer.

Okay, so I binged tonight. Not as bad as I usually do though, so I'm getting better. Uh, it's just so hard to get out of the mindset once you start. I'm so angry with myself. I probably only went over today by like 1000 calories, but it was different then yesterday because it was all consisting of candy. It's just that I get this saying in my head "oh you should just be a teenager and don't worry about everything." which leads to binging.

I just need to stop this once and for all. And today I met these two teenage girls, and they were skinny and I just feel so intimadated by people smaller then me. It's weird, and I'm always thinking that they are going to judge me because I'm not as small as them. Which most likely they aren't because hello kae, i'm not overweight. Grr, okay i'm done with this rant about myself.

I just need to get back on track tomorrow.

i'm new to this site, and forum. 

i am a huge binge eater... i feel so gross when i do! it's like i can't control what i'm doing... it's like the food i eat when i'm binging will eventually just go away on its own, but deep down i know it's just sticking to my insides. i binged a lot today and tonight. i have been all week actually. this is so embarrassing, but i bought an entire cake and ate the whole thing within a week. it wasn't even a great cake it was one of those cheap ones from the grocery store... it's like all i could look forward to when i got home from work this week. how sad is that...

i need some support on here in any way. just to help me not go crazy and to start eating more healthy and feeling good about myself. i feel so disgusted with myself sometimes, especially when it comes to food. it's like this secret. i would never eat like i do by myself in front of anyone else. i just don't want to be alone in this...

im also a newbie and was suprised to find there was support for this ive been bingeing since i was about 14 it was the only thing that cheered me up but the consequences are obvious ive been logging for about a week and eating healthilly for 2 so not that long and in that time i havent had a binge but its really hard when im upset especially all i can think of is eating as much as i can cram in today is day 14 of no bingeing i really dont want to loose my motivation im 28 and want to get my life back ! :D

Hi kae...glad to hear you are distinguishing between overeating and bingeing! and glad to hear you are able to label a trigger...boredom! all of that are great signs!

alexw, thanks for the invitation! you are so right...April is not over and YES! I will back on...I think yesterday was fairly good, btw! I'm not going to count days but I'll be on it noting which days I don't do so well. You are doing great!!!

sas: when you can identify a trigger (being upset) it helps you focus on that particular time/event! good luck!

I think what would be really helpful on this kind of thread is if everyone makes a comment for the previous poster...whatever words of encouragement/reminder come to mind. There are so many of us! We all need it...encouragement is key! And feel free to address anyone else, too!