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! 

Wow! I found this forum after hitting a real low in what has started out to be a very good week for a normal human being.  As many of you can connect with my life is consumed with thoughts of food etc.  I am very focused on what I eat and when i eat well feel great but i really do have bad problems with binging. To cut a long story short I thought this would be a great place to get a helping lift.  I go back to England in 8 weeks times. I have been working hard to get myself into shape and for 3wks i didnt binge once and had a great level of motivation but then i weighted myself and although i knew it was a bad idea i did it anyway and then then i opened the trap door that was my mouth and everything feel in.  I always feel bad afterwards and have big regrets by the monday.  Thats right its always on weekends, so I am hoping that this is day one of something special and a new record for me.  With you guyz in my corner I think well I know I have a good chance.

darkerthanblue: read back through the chat and see what works for you! good luck!

alexw and bugsy: I am on day 5. doing very well probably because I am very busy and loving it...

everyone take care!

since may has started, i had 3 days straight of binging and it's showing awfully. 

i want to make today binge-free.

Hey helpless,

I am definitely in the same boat as you.  Every day I keep saying I will start over but I am right in the middle of finals which is always a bad time for me.  But I threw away all my trigger foods this morning so I am thinking that I can actually do it this time!

dbook...there was a chat going in the motivation forum @ final exams and returning home overeating issues. you might want to check it out.

I am on Day 6. Just went out grocery shopping w/an empty stomach...yep, that's right...rolled outta bed and headed to the grocery store after a few errands. By the time I passed the bakery counter, I was hungry and could picture all the mouth-watering things I could indulge in there not to mention stopping off at the local bread store for free samples of...yum!...apple filled bread! But, not me! I stuck to my list and figured I could have something nutritious when I got home. And that is what I did and now I'm headed for a hike. I am sure that it's the sun and the exercise and finally feeling like I have a purpose and confidence that are all helping me make some healthy choices today. Let's see what tomorrow brings.

Take care, ALL!

thanks sharon! I will definitely check it out :)

Thanks Sharonclaire for the encouragement.  You sound like your doing really well.  I am on only on day 2 and right now the road shall we say is looking pretty long.  But am trying to focus on each day and not look any further forward. Got to say you were very strong when you went out shopping

Original Post by bugsylover:

thanks alexw! :) i made it yay, haha, me and my mum watched a film with an apple and some tea, and then i went to bed early. im so glad i didn't give in, i would have felt terrible today.

HOORAH! I knew you could do it bugsy! I feel like we're slowly getting stronger, even if we have a few relapses now and again, we're getting better at controlling our impulses...slowly but surely!

Welcome darkerthanblue! You may be trying to lose weight, but Ive learned after a long time of worrying about my weight that I HATE the scale. and it lies. and water weight changes all the time. I think it's simply unreliable. Especially if youre getting leaner but building muscle. I have a foot injury and have done about 5 cardio sessions in the past month.... Im used to cardio every day, as I had done the past 2 years. These days I weight train pretty much every day or every other day, and im very very toned... but Im sure ive gained weight, but its muscle. My mom came in the other day and said "here i have your scale", shes been using it while ivebeen at school, and I told her I didnt want it hahah. Im not going to touch it, and just stay confident in how I look and feel. I hope you can do the same :)

sharonclaire congrats on sticking to your list! its sooo difficult I know, but you did it and thats fantastic! And youre a week through! YAY!

As for me... Im on day 9 without bingeing ...almost 1/3 through the month! :D

take care everyone!

cool, alexw!

I think May is going to be the a real jumpstart month for me!!! I feel like I'm going to make it through. This is my first full week and I shouldn't count my chickens before they hatch, I guess.

Take care All !

i had a slice of homemade cake on saturday to celebrate 6 months binge free :)

yyonah, our inspiration! congrats!!! glad to hear it's going so well! :  )

HI everyone! no one has posted in a while... I hope everything is going well for you all!

I'm currently on day 11 without bingeing. Hoorah! I havent been to the gym as much as I would hope, since Ive officially started full time work, but saturday and sunday will be long workouts and that should be good! I guess I still shouldnt push it since my achilles is still messed up.

also congrats yyonah! 6 months?!?! thats INSANE. and you had cake, and STILL didnt binge. Indeed true inspiration.

take care everyone!

Hi everyone,

I'm new here :) however I've lurked on the forums for a while.

Over the last several years I've lost a heck of a lot of weight - from 100kg to 68kg now (I'm an 18 year old 6 foot male). However within the last few months I've started binging which has meant I've put on a bit of weight.

My last binge was on the 30th April so it's been 9 days for me now. Today I went over my 'calories to maintain weight' by maybe 300 calories, however that's cos I had a craving for toast with tahini and honey - it was either that or binging so even though I went over I don't have the guilt or bloated stomach right now so I'm not gonna count it as a binge :) I was actually in Tesco today and was so tempted to buy a whole cake :O but I put it down as I started walking to the till - something hit me and I realised I'd be going straight back to square 1 if I had bought it so that was a good feeling.

way to go alexw! im on day 10 today and feeling strong, tonight i am going out for a meal for an old friend's birthday.. curry!! i shouldn't have too much of a struggle though, it would be worse if it was chinese.. or nandos.. 

hey wazza welcome to the thread!! 9 days already is great - same as me in fact :) want to join us in trying to conquer the whole of may?

hope everyone is doing great. 

I'd love to :)

I will be insanely happy if I manage the whole of May - I've got exams coming up so the temptation will be here whilst I'm at home. Ah well gotta take each day at a time.

Well done on the 10th day...hopefully :)

So things aren't going great.  I knew the weekend would be hard and I broke I mean I really broke all weekend.  Over here the weekend is a Friday and Saturday.  I find it incredibly hard at the moment and cant find a way out of my spiral. Am so good in the week and focused but hit Thursday things spiral fast.  Its so frustrating because my workouts are really disciplined and  when I am not messing up I can  see real improvement quickly. Anyway dont wanna bring you all down, just got to work out how to fix the problem.  Oh well heres to day 1 tomorrow. I would love to be at a level that I could conquer the whole of may but right now to get through a whole week would be amazing

On the other hand congratulations to wazza07 10th day thats excellent.  Good luck with your exams. You've should be soooo proud of how far youve come I hope some of that will rub off on me....

darkerthanblue you can sooo do it! if you know you often mess up on thursdays, can't you make an action plan for that day specifically? write NO on your hand or something so its always there to remind you?? LOL, or make a really detailed food plan for the day including everything like glasses of water etc too.. 

im on day 12 yay! i wanna get tomorrow over with though as 13 is my unlucky number hahah. im a bit concerned though, ive been having diet coke and sugar free jelly/jello pots to stop me bingeing, but ive been getting through A LOT these past few days and i am concerned that im just switching my bingeing behaviour on to foods that have almost 0 calories. which i dont want to do, because even if im not gaining weight the unhealthy habit is still there. so im gonna try super hard to stop that tomorrow. ive also been eating way too much tomato salsa, and not following my meal plan.. like i will swap snacks just so i can fit in more bread and salsa!! is this something to be worried about??? im gonna try and stop from tomorrow because i don't want to spiral out of control and end up bingeing.. but i dunno if im being TOO strict? is it ok if i don't stick to my meal plan (since after all i am staying within my calories), or am i right to stop myself going into bread and salsa overload? :S eeeek

hi =)

I've been reading this forum for a while, and it's helped SO MUCH whenever i feel like bingeing. So, thank you

And....I'm officially on day 21, and it feels SO FREAKING GOOD!!

Original Post by darkerthanblue:

So things aren't going great.  I knew the weekend would be hard and I broke I mean I really broke all weekend.  Over here the weekend is a Friday and Saturday.  I find it incredibly hard at the moment and cant find a way out of my spiral. Am so good in the week and focused but hit Thursday things spiral fast.  Its so frustrating because my workouts are really disciplined and  when I am not messing up I can  see real improvement quickly. Anyway dont wanna bring you all down, just got to work out how to fix the problem.  Oh well heres to day 1 tomorrow. I would love to be at a level that I could conquer the whole of may but right now to get through a whole week would be amazing

On the other hand congratulations to wazza07 10th day thats excellent.  Good luck with your exams. You've should be soooo proud of how far youve come I hope some of that will rub off on me....

 Thank you very much

Day 13 now and it's all good - hopefully tomorrow will be the two week mark. TBH I've noticed I'm eating maybe 50/100 cals over my daily limit (1900 calories - may seem a lot but I'm quite tall) but I'm still losing weight so it's all good and the extra calories are coming from more fruit.

I wish you the best of luck darkerthanblue Don't be too hard on yourself as you know you can achieve five days out of seven without the need to binge - it's just those last two days. I was exactly like that, I dunno for me something has clicked in my mind which has stopped me from binging, I really dunno what it is. However I do have to say I was tempted a few days ago when I went to Tesco and saw a gorgeous piece of cake - I nearly bought it till I had a mental image of myself eating it and it wasn't a good image at all :O

Keep it up guys :D

funny story: when i mentioned to someone at work that i was really craving a donut a few weeks ago, he asked me if i was pregnant. needless to say, i was pissed the #$%^ off, and he goes, "only pregnant women get cravings." because he clearly knows so much about it. i'm never talking to anyone at work again haha!

but seriously, a broader awareness of the craving problem needs to be raised. :)