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! 

Thank you for your support liora513! Good luck this weekend!    (Weekends are hard for me, too, but my goal is to stay busy and focus on everything but food.) 

Thank god for a thread like this!! Great job all you who have gotten this far!I've been having serious problems with bingeing for a full year now... 2-3 times a week on average, so pretty much, no matter if I eat healthy and with a perfect 500 calorie deficit I either gain a pound or stay the same weight.. sooooo frustrating!
Yesterday was a pretty bad binge day-- I ate 2000 over my limit after a great 1400 day-- it was spent on loads of crackers with nutella, pb and honey plus a slice toast and a mug of ovaltine... so easy to do when I sit with my dad at night, (everyone else goes to bed really early) as he always grabs a box of crackers, or joins in. Oy. 
So tomorrow morning will be my first post of days without bingeing. Wish me luck!!

I am so glad I found this thread. For me it's the exact same deal, I eat really healthy during the day, but then at night, even if I've had a big dinner I still have this urge, this unresistable craving for more... And it doesn't matter what it is really; I will eat yogurt, ice-cream, crackers with peanut butter, cheese all after each other... (Oh, and crackers with nutella are the absolute best!!!) So then I tried not having dinner, and then just snacking, but that just made it worse. What's the deal with this, is this a mental thing? And I agree, that after some glasses of wine, the urge to eat is even bigger and so hard to resist.

I have been trying to lose a few kilos for months now, and eat really healthy during the day, but bingeing is just ruining everything....

I am just coming out of a difficult time and know this will pass...but, I can just say 'ditto' to acpolet and jolie! I know what it feels like!

I went out tonight and got drunk. I then decided it would be a good idea to get a chicken burger and chips. After eating them I was still hungry. I'm staying at my parent's house at the moment so I raided their sweets drawer and ended up eating 5 different chocolate bars.

I'm going to put on so much weight. I am soooo tempted right now to go make myself throw it all up :/ 

I've had a really hard week for some reason as well.  I ran a marathon on Sunday and for two days afterward did very well.  Then Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, I binged on different things - Wednesday it was chocolate and two red velvet cupcakes I made for a club meeting.  Thursday it was tiramisu and a hamburger and fries.  Today it was Chinese food (the fried kind) at lunch to the tune of about 1000 calories for that alone, and chocolate again!  I feel as though I undid any weight loss effects the marathon may have had.

Today I was trying on dresses as I have a wedding to go to tomorrow and it was very sad. I did not like the body in the dressing room mirror at all.

So tomorrow will be back to Day One without binging. 

Rampantbunnylove: Don't throw it all up girl. It will be okay. Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life. You can always start over fresh.

Barbinsantamonica: Same goes for you, tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life. You can always start over fresh.

Good luck to everyone this weekend. (:

Days without binging: 3

*Sigh* I went crazy a day ago.  It seems like EVERY time I get down into the next set of 10 I go on a binge and mess it up.  (Oh, and by set of 10 I mean like going from the 170's to 160's.)  I've done it every single time I get down into the next 10.  I was at 170 and SO eager for it to be in the 60's but it wasn't budging for a few days.  Yeah, I'm inpatient.  Anyhow, I ate tons and ate when I knew I wasn't hungry.  Add to that, I had stayed up all night.  I was out all day with my mom and sister all day and they got me McDonald's.  I don't even wanna name everything else I ate. :/ Gained 6 pounds and kind of down about it.  I just hate the feeling of having to lose weight I already lost.

eternal, that is my problem, too...that fear of really losing. I know it's in my head but I have a heck of a time figuring it out. So, I'm taking it slow. The more i stop fighting it and just accept that I have to creep along, the less bingeing I am doing and the more time I'm taking to try and figure out what my dang problem is. :  )  this way, instead of gaining from heavy bingeing, I'm not losing, just learning to maintain instead untill I'm ready to creep on down a little further.

good luck to you/us!

allright here it is, the only thing I ate a lot of yesterday were steamed mushrooms with soy sauce and nutritional yeast- omg soo surprisingly good. My short term goal is 30 days! Wish me luck!
Days without bingeing: 1 and counting

yes, good luck, jolie! you can do it. I am working on a similar thing myself. I am going to add you to my friends list and feel free to email me when you want to binge eat!!!

jolie_fille, can I join you in your short term goal of 30 days? I'm on day 4! (:

I did really good today. I went to the movies, but I took a Luna bar with me so I didn't eat any popcorn. (:

Days without binging: 4

thanks for the support sharonclaire- ill definitely add you back, and hopefully won't need to email you =)

of course kae1106, that'd definitely be fun, especially if we succeed- good idea with the luna bar, besides all that greasy popcorn probably doesnt even taste as good as a luna bar. Lets get to 30!

Days without bingeing: 2 and soon to be 3

Hello All! Hope your weekends were good and healthy. Today I tried out a new recipe for dinner. It was Green Curry Chicken from South Beach diet, and it was pretty good but spicey. I also tried the Lemon Zest Luna Bar today. Have any of you had that? It is so amazing. It tastes exactly like lemon cake. I'm in love with a nutritional bar. haha. So far so good, but I'm worried about tomorrow night. I'll be home alone, and I tend to binge when I am home alone. :/. And there is all sorts of foods that I could binge on in the house. Somebody comfort me? ha, hopefully I will have enough willpower.

Anyways, I haven't really felt the urge to binge in the last 5 days. I think it's because I upped my calories to 1700-1800 calories a day. I have been gaining weight though. I was 118.5 on Thursday, and now I am 119.5. I don't have my own scale, so I don't really keep track of that. I use the scale at Publix, and the last two times I weighed myself was at like 5pm. I hope I'm not gaining real weight, and hopefully it's something else. Hopefully! I'm only 5'3 by the way, and I want to get rid of the fat on my stomach. Uh, but I think eating 1800 calories a day is better then binging every 3 days. Enough of me rambling on though. I hope everyone has a good week! Good luck jolie_fille! Does anyone else want to join us in a short term goal of 30 days without binging? I'm already 1/6 of the way done!

Days without binging: 5

Hey y'all,

I definitely need this as well.  I was doing so well (9 days) and then yesterday I hung out with my sister and she always eats a ton and then I eat a ton and then today I told myself I was going to go back to my usual habits and I ended up eating an entire box of chewy granola bars (10) and half a bag of ritz chips.  So yah, I need this support also!!  Today I am back down to 0... :(  

jollie and kae...I'm counting days, too...I've had 2 really great ones and I'm going to shoot for 30, too!

I definitely need to join this too.  Binging has become a really big problem for me the last 3 months and I have definitely gained weight as a result of it.  I've become miserable as a result of my inability to control myself, and my misery is affecting everyone..me, my family, and my friends.  I am SO tired of being like this.  My last binge was last night, and I'm ready to stop for the final time!

I am definitely up for trying to not binge for 30 days.  I have a post it note on my comp desktop at 30 right now and I am going to count down using that.  I think it is good to have something to look forward to like marking off days on my post it :)

sydney and dbook...I feel the same way! I'm going to come back to this spot and post freely whenever that urge to over indulge hits me. Good luck to us all! This is day 3 and I am still on the upside of things...

Hey everyone!

Original Post by barbinsantamonica:

I've had a really hard week for some reason as well. I ran a marathon on Sunday and for two days afterward did very well.

 Lets focus on the positive: yes, you may have had a bit more to eat that week, but you ran a MARATHON! Think of how amazing healthy and fit you are to be able to do that! Way to go! :D

Original Post by kae1106:

...I haven't really felt the urge to binge in the last 5 days. I think it's because I upped my calories to 1700-1800 calories a day. I have been gaining weight though. I was 118.5 on Thursday, and now I am 119.5. I don't have my own scale, so I don't really keep track of that. I use the scale at Publix, and the last two times I weighed myself was at like 5pm. I hope I'm not gaining real weight, and hopefully it's something else... but I think eating 1800 calories a day is better then binging every 3 days

Does anyone else want to join us in a short term goal of 30 days without binging? I'm already 1/6 of the way done!

 Kae, I doubt youre gaining weight. if anything, is probably your metabolism adjusting to the new intake you have, but will probablby halt and then youll get back to maintenance/weight loss (depending on your exercise etc). And even though you weighed yourself at 5pm, your body fluids could be completely different one day in comparison to the other. If youre feeling happier and much less prone to bingeing, 1 pound (if its actual lipid or even muscle weight) is completely worth the change in how you feel, in my opinion :)

Lately, I've been living at the library if Im not in class. Im working on top of school, and everything has become a little overwhelming. At the library, you cant eat, so Ive been bringing diverse protein bars with me to keep me full and that I can eat without getting ticketed (yeah, they fine/ticket us in the library if we're caught eating). So I havent eaten much at the library, and would come home at night, and will snack on portions of chocolate. But its, in the end, still under maintenance, and I run an hour every day on top of that (or something of equal expenditure/effort). So I dont mind it, I havent binged on it, and it is a tad comforting.

So that makes today, which Im sure I wont binge for, day 9 without bingeing.

Also Kae,  I would love to join you. This weekend is st. patricks day though. When I drink, I dont count those as my intake, because I dont drink every day or THAT often, and I would rather enjoy my time out than worry about the amount of calories I'm getting that night from drinks. That being said, as long as I dont count my drinking on Saturday (which will probably be a good amount, but not insanely high), I will work hard to reach the 30-day goal!

Take care everyone, and have a great day!