Are you binging because you are hungry or because you are having a craving? I'm thinking back to when I first started trying to incorporate "diet" recipes into our meal plans. There was one recipe in particular that involved mounds of bean sprouts and cilantro but not much else. My husband and I both finished what appeared to be a large portion of dinner but neither of us felt any less hungry. If your leaving the table still feeling hungry (and therefore deprived) you might need to change things up a bit.

If you're binges are craving based. Oh my goodness can I relate. I LOVE chocolate. My most successful strategy yet has been to plan my binges. Sounds counter intuitive but if I know I've got a treat day coming (at the end of each 6 week goal session) it makes it easier day to day. I had a treat day last week. It spilled over into two day and cost me a pound. On day one I had a piece of chocolate torte while out for lunch. On day two I had 4 chocolate caramels. What I haven't done since the beginning of the year is scarf an ungodly amount of junk so quickly I can't even enjoy it. I succeeded a whole once in a row but it's the plan I'm sticking with. Don't know if that helps you any but I hope so.

Good points made by Facing50 - I do find that if I don't get enough quality calories, I want to binge. You're probably aware that refined carbs makes us craver more of those. Things that get our sugar up, make us crave.

I try to keep the things out of the house that would be tempting. One way of rewarding myself for eating right is to have a guilt free chocolate frosty, the Wendy's knock off that has a minimum of calories and fat, etc. If you havne't heard of it, it's just a sliced up frozen banana, Tablespoon or two of plain cocoa and some stevia or something you use in place of sugar. Also tastes good with frozen blueberries in it. You can play around with ice too. Some like several ice cubes. I use my nutribullet/magic bullet.

Oh, another idea, is to make some salsa. It's a great snack on gluten free crackers or if you like that kind of thing on different foods. So easy to make too.

I allow myself a treat every week. I was doing great that way, lost about 80 lbs in a little over a year. A treat might be an everything pizza for dinner (and yes, I DO eat more than one piece) or dessert once night that isn't just light ice cream. If you allow yourself to have the "real" stuff you won't have the cravings. Nothing is as good as real fat and real sugar. I make my "cheat" day Saturdays and if I'm craving something on Thursday I just tell myself, two more days and you can have it. If I'm craving something on Monday I tell myself, you just had that, you can wait.

I wholeheartedly believe that this is the best way to deal with binges. No, you won't be losing 2 lbs a week or more, but I was losing about 5 lbs a month and never had bad cravings or wanted to binge like I used to.

(Ha ha, then I fell off the wagon completely and gained 12 lbs that I'm still battling...)

But there is such a thing as too strict and it might be that you're hitting that wall!

Perhaps you are too strict on your good days? That can lead to "snapping" into a binge. As for cravings, my downfall(s) are cookies and peanut butter. Can't control myself if they are around. Thanks for sharing!