Food Addiction Support Group
An individual suffering from a food addiction disorder frequently experiences episodes of uncontrolled eating, or binging, during which they may feel frenzied or out of control. They will eat much more quickly than is normal, and continue to eat even past the point of being uncomfortably full. Binging in this way is generally followed by a period of intense guilt feelings...
Day 4.
Thoughts for the day: has this ever happened to you? You eat "perfectly" for the first couple days, and, then, one day, you're just really hungry, so you eat a little extra, and then you think you've "ruined" your diet, so you might as well eat anything you want??
I wonder why on earth we think like that. It clearly doesn't make sense. But I guess addiction doesn't make sense.
I once saw sombody on this site describe it like this: "If you blew a tire, would you get out of your car, and slash the other 3 tires??"
Yes, it does seem like that's what we're doing when we eat an entire box of cookies, just cause we "ruined" our diet by eating one cookie!
I'm trying so hard to stop that.
Today, and yesterday, I got to a point where I was hungry. I've been trying to keep my calories down to about 1500 a day, in an effort to loose weight. I'd already had my 1500, but I was hungry.
And, I thought to myself - this will never work if you're always hungry! The hunger will make you binge. So I had a LITTLE bit more. And, same thing today, a LITTLE bit more.
I sure hope I am finally understanding how to eat normally.
The thing is, it's going to take me a long time to loose all this extra weight. Like 7 months, I calculated. Obviously, I can't be hungry for 7 straight months, so if I gotta have a little extra, I gotta have a little extra.
The key, of course, being a LITTLE.
It's so true - depervation leads to binging.
One way not to binge: don't deprive!
Thoughts for the day: has this ever happened to you? You eat "perfectly" for the first couple days, and, then, one day, you're just really hungry, so you eat a little extra, and then you think you've "ruined" your diet, so you might as well eat anything you want??
I wonder why on earth we think like that. It clearly doesn't make sense. But I guess addiction doesn't make sense.
I once saw sombody on this site describe it like this: "If you blew a tire, would you get out of your car, and slash the other 3 tires??"
Yes, it does seem like that's what we're doing when we eat an entire box of cookies, just cause we "ruined" our diet by eating one cookie!
I'm trying so hard to stop that.
Today, and yesterday, I got to a point where I was hungry. I've been trying to keep my calories down to about 1500 a day, in an effort to loose weight. I'd already had my 1500, but I was hungry.
And, I thought to myself - this will never work if you're always hungry! The hunger will make you binge. So I had a LITTLE bit more. And, same thing today, a LITTLE bit more.
I sure hope I am finally understanding how to eat normally.
The thing is, it's going to take me a long time to loose all this extra weight. Like 7 months, I calculated. Obviously, I can't be hungry for 7 straight months, so if I gotta have a little extra, I gotta have a little extra.
The key, of course, being a LITTLE.
It's so true - depervation leads to binging.
One way not to binge: don't deprive!
I realize everyone is different, I am a total sugar junkie, however I recently discovered that if I have 100+ grams of protein a day I don't crave sugar (candy mostly) like I used to. Don't know if that helps but there it is.
Losing weight is a brave thing to do. You should be proud of your efforts!!
Did you read that 100 gr. of protein a day or figure out yourself?
I never really counted protein grams to see if I was getting enough protein before a binge.