I cannot give up binging

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Sspsy

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I am feeling really hopeless. I make up my mind to eat right and them the very next day I binge.
Everytime I go out I eat a pastry or sometimes 3 chocolate waffles. I can eat huge amounts. Then I feel horrible about myself.
There have been times when I have stopped binging for two weeks and lost weight.
Iam 5 ft 8" in height and weigh 98kgs!! I want to lose weight for health reasons mostly. Have hit my 40.
This time I have decided to try very very hard and persevere. Iam hoping my mind and body will cooperate. But am so scared will go back to binging.
But this time Iam fed up of myself and really want to fight and win.......
Wanted to share this. Please advise.
 
Welcome to the forum, I would suggest you start a thread in the diary section, as a great way to get support to keep you on track, as ther are a fair number of members who have overcome or currently dealing with binge issues.
 
Sspsy said:
I am feeling really hopeless. I make up my mind to eat right and them the very next day I binge.
Everytime I go out I eat a pastry or sometimes 3 chocolate waffles. I can eat huge amounts. Then I feel horrible about myself.
There have been times when I have stopped binging for two weeks and lost weight.
Iam 5 ft 8" in height and weigh 98kgs!! I want to lose weight for health reasons mostly. Have hit my 40.
This time I have decided to try very very hard and persevere. Iam hoping my mind and body will cooperate. But am so scared will go back to binging.
But this time Iam fed up of myself and really want to fight and win.......
Wanted to share this. Please advise.
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Hi, hang in there. I do the same thing some time. Never give up on any of your dreams. If you fall off the wagon, get up and start over again, that's what I do. Another thing I do to keep me motivated is I go on YouTube and listen to the movational speechs, very powerful, give it a try.
 
Thanks so much HarryThomas and Mildred Grant!!
I am a vegetarian, so I do end up eating carbs. On healthy days I keep away from processed food as much as I can. I cook at home, I eat nuts and seeds and salads in healthy proportion.
And yes, I have learnt the hard way that starving has a reverse impact. So I eat good amount to keep hunger at bat. On good days I eat very healthy, am satisfied.. Bcz i make sure I cook healthy food and make it tasty (as Iam fussy abt taste). It's been three days and I have not binged. Feeling very good.
I realize I cannot escape workouts if I have to lose weight the right way... So am planning to start walking from tomorrow, have my fitbit ready.
Thanks so HarryThomas for advising me to not become preoccupied with anxiety over binging again, makes so much
sense.
 
I understand how you feel too. That's always been my problem. I would sit down and eat an entire big bag of chips or pig out on something sweet. A few weeks into my diet, I started feeling really angry and grumpy. I realized that I was literally mentally addicted to eating. My life is kind of lonely because I'm a single mom and I was using food to give me warm fuzzies. When I took the food away, I really had nothing to give me that soothing feeling. I got through it by reminding myself of the reason I started dieting in the first place. 1. To feel confident enough to start dating 2. To improve my social life. I realized that I could be happy in the moment and stay fat and my life would stay the same or I could delay gratification and get a bigger payoff. It is very hard to break the habit of binge eating. My other advice to you would be to find activities to fill the time that you would normally spend chowing down. Take up a craft or take walks, etc. When you feel like munching, do one of your activities instead.
 
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