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Maybe something in your body really is out of whack, like leptin and ghrelin levels. Or maybe they were when you were little and eating overly large amounts became a habit before your body could fix the imbalance. Could be genetic, could be circumstance. Do you know if your mom dieted heavily just before or during pregnancy? That's one thing I could imagine having influence but I'm sure there are others.
 
Hm... I wasnßt going to binge today, was I? I did. Ate a medium-sized bag of chips and four (4) icecream bars.
 
LaMa, sorry to here about the binge, it could have been worse. If you ate the ice cream frozen you consume about 5% of the calories thawing and warming it in your body, maybe that helps a little. Best cure is to forget it and not binge tomorrow.

To the best of my knowledge my mother never dieted a day in her life. She had no need to, she was always active, thin, and healthy. I am sure she smoked and drank when she was pregnant, everybody did back then. Though she was a pretty light drinker. Don't suppose I will ever really know why.
 
In the end it doesn´t really matter where you come from as long as you like where you are now - or at least where you are going.
 
By the way: I just realized that I´ve been overeating since I stopped drinking diet coke almost a week ago. I seem to have a pattern of drinking diet coke to stop the overeating, then overeating to forget how much I like diet coke. Hm.
 
LaMaria said:
By the way: I just realized that I´ve been overeating since I stopped drinking diet coke almost a week ago. I seem to have a pattern of drinking diet coke to stop the overeating, then overeating to forget how much I like diet coke. Hm.
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Just my unscientific opinion, but I think diet coke is probably better than overeating. Is it the caffeine in diet coke you are trying to get away from?
 
That and the plastic. But in the short term it's the caffeine. I need to be as relaxed as possible if my skin is to have a chance of healing. Maybe being aware of the dilemma will help me stay away from both.
 
Hey LaMa, I saw you post on your diary. Do you really think diet coke is a primary cause of your binges? I hope it is and that you can stop the diet coke and the bingeing!

Hey Petal, how are you doing? I saw on your diary that you were not feeling great yesterday, I hope that's past or passes quickly.

Vic, I see from your diary that your day went pretty well, good for you.

No binge here, but I had a funny day the ended with me wanting to binge. We went to this charity bingo thing and they didn't have anything I could eat, hotdogs and chips, neither are on my list. So I just snacked on things that I could eat until my calories got above 1,000 for the day. But then it was really hard to stop, I sure wanted to keep eating. Fortunately I did not.

Lets not binge tomorrow.
 
Lama sorry about the binge . Did you buy the ice cream or was it at home . It’s such a shame you can’t get caffeine free DC . Have you tried sprite ?

Rob thanks I’m ok again . I think it’s menopause tbh . The tiredness hits me every so often . I feel great otherwise except for these odd blips . I think the last one I had was 29/30 September . I shall record this Im my new journal I think . See if there is a pattern .
No binge yesterday and I ate so well and lovely tasty food .
breakfast fruit yoghurt granola
Lunch rice lots of veg chicken and sauce( didnt eat the sauce just the bit that coated the veg and chicken )
Banana
2 tacos with mince salsa salad and cheese allowance
Tea and 2 slimming world bars ( fruit and nut , mint choc chip 120 cals for 2 )

will do same again good proper meals today .
Good luck my friends today - no binge
 
Petal001 said:
Did you buy the ice cream or was it at home . It’s such a shame you can’t get caffeine free DC . Have you tried sprite ?
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I went and bought it... I think it was the last box though: done with this year´s season special and every other brand is less tempting. I don´t like Sprite very much but in any case I can´t get the diet version around here. Austria is a weird country for diet sodas. You get diet coke (from any brand that produces cola-flavored soda) everywhere but other than that there´s just extremely sweet, extremely fake-tasting local brands that leave your throat drier the more you drink them.
 
Good for you Vic! That and the weight loss you must be feeling pretty good about yourself.

Petal good for you too, you seem to be eating well. The Pepsi Max drink sounds good, but to me right now most anything with vodka sounds good!

LaMa, how did you do today?

No binge here today, but I felt hungry and had cravings all afternoon and into the evening. I ate two big portions of broccoli, that helped a little, but only a little. I was just bragging that I did not feel much hunger and had learned to separate feelings of hunger from cravings. However this afternoon I failed on both counts. I did however succeed in fighting it off and not bingeing, that matters most.

I was filling my truck with gas today and thinking about the auto setting on the gas pump, I realized that I knew where the gas pumps in the area with auto settings were, because that was a favorite start to a binge. I would put the pump on automatic, go into the gas station store and buy a bunch of binge food to eat in the truck. Didn't do that today, but thought about it. My truck stays a lot cleaner now, no binge crumbles.

Let's not binge tomorrow.
 
Rob I don't know how to use the auto fill but I did used to go fill the car at stations that had lots of binge food. It's good not doing that anymore.
It's no wonder people eat so much rubbish with all the processed food at these places .
 
Petal001 said:
I can’t bear Pepsi Max - it’s so so sweet . I like diet sprite , especially in a vodka ;)
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I love Pepsi Max for just that reason - and I still find the local diet sodas way too sweet.
alligatorob said:
I was just bragging that I did not feel much hunger and had learned to separate feelings of hunger from cravings. However this afternoon I failed on both counts. I did however succeed in fighting it off and not bingeing, that matters most.
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Absolutely. Well done!
alligatorob said:
My truck stays a lot cleaner now, no binge crumbles.
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The amount of packaging unhealthy food tends to come in is horrendous, too.

I didn´t do great yesterday but caught myself before it got out of hand. Today´s good so far. Walked in the woods for about 3 hours and had a picnic lunch. Now home and sipping a bottle of hop lemonade while writing my Christmas wish list. Little Sis activated the holiday lottery this morning so now know I´m expected to buy a gift for my eldest sister, write her a short poem, and do some kind of craft thingy. None of this would be related to binging except I put my favorite chocolates on my list :p
 
Well I did not do good yesterday night. I got up and felt so hungry. I ended up eating mashed potatoes and chicken.
 
No binge here.

Vic, sorry to hear that. Can you find something like some fruit to eat when you get hungry? I assume this is late night eating. You can figure it out.

LaMa how did your day turn out?

Petal, how did you do?

Lets not binge tomorrow.
 
I did well yesterday. Felt like I ate a lot but the calories were fine.
Vic: would a cup of herbal tea or warm milk help with those night-time cravings? I get hungry at night sometimes if I haven´t eaten enough over the day but I can plan to have a bigger breakfast and ignore it. I guess that only works when your body isn´t used to getting anything during the night though.
 
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