Weight-Loss No binge, no purge - one day at at time.

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No binge and not tempted. Felt unpleasantly full after dinner, not sure if food volume or a low-grade allergic reaction.
 
LaMaria said:
No binge and not tempted
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Good for you, no matter the reason not bingeing is good. I like your description of the diet as Calvinist, maybe you could write a book on the Calvinist diet, might as well we have books on every other imaginable diet.

No binge here today, and no strong or unusual urges.

Let's not binge tomorrow!
 
alligatorob said:
maybe you could write a book on the Calvinist diet, might as well we have books on every other imaginable diet.
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:D Talk about prosperity gospel... There's already a cult that combines weightloss with heavy religious stuff. Can't remember the name now but searching Gwen Shambles should find them for you. If you need a cringe-laugh check out the video she posted about her second engagement party.
Didn't binge but felt weird all day.
 
LaMaria said:
Didn't binge
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That's great and what matters, weird day or not! A weight loss cult, that sounds interesting I will have to look it up.

No binge today, it was a good day and without a lot of urges. Maybe the extra few calories are helping.

Let's not binge tomorrow.
 
alligatorob said:
No binge today, it was a good day and without a lot of urges. Maybe the extra few calories are helping.
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I'm still hoping the urge to binge will become much rarer for you once you reach 2000 or so calories - and I do think you'll get your daily calories up that high without regaining in time.
 
Thanks LaMa, you give me hope! Actually I think I can live this way, but less urges would make me happy! Do you really think I can ever get up to 2,000 calories without weight regain? Hardly seems possible.

No binge today and no more than the normal urges, it was a good day.

Let's not binge tommorrow.
 
I think it'll take a good while to get there but if you keep doing what you've been doing - rebuilding your muscle mass and slowly upping your calories - I genuinely believe you'll end up around that number. Remember when you were eating 1000 kcal/day and afraid to have more? You've come SO far already!
 
Struggling a bit this morning... I have been using diet soft drinks to help quell my binge urges, and decided that I was just drinking way to much carbonated diet stuff, so today I am trying to go without. It has heightened the binge urge feeling, trying to use coffee instead but its only partially working. Maybe I need to get some artificial sweetener for the coffee, I have always preferred my coffee black. I won't let this lead to a food binge, I still have a lot of the diet drinks, will give into those first.

The struggle never seems to end...
 
Switching to water would be the healthier option but diet soda is definitely better than regular. Carbonated water with crushed fresh herbs and/or a bit of lemon juice?
 
I have done some water and some coffee, so far so good, or ok anyway. I counted for the first time yesterday, I drank 12 drinks, 12 ounces each, a total of over 4 liters. Did not quite realize how many I was drinking. Today none so far, but I am missing them... Having another cup of coffee now.
 
I used iced tea to help wean myself off soda, though I was later surprised to learn it has more caffeine than regular coke.
 
No binge here yesterday, it was a busy day and I didn't spend a lot of time thinking about food. In fact I under ate, was unexpectedly out at dinner time and had trouble finding any safe foods.

Thanks Err, ice tea sounds like a good idea, I will give it a try, have to figure out how to make it first, LOL! LaMa, I also like the idea of herb flavored water, may experiment with that a bit too. Did better yesterday, I had 2 16 ounce diet cokes, about 1 liter, probably 1/4 of what I had been drinking. Will try again today.

Let's not binge today.
 
alligatorob said:
Did better yesterday, I had 2 16 ounce diet cokes, about 1 liter, probably 1/4 of what I had been drinking.
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Oh wow, you weren't kidding when you said you had a lot of diet coke! People keep telling me there's a lot of salt in diet soda but it doesn't seem to be the case here (0.1 g/l for Pepsi Max; that's salt, not sodium). How much is in the stuff you drink? If it IS high-sodium you may actually lose some water weight when you switch to more water and tea.
 
Yea LaMa, it is a lot. Today I had 4 12 ounce cans, for a total of about 1.4 liters, a bit more modest than where I was. I checked it out and you are right LaMa, about 100 grams of sodium per liter, not a whole lot. I probably get as much sodium from the Tabasco sauce I use. I am not sure diet soft drinks are bad for you, it just seemed like consuming that much of anything might not be great.

No binge today, and no strong urges, but I was pretty busy, that helps. Idle hands are my devil's workshop!

Lets not binge tomorrow.
 
Today is going to be tempting. Sitting on the couch chatting with my folks and not setting out an assortment of snacks? That just feels unnatural. So I'll have pistachios and pomegranate; opening the nuts and picking off the individual pomegranate seeds will at least slow me down.
 
Hope your pistachio and pomegranate strategy worked out, how are things going LaMa?

No binge here today, but I had a kind of odd experience. I was eating an afternoon snack and started to feel quite nauseous and weak. For a few minutes I felt awful, I stopped eating the snack and had to lay down for a minute. It soon passed and as I started feeling better I got very hungry or binge urge feeling anyway. I managed to suppress it and got though the day fine. And felt fine after the little episode. Not sure what it means, but it did weaken my resolve for a while.

Let's not binge tomorrow.
 
Sounds kind of like the way I feel when I eat a bit of banana (including the weird hunger feeling afterwards). Do you have any allergies? Please note all the ingredients (including trace elements) of the snack you were having so if it happens again you can compare and figure out what the trigger might be.

I overdid it on the sweets yesterday and probably went over calories a bit but didn´t eat everything in sight without thinking.
 
No binging today. Had expected strong cravings today because I had sweets yesterdaybut I was 95% fine.
 
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