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I can't remember if I've asked before but have you tried banana nicecream? Just freeze some ripe bananas and stick 'em in the blender until creamy. Which reminds me I should go to the grocery store and get more sweet potatoes... I got a 300g bar of chocolate at work today and was very tempted to have "just one rib" but managed to avoid it by checking the ingredients and finding hazelnuts. Then ate a Döner wrap for lunch and was very tempted to chase it with a liter of icecream but had Pepsi Max instead. Better go log my calories so far and see how much I havd left.
 
Hey LaMa, good for you in resisting the chocolate bar, and the ice cream chaser! Temptations have to be avoided one at a time, and like you I have a lot of them. I did not binge yesterday, but as usual I had trouble stopping eating. I have reintroduced some sweets, last night I had some refined sugar and artificial sugar free cholate covered hazlenuts, 170 cals worth. Not sure its a good idea, stopping after just one pack is particularly hard, and they taste great. They are too expensive, when they run out I may not get more.

Let's not binge today!
 
No binge today, it was a busy day, that helped. LaMa the nicecream sounds good, its been a long time since I had a banana. They are on my nutritionists no list, but I am starting to test that, so maybe...

Let's not binge tomorrow.
 
I've been allergic to bananas for a while now so I haven't tried it but whole food vegans tend to swear by it. I got around binging by counting calories yesterday. Ended up having 50 g of date bites twice. If i hadn't been tracking and known I had the calories I probably would've been "f all that, I'm drowning myself in icecream". Wasn't even hungry either. I think it was a combination of having accepted one of the glazed cake squares (probably 200 kcal) Dr. Boss had ordered for us and looking forward to a long weekend (if you start with a binge you can do a three-day feast, right?).
 
Good for you LaMa, 100 grams of date and a single cake square are fine treats. I have just a bite of cake now and then, but in Louisiana I did eat a peach cobbler desert, the only whole desert since going on this diet. Did not seem to hurt me. I love dates, one of my favorite foods, medjool dates are my favorite. But still a rare treat.

No binge here yesterday, I got very busy most of the day and did not eat enough. I made up the calories in the evening, and it felt a little binge like. Even after that I wanted more...

Let's not binge today!
 
I think we really will have to accept having weird appetites sometimes. This week was excellent with the calorie counting though, despite my icecream mishap. I was clearly overestimating how many calories I was having and for that reason didn´t take my body´s legitimate hunger signals seriously enough. No wonder I binged.
 
Was hungry today and kind of wanted to keep eating but stopped after 100 or so extra calories. Happy with that.
 
Good for you LaMa, 100 calories is far short of a binge!
LaMaria said:
I was clearly overestimating how many calories I was having and for that reason didn´t take my body´s legitimate hunger signals seriously enough
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That is a good point, and one reason I try to keep close track. When I don't there certainly are times I under eat, and as you say that can have consequences. My intuitive judgement on eating ain't very good...

No binge here today, and until bed time no strong urges, but right now I am feeling them. Writing here is helping me not bite!

Let's not binge tomorrow.
 
LOL, you are right LaMa, just being here is evidence of our problem...

No binge yesterday, but I sure wanted to eat more before going to bed. A few days ago I let myself eat one jelly bean and one M&M, now every time I walk by the candy jar it's hard to resist taking more. That jar is for the grandkids and it has been there in sight for almost 2 years now. Never was much temptation before, but now it seems to call my name. Funny how just eating that small amount can break over a year of good resistance. I hope it returns...

Let's not binge today.
 
Moderation is a LOT harder than abstinence for me. It's like the difference between kids that know "no" as a full sentence and those who are used to being able to haggle.

I'm on my way home from my weekly covid test and I really want to get a family pack of Viennetta... I know I shouldn't and I know I'd still be hungry for dinner afterwards even though it 1300 kcal or so. I even know that giving in today will make saying no harder tomorrow. But... I may still get it.
 
Well, I did do it. And then I went on to have two cheese baguettes, a tube of chips, and 400 g of Toffifee, minus the hazelnuts. For a total of 6300 kcal today. Only 8% of which came from protein. Can you say binge? I think it´s time to stop going to that specific test location at that specific time because I´ve clearly established an unhealthy pattern here. Plus I got caught in a bit of a snow storm on my way there while not dressed for it and of course I need to go back to the dermatologist´s office tomorrow to get two harmless growths removed so stress blablablah. I think it´s time to just go to bed and start over tomorrow.
 
Well, yesterday did not end so well... After posting I did have a kind of binge. I ate about 300 calories worth of almond butter, emptied the jar. It was unplanned, unnecessary, and hard to call anything other than a small binge. After almost 2 years even a small one felt like a binge. It put me over my 2,000 calorie per day unofficial limit I have been working with, but I was still under the 2,500 calorie limit the nutritionist suggested. Not that it matters a whole lot....

Now I need to make sure it is not repeated... Way to easy to step off onto that slippery slope. I have this urge to just fast until the calories are made up, but I know that doesn't make sense. I am going to try to just get back on my regular track.
 
LaMaria said:
The slope can be very slippery at times
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I know that all too well, spent most of my life at the bottom of it trying to figure out how to get up... Now I sure don't want to go back down it. I see from your diary that you did well today, good for you!

Today went well, at first I had an urge to eat less and make up for yesterday, but I resisted that urge and did fine.

Let's not binge tomorrow.
 
LaMaria said:
Glad to hear you didn't fall for the starve/binge cycle.
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Not yet anyway, but the temptation is still there... No binge today, and not terrible urges, just the usual.

Let's not binge tomorrow!
 
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