115 days no takeaways.
111 days no ice cream.
39 days no crisps, no binge-eating.
13 days no sugar.
0 days no compulsive eating.
Well I made it to 4 days, for my first serious and accountable attempt of not going to the shop, I am quite pleased. I felt liberated. Today however, the voice got in my head about āneeding an incentive to catch-up hereā and āitās Saturdayā I donāt know why I had no resistance today. Counter is reset and I will redetermine myself!
Yeah, I remember having these ideas as well. Only to post when I have some progress to show for.
Checking in every day here no matter what I find far more useful.
So, good to see you here with us. You wrote about your plan. Forgive me for asking but do you have any specific actions you plan on taking to get your plan into motion?
No reason to feel shame. Disappointed.
The good thing is youāre talking about it, consciously thinking about it, with a desire and a general plan. Hugs.
What I definitely want to do is to plan the meals every day, do not skip the meals (I tend to skip the diner and eat crazy amount of toasts later, and snacks), eat more veggies. Itās not that I donāt like them, I really do, I just kind of forget about them. I always add some when I give for example simple sandwich to my kids, always some paprika, cucumber, whatever. But I never do the same with my own.
And most of all - stay away from sweets.
Iām rarely eating after 19 but last week or so I was consuming big bag of chips every evening, even around 22, or cookies or whatever. Iām not doing this anymore.
Yeah, I really like that action plan!
Meal planning and actually eating real meals and not going hungry is still key for me.
It took me a while to understand that I am the person who is responsible for my own well being. I am responsible to make sure my child gets nourishing meals. The same goes for me myself. I am the adult who needs to take care of my needs. One of them is good food, nourishing meals at appropriate times.
Go for it!
Good morning
I am starting over again. I had a dinner and a piece of dessert yesterday and it was all good. Then my partner and I went to watch a firework and I bought myself a chocolate on the way back. I ate it at one go without even knowing I ate it, how it tasted, etc.
I have no idea why I went to the shop, I didnāt even feel much like having it. I was rather extremely tired I wish I just went to bed and slept.
@CATMANCAM Congrats on your four days. They are not lost. Keep at it. Tell the voices to FRO @Jana1988 Ah girl, I am sorry you are struggling. My usual question: What is your plan?
I did good yesterday. Not perfect, not even very good, but good enough. I didnāt eat any sweets (yuppie!) but I didnāt eat a dinner as well (once for a while my husband wants to cook something in his opinion special and this time it was some kind of soup with chicken hearts and I think they were chicken stomachs too. Big yuck for me . So sandwiches here we go again
Day zero is usually an easiest one cause I am full of determination and cravings are small so today I have to stay vigilant.
@acromouse congrats on 3 weeks for distraction-free eating
116 days no takeaways.
112 days no ice cream.
14 days no sugar.
0 days no crisps, no binge-eating.
0 days no compulsive eating.
So I made it to 40 days for no crisps or binge-eating, but last night I couldnāt sleep and the voice got in my head that I needed crisps to watch the final of a program Iāve been watching, and without much conscious thought at all, off I went to the shop.
Then, although Iām terrified of going out in the dark, I took an extra long walk to the big shopping centre (it was 23:15 so local shops were closed) to get strawberries and greek yoghurt. Iāve reset that counter too because I bought a second batch to have this morning, but I didnāt sleep at all and ate them at 3:30am.
So here I go again. I donāt even enjoy these things anymore. Thatās what Iāve learned after a brief time away from them. Hopefully that will be my final lesson.
So tired, I had a terrible nausea attack in the middle of the night. I thought I was going to throw up, it was stomach flu level nausea. Iām hoping I sleep better tonight, we figure that the nausea attack was due to a soy allergy flare up since I ate out.
@Mischa84 Good work on two days. By the way I donāt think eating a sandwich for dinner is a bad thing. The goal is to eat, instead of not eating. You know perfection is a killer @CATMANCAM Sorry to hear about your episode. @Aleyadaisey Sorry to hear about that nausea. Especially in the middle of the night. I hope you are feeling better.
My first goal in recovery was to stop bingeing. I tested and removed my high trigger foods from my diet and implemented meal planning and cooking. With time I want to get more to an intuitive eating style. I feel like mindful eating is an important part of this.
I tried a āmindful eatingā counter before, but that was not specific enough to be measurable or achievable.
I started with distraction-free eating and that has been working well for three weeks now. I found a mindful eating challenge and I want to incorporate specific steps from that into my own mindful eating programm.
So step one was to remove distractions. Today I am adding a new strategy to that: putting down the cutlery between bites. This is not an all-or-nothing thing. The idea is to try to eat my meals that way on a broad basis. If I skip a few bites I wonāt reset my counter.
119 days no takeaways.
115 days no ice cream.
0 days no sugar.
0 days no crisps, no binge-eating.
0 days no compulsive eating.
Struggling. Have been with a migraine since last Thurs, rendering me completely useless. Iāve also been suffering with constant nausea since 26th September when I started reducing the dose of my first medication. Itās going to be like this I suspect until Iām off all of my meds completely in over a year from now, so I am getting used to it. If only it would stop me from eating! Time to start being firm with the voice. Will keep trying, always.
It wasnāt perfect but I will take it. Could be much worse especially that yesterday my period starts and around that time I always let myself go crazy on cravings. But not this time
I donāt know why I had no resistance today. Counter is reset and I will redetermine myself!
I wish I just went to bed and slept.
. So sandwiches here we go again 
thinking of you during this difficult time.