Binge eating recovery daily check in thread (Part 2)

acromouse · February 26, 2024, 6:53am

96 sugar
52 UPF
14 overeating/binge

Down with Tummy bug. No food

Misokatsu · February 26, 2024, 9:24am

Take care!

CATMANCAM · February 26, 2024, 8:19pm

22 days no takeaways.
21 days no sugar.
19 days no crisps, no binge-eating.

I still can’t get my head around this, I know it’s early days but it fuels my belief in the never giving up mentality. Just keep trying, every day.

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Jesile · February 26, 2024, 9:05pm

Way to go, Cam!

Aleyadaisey · February 27, 2024, 2:14am

Day 1171 : No binge today.

You’re doing amazing @CATMANCAM! Keep it up!

Almost 100 days without sugar for @acromouse! Amazing! Keep it up! And I hope you feel better soon. Drink water as much as you’re able to.

acromouse · February 27, 2024, 7:44am

@CATMANCAM However you’re doing it, it looks like it’s working! Three weeks is great. I hope the cravings are getting less and less.

97 sugar
53 UPF
0 overeating/binge

This was a very strange tummy bug. The bad part lasted for about two days. Yesterday afternoon all nausea was gone and I got soooo hungry. Stuffed myself pretty mindlessly and definitely overate. Didn’t pay attention to any signals at all. I’m ok with resetting the counter.

Jana1988 · February 27, 2024, 8:11am

You’re reseting your counter, but really, it’s only numbers. What counts is the experience. All the days you went through without binging/over eating are NOT lost!
We say that anything hard we go through makes us stronger. Your ‘relaps’ makes you stronger. Now you have got the comparison how it felt next morning when you achieved your goal against how it felt now after you relapsed and you can use these feelings like your motivation and fuel to do great again!

You’re really good at this and I’m crossing all my fingers for you thay it all gets easier

Jana1988 · February 27, 2024, 8:16am

Also reseted my clock again. Can’t even count for how many times I ate an ice-cream after my dinner yesterday I very well knew what I’m doing but I didn’t want to stop myself at the moment…

I realised that my mood and motivation changes hugely through the day. Mornings are the best. I’m so motivated and on the top of all of it. It almost seems that it goes down gradually since my first bite. It’s like if I injected some poison to my body which makes me crave food since… I know I was in this state before and then I got over it. It’s like coming back to past slowly but surely. I want to stop the train because I ain’t going all the way back down there to binging and purging and being exhausted and ill!!! NOOOOOOO WAAAAY!

I feel so crazy, it’s overwhelming. But somehow I’m calm and not scared. Maybe it’s because it’s morning and I did HIIT at 5am today and so I’m all boosted with positive energy

Anyway. I will get through this. I will.

Jana1988 · February 27, 2024, 10:51pm

I’m going to bed now and I can safely say:

1 day no binge/overeating
1 day no sweet snacks

I broke the cycle and hope to keep on this path!
God, I’m so happy.

I had cravings, really bad ones, but resisted and now I feel sooooo good about it! This feeling should help me to get through more days as I’ll remember how great I feel about it.

Aleyadaisey · February 28, 2024, 2:09am

Day 1172 : No binge today.

You can do this, @Jana1988! I’m rooting for you!

Don’t be too hard on yourself, @acromouse. You’re still doing great with your no sugar counter! Now that you’re feeling better, you can get back on track. You got this!

acromouse · February 28, 2024, 6:50am

@Jana1988 You go! Fantastic start.

Thanks for the nice words everyone

98 sugar
54 UPF
1 overeating/binge

Funny thing: feeling like starving will almost always lead to overeating
But honestly if this happens because I didn’t eat during tummy bug my body obviously will want to make up for the lack of food. It’s designed to do exactly that: keep me fed and well. Which shines a very interesting light on all those diets…
Anyways. I’m listening to my body and my heart ODAAT.

Jana1988 · February 28, 2024, 7:12am

100%!! If you feel hungry, it’s much harder not to over eat. Maybe because the body is scared of starving?

I’m glad you’re back on track and sorry you had a naughty bug. Glad you feel better

Jana1988 · February 28, 2024, 7:15am

Thank you @Aleyadaisey It wasn’t easy win but I feel so good today about it
What’s the best is that when I watched telly with my bf in the evening I could pay full attention to the story and not having the noisy thoughts about food for the whole time. My mind perhaps rememberes that when the decission not to eat have been made then silence in my head is required I experienced less cravings then I used to have in past when having bulimia.

CATMANCAM · February 28, 2024, 1:19pm

@Jesile @Aleyadaisey @acromouse thank you all

24 days no takeaways.
23 days no sugar.
21 days no crisps, no binge-eating.

(Yesterday’s numbers)

It feels so good to have all my counters in the 20s together. It doesn’t feel real. I am not feeling the urges quite as strongly now, since I’ve started going to sleep earlier, I haven’t been watching any TV for over a week now, so I think that’s probably helping.

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CATMANCAM · February 28, 2024, 11:02pm

25 days no takeaways.
24 days no sugar.
22 days no crisps, no binge-eating.

This evening, I have been battling very strong cravings for sugar. The thought of never again was overwhelming, so I reminded myself I’ve felt that when quitting every addiction before, and I have achieved multple years from a few of them now, so I may just stand a small chance of doing this one too, and I hope. Eric’s No More Added Sugar thread was a good distraction.

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Aleyadaisey · February 29, 2024, 1:59am

Day 1173 : No binge today.

Alisa · February 29, 2024, 5:37am

Glad you had good distraction from the no more sugar thread! Wow too on your numbers all in the twenties.
A lot of these feed each other at least for me, and you’re not feeding the monsters!
I hope Thursday will be easier for you.

acromouse · February 29, 2024, 6:30am

@CATMANCAM “Never ever again ” is a line my addiction likes to use a lot. Little sneaky shit. I learned to answer: TODAY I don’t want to eat “fill in your craved for food”. It’s silly, but it helps. Your effort is really impressive

99 sugar
55 UPF
2 overeating/binge

I’m on the edge of overeating every afternoon and evening now as my crazy hormonal cycle is taking it’s hopefully last dive. I learned not to judge too harshly. As long as I’m not bingeing or “fog eating” with no attention or awareness whatsoever I’m ok.

Jana1988 · February 29, 2024, 6:35am

FOOD TRIGGER WARNING

I have 2 days with no overeating/binging behind me and starting a day 3 today.

I already did 45 minutes HIIT workout first thing in the morning which always gets me to right mindset
I still eat sugar BUT! I bought a wholenut milk chocolate for my boyfriend per his request yesterday and I got a ‘GU Hazelnut praline cheescake’ for myself because I’m less likely to binge on that. The chocolate - I could easily eat the whole lot of it in one go…
I eventually had two of two cheeskaces in the package but not in one go and it didn’t feel like I’m binging on it.
I feel good, because I didn’t have any of the chocolate (and my boyfriend did offer), nor I had gummy bears despite the pack being in front of my eyes for couple of days now. There are also caramel ice-creams in the freezer which I would eat at least one every day and I didn’t touch them at all! These are big wins for me because before I couldn’t resist to such triggers… Great job me

Aleyadaisey · March 1, 2024, 2:02am

Day 1174 : No binge today.

You’re doing great so far, @CATMANCAM! All three of your counters in the 20s! Keep it up!