Eurgh, I am such a disgusting pig

[QueenOfThePumpkins]

Food shopping order came this morning. I fancied some chocolate so bought a 4 pack of the standard sized dairy milk bars. I just ate three of them one after the other and now I feel sick. I am nearly 30 FFS What is wrong with me? I'm always like this. If I have a packet of biscuits it is completely gone within an hour at most. I could eat a multi pack of crisps in an afternoon. I have no self control with food at all. I am in awe of everyone else who has a packet of biscuits in their drawer and takes out one or two to have with a coffee. I thought I would grow out of this but I only get worse. Somehow I am not overweight, I think because I don't buy a lot of snacks simply because I can't be trusted with them. I don't know why I'm posting this, but I am a total secret eater and had to share it with someone
(Yes I know, there are lots of people starving and I should just be thankful to have such free access to food)

@TheRealHousewife it certainly helped us see what kind of a sanctimonious poster you are.

I'm exactly the same. I'm size 8 and do loads of exercise and eat extremely healthily 6 days a week, but allow myself one 'binge' day a week. I can easily put away a 200g bar of chocolate in one sitting, ice cream, pizza, crisps...I have no 'off' switch and a seemingly elastic stomach. I disgust myself and am extremely controlling of my food intake the other days of the week to compensate. No advice unfortunately but you're not alone!

@TheRealHousewife except they clearly arent eating 500kcal over their daily allowance regularly otherwise I think OP might've notice a 52lb weight gain in a year!

Sounds like an eating disorder.

I read on Facebook the other day where a woman ate 6 double decker bars, one after the other...

You know people would be less likely to binge and feel like shit afterwards if women weren't judged as having an eating disorder for eating some damn chocolate! If a man did it no one would blink an eye beyond a joking greedy bugger comment but a woman does it and everyone is telling her how fat she's going to get or how it must be an eating disorder. It's no wonder it becomes a cycle when there's so much guilt associated with it.

Got to love a poster who manages to shoe horn gender in to a thread on someone feeling shit about eating too much chocolate

@Chilly567

You’re binging once a week because you’re so tightly restricting. What does your tightly restricting 6 days look like?
Ease up A little and I reckon the binges will ease up

@atadaddicted yes probably something in that. Not unhealthily controlled the other days though (I.e. I eat three healthy meals and the right amount of calories.) Just no snacks or treats as I have no self control

Also crisps. If I don’t start I’m fine. I can stare at a bowl of crisps for hours. As soon as I eat one that’s it. I’ll keep eating until they’re gone.

Same! It's something about how they hurt your mouth a tiny bit, so you have to eat another one to make it stop. Or something.

Eating disorder is not a judgement though. It's a first step to get help. Calling yourself pig, eating in secret (as in ops).. it's not normal. The judgement is calling yourself or others greedy or pig. Not mentioning ED.

Don't buy them or counselling. Or get a timer lock box that you can set for x hours or days and shove them in there

Someone mentioned gender - I know that if we go out for lunch/dinner (oh happy memories), my DH will order WHAT HE WANTS TO EAT. I on the other hand will have a huge internal struggle about healthy options/calories/what I’m “allowed”. And I don’t think I’m alone in this - in my experience, this is very much a gender divide.

Same Op, can be so good and disciplined during the day and could easily consume my daily calorie allowance in the evening in the space of 20 mins, 2 kit kats, 3 multipack crisps last night, makes me so mad when I do this, any tips??
I have to have bits in the house as dh likes a treat but has will power!

Same here. I would never buy a multipack. Or order rubbish online. I buy rubbish when out the house, on the way to work or whatever.

Don't call yourself nasty names like disgusting or a pig, I'm sure you would never say that to any friends or family if they did the same so don't be so harsh and critical of yourself. I think the best thing to do would be to just accept that you have this tendency and then only ever buy one at a time rather than multipacks.

You're not disgusting or a pig, you're a person with low self-control around chocolate. Me too - honestly, it's not a big deal. If I bought a 6 pack of chocolate bars or a massive bar, I would have eaten the while lot in one go. People can turn it into an issue or whatever, but I just don't buy things like that, just buy the one bar and scoff it on the way home. I know what my triggers are and just don't have them in the house. Only social etiquette stops me going feral at buffets though😁

I'm the same. During lockdown I would buy chocolate to last for the week - it would be lucky to be still there at the end of the day! I rarely buy ice cream because I can't be trusted with it. Don't worry about it, just limit your purchases - if it's not there you can't eat it!