Stop Bingeing and Start Eating Healthily Thread

[SnowyWellies]

Would anyone like to join me? I am a yo yo dieter, a failed WW (could not bear the small portions) failed SW (went wild on Free foods) and I eat too much of the wrong sorts of food. I binge then starve and I want to get out of that cycle. I also enjoy my evening 3 glass of wine a little too much! I feel bloated, pasty, tired and I hate how I look in the mirror. I am about to hit 40, and I refuse to spend any more time hating myself. I want to deal with my psychological food issues, and I want to finally be the woman I am meant to be.

I am 5 ft 2 and weigh 11 stone 3.

My aim- to increase fruit and veg. To cut out wheat as I bloat very badly on wheat. To take as much care over my own diet as I do over the diets of my children and my husband. To not treat my body like a rubbish bin.

As of this morning. I am tired. My skin is pale and blotchy. I am very bloated in the stomach. I am aiming to lose 24 pounds, but want to do it properly and without feeling deprived. I want to make this process luxurious, with a focus on gorgeous healthy food.

Today's plan:

Breakfast - fruit and natural yoghurt with a drizzle of honey.

Lunch - home made carrot and coriander soup.

Dinner - fresh veg risotto.

I need ideas for delicious alcohol-free drinks. Currently I love a splash of grapefruit juice and soda water.

Anyone want to join me? The focus is on good food, and to deal with the psychological issues around bingeing and self hatred. I am not a psychologist, just someone who needs- and can offer support!

Weigh in days will be Mondays and Thursdays.

having gained 7kg in 3 weeks, perhaps I should tiptoe in late too I have been living on late night carbs/sugar binges- no food in the day- completely wrong of me I know. I am determined to break the cycle of my massive overeating, even my shoes don't fit me and I have a tiny frame so an extra 7kg really shows

I've always had food issues, but it's really got the better of me. I have never over eaten like I have been recently. I can never have one anything. 3 minimum. get addicted rapidly to things so I have to completely block them out for success.

I have a couple of weeks of peace and quiet from my usual hectic chaos coming up over easter. I want to use that time to break this binge eating cycle and start exercising again and feel healthy and better.

Another day, a good food day :) lets go!

I've been skulking around, not been great but miles better than my previous diet

Had fruit and fibre with milk for breakfast and just polished off a feta and roasted veg salad (my new discovery is roasted veg .. I could potentially eat platefuls of it .. Binge binge but that's NOT the idea) Wine consumption has slowed (to a steady trickle)

m going to have a few days of trying to eat as much fresh stuff as I can, as it does make me feel so much better

Have a good day y'all

It's 12.15 here BTW I'm not that bad I eat my lunch at 8am !

Welcome cafe and double the more the merrier I think there are many of us out there with horrendous eating habits and it's lovely to have refuge in this thread.

I got up early to go running before work so feeling ok. Trying to have a good food day too

Breakfast - honeydew melon

Lunch - chicken and veg soup and a pack of French fries

Tea - maybe a stir fry

I eat less when working (nurses have very few breaks!) so I tend not to obsess quite as much. Hope you all have a good day

Starting again AGAIN!

Egg on toast

Fishfingers for lunch with something - wrap and salad maybe

Chicken stir fry for dinner

Fruit

Hello, yay - refuge!

well today was the first day in aaaages I have not bought chocolate - yknow, the big bars of green and blacks with nuts in, or other sweet sugary fix foods, like enormous frozen yogurt smothered in a whole pot of honey or 3 pain au chocolats, and so forth.

I had a good day because I was on a course all day - no breakfast though (this is possibly where I always go wrong, I dont eat breakfast, then don't eat lunch.. then eat everything [humanly possibly just before bedtime). But today, I ate lunch (sandwiches were provided, though usually I would not eat them they were very nice) had apple (well, 3) as snack, random chickpea/bean salad and some yummy scrummy mushroom stew at a cafe overlooking the river on my way home. just got in the door and now need to resist the lure of the 24/7 chocolate shop outside. no food in my apartment at all (I eat everything)

I feel this enormous sense of achievement silly hey- but yeah, I need to break the cycle. I just want to be ''free'' from it. I can spend a fortune every day on food without realising, I mean, literally, insane amounts of money that I don't have- and it takes up too much time. this is so embarrassing. hohum... (too late to retrospectively namechange!) need to be NORMAL

flossie I am a medic. I find the same thing, but then I will go for too long without food and then get ravenously hungry and scoff way too much of the wrong stuff. I also do nightshifts sometimes, which mess my eating patterns up (vending machine at 4am, well, okay then)

I'm also meant to be studying and have dissertations and exams coming up (3 degrees, aaagh) which does not help. eating is better than stressing about the real stuff. but I do need to stop.

one day down - how many days to make a habit? I heard 3 weeks?

I'm coming round to the idea that a proper breakfast - after a lifetime of protesting - does make a difference. Cafe I also don't eat breakfast then don't eat lunch and graze all evening. We are terribly unkind to ourselves and would never treat a child like this.
Early bed for me tonight - 10ish- as part of the new discipline. Not sure I can keep this up!

God knows cafe I have done 3 wks straight it's the perpetual cycle that drives me nuts. I'm a sensible person most of the time but find food is my crutch. My eating pattern is very similar - I never eat breakfast, at work lunch is 2pm but this is just quickly shoveling something down your throat whilst doing paperwork, then home and eat eat eat! I can eat chocolate until I feel sick. It must be very stressful for you with so much study pressure, be kind to yourself. If you gained 7kg in a few weeks I bet you could lose it just as fast

My day wasn't too bad. A lovely patient of mine wanted to give me £10 for looking after him of course I refused but he gave me a box of chocs instead so my colleague and I made a dent in them! Some people are so sweet it almost makes the stress worthwhile!

Hope everybody else had a good day

'Never' gone 3 weeks was what I meant to write! stillstarving you sound very similar as well. I was toying with the 5:2 idea as I do seem to be able to go hours without eating but I always give in around 6pm as I'm famished!!

Managed to stick to it today! First time in 2 weeks I think. :)

autopilot mode kicked in... ventured to little corner shop.. left with not one, but 3 yogurts... oh dear. at least I resisted the kitkat chunkys.

I am absolutely going to beat this, definitely starting by tuesday (start of easter break for a few days)-

the risk for me with breakfast is, I can easily let that be a trigger in itself (ie more than one breakfast, which makes no sense to normal people) and then I feel terrible about it, and then I 'write the day off' and it all descends into chaos rfrom there. So I think I avoid triggering it, by generally avoiding food- which has the paradoxical effect of making me eat more. sigh.

twinke that's brilliant well done

twinkle- sorry! feels good doesn't it

Twinkle I did try 5:2 and didn't find it hard at all. I'm the only person I know in RL who didn't lose an ounce on it - completely because I ate too much on the days off. I think it would work for me if I had a healthier attitude to food generally. As it is it just feeds into my bad patterns.

Cafe 3 yoghurts is a heck of an improvement on 3 chocolate bars

Morning all- sounds like people are doing well!

Nothing to report here at all. Ate fried chicken wings for lunch. Veg soup for dinner.

Busy day ahead.

Just getting this back on my threads I am on.

Need to catch up properly on the computer as read everything then forget who said what!

Welcome to all the new peeps.

Anyone setting a small target this week. Mine last week was avoid biscuits from restaurant at work and I did bar I half a biscuit my friend offered me - so nearly

Still not gone back to shred but feeling so wiped out - hope to feel better soon. Got bad period pains today

My target this week is to try and get more active in the evenings

Good idea coolkat, my target will be to plan my food every day and then sit down and eat it. I absolutely agree with the good advice I've had on here that I need to do that. If I manage that it will be a ridiculously big achievement for me! Weirdo that I am.
Good luck all! Keep it up!

Morning.

I honestly cannot think of a target, other than just keep it together for the week.

I will have to ponder....

Drink more water wellies?

What is this 5:2? How does it actually work does anyone know a brief overwiew? Sounds like my kind of eating!

Bambio where have you been for the past 6 month?!! It's the new diet craze. There's hundreds of threads on here where people are doing it. Basically you restrict your calories to 500 on 2 days a week the rest of the week you can eat 'normally' although I have a fear I would eat so much on those days it would out weigh the benefits. There's lots of health benefits to fasting too apparently