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.

Haha ooops I clearly need to take my head further out is the sand haha

Does that mean you can have basically whatever you want inside the 1200 calories?

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

I have the same fear, flossie. I think I would just go crazy on the 'normal' days.

Drinking more water sounds a good target. :)

You restrict your calorie intake to 500 kcal 2 days per week, the other 5 days you eat normally - I understand this is around 2000kcal for a woman. There is a thread on here at the moment with lots of posters. I understand people are having excellent results plus there are apparently a lot of health benefits

Cafe - just take it one meal at a time. Make breakfast good. Then lunch. Then dinner. Do that for 3 days and you'll be in a routine.

Back down to the lowest weight I've seen this year which makes me so happy! Might be able to get another pound off for official wi later this week!

Menu

Doughnut and fruit

Leftover Thai green curry and brown rice noodles

Fish and salad for dinner

Bag of French fries crisps as a snack

thanks twinkle, I hope you're right. know in the past it's easier once you're into the swing of it, in a habit of it, etc. I just need to break the exceptionally bad, addictive habits of my scoffing

I had a better day today. No breakfast- but instead of eating nothing, I bought a hospital cereal bar with coffee before a lunch seminar... then had 2 more after lunch but then actually, I didn't feel like it was in any way triggering. Have had mushroom stew (again!) a salady thing and yogurt (ONE) this evening. I am fighting the urge to go to waitrose and buy masses of chocolate. I feel hungry, but I don't think I am hungry as I have just eaten I have so much work to do, I don't know where to start with it. Maybe that's why I am telling myself I am ravenously hungry. hmm.

I think I would find 5:2 easy - but would take it to extremes, which is not the idea of it. I just know my bonkers personality would make it 5 days of not eating and then 2 days of eating 15,000 calories a day- or something completely WRONG like that. So I am not going there.

Today sounds better! DO NOT buy chocolate! Have a milky hot chocolate!

Gosh I am sooo hungry ! I need to retune my appetite and timings, I guess usually at this time of day I wouldn't have eaten and would then eat loads so my normal setting is to eat lots and lots in the evening. crazy.

Having a bath (so waitrose closes and I have to take my shoes off and will be less inclined to go out :) ) and getting on with some work......

not easy it it

Just wanted to say Hi! Was about to start a new thread about healthy eating/calorie counting but this looks to be similar! I've been doing 5:2 since January and have lost a stone. I found it really easy initially but have struggled recently and am not losing weight as am overeating on the non-fast days . Am also feeling very grumpy on fast days which really isn't fair on DS!! So have decided to try and switch to a calorie controlled diet instead, aiming to eat healthily and sensibly. I have tried to do this in the past and have tended to fall off the wagon very quickly - so am hoping this thread will keep me motivated! An added incentive is that we are planning to start TTC and I am alot heavier than I would like to be even before becoming pregnant!

Welcome onceipop!

Argh I'm soooo stupid. I'm out tomorrow night so made oh a big steak pie for his dinner that he can have tomorrow and then we proceeded to eat half of it straight out if the oven cause it was so nice! And that's AFTER we'd had dinner!

And it's my mates bday tomorrow so there'll be cake and food - I thought I was safely out of the 11s but now it looks like I'll be back in them tomorrow :(

I did ok yesterday , ate my 3 meals - amazing how much effort that took to do ! I did the 30 day shred too BUT last night I drank 1/2 bottle of wine because it was open from the weekend and then ate half a big bag of crisps. Why? Just why?

Don't worry twinklestar - you can just cut back on another day and it will even out. On the 5:2 diet the idea was to look at weekly calorie intake rather than daily - made it easier (for me) not to just give up after one indulgent day! The idea of eating less on a couple of days and then being a bit more relaxed on the other days worked well for me in principal - but recently I have found 500 cals too little. So I'm wondering whether to perhaps do a couple of days of 800ish each week instead. Will still have to keep an eye on intake on the other days but maybe wouldn't have to be quite so strict? I think there's also some evidence that short bursts of "fasting" can increase fat burning!

Twinkle is your friend's birthday the reason you're going to be out tonight? You can't go any thing about the pie now - it's sounds delicious! I'd like it now- but is there a plan you can make for this evening? Key question for me would be will you be drinking?
Going to have to plan for the evening as well as meals. Given any kind of free rein I lose the run of myself. Of course when I have a plan I rebel against it too. This all feels a bit crazy.

Well done Bambio on your wine abstension, can't say the same for myself this weekend. Got absolutely plastered, had a least 2 bottles of wine plus a bourbon and a large vodka. Ah well there you go, really enjoyed myself at the time. Stonking hangover yesterday as you can imagine, ate for England. Totted up my calories for Sunday and yesterday on MFP and reckon I had at least 5,000 ... so I reckon another slight weight loss this week if any at all. Oh well today is a new day and I've a little over a week to my hols so no more booze until I'm in sunnier climes. Mini goal for this week is to do some exercise!

Hi to Double can you batch cook a couple of different meals for yourself, a hot curry and a really garlicky ratatouille and freeze them in individual portion sizes? That way you can eat with your DS but don't have the bother of cooking two seperate meals at the same time iyswim.

cafecito logging on her as often as you can will really help and may help you to identify where you go "wrong" and how you can head off the binges. I think the most important conclusion I've come to since being on this thread is that if I do go over the top on one meal/snack/night out I haven't ruined all my efforts and instead of throwing the towel in I pick myself up and start again.

hi onceipop good luck on the TTC - that's a great motivator!

Right, time for breakfast - yoghurt and fruit (again) - seems to help keep me on the right track. Have a good week everyone!

Hello.
Can I join please?
I am disgusting.
I have started reading this thread.
Basically I binge.
I have managed to stop the laxatives....none this year.

I am such a yoyo dieter. Also 3 years ago I "got to target" at slimming world. Trouble is, I went too low (with the help of laxatives) & couldn't maintain.

All food is my downfall.

I will weigh myself tomorrow morning.

In the meantime I am going to think of my 1st goal. I need to do this 1 step at a time.

Will carry on reading....am just in top age 4.

Decided to post as if it takes me days to read, then that's days wasted when I could have begun to be healthy.

Wirecat .. Welcome

Things i have learned...
Berries nuts and 0% Greek yoghurt and a scatter of oats for breakfast I know it's not particularly low cal but am aiming for healthy .. Seems to keep me going til lunch

You can always start again tomorrow

In the past month I have eaten proper meals, and I have also had a few days where I've slipped back into my old shocking bad habits (2 bottles of wine and a family bag of crisps for dinner was not unusual)

So I will say thank you I'm away for a few days but will be back with more rumblings x

Help me!!!! I can't seem to get back on track :(

Still - dinner turned out to be ok. Chicken roast dinner with loads of veg and a small slice of birthday cake. Menu planned for tomorrow. I will do this. 8 weeks to lose 11lbs (or more!) ready for my next appointment at the fertility clinic.

Come on Bambi plan your menu for tomorrow and stick to it.

I managed a day yesterday where I planned my eating, stuck to it and did a bit of exercise. It felt great! A minor victory in the war perhaps but still a victory! Need to plan menu for today and just follow it. The way I've been living is ridiculous. I need to remember how unhealthy and how unhappy it's made me when I'm wanting to slip back. I chafe against the structure but its what I need for a while to change things. And I need to guard against getting complacent if I have a day or 2 when I've behaved myself.
Onwards and upwards! The blubber will go, I will be fit as a fiddle and stop all the mental beating myself up for something I've eaten.
Good luck everybody! It's hard to change things but it's definitely worth it. When you look at it the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. Although one of the disadvantages for me st the moment seems to be that 2 days of the 30 Day Shred has left me barely able to walk! It must be doing something!

Good morning all.

Welcome Wirecat. Now, you are NOT disgusting!!!!! You just have fallen into some habits that are not working to your benefit. That is all. :) Like all of us!

I am way off the eating healthily wagon and am just going to chill for a bit. i have nothing left in me after the horror work week to pay attention to anything or aim for anything. (Although, I am drinking a small glass of water on the hour every hour). So I am just going to focus on eating small amounts of good food that is worth my eating it, and will get back to things tomorrow.

Have good days everyone. :)

Brilliant news still! Keep up the good work!

thank god for Matalan! Now there's a sentence I never thought I'd say. Despite my heavy weekend and self predicts of little to no weight loss and despite being up since 5.30am this morning and being DOG tired I decided to do a sneaky weigh in and yes I've gained, only 0.2lbs but a gain is a gain. So in two weeks I have achieved a total loss of 0.3lbs fucking pathetic bringing me to a total of 10.3lbs in 12 weeks. Not happy. So of course in my sleep deprived state I'm thinking right what's the point might as well just eat whatever I like when I like who cares? and then my Matalan order arrived with a few things that I'd tentatively ordered for my holiday thinking that I would have to send it all back as it would all look shit. Might as well try it all on now I thought whilst I'm in such a positive and uplifting mood it's all good (except for one silly thing that I have no idea why I ordered it in in the first place). It all fits and - I think - it looks quite good too. So, than god for Matalan as I'm now thinking come on don't sabotage your efforts so far, keep going!

Bambio what's happened you were doing so well ... are you in that complacent stage where you've lost ? a stone isn't it? and feel like you need a break? Nothing wrong with that. Try and restart today or tomorrow though. Look how far you've come!

Wirecar hello. Please don't be so mean to yourself. You are not disgusting. As Wellies says it's habits and these can be changed. Small steps. Stay with us!

Morning.
Thanks for the welcome.

Must get head in gear.

Went to Greggs this morning. Toddler wanted hot x bun. Bought pack of 6. He ate one on way to nursery. I have just eaten the other 5.

I could cry.am such a greedy cow. I didn't even taste them. They just "had" to be eaten.

WTF.