I’ve been eating everything in sight for the past two weeks. I think this is due to a few things. First, I know the start of the diet is impending and I’m going through a bunch of emotional baggage right now. I haven’t shared the baggage with anyone outside of my therapist (even the Emperor) and that’s probably not a good thing. I did do some “art therapy” paintings my therapist suggested. But my therapist got ill and I haven’t been able to get back in to therapy – which is not good at all.
The pressure of knowing that I’ll be starting this very structured and restrictive program in one week has triggered all my feelings of being trapped and I’m really nervous about this too.
The binging continues.
Posted on March 30th, 2008 by lizzie
Filed under: Daily Grind, Life in General, Weight Loss Ramblings
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Check out Body for Life by Bill Phillips. It talks about having more frequent meals. Also you may want to check out the Body for life contest.
why not try this? Like you were rite on
Dieting is a pain in the butt any way you look at it. However talking about what you’re feeling to another person is one of the best ways to get rid of a problem.
Yeah dieting is a diffcult one, I find it hard.not sure binging would help, really not sure.
I agree, dieting is really a hard thing to do. But if you want and determined to lose your weight, I guess you have to undergo all this struggles to reach your goals. Goodluck!
I can relate because I already had many attempts of dieting and I failed unfortunately in all my attempts. Dieting really takes a lot of self-discipline and motivation.
I think it’s typical things we usually do, to binge, before we go on any program. Is that a good sign to go on a structured and restrictive program? I binge and overeat alot in the past, because I was on the program. It took me a while this year to let go of things and trying doing it more intuitively.
Best of luck on the upcoming diet. Binging before a diet is a funny idea. All the foods that taste so good that you can’t have anymore will be fresh in your memory. Err.. maybe I shouldn’t bring that up. I hope you succeed and I’ll be able to read your post at thinladysingz.com soon.
I’ve always heard that it’s better to make small permanent improvements of your regular diet than to “go on a diet.” What you’re talking about appears to be a pretty common problem for people who go on temporary diets: binge before the diet, binge after the diet. I do appreciate the fact that a strict diet, however temporary, can help you to lose weight faster, but it seems like making healthier choices overall would alleviate some of your concerns about binging.
The thing that helped me once in dieting was to throw away all non-healthy foods in my house.., that way even if you want to binge… at least you’ll binge on healthy foods. Also, Eat more proteins and fats than you do carbs. I went down from 270 lbs to a lean 200 lbs in a little over a year using this method (I’m 6’5″). Ill post more details about it here later. Nice blog!
Ha! I’m sorry, i know this doesn’t contribute much but I saw your post title and thought it said ‘Blinking Before The Diet’. (The baby broke my glasses.) I was like, blinking, huh? Does that help?
Maybe the decades of being exposed to the craziest diets on earth makes you believe anything could be a diet fad — even blinking.
Too keep myself from getting that trapped feeling, I have been doing the food journal thing. Keeping track of the numbers of how much I eat and especially how much body fat I currently have really helps me a lot.
Good on you that you are so motivated to lose weight
However, it does not need to be so hard
The fact that you are going on a restrictive diet ‘i think that is the term you used’ just makes me wonder how successful it will be in the long term
What you need is a plan that is compatible with normal day to day life
One that is not restrictive and you can maintain in the long term
http://www.genuinefatloss.com gives you, for free, a weight loss, or more precisely a fat loss, program that actually works
I know the site is ugly at best but the content is good and the techniques advised there work.
Good luck
I used to end up on periodic binges, and what happened was that I started looking forward to the binges and just somehow drag myself through the in-between periods. The diets really didn’t do much good, except for making me miserable. Maybe you should pace yourself and gradually make the diet harder, rather than just cut off everything.
Dieting is so not easy but I’m not sure binging would help. Just my 2 cents
I would like to expand a little about dieting:
In nutrition, the diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism.[1] Dietary habits are the habitual decisions an individual or culture makes when choosing what foods to eat. Although humans are omnivores, each culture holds some food preferences and some food taboos. Individual dietary choices may be more or less healthy. Proper nutrition requires the proper ingestion and equally important, the absorption of vitamins, minerals, and fuel in the form of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. Dietary habits and choices play a significant role in health and mortality, and can also define cultures and play a role in religion.
It doesn’t have to be a huge constrictive thing to eat healthy. In fact, once you start getting into the habit of it you will feel better and will enjoy it. Honestly you’ll look back at poor eating habits and dread that more than sticking to a healthy diet.
I hope you do okay. I’m trying to diet myself and its really hard to stay away from food. I’m stressed at work and home so eating sometimes seems like a release. Hang in there and thanks for sharing.
dieting for me is all about sensible eating and avoiding the harmful food items that wud undo my exercise regimen.
eating so furiously before dieting starts, will not help the matters. coz u may have to end doing more than what u shud have done.
This is very interesting! I have enjoyed reading this very insightful post. Very engaging and informative. Thanks for sharing.
go for small steps first so that u dont feel tired out later. then when ur body adjusts to the regimen, try to step on the gas. move one gradually until u have ur desired results.
best of luck with your diet
Dieting alone will not suffice. You have to eat healthy and try to get as much exercise, sport or physical activity as possible.
I wish you luck with your diet. Since I started my new job, I’ve noticed a gradual wait gain which I am not happy with. Of course the fact that I don’t exercise doesn’t help the situation.
To keep myself from getting that trapped feeling, I have been doing the food journal thing.
I do the same thing whenever I have to start dieting. It’s like some sort of panic attack of mine: eat whatever you see, because the end is near! I know, it’s silly – but oh well I can’t help it. Maybe it’s an excuse.
thats like saying im going to smoke a joint before i quit smoking weed.
i simply love ur website
just keep updating ya..
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i hope you keep on track on dieting since once you broke the track, next will be awful
I’ve actually tried this diet before. It wasn’t my favorite! but it works
Have you tried the super cleanse? It works well…
I think that I would just like to stay with the binge part of the diet! Just my opinion
Will depriving yourself on a restrictive diet help you lose weight or cause you to crave forbidden foods and engage in binge eating after feeling deprived?
I have been wating quite a lot and has never gain weight..I wonder why..
Dieting and detoxification programs are really difficult. Aside from the inconvenience, the person undergoing it also feels grumpy; and that is an ugly feeling. In addition to your internal baggage, the stress of feeling uncomfortable for not getting the food that you want is really too taxing.
QUESTIONS: Why should dieting feel this way? Is there any way where dieting can be fun and you can still eat all the sweets, sugary stuff, and high calories food in this world?
I binge like craz before i start deiting but i feel i gradual progression onto a diet rather than a sudden change is the best
Great post. I enjoyed read it, thank you. Definately looking forward to your next post.
good writing
heck yeah!;)
People with binge eating disorder frequently eat large amounts of food while feeling a loss of control over their eating. This disorder is different from binge-purge syndrome because people with binge eating disorder usually do not purge afterward by vomiting or using laxatives.
If you are tired of bouncing back and forth between feeling deprived and binge eating, there is hope and the answer is simple. When faced with food in a social situation, it is best to have a small piece of your favorite foods without overdoing it.
Lizzie,
I wanted to share with you my tips post to stop binge eating. I included the url under my website in this comments “website” text box.
I hope you find it helpful. I dealt with dieting and binge eating for a while. Often times I would be all excited about starting a new diet. I would be able to keep up with the diet for a few days. Yet one day, my cravings would get out of control from all the foods I’ve been avoiding and I’d end up binge eating.
Anyways I hope you don’t go through that same cycle of dieting and binge eating, I went through it for 4 years and it stinks.
Anyways good luck with your weight loss efforts
This article sounds well, but how everything is related together?
Lizzie,
Depression — one of the key factors that causes you to eat and eat and eat. Depression is caused by fear, fear of the things you’re not ready doing, or not wanting to do. And fear causes stress.
We have different ways of coping up when stress. Others sleep and sleep, and like you eat their way through. One way of preventing depression, or stress, is to know what’s causing you stress. Sharing it to someone, other than your therapist, or hubby, would also be a great way of relieving stress. Exercise, is far more the best way in recovering yourself from it. Though most of us know that exercise makes us happy, exercise also helps deliver oxygen to our brain, making us think well, think positive, and help us recuperate faster.
It is really not easy to do something that you are scared of doing, or not being ready of doing it. But when depression starts to trigger, control is the key, before it’s too late.
I agree completely.
dieting for me is all about sensible eating and avoiding the harmful food items that wud undo my exercise regimen.
I think “Binging Before the Diet” will help us lose weight, but it will do harm to our health.
diet diet and diet…everyday we heard about this word.
Rusli zainal may also take diet.
Cheer,
Rusli Zainal
Dieting is actually just healthy eating!
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Diet and weight loss. Are these missions imposible ^_^
Anyway, people keep spend lot of money and efforts for that job.
Have you ever tried Aerobics ? well consider doing it.Yoga can be very useful too !!