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Thanks LaMa, I suppose it is. The desire to eat too much was better yesterday, and my system is getting back to a more normal condition. No binges yesterday and no urges out of the usual.

Let's not binge today.
 
I´ve never had a pop tart, don´t know if they exist here. I know what they look like but no idea about consistency or taste. Care to elaborate?
 
Well I did binge, after posting last night. More pop tarts and junk...

I need to remember that I am still the same compulsive overeater I have always been. In a kind of remission, but still with the same desires and cravings.

I don't feel very good about things this morning, and my first instinct is to try starving and lots of exercise to make up for it. But I know the best thing to do is to just get back on track, as though it did not happen, except to be more vigilant. That, I believe will help stave off future binges. I probably need to learn to live with the occasional binge, not that I want that, but it may just be a part of my life. The important thing is not to make them a regular part...

Oh well, things will go on. This morning I have that very old song in my head "Why does the world go on turning"... Kind of appropriate, but it will go on turning for me, I just have to decide what it will be like for me.

LaMa, pop tarts are awful junk food. Top of the list of the Unhealthiest Foods in America (The 15 Unhealthiest Junk Foods in America) you are better off without them, believe me.
 
alligatorob said:
I don't feel very good about things this morning, and my first instinct is to try starving and lots of exercise to make up for it. But I know the best thing to do is to just get back on track, as though it did not happen, except to be more vigilant. That, I believe will help stave off future binges. I probably need to learn to live with the occasional binge, not that I want that, but it may just be a part of my life. The important thing is not to make them a regular part...
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Couldn´t agree more. It sucks but what can you do.
If I ever encounter poptarts in the wild I´ll give them a wide berth. Not that they look very nice, but looks can be deceiving :)
 
It may also have to do with the early demise of cooking from scratch in the US. There are of course exceptions to every trend but I think in the US tv dinners became a thing in the 1950s? Here they would've been very rare until the 1980s or even 1990s. If you're used to having mom's/grandma's/uncle Bob's home cooking and fresh Apfelstrudel convenience food may not be as appealing.
 
I felt sick just reading the foods on that list & had to stop. I have never had a pop tart & am glad about that. Packaged food didn't really become a thing here until much more recently too, thank goodness. Unfortunately, that continues to change. One day I fear people won't have stoves.
Next time you feel like a binge, Rob can you think of one really delicious thing that you would love to have & then have just one little portion? Or is it "I want to stuff my face with as much as I can" to numb yourself? When I have that feeling I have a small fruit platter with a couple of squares of dark chocolate & maybe a little dried fruit, sometimes a little piece of licorice. When I put it together, it looks like a mini feast & I say "that's it". I then feel like I had had a treat, but it's not overboard.
One day last week when I was feeling really down I remembered I had some of those small packets of chemist jellybeans put aside in the first aid cabinet for when the GK's were sick & I sat & ate the lot. I used to think they were delicious, but this time all I kept thinking was "maybe the white ones are the best." No. They were horrible & they made me feel horrible.
I don't know why I put all of the above really. I used to binge eat & when the feeling comes these days I am better able to deal with it usually. Stuffing my face never helps. I empathise with anyone who does it. The feeling afterwards is awful.
 
LaMa, I remember tv dinners, when I was a kid we even had these little individual tables you could put them on and watch TV. Looking back the food was awful, and so was the idea, but I had fun with it at the time. I guess prepackaged food is a kind of necessity in many people's modern lifestyles, but that should not have to make it unhealthy...

Cate my binges of late have really been spur of the moment, kind of one bite leading to another, had to plan that one. Looking back what they all had in common was a big evening snack ending with some bit of junk food. That one bit would have been alright had it ended there, but once I had that first bite taking a second was easier, and then a third, and well it just grew from that... All have been late night things. Back when I binged regularly I sometimes followed that pattern, but not exclusively. And time of day did not matter much.

No binge today, and feeling bad seemed to ease the urges.

Let's not binge tomorrow, I sure don't want to. And its off to bed now, no first errant bite tonight.
 
alligatorob said:
I guess prepackaged food is a kind of necessity in many people's modern lifestyles, but that should not have to make it unhealthy...
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Maybe it shouldn't, but it's hard to avoid. Very few dishes taste good when you just reheat the whole thing together. So you add more salt, more fat, more sugar, remove the more outspoken flavors (aka veggies, fiber doesn't store well anyway) and douse the whole thing in sauce.
 
Hard to blame the folks who make and sell the junk, they just sell what we buy... If somehow people miraculously only started eating healthy, the junk food would quickly disappear from the market. I know its not quite that simple, a lot of the food companies practice some pretty misleading labeling to make you think things are good for you that probably are not. That makes it harder for the average person to sort out.

No binge today, but tonight I sure wanted to. Had the grandkids over and they left a half eating bag of Oreos cookies out where I could see them. It took some will power not to eat any, and I managed not to eat a single one. Wish I could say I feel real good about that, but right now I am thinking of trying to figure out where they ended up... Don't think I will, but it sure is tempting.

Let's not binge tomorrow.
 
No binge today and the cravings were less. However as I post this I can feel one. It would be so easy to do a late binge again...

Let's not binge tomorrow.
 
Sometimes I´ll be doing really well, feeling great, and then just thinking about past binges(or even how much better I´m feeling than when I binge) will suddenly make me want to binge HARD.
 
LaMaria said:
Sometimes I´ll be doing really well, feeling great, and then just thinking about past binges(or even how much better I´m feeling than when I binge) will suddenly make me want to binge HARD.
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LaMa, it never ceases to amaze me how well you can describe exactly what I have felt. I guess we share a few things with respect to our eating problems... And you express yourself very well, more articulately than I.

No binge yesterday, but as usual it was hard to stop eating and go to bed. I have pretty much rid the house of binge foods, except for a few grandkid treats, but not much. There are a few Oreos left, I intentionally put them in a place that is harder to get to. Last night I was glad I did...

Let's not binge tomorrow.
 
LaMa, I suppose you are right about the advantage of surprise. However you generally surprise me with you insight, not so surprising any more. The Oreos are out of site, but not completely out of mind...

No binge here today, and no real strong urges, but like the last few days stopping eating tonight has been hard. I think it always will be.

Let's not binge tomorrow.
 
alligatorob said:
like the last few days stopping eating tonight has been hard. I think it always will be.
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Huh. You just made me realize that my brain´s general resistance to eating (which means anything I do eat has to taste really nice or I´ll starve myself until I binge on the highly-palatable stuff) is probably the reason I have no trouble at all with that where real food is concerned. A positive to my negative!
 
Now that is where we differ LaMa, my brain has no "resistance to eating", and food does not have to taste good for me to binge on it. But most everything does taste relatively good to me. And I have no food allergies, that I know of, except maybe to food in general. It has made me real fat....

No binge today, and no strong urges, except that as with the past few days it remains hard to stop...

Let's not binge tomorrow.
 
No binge today, and again no strong urges. Even tonight it was a little easier to stop eating. A good few days, hope it lasts.

Let's not binge tomorrow!
 
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