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Originally Posted by getmovin78
I was hoping to postpone the diet break until after July since I love feeling light and lean when dieting and hate the bloated feeling and there is so much going on this summer, I wanted to avoid it. But this week on thursday we are going on vacation,and it seems in anticipation Ive started binge eating. The overeating gradually started last Wed, and led into Thursday and finally a full blown binge on Saturday. Not sure of caloric intake but definitely close to 3000. Today I attempted to diet strict as a starve day to accomodate for the extra calories and was unable to acheive it. No bingeing today, but overeating on clean foods.
What the heck is wrong with me? I really dont want to go on vacation this week feeling fat and bloated, but I dont think I will be able to "diet" either during those 4 days we are away.
Pleaes help me figure out an action plan! I dont want to come back and have gained all that I lost during 12 weeks of hard earned dieting!!! I am so nervous that with this mindset, I will end up bingeing all week!!!
Should I fast Monday-Wed and keep my calories super low?
Would it be better to just diet normally until we leave?
Would it be better to eat maintanence?
Thanks for your help in advance! i cant believe this is happening to me, I was so strong and committed, and now I feel like a failure.  |
When I'm out of control, if I remember to do an EatStopEat day (ESE) (Brad Pilon), it helps me. What I do is I eat dinner, then no nighttime snack, or any food until dinner the next evening... 20-24 hrs later. I drink water or black coffee, or if I want a nasty treat, I drink a diet coke.
What that does for me:
a. it calms me down
b. it is a "forced" distraction from food and the uncontrollable binge
c. It is an all or nothing, so it stops me from the binge
d. It makes me really grateful for the food I eat that evening, and I may allow something special: maybe salty, or oily, or maybe a larger than usual meal (my meals are 150-350 cal, so it might be a "double meal" treat).
This might really work for you because i read you saying you want to keep that lean feeling, and that for your vacation, you'll be able to eat your vacation food.
I notice that pre vacation and post vacation are really hard for me around emotional eating. So one more thing: for you and for me... after time after time of this same thing happening, I think we'll strengthen habits of recognizing our behavior, accepting our frailty and our human-ness, and we will have behavioral changes/tools like ESE to protect our hard-earned results.
http://www.eatstopeat.com/lose-weight.html