Lily
Gold Member
I’ve been thinking a lot since reading AOGG’s post yesterday about ‘No more excuses!’ http://www.minimins.com/cambridge-diet-forum/177182-stop-making-excuses.html
And it makes sense, it really does, to come on to MiniMins, confess that you want to binge and let all the wonderful people here talk you out of it.
But it doesn’t work like that, does it?
When you’re in the mood to binge – well, it just takes over. The idea of trying to be rational goes completely out of the window. It’s like, for that ten minutes / half hour / 2 hours (however long you personally can keep going!) you just don’t want to be talked out of it. That even though you know you’ll regret it, somehow that thought gets trampled beneath this ridiculous need to cram in as much food as possible.
In my case, it isn’t even emotional eating, really. I’m more like an addict craving a fix. Often it doesn’t even matter what I eat, just so long as I’m shovelling it all in. I barely taste it – I just have this overwhelming need to swallow stuff down.
And yet… I can go for weeks without doing this. Months sometimes. Which doesn’t fit with the addiction model at all, does it?
No prizes for guessing what I've just spent the last hour doing.
Wish I could figure out how to fix myself.
And it makes sense, it really does, to come on to MiniMins, confess that you want to binge and let all the wonderful people here talk you out of it.
But it doesn’t work like that, does it?
When you’re in the mood to binge – well, it just takes over. The idea of trying to be rational goes completely out of the window. It’s like, for that ten minutes / half hour / 2 hours (however long you personally can keep going!) you just don’t want to be talked out of it. That even though you know you’ll regret it, somehow that thought gets trampled beneath this ridiculous need to cram in as much food as possible.
In my case, it isn’t even emotional eating, really. I’m more like an addict craving a fix. Often it doesn’t even matter what I eat, just so long as I’m shovelling it all in. I barely taste it – I just have this overwhelming need to swallow stuff down.
And yet… I can go for weeks without doing this. Months sometimes. Which doesn’t fit with the addiction model at all, does it?
No prizes for guessing what I've just spent the last hour doing.
Wish I could figure out how to fix myself.