I sometimes have wars going on in my head lol about binges. Interestingly if I do binge its the times that the war in my head doesnt happen. Xx
I would totally agree with this - when I binge i will rarely have given it more than ten seconds of conscious thought beforehand - it's driving past macdonals and suddenly I'm indicating, going to the drive thru and ordering an obscene amount of food. It's popping in to asda to waste twenty mins between appts, and coming out with a sandwich meal deal, and an extra choc bar, and a full fat milkshake. It's finding yourself home alone unplanned and eating the whole multipack of crisps.
When I do sit and agonise about a binge, all day at work, planning the macdonalds trip, the pub meal, the alcohol spree...by the time I get the opportunity to do it, the moment has passed, and I either don't want it, or feel so guilty that I back off!
This is all about conscious eating - at what point did you properly realise you were eating 9 bags of crisps...and I mean PROPERLY? Did you plan it as you drove home, did you work all night thinking about it and imagining eating them? Did you carefully choose what to eat, when and how, and in what quantities? Or did you get home, feel shattered, want food and immeidately plough through them?
I am starting to make myself follow some rules to help me eat more consciously...
1) only eat sitting down - no picking from the fridge, out of the pan etc- if you do, you have to walk to the table/sofa and sit down before you can eat - most of the time I cant be bothered, or it's fallen off my wooden spoon anyway!!
2) dont eat with my work computer switched on - I lock it and move along my desk slightly to eat lunch, as I found i could eat 4 cereal bars without thinking
3) no eating in the car - helps with the macdonalds things...this is how I actually gave up smoking - cut it off at the source and banned myself from smoking in all the places I usually smoked!
4) where possible, me and my partner have started eating all meals (even breakie!!) at the dining room table, no TV on, just radio/music. So we talk while we eat, which slows us down naturally.
5) I've stopped using my phone for facebook/minimins etc whilst eating, I try and leave it elsewhere, or turn it over so its not a distraction

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