I barely last a week before this happens and I repeat
I used to be so disciplined I don’t know what happened
by _-RedRosesInJuly-_
I barely last a week before this happens and I repeat
I used to be so disciplined I don’t know what happened
by _-RedRosesInJuly-_
6 Comments
Eat a little more for a while then gradually drop back down to 1200 when you’re ready to stick to it
You might’ve just gone too hard on your diet for too long. Sometimes we need the mental break of maintaining or even going slightly above – just a period of eating food you actually WANT, just in reasonable portions (even if you aren’t tracking everything to a T, it’s just to prevent the overindulging behavior from becoming a habit).
As another commenter mentioned, definitely try eating more for a while, and then lowering back down! As opposed to setting a strict 1200/day and then beating yourself up for going over if you’re not in the groove.
If you crave something, eat it or else you’re gonna binge eat everything else (based on my own experience, not sure what your binge eating is like) Make your meals around the food you crave so that it matches up with your calorie intake. Also try to eat more volume so you can feel fuller instead of being hungry again. Warm water helps with being less hungry after eating. I’d also recommend keeping a schedule around when you eat that is consistent (like breakfast at 8 am then lunch at 12 dinner at 6 is what I do) but it depends on your schedule with work and everything. If it’s the food you buy then just think ahead on what you will eat on which day and it’ll make you look forward to those days and those meals. Self control is the key here but i understand how it feels like when it’s unbearable and your mind js doesn’t care. For that reason i stay out of the kitchen and keep myself busy until it’s one of my scheduled meal times.
Perhaps your diet is too tyrannical?
No more “fresh starts”. Accept that everything that happens, including failures, is part of your journey. Your day one has already happened. You never get another one. You aren’t ever starting over, sometimes you just stop in the middle to rest, but it is the middle not the beginning again. And that is ok. Missteps and setbacks are a normal part of progress. You need to stop seeing them as something that broke your streak and instead see them as a valuable part of your ultimate success. They are learning and growth moments. What made you binge? Are you stress eating and need to find a different coping mechanism? Is there trigger food in the house you aren’t ready for? Have you cut too much and the strictness is not sustainable? Is your deficit too low? Was it actually just a reasonable relaxed meal you are being too hard on yourself about and spiraling? These moments aren’t the end they are where you learn what you need, what methods work for you and what doesn’t. You and your progress aren’t ruined or stained by these moments, you can grow from them
Day one thinking shames you for normal setbacks while encouraging binges. It often encourages even bigger binges than usual by making you think “if I am going to be so strict from tomorrow I’ll eat even more now, this is my last chance!”. There will be times you could have resisted a binge or had a smaller cheat except the temptation of a totally clean slate (plus the threat of how strict and perfect you are telling yourself you will be afterwards) pushes you and feels like it gives you an excuse. Realistically nobody is always behaving perfectly healthily. That’s not failure, that’s life. You will need rest. You might occasionally get lax or distracted. You will want to try foods that don’t fit with constant strictness. Eating right gets easier, but life will never be perfect, if you wait for a perfect run to be the only one that counts you will be in your nineties saying “tomorrow…”. You are a human being, all of this is a reasonable part of living and you don’t need to erase it from your story for it, or you, to be worth it.
A huge part of stopping this specific kind of binging is to just stop allowing yourself to frame them as fresh starts. Your day one was ages ago, it’s never happening again, there is no erasing the choices we make, only learning from them, and that isn’t a bad thing
If it’s true binging and not just overeating, that’s going into disordered eating/eating disorder territory, which is beyond the scope of help from this subreddit. Your best bet is going into ED specific subs or even better, an in-person health professional