I know when I binge the most it's a long thought process. I debate and debate and end up still doing it. I know that it really helps to avoid triggers. One being I always ate two dinners one on the way home from work and one later that night. I try and avoid driving by fastfood or gas stations, I also try and make phone calls on the way home so my mind and my body are distracted from the triggers of the drive through. So I know when I am triggered to binge and I try to occupy myself with something else. I still fail sometimes at gatherings, but really I was binging everyday and gaining and gaining, now that I am loosing I don't try to do it fast all at once, and I am not saying no to any food at all, I am just keeping to my calorie guidelines and making sure I get as close as I can to my steps, if I don't make my steps I don't eat extra. I still have one day a week that always seems to go over but during the week I have been lower so it evens out. Like I said earlier I can't eat big in the morning because I can't stop. I am also not focused on only healthy and raw foods, I am making what I like and trying to reduce the calories or finding things that fill me that make meals heartier with out being calorie laden, i.e. I cut up zucchini and put it in all my pasta dishes and chili's and soup. Not many calories but it makes it more filling with out changing the taste. As I go I have incorporated more healthy foods, but my first battle was to get down the calories and step up the exercise. I got so defeated reading about how every food I liked was bad, I now avoid that and start adding veggies and fruits and making my meals better and more filling. It's a baby step process, and I have been sticking to it, because I am not changing it as much as I used to when I failed every time.
Recap: Busy yourself when you think you might binge
Don't say not to foods, but find healthy ingredients to make them more filling with out the calories.
