My previous 60 yrs have been blighted by binging.
Whether I was dieting or not I would find that after lunch, usually between 2 and 3 I would have a need to eat that was almost irresistible, and maybe again in the evening after supper.
If I gave in to it I would not have an off button. The eating would just continue until I was stuffed and uncomfortable.
Whether it was toast, cereal, bananas, chocolate. It was always carbs and even though I tried to make healthy choices it was always the sugar hit my body wanted.
I would start each day with good intentions and felt the binging need was building up and eventually I would give it to it.
Even when I managed to lose weight. Getting out of the house in the afternoon to remove myself from temptation the destructive behaviour always came back, at the end of the diet and I would find the weight increasing again until I got to the point where I would give up and eat everything I wanted. It was a real physical need, very difficult to control.
All the diets in the past never solved the problem. Weighing this, just eating that never seemed to fix the underlying issue.
Three weeks ago I decided to give up breakfast. I am not that hungry in the mornings and find morning hunger easier to deal with.
I started by just having coffee with milk, which did lead me to needing an afternoon snack which did not lead into a binge.
However when I changed to having cream in my coffee in the morning the need for the snack fell away and I can now comfortably go from a low carb salady lunch to my dinner at 6.
The need for a snack or a binge has gone completely. Its as if I never had this problem, but I know I did and it was very distressing and went on for years.
Two hours after eating and I would be on the hunt for food, preferably carbs.
I believe it is something to do with the insulin levels staying low in the morning and then not causing a glucose drop in the afternoons.
Whatever it is I am going to continue. Probably I will never eat breakfast again. Even when I just had protein for breakfast as in 2 eggs I still got the afternoon attacks of craving and binging.
See Breakfast is a Dangerous Meal. Written for diabetics but relevant here too.
Weight is continuing to drop nicely and so happy to be in control of what I am eating.
Whether I was dieting or not I would find that after lunch, usually between 2 and 3 I would have a need to eat that was almost irresistible, and maybe again in the evening after supper.
If I gave in to it I would not have an off button. The eating would just continue until I was stuffed and uncomfortable.
Whether it was toast, cereal, bananas, chocolate. It was always carbs and even though I tried to make healthy choices it was always the sugar hit my body wanted.
I would start each day with good intentions and felt the binging need was building up and eventually I would give it to it.
Even when I managed to lose weight. Getting out of the house in the afternoon to remove myself from temptation the destructive behaviour always came back, at the end of the diet and I would find the weight increasing again until I got to the point where I would give up and eat everything I wanted. It was a real physical need, very difficult to control.
All the diets in the past never solved the problem. Weighing this, just eating that never seemed to fix the underlying issue.
Three weeks ago I decided to give up breakfast. I am not that hungry in the mornings and find morning hunger easier to deal with.
I started by just having coffee with milk, which did lead me to needing an afternoon snack which did not lead into a binge.
However when I changed to having cream in my coffee in the morning the need for the snack fell away and I can now comfortably go from a low carb salady lunch to my dinner at 6.
The need for a snack or a binge has gone completely. Its as if I never had this problem, but I know I did and it was very distressing and went on for years.
Two hours after eating and I would be on the hunt for food, preferably carbs.
I believe it is something to do with the insulin levels staying low in the morning and then not causing a glucose drop in the afternoons.
Whatever it is I am going to continue. Probably I will never eat breakfast again. Even when I just had protein for breakfast as in 2 eggs I still got the afternoon attacks of craving and binging.
See Breakfast is a Dangerous Meal. Written for diabetics but relevant here too.
Weight is continuing to drop nicely and so happy to be in control of what I am eating.
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