Diario de ny_shelly, 08 may. 17

Hi everyone,
I struggled the last 2 weeks but I think I finally am able to say that I am on track again. I had to do a lot of reading, journaling, and thinking about binge eating and my desire to stop. The last two days have been good.

The bottom line is I have declared "I never binge eat." It sounds very simple to make this statement and as many of us know, it's not! When I was originally doing what the book calls my Big Plan I had a list of food that I wasn't going to eat. I found that too be too difficult to maintain. No cookies, crackers, pizza, ice cream, etc. etc. The root of the problem is actually binge eating. Secondary is the types of food. The rub is that these food choices frequently set me off on a binge and also they are not on a KETO eating plan.


I am in charge of my actions and the dumb animal part of my brain (AKA The BEAST) is what wants to do the binge eating. I am smarter than the beast that simply learned to binge eat for a variety of reasons. That beast is responsible for survival and I have trained myself to think I need to binge eat to survive. Sometimes it does feel that way!

I was able to control my binge eating for several months and the beast is patient, it waits quietly for its chance to take over. When my Mom passed away, I allowed it to be in charge again. I didn't want to deal with the pain of the situation at the time. You may say, well you were having a hard time, that's what you needed. But if I was an alcoholic that answer would not work! Imagine if I started to drink to deal with the situation? I hope it is not insulting to compare alcoholism to binge eating but I look at them as addiction issues. I am just saying that when you are addicted to something and you are abstinent, you have to remain abstinent through these situations.

I hope next time I can recognize "beast activity" and remain abstinent through it. Right now just being aggravated makes me want to run to food. I am using the techniques I learned to let these pass and recognize that I am in control and I can choose not to respond to the desire to eat my feelings.

Have a good day everyone!
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Good to see you back on the wagon. lol 
08 may. 17 por el miembro: Trucker Larry
You are spot on with treating alcoholism and binge eating as addictions. IMHO, food addiction is worse because it's a caged tiger that you have to let out a couple times a day, feed it and get it back in before it knows the cage door is open. You can not drink for the rest of your life, you will live. Eating though requires that you have to battle with that tiger daily. 
08 may. 17 por el miembro: Frosty Heimdall
Awesome! 
08 may. 17 por el miembro: Mistybenner
Frosty is absolutely correct! 
08 may. 17 por el miembro: HCB
Yes, you are in control and you can make wise choices...you know your issues and have a plan. Each of us has to fight his or her own battle but knowing you have FS friends to support you makes it a whole lot easier. I am confident that you are dressed in armor to win this one. Bless you. 
09 may. 17 por el miembro: 2227Gwen

     
 

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