It's Thanksgiving afternoon, and this is what I've had so far...

I don't post here that much anymore because I'm finally trying to
recover from my eating disorder (compulsive overeating). The last few
days have been great and I've been feeling better. Today's Thanksgiving
and I'm going to have dinner tonight, but I know I didn't want to go
totally famished, so I ate sensibly throughout the day. My breakfast
was made up of leftovers, and I only ate when I felt hungry.

Breakfast (7am):
* 1/2 cup brown rice
* 60g roasted chicken breast
* dollop of teriyaki sauce

Mid-afternoon snack (12pm):
* 1/2 cup non-fat cottage cheese
* dollop of whipped honey

Later afternoon snack (2pm):
* 1 cup non-fat milk
* 1 small oatmeal cookie (homemade)

Count so far:
* 444 calories (45% protein, 35% carbs, 20% fat)

Hope this lasts! I look forward to the new year and a new beginning...

HS.

Forgot to add the morning snack!

Morning snack (10am):
* 85g baby carrots

Her Subj. wrote:
I don't post here that much anymore because I'm finally trying to
recover from my eating disorder (compulsive overeating). The last few
days have been great and I've been feeling better. Today's Thanksgiving
and I'm going to have dinner tonight, but I know I didn't want to go
totally famished, so I ate sensibly throughout the day. My breakfast
was made up of leftovers, and I only ate when I felt hungry.

Breakfast (7am):
* 1/2 cup brown rice
* 60g roasted chicken breast
* dollop of teriyaki sauce

Mid-afternoon snack (12pm):
* 1/2 cup non-fat cottage cheese
* dollop of whipped honey

Later afternoon snack (2pm):
* 1 cup non-fat milk
* 1 small oatmeal cookie (homemade)

Count so far:
* 444 calories (45% protein, 35% carbs, 20% fat)

Hope this lasts! I look forward to the new year and a new beginning...

HS.

Count so far:
* 444 calories (45% protein, 35% carbs, 20% fat)

That's pretty good.

Breakfast (7am):
* 1/2 cup brown rice
* 60g roasted chicken breast
* dollop of teriyaki sauce

Yum. I often make those for lunch. Which Teriyaki sauce do you use?

On 23 Nov 2006 14:05:38 -0800, "Her Subj."
wrote:

I don't post here that much anymore because I'm finally trying to
recover from my eating disorder (compulsive overeating). The last few
days have been great and I've been feeling better. Today's Thanksgiving
and I'm going to have dinner tonight, but I know I didn't want to go
totally famished, so I ate sensibly throughout the day. My breakfast
was made up of leftovers, and I only ate when I felt hungry.

I know we share the same eating problem, so I'm glad to know that
things are going better for you. Are you using any particular
strategies to overcome your problems? (Please don't answer this if
you don't want to share it here).

janice

Thanks! I actually didn't fare too poorly tonight, and I kind of
surprised myself, what with it being Thanksgiving and all. (i.e.: carte
blanche to gorge.)

I ate one slice of turkey (about 3-4oz), a few bites of stuffing,
mashed potatoes, roasted squash, and brussel sprouts (cook in pure FAT
almost, ick), and a few bites of an extremely rich pudding. I also had
one cracker and two small slices of smoked salmon as an appetizer.
Probably 1000 calories total? Maybe less? I don't know.

After I got back home, I ate two small oatmeal cookies and about 15
Ritz crackers. Probably another 300-400 calories right there.

So, all in all, a good Thanksgiving, despite what happened with the
oatmeal cookies and Ritz. Maybe 2000 calories total, which isn't too
bad.

I can't wait to go to the gym tomorrow morning!

HS.

PS: Oh, and about the teriyaki sauce. I use this:
http://usa.lkk.com/Common/Consumer/C...er ialCode=80

I guess this isn't teriyaki sauce, per se, but it does the job for me.


wrote:
Count so far:
* 444 calories (45% protein, 35% carbs, 20% fat)

That's pretty good.

Breakfast (7am):
* 1/2 cup brown rice
* 60g roasted chicken breast
* dollop of teriyaki sauce

Yum. I often make those for lunch. Which Teriyaki sauce do you use?

I'm more than happy to comment on my efforts to recover. Basically,
I've been seeing a therapist for the last two and a half months and
it's working out. Initially, she came off as kind of a kook, but the
more I tried to resist her assistance, the more I found myself more
obsessed with my compulsive overeating disorder (and thus, I'd binge).

My therapist doesn't really provide me with any tips for a "solution"
(she's FREUDIAN!), but she did suggest I think about what I "need"
before I gorge on food. She hypothesized that I'm using food to make up
for the lack of emotional support throughout my upbringing.

So, the more I thought about why I needed to fill this void by
shoveling food in my mouth, the more it made sense.

How did/have you deal/dealt with it? I'd like to hear your story.

HS

janice wrote:
On 23 Nov 2006 14:05:38 -0800, "Her Subj."
wrote:

I don't post here that much anymore because I'm finally trying to
recover from my eating disorder (compulsive overeating). The last few
days have been great and I've been feeling better. Today's Thanksgiving
and I'm going to have dinner tonight, but I know I didn't want to go
totally famished, so I ate sensibly throughout the day. My breakfast
was made up of leftovers, and I only ate when I felt hungry.

I know we share the same eating problem, so I'm glad to know that
things are going better for you. Are you using any particular
strategies to overcome your problems? (Please don't answer this if
you don't want to share it here).

janice

I just re-read this post and it's full of grammatical errors and just
awkward sounding sentences. It's rather late and the tryptophan from
the turkey is making me a little sleepy (and braindead!).

HS

Her Subj. wrote:
I'm more than happy to comment on my efforts to recover. Basically,
I've been seeing a therapist for the last two and a half months and
it's working out. Initially, she came off as kind of a kook, but the
more I tried to resist her assistance, the more I found myself more
obsessed with my compulsive overeating disorder (and thus, I'd binge).

My therapist doesn't really provide me with any tips for a "solution"
(she's FREUDIAN!), but she did suggest I think about what I "need"
before I gorge on food. She hypothesized that I'm using food to make up
for the lack of emotional support throughout my upbringing.

So, the more I thought about why I needed to fill this void by
shoveling food in my mouth, the more it made sense.

How did/have you deal/dealt with it? I'd like to hear your story.

HS

janice wrote:
On 23 Nov 2006 14:05:38 -0800, "Her Subj."
wrote:

I don't post here that much anymore because I'm finally trying to
recover from my eating disorder (compulsive overeating). The last few
days have been great and I've been feeling better. Today's Thanksgiving
and I'm going to have dinner tonight, but I know I didn't want to go
totally famished, so I ate sensibly throughout the day. My breakfast
was made up of leftovers, and I only ate when I felt hungry.

I know we share the same eating problem, so I'm glad to know that
things are going better for you. Are you using any particular
strategies to overcome your problems? (Please don't answer this if
you don't want to share it here).

janice

On 23 Nov 2006 23:32:23 -0800, "Her Subj."
wrote:

I'm more than happy to comment on my efforts to recover. Basically,
I've been seeing a therapist for the last two and a half months and
it's working out. Initially, she came off as kind of a kook, but the
more I tried to resist her assistance, the more I found myself more
obsessed with my compulsive overeating disorder (and thus, I'd binge).

My therapist doesn't really provide me with any tips for a "solution"
(she's FREUDIAN!), but she did suggest I think about what I "need"
before I gorge on food. She hypothesized that I'm using food to make up
for the lack of emotional support throughout my upbringing.

So, the more I thought about why I needed to fill this void by
shoveling food in my mouth, the more it made sense.

How did/have you deal/dealt with it? I'd like to hear your story.

Not a lot to tell, really. I've wrestled with binge eating for over
40 years and I still haven't dealt with it conclusively. Over the
years I've tried group therapy, one to one therapy, the Eating
Disorders Association. and countless books but the behaviour is still
always there in the background waiting to reappear.

I've found that in recent years I can go for far longer periods
without bingeing. Having said that, my weight still fluctuates wildly
according to whether I stick with my healthy WOE or binge. There have
been several periods when I've stuck with my WOE for over 6 months
at a stretch, but the bingeing has always returned to get me in the
end.

My top weight is now lower than it used to be and I haven't seen 200
for around 4 years now. I used to spend much of my time in the high
230s, so that's some improvement I guess.

janice