Thread: Binge Eating
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Old Oct 31, 2013, 11:08 PM
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Thanks for the "eat anything in the morning" tip SFC. That sounds like a strategy that might help for me. I'm perpetually struggling to go to bed and get up earlier too, so that would fit in. I wonder if I can convince myself since I can't really imagine having time to relax and eat what I want in the morning though. I try to let myself have at least a reasonable portion of sweets at night, and make sure I have something I really like around so I'll be satisfied. But I don't want to get into binging on the leftover candy I really wanted at night in the morning. I have pretty good eating habits in the morning and I don't want to mess that up. Still, I think I should make sure to really let myself eat something extra in the morning when I want to, at least sometimes, so I can convince myself to believe this strategy at night time though. I do like all kinds of breakfast foods and some of them are pretty similar to the sweets I want at night, so I think I could be satisfied to just eat a little more in the morning sometimes. I will just have to be able to get up earlier, which I want to do. I can't sleep tonight. I have to force myself into a better sleep schedule by forcing myself to get up early one morning and then I'm tired enough to fall asleep earlier the next night, and it usually lasts a few days until I stay up late again. I guess if I was thinking of eating something extra yummy in the morning, it would motivate me to get up. I usually manage to force myself to get up early on the weekend one day since I can do what I want. On weekdays it's a lot harder to make myself do it since I don't want to have to go to work, even though my job is okay. Well, sorry for rambling on.

Oh, I meant to say in response to the OP, yes, me too. I really hate it when they say the answer to your eating issues is to solve your depression, as if that was possible for most people. I take fatuous self help and therapy cliches to heart too much sometimes.