So my advice to you is to be willing to try different approaches, and if they don't work (after honest assessment) be willing to modify them as necessary. And I used to binge eat almost every day.
But with the plan I tailored to myself I've had only one binge in the last 315-ish days. And I definitely have to cut out certain foods completely. Eating every 3 hours - gah - I'd constantly be obsessed with food. The binge eating therapy you describe would absolutely fail for me. It doesn't have to have internal consistency, or work for a single other person, it just has to work for YOU.
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I only discovered these things through trial and error.įortunately, you can tailor your program specifically to YOU. But I can keep a hand written food diary just fine (the online tools make me absolutely obsessive). I also can't count calories, I get extremely stressed and obsessive and begin over-restricting like crazy. Oddly, I can also eat white tortilla burrito shells with no problem. Pretty much all breads are triggers for me, except Ezekiel bread. Nuts are triggers for me, but natural peanut butter and almond butter are not.
But you can take from each program what you THINK will work, try it out, and modify it as you go.įor instance, jellies and jams are trigger foods for me but sriracha and other salsas are not. And it can be very different than any single program advises. The tricky part of all this is to find what works specifically for you. I should preface this by saying, I'm not familiar with the plan you are considering, but here are my thoughts after reading your post: These are a couple things, but my main problem is it seems to conflict with binge eating therapy i did a few years ago that encourages to eat every 3 hours and no removal of food groups.This plan just feels like I will be measuring,reading labels,looking for alternatives all day long.Īnyone on this plan and any thoughts at all? Maybe once time goes on it becomes second nature?
Also another huge issue is 3 straight meals no snacks.they say you can separate the meals but that feels like it will not be enough food. I have a sponsor and we've done 3 steps going on 4 but so far no light bulb has turned on and am still stuffing my face.Anyways on to more pressing questions, I needed to find out how best to eat for my binge eating/overeating since childhood history.I thought the food addicts anonymous plan would work best as I feel addicted to certain foods more than others but it feels so restrictive to me, measuring, checking for hidden sugars, writing what I eat, I wanted to be away from that obsession with food this way I feel it will be 24/7 food thoughts.Ī couple other issues I came up with are no cheese at all, like ever? cheese strings and almonds were a go to snack for me.aside from that.potatoes are allowed but french fries are my number 1 binge food when I go to the drive thrus.so how do i really know what the problematic part of the food is.How do you make stirfrys tasty if i cant even use some schriacha sauce.etc. I am just early stages on trying out the overeaters anonymous spiritual program. I was going to put this in the OA thread, but it doesn't look as busy and would like some input.