I’m writing this on Thursday, October 20th. I’m frustrated and angry. The details are unimportant but the results on my eating are. To preface this, I want to say that I had a great day so far. I ran 5 miles this morning, had a healthy breakfast with some nuts and a bit of fruit and then a healthy lunch (chicken). I haven’t had a diet coke all day (had one this entire week) and I’m feeling great. And then it happened, I had a really crappy meeting and I was annoyed. I didn’t feel like working and I didn’t feel like talking to anyone.
Binge Eating Ahead
In the past, this would mean a trip to McDonald’s and 3000 calories of junk food plus a gallon of diet coke. Seriously, my usual “I’m frustrated and I want to hit someone” order at McDonald’s was a double quarter pounder with cheese, 20 nuggets, two snack wraps, fries and an extra large diet coke. That’s an insane amount of food, especially when you consider this isn’t instead of any of my regular meals, it’s in addition to it. I would always justify it though by saying to myself “well, they screwed you over and you’re allowed a treat to feel better.” [Read more...]




