Let's start with the progress pics: Here's a full body side by side
One hundred mother fucking pounds!! I have always struggled with binge eating and my weight. This is the second time I have lost this goddamn weight, so if you have lost and regained I SEE YOU and you can absolutely do it again!
My friend introduced me to Bright Line Eating last year and after 6 months of watching her success I figured it was worth a shot. I read the book and committed to 4 weeks of following the plan to the letter. In a nutshell it's no sugar, no flour, no snacking, and you eat 3 weighed/measured meals a day. It's based on the food addicts anonymous eating plan.
It felt IMPOSSIBLE at first, I really felt like I was going to crawl out of my skin the first couple weeks without food to cope with my feelings. But by 2.5 weeks I hit a stride and was amazed that I hadn't binged for so long! I started binging around age 10 and never could go more than a couple days without binging. 2.5 weeks was unimaginable! I followed the plan as written for 6 months. From January-August 2018 I lost 25lbs with CICO, but once I started BLE the weight fell off much faster because I wasn't undoing all my work with binges. So the last 75lbs has come off in just under a year.
Earlier this year I wanted to see if I could moderate sugar and flour again. While I never binged, it was a slippery slope for me and before long I was eating up to maintenance and started spinning my wheels with weight loss again. I didn't lose anything at all in June. About a month ago I started BLE again, and it's been a relief to just eat my meals and not have all the food chatter and negotiation going on in my mind.
I don't know if I'll ever be able to moderate sugar and flour, so I just focus on one day at a time. I don't need to eat sugar and flour today so it's no big deal. When I hit my goal weight I may try again to incorporate those things in a sane way.
I'm 15lbs away from goal. I have stubborn fat on my stomach and thighs that I suspect will shrink up as I lose those last few pounds. I started in a TIGHT size 18 and am now in an 8.
I know lots of people struggle with binge eating, and I really encourage you to keep trying things even if you don't think they'll work. I tried LOTS of things that did not work over the years, and cutting anything out entirely was not something I was open to for a long time because I was convinced that it would make things worse. It turns out that that's the magic bullet for me. It won't be for everyone, but I'm so grateful that I kept trying and didn't just give up on myself even though it would have been so easy to do that. I am so relieved to have those 100lbs off of my body. I am so relieved to not feel like I have no power over what I eat.
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