Does anyone else feel like they’re still exhibiting binge-like behavior, even while staying under their calorie goal?

I’ve been dealing with this for the longest time, and I think I’ve recently overcome it.

Firstly, I realised it was mainly due to my brain habitually thinking that ‘ah, I got home, now I can relax and do what I feel like’, which was eating. Also, most of the time I’m generally too anxious to eat when I’m outside, so getting home became an even bigger deal. I developed this impulse that I must find food as soon as I reach home, even though I’m not hungry at all or worse, just got back from dinner. It’s as though our brain wants us to compensate ourselves for a day’s hard work. Realising this was key to me destroying the habit.

After that, it was the matter of me being conscious and mindful of this behaviour. I found that getting enough sleep makes me way less likely to automatically look for food when I get home. Exercising also helped a lot. As such I was able to make conscious decisions of whether or not I have to, or really want to eat, everyday when I get home.

There’d been many many recurrence since then, but you’ll notice yourself get better and better at it and binge lesser and lesser. Finally, I developed a new habit where I am mindful of my eating, and now I have no urges and also hate to binge.

So, I totally understand what you mean, but you can definitely beat this OP! Sorry if the text is confusing I’m just really sleepy now

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