r/FoodAddiction

hi. I am a 19 yr old 5’6 female and I’ve been eating 1813 calories a day (my deficit) for the past month and last week, I weighed in at 121.4 pounds. I’ve been pretty consistent but the past three days, I fully let loose and emotionally ate 21,340 calories over my deficit (not exaggerating). I used to have a bad binge eating disorder and now here and there I have a few hiccups but usually over the next days I make slight cut backs and move more to stay in my deficit. But now that I’ve overate this much, I don’t know what to do. what is my body going to do with such a huge surplus of calories? I want to stay in my deficit, but I don’t know how much I should cut back by or how long it would Take. Is there a way to know how much I’ve set myself back by? Already, I feel less bloated than I did yesterday but I’m scared for how much damage I’ve done. I do hot yoga sculpt for an hour every day so I’m not sure if that helps my case but I was wondering if anyone knows what I should do

This may not work for everyone, but it's a tip worth noting. Change the way you label food in your head. Instead of "this is something I really want" think of it as "this is just fuel that happens to taste good". Think of yourself as a machine that needs something to keep running. That something is fuel, no different from the ugly gasoline, it just happens to feel nicer. It's not food, it's not something desirable, it's just another one of your machine's requirements.

Dehumanize the food. Stop thinking of it as something personal, as something YOU really want, and see it as a mere tool. It's not for you, it's for "the machine". Is the machine running? Well, then it doesn't need more fuel yet apparently.

I find easier to stop caring so much about things/craving them when I don't think about them as personal desires to pursue.