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Originally Posted by Esouza
.........................That was over 7000 calories a day. ugh.. Had to believe a person could do that to themselves. This was a typical day. Weekends would be worse because I decided to "treat" myself then. Sometimes I think I must have been suffering from temporary insanity.
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Ed - INSANITY IS EXACTLY THE RIGHT WORD!!!!!
I didn't eat quite that way - never more than a "normal" serving (HA!) at a time. I kept myself from believing I was eating a whole box of crackers, or cookies, or whatever, by emptying the original box into a tupperware container or something, that way you couldn't tell how much of the original amount was being eaten.
My insanity was lying to myself, and maintaining the fiction that "I REALLY didn't eat THAT much!" The hell I didn't! Just because I NEVER ate a whole box of any food all at once, or a whole pizza, or a whole cake, a whole container of ice cream - doesn't mean I didn't eat a BOWL of crackers (with lots of cheese bits), then a BOWL of chips, then a BOWL of nuts, then several cookies (NEVER COUNT THEM!), then HAVE DINNER! And of course, after dinner, have more cookies and probably some ice cream ("small" bowl - about 2 cups [this is four servings....], topped with chocolate or caramel sauce, of course.)
Eight slices of toast all at once? Not me - I ate like a bird (they eat their bodyweight every day, I've heard...) - I ate "small" portions of LOTS of things, so I think I probably ate about the same number of calories as you did. And yes, this was a typical day - weekends, holidays, stress days (no more than seven per week), sick days, sad days, happy days - were all license to lay on a "little extra" for comforting my sad soul.
At Overeaters Anonymous, the term INSANITY is used a lot to describe the compulsive eating adventures so many of us indulged in.
I am SO GLAD to have that behind me. One day at a time!