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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, I can’t fix everything but wanted to say your health and nutrition (and satisfaction!) is most important right now and the problem to solve. Start cooking healthy recipes that work for you and are balanced with all food groups. The kids will survive and the husband can fend for himself.

I also struggle with binge eating and the #1 contributing factor is if I had enjoyable meals that day or not. If my meals weren’t satisfying, I eat all. Night. I have way fewer calories per day if I just allow myself a nice, complete 3 meals a day. At your size you can eat around 2000 cals and still gradually lose weight so that means you can restrict less and have filling meals. With a cookie! The urge to snack and binge will subside when you do this.

I know this is easier said than done but the main point is you need to prioritize yourself and your preferences as much or more than the other family members.

I like Pinch of Yum for recipe ideas that are wholesome and healthy but not “diet” style recipes.
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I am a different PP who recently released I struggle with what is probably binge eating. Do you recommend and books or resources to help? I agree having enjoyable filling meals helps a lot…[/quote]
There was a book messaged here (gosh - a decade ago?) that I can’t remember the title of. It could have been a pamphlet rather than a book, but the gist was that negative behaviors come from the “lizard” brain and it uses any manner of tricks to convince your “mammal” brain (I am [i]mangling[/i] this) that you need to binge. Realize you’re in control and tell the lizard brain to shove it. I haven’t binged since then.

OP, it’s exhausting. The teenagers do need to start pulling their own weight in the kitchen for their own good, too. They’re launching soon; don’t think of them taking a night as a punishment, think of it as equipping them.

Budget Bytes, Smitten Kitchen (Every Day Meatballs, Sweet Potatoes Tacos), Cafe Delites (her Cowboy Caviar is a favorite of mine though only one of my three kids eats it), Once Upon a Chef and Dinner Then Dessert have all had good recipes for me.

Fish? Chicken Piccata? Chili? Quiche? Bowls with each component separate - those can be as healthy or as crazy as you want. I’m sorry I can’t remember all the limitations each person has, but K.I.S.S. at least for right now.

(Oh and as a fellow GERD sufferer, stirring in a smidge of baking soda into various tomato things drastically reduces my GERD later (cooked onion and garlic don’t personally bother me)). [/quote]

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