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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you manage food chatter/hunger?[/quote]

I'm a late-day eater/snacker. Because I work out of the house, it's easy for me to control food intake during the day. Once I get home, I honestly eat about 80% of my calories. It works for me. I guess it's almost a form of intermittent fasting?[/quote]

It honestly sounds like a form of binge eating that you manage harm reduction for.

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Maybe? But I'm just not hungry early in the day, and I don't like going to sleep hungry. Different strokes for different folks! If I've maintained for a decade, then it clearly works well for me. [/quote]

For sure. It just goes to show that even a self-described success story has to engage in disordered behaviors to maintain. Which is totally consistent with the long term data for weight loss maintainers, of course. [/quote]

Eating once a day is not disordered. Everyone is not the same. Nobody should eat when they aren’t hungry. That’s what is disordered. [/quote]

Hmm. Binge eating once at night rather than fueling your body throughout the day is a big red flag for disordered eating. Paired with a history of disordered eating (overeating/obesity) that’s a strong indicator of an ongoing eating disorder. Of course anyone engaging in these behaviors should discuss it with a qualified eating disorder specialist and not self-diagnose. [/quote]

As a therapist who specializes in CBT for OCD with only the information we have on this thread this would not throw flag for me. I would be concerned if the OP were saying their evening eating was out of control, but some bodies do not need 3 meals a day. Sounds like OP is engaging in very healthy intuitive eating.

FWIW a hallmark of binge eating is an “inability to stop eating even when full”. Maybe I have reading comprehension problems, but where did the IP indicate she was unable to stop when full?[b] Binge eating is a compulsion. [/b]

Some of you throwing around big words you do not understand need to read the DSM-5 on what binge eating means. [/quote]

Woah woah woah. As someone who has struggled with binge eating, I never eat/ate past feeling full. You’re saying that means I wasn’t really binge eating? [/quote]

Feel free to look up the definition of binge eating. You can make your own assessment if you fit into that category. It is one do the more simple disorders for a lay person to interpret. Not all people who are overweight binge eat. Not all people who are normal weight do not binge eat. Binge eating is a diagnosis with a very clear set of criterion.  Binge eating is a recognized mental health diagnosis.

It is not an OCD (which I treat) but I do see a lot of people who want help with binge eating. It is a difficult impulse which is exactly why Vyvanse is so effective in controlling it. [/quote]

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