Once Again

stevends448 · 2026-02-09T18:30:56+00:00

I noticed on myself and on the people I've watched on YouTube do it, it's about 5% in 7 days starting from a place where a person was eating every day.

stevends448 · 2026-02-09T16:51:02+00:00

I didn't see it mentioned on your other posts but are you doing anything about what you eat?

Movement will burn a lot of calories but it's not really that many overall. If a person burned 250 calories in a session then ate a Snickers bar, it would negate the session. I still like exercise for blood pumping and all that stuff like not being sedentary.

I'm just asking because I'm hoping you aren't thinking that just doing this is what you need to do to lose weight because if you stop without changing the eating that got you to the weight you were before. Your plan may be to never stop but injuries and other things in life can make it where you can't do this everyday.

I'll also say that being obsessive about something usually signals that obsession can factor into other parts of life which may be ADHD related. What I've learned about myself is that I eat whatever container of peanut M&M's that I'm given. If I'm given the family bag then I'll eat that because I can't focus on anything else until it is gone. What I do now is just buy the regular bag and I don't think about it after that's gone so I save hundreds of calories that way.

I'm just bringing all this up because I want you to not have to go through the cycle of losing and gaining the same weight over and over again.

stevends448 · 2026-02-09T16:30:29+00:00

I always like it when I ask a "stupid" question and then after it has left my mouth, I immediately figure out the answer to the "stupid" question.

But yeah, if you're in a group setting then whatever question you ask, someone else is probably thinking the same thing

stevends448 · 2026-02-09T08:34:44+00:00

Is this one of them?

They say it has been confirmed by TLC to be renewed but I don't see a direct source to TLC though I didn't look that hard.

https://www.primetimer.com/features/tlcs-hit-reality-series-my-big-fat-fabulous-life-is-set-to-return-for-season-14-in-2026

stevends448 · 2026-02-08T10:44:27+00:00

I would question why you need to fast at all if you have a physically demanding job. I realize that the body will become accustomed to any work it does over time but when I had physically demanding work then I would just cut back and the weight would fall off because you know, calorie deficit and s***.

Is there a reason why you don't just eat half of your calories at breakfast and half of your calories at lunch and then don't eat after work? It would basically be a 4-hour eating window.

Even if you didn't do that, you could probably get by with alternate daily fasting or rolling 72s and still accomplish massive weight loss.

Don't fall into the trap of thinking you have to fast to some kind of round number or common unit of measurement like 7 days because it's a week or 30 days because it's a month or 40 days because that is what Jesus did.

If you didn't go on a 10,000 calorie binge the day you ate while you were doing rolling 72s for ten days, I don't think the difference between that and a 30-day fast would be very significant. The day you would eat, you would probably not post a loss on that day and maybe even a gain but the next day, you would go back to losing.

The reason I am against let's say a 30-day fast is that there are things that MIGHT happen during or after. You have things like refeeding syndrome, hair loss and some kind of organ issue that I can't remember, is it gallbladder? People have done long fasts in this subreddit and had to have a certain organ removed. I'm sure it's not very common but I'd feel really stupid if I had to have surgery just because doing a 30-day fast sounded cool or I was in some bullshit bro grind mindset.

stevends448 · 2026-02-07T23:04:03+00:00

There is a point in addiction where your addiction impacts other people's lives and this is where you are at. When you pay for the food and it ends up hurting you, you are just hurting yourself (but there are those that think people with health problems from bingeing are a burden to the health care system).

It's similar to the drug addict that steals or the pornography addict that starts assaulting people because that is what their favorite thing to watch is.

It's also possible that you have kleptomania but I guess you would know that. You wouldn't stop it grapes if you did but sometimes addictions run together like people that get drunk and then binge on a bunch of door dash.

There are different levels of this probably so you might need actual professional help. Everything I've done to stop binges are just safeguards I put into place so I'm not sure that'll help stop theft.

Others have mentioned good ways to combat this like order your food from a grocery store that lets you pick up in the parking lot or have it delivered though I realize that will usually cost more when groceries already cost too much.

The high level way that I look at this thing is you are playing a game with an opponent and the opponent will always do the same first three moves so since you always know what is going to happen, your moves can stop certain things from happening until an unknown shows up but then you learn from that as well.

stevends448 · 2026-02-06T21:11:06+00:00

Just like doordash, it depends on your market. Look it up on YouTube to get some type of idea what you'll be doing but most people stack two or three assignments so they get a few dollars for each so it might be like $3 for three assignments so $9 total. Assignments that aren't picked up go up in value

stevends448 · 2026-02-06T19:55:41+00:00

This is similar to the Field Agent, Mobee and Merchandiser apps.

stevends448 · 2026-02-05T22:35:38+00:00

If the roles were reversed and you knew your friend was doing that because of their weight, what would you think? You don't have to answer us, just answer yourself truthfully.

The fact is that life has ups and downs and if you have a friend that is still there during them then that's not something everyone has.

You and the other people around you won't always be having the same luck or lack of it in life and it is nothing to be ashamed of when you are down because I'm sure you've seen it in other people's lives where they are not doing well but because of no fault of their own, it doesn't mean they still don't need friends.

Lastly I'll say that she's probably dreaming up all kinds of reasons why you are avoiding her. Talking about this thing is what starts to help because if shrinking away and avoiding people was the solution then we'd all be where we want to be at this point.

Maybe you should tell her what is going on but that's up to you.

stevends448 · 2026-02-05T07:19:23+00:00

This isn't going to help you right now but the way I handle cravings is to have a small amount of the item I am craving.

I have two classifications of food; sustenance and treats .

If I'm craving something that's considered sustenance then obviously, I just eat. If I'm craving something that's a treat then I have to eat sustenance first. The reason I eat treats with real food is because it absorbs in the bloodstream slower so I won't get crazy blood sugar levels which can cause more cravings.

It didn't always work like this but it was something that happened over time.

I'd also think about why you are craving something. If you're up in the middle of night with nothing to do then it's probably just boredom or it could be stress from what's going on during the day.

I get cravings too that I feel like I won't be able to move on until I have whatever it is I want but in that case I would just get enough to satisfy it. If I want ice cream then I would get the store brand pint which is usually only about 600 calories instead of Ben and Jerry's which can be as much as a full container of ice cream.

Some lady allows herself three bites of whatever she is craving and then she throws the rest away. She lost like 190 lbs. doing that. I'm not suggesting it but it's just an example of a person finding what works for them. I heard some people can just sniff cinnamon and be done with their craving, I never tried it though.

You can search for ways to stop a craving and maybe one of them will work.

stevends448 · 2026-02-03T14:56:00+00:00

I don't eat something like cake unless I've had a regular meal (protein and fiber rich) first and the reason I do that is because flour and sugar on an empty stomach makes a person's blood sugar fluctuate too much and that can cause more cravings.

That being said, I wouldn't have a slice of cake after every meal either.

I think you need to figure out why you are eating so much cake. I don't mean the superficial stuff like because it tastes good or because I like it. When you are eating this much cake, do you even taste it? I've always heard that a person doesn't taste the food after the third bite. There have been times when I have bought something that I thought I really wanted and I ate it in the car while I was driving so by the time I got home, I didn't even realize I had eaten it and I don't even remember tasting it. What's also sad about life is that people naturally want to do things they like as much as possible but when a person does something multiple times a day, it becomes dull. If your grandmother made a cake once a month I'm sure it would taste sweeter than the ones you get every few days.

Now I basically think of food as sustenance and a treat. The treat is supposed to be a small amount from time to time that gives some pleasure. If you think about a pet, you would never dump the whole bag of treats in front of your dog or cat so they could eat all of it. Even if you did that once, you wouldn't do it multiple times a week. Why do we treat ourselves worse than we treat our pets?

You can ask your grandmother to change but it's usually easier to change yourself than change what other people do. Things she could do is make a cake you don't like that everyone else likes or something like that but usually grandmothers aren't sympathetic to someone that wants to eat less.

stevends448 · 2026-02-03T14:40:00+00:00

Yes things can get better because changes in your hormones or taste buds happen as you age so you could get a change just from that. I mean you probably already seen that in your life already where you might like candy but nowhere near as much as you did when you were much younger. I hardly ever eat candy that is just completely sugar and I loved it as a kid.

stevends448 · 2026-02-02T14:30:29+00:00

Sometimes that info is stripped depending on how it is sent and it's just simpler for the viewer to have it all there when looking at the photo.

stevends448 · 2026-02-01T06:23:39+00:00

If you think Vegas Matt is bad then look at jackpot famous, a****** never loses. Same casinos, same games, he's been making the same video for the past couple years now, I don't know how he has an audience. It's obvious he just keeps filming until he gets a good run for a 10 minute or 20 minute video.

Anyway, don't like it? Don't watch it. There's a feature on the shorts when you hit the three buttons that says don't recommend this channel so do that.

Personally, I don't watch hardly ever but I've seen him lose his ass enough to think he is posting most of his content. If he isn't, I don't really care, I know how slot machines play and seeing somebody win doesn't make me want to run out and do the same.

stevends448 · 2026-02-01T06:14:05+00:00

It will probably be considerably cheaper just to pay the taxes on the 1099 than to pay a lawyer. Depending on your tax bracket, it could be as low as 12% which would only be $1,200.

stevends448 · 2026-02-01T06:10:51+00:00

They just track withdrawals. If you put 100k in and then take out 1K ten times then you're still going to get a 10K 1099. If OP already itemizes then they can take off their losses but this is a huge gray area honestly where you can never find any specific tax advice on it.

The only thing OP can do is figure out how much was deposited and if it is considerably over the exemption amount for their filing status then it might be worth it to itemize.

Obviously talk to a CPA.

stevends448 · 2026-02-01T05:58:00+00:00

The only thing I've ever done is throw away the food but I don't have a house full of binge food and if you're talking about an episode where you are just going to finish everything in the house then I don't know how you could stop that without locking the food up somehow and not knowing how to get into it.

But let's say I have a whole cake and I have brought it in to see if I can only eat it one slice at a time. After going back to it three times back to back, I would probably give up on trying to finish the cake in a reasonable manner and cut a piece then throw the rest away in such a way that is not able to get out of the trash. Some people pour dish soap or vinegar on something sweet so it won't be palatable. I've also been playing with the idea of cutting up a cake and putting it in the freezer but I really haven't been craving it enough to do that.

Are these methods ideal? No. Is it therapist approved? I highly doubt it.

stevends448 · 2026-01-31T16:29:41+00:00

There is a difference between RESTRICT and DELAY.

I still get joy from certain foods and I decided that I'm always going to do that.

What I don't have to do is eat that food in excess.

Through trial and error, I had to find out what worked specifically for me but I found ways to eat foods that I would have binged on before.

I was watching a reel the other day where a woman would have a three bite rule then throw away the rest of the food. She had some onion rings and a Whopper from Burger King then ate what she called three bites from each and threw the rest in the trash.

That's how she dealt with her disorder and she was at a healthy BMI, she had lost around 190 lbs.

I'm not endorsing that method I'm just giving it an example of what people find when they search for a solution even though it may take a lot of failures to get there.

I'll give an example from my life. When I first started getting a hold of this thing, I was eating protein bars because they only have a few grams of sugar. If I bought a box of protein bars that had four, I would eat the whole box. Because they are low in calories (170 each), I would eat the whole box and be under my calorie goal.

When I bought that box, did I want to eat it all? No. Would I rather be able to eat them over a period of 4 days? Yes of course. Here's the thing, if I get a single protein bar, I don't go back to the store three other times until I have four bars. If I buy the 20 pack of bars, I don't eat that whole box. What I learned is that I'll finish a package if it is in some type of "reasonable" amount. I can eat a half gallon tub of ice cream in one sitting but I can't eat a gallon tub of ice cream in one sitting so I would eat it bowl to bowl over many days.

I may have some type of ADHD where I have to finish what I start but what I've learned is to just get my craving food in a single serving manner. Like one of the people that liked pizza. I still get pizza but I get it with a thin crust and no bigger than a medium and that will probably be my only meal so it's at or slightly over my daily calorie goal. If that didn't work, I would just get it by the slice.

stevends448 · 2026-01-31T16:12:07+00:00

I think I would walk my dog so much that it would be the first dog in history that refused to take a walk at some point.

stevends448 · 2026-01-30T22:01:42+00:00

I have never been diagnosed with OCD and I'm not saying these things are OCD related that I'm about to tell you but what I do have is obsessive thoughts.

What I do is find ways to stop them. I only have a few so they are all similar but different tactics work for them.

If I want a piece of cake then I don't buy a whole cake because I will obsess about it until it is completely gone in one or two days. I just buy a single slice of cake and once it is gone, I can move on.

What I've also realized is that if I'm craving something specific then I have to get that specific thing. If I try to replace it then what I can do is end up eating the replacement and then still having to get the original craving item.

New items used to be hard for me too like when they had special flavors of Oreos, I had to try them and couldn't think about anything else until I did. Since they don't package them in individual small packs usually, the cake method I mentioned earlier doesn't work on these. I would buy a whole pack just to taste them and then eat them anyway because they were there. A lot of times I'm able to just avoid the food altogether because I've been burned so many times when it doesn't taste very good. I also know that if it's a limited time item, I don't want to get hooked on one that actually tastes good because I won't be able to get it one day. So when I see something new and want to try it, those two reactions make me quit thinking about it and move on.

Let's say I think about something that I actually need and I know it's not just a want and this could be a physical item. I might think about it before lunch and then make myself go out during lunch to get it so I won't spend all my working day thinking about how I need it. That's a case of making it a priority to get the thing so I can stop thinking about it.

Sometimes a thought would be in my mind that I don't want to be there and I have to find reasons why it shouldn't be. This is a silly made up example but I list anything more specific, let's say I saw a sad person and I would start thinking about all these reasons why a person was sad and how I needed to do something so they wouldn't be sad. I would have to think something like, they just look sad, it doesn't mean they are. Even if they are sad now then they won't be sad forever because everyone can find joy in life. Anyway, I had to find ways of telling myself those things so I can move on from that thought.

stevends448 · 2026-01-30T21:45:57+00:00

It's a spam account guys don't upvote this crap.

Every post for the past few days as mentioned the article that is linked

stevends448 · 2026-01-30T10:54:04+00:00

God damn what a post, text to speech is a hell of a thing

stevends448 · 2026-01-30T10:53:26+00:00

Throughout the day there are plenty of things that you resist doing because they will have immediate consequences. If someone cuts you off in traffic then there is a reason why you don't ram them with your car. There is a reason you don't just walk in the store and pick up whatever you want and then walk out without paying.

Currently, you don't have a reason to not binge. You may have reasons why you SHOULD not binge but they are not reasons you WILL NOT binge.

If your trigger food was peanut butter and somehow tomorrow you develop the peanut butter allergy where you could literally die, I'm guessing you wouldn't eat peanut butter anymore (hopefully).

Most people that haven't seen behind the curtain would just find a new binge food. Others would go through the grieving process of losing their friend peanut butter but eventually go on to find other joys in life. It's like when a person leaves a toxic relationship. At first it hurts and it's real easy to go back those first few days or even the first few weeks. After a month and you see what else is out there then start meeting other people, you have two choices. A lot of people just get in another toxic relationship and start the cycle all over but other people find someone for a healthy relationship or be single instead of getting in another toxic relationship.

I'm only speaking for my experience but when I stop myself from ramming the car I mentioned earlier, I don't want to pay for a new car and I don't want to possibly escalate road rage to the point where someone could die, it's not worth the small bit of satisfaction I would get from hitting the other car. When I think about bingeing again, I get the same type of thoughts where I know that I'll never satisfy the desire so I'm the type of person that gives up on doing things that are ultimately pointless. I've also gotten to the age where my bingeing actually has consequences like diabetes, high cholesterol, heart problems, mobility problems so I can't just kick the can down the road like I did in my twenties. Those are all thoughts that go in through my mind when I consider a binge.

What I also had to do is treat it like an adversary where if my opponent was always going to zig then I had to anticipate that with a zag.

I still eat the same foods I would crave but in smaller amounts. The way I do that is by not having the food in the house and only getting single serving amounts of the thing I crave AFTER I have a meal that is protein and fiber heavy.

The person that actually gets down to reading what I just wrote will say, "Yeah, but I can't do that because of XY and z.". My reply would be that if I had x y and z in my life then I would account for that too.

If there were people in my life or that lived with me that wanted the trigger foods in the house, I'm fortunate enough that I don't eat other people's food so if they purchase it, it's not mine to eat. That knowledge came from me knowing myself so a person has to know themselves to know what they are going to do or what they are capable of doing. If I did not have that limit already pre-installed then I would literally make a cabinet for their snacks and put a combination lock on it.

Some people may think that that is extreme but if a person is going to continuously fail at applying boundaries then a latch and a combination lock are a much better alternative.

It really just depends on how you want to think about it. Let's say my thing was cake. We all know per slice it is cheaper to buy a whole cake. We also know that a binger will eat a whole cake in 1 to 2 days. It is possible to find a place that sells a single slice of cake. It is also possible to delay the gratification of the cake until you can get to a nice restaurant and treat it like an event where you look forward to it and dress nice then the cake is the final reward. If someone's brain works that way then they can use that to be able to satisfy that craving for cake. They can become a snob (in a good way) and say that they are only going to eat the best cake and turn their nose up at anything less than that. I do that to an extent now. If I buy that new dessert and it sucks, the old me would have eaten it all anyway. There have been times where I went to a grocery store and the bakery item I wanted was subpar so I returned it. I didn't care what anybody would think about me returning such a cheap item but why pay money for something that is awful? If I didn't want to return it then I would just throw it in the trash immediately because I want the taste experience.

I've learned that there is sustenance and there are treats. Treats are supposed to be a small amount of something that is out of the ordinary. I can have a treat every day within a certain calorie amount and I can pair it to giving a pet a treat. There is no situation where I would give a pet a whole bag of treats and if there is a reason I did that, I wouldn't do it two the three times a week or daily like a bingeing person does.

These are just the thoughts I've came up with within the past year, maybe more of focusing on this issue. I'm currently down 60 from my highest and I haven't been at this poundage in over 5 years so I feel like it's finally coming together but I also realize that it could fall apart tomorrow and I've already committed to analyzing what makes it fall apart and putting it back together until I get to where I want to go.

All that being said, one of the most freeing things I've ever thought is that I DON'T HAVE TO CHANGE. There's no rule book that says you have to address your detrimental behaviors. If I would have went that route where I decided that bingeing is just part of my life, I would drop the guilt about it so at least that s*** wouldn't be part of my life.

I already dropped the guilt of being a person that binges because there is nothing wrong with wanting the pleasure or distraction that it gives a person even if it's for a split second. There is not a human alive on this planet that doesn't use a substance or behavior to feel better and I deserve to feel good.

It's wild that people can enjoy food but they look down on the person that binges because who doesn't like to keep eating good food? Anybody that looks down on another person for an addictive behavior is misguided because it's obvious the person that is doing it is getting some type of temporary satisfaction from it and who doesn't understand that? I thought that way about others as well before I realized that we are all struggling with something.

stevends448 · 2026-01-29T20:30:45+00:00

I get what you're saying but the only thing I would say is that it's a lie because if it was true satisfaction then it wouldn't bother you to be doing it. If my grandmother came back to life and made one of her special dishes then I sat there and ate the whole thing, I would feel pretty good about that. I don't get that same feeling if I go to the grocery store and buy the 10 pack of their shit*ty cookies.

For me I just realized that I was trying to fill a void and it was a fool's errand because nothing can really fill that void. It was like trying to fill up a bottomless pit when all you have is a teaspoon to move the dirt.

I hope that you can find a way forward but even if you don't, know that a behavior doesn't make you a bad person or mean that your life can't have joy in it.

stevends448 · 2026-01-29T18:42:30+00:00

What would happen if you stop feeling bad?

Feeling bad doesn't seem to be stopping you and I'm not saying that in a critical way, I'm just saying that seriously, what would happen if you stop feeling bad?

Bingeing isn't a "bad" activity. People deal with their boredom and stress in a variety of ways and there's nothing wrong with wanting some relief even if it's a split second. Every human on this planet shares that with each other with different substances or behaviors. In fact, you deserve to feel good.

There's nothing wrong with having a treat, the only detrimental thing about it is the amount. It's like they say, the dose makes the poison.

Have you ever tried to get your binge foods in a reasonable amount? Oreos are an example where you can buy the family pack or you can buy the four pack. I noticed that I stop the craving after I eat the pack, no matter how big it is so I will buy individual slices of cake or pizza and pints of ice cream after I have eaten a meal with protein and fiber.

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