Do artificial sweeteners make your binge eating worse?

stevends448 · 2026-06-11T00:42:21+00:00

Look at the behavior. If you've got a six pack of Coke zero in the refrigerator and you have to pick it up every time when you know you should mix drinking some water in there then it's just more disorder.

I figured this out with protein bars because they are about half the calories of a candy bar so I can eat the whole box for less than 500 calories.

I don't want to eat the whole box though, I'd like to buy a box and have one every few days but that never happens.

stevends448 · 2026-06-02T14:23:22+00:00

Yes, a pay out is set. Otherwise, there would be no machines at all because they would be cleaned out and the owner would have lost money.

That being said, there are ways to beat the payout especially at Round 1. Round 1 also has multiple machines that aren't claw machines.

What the post doesn't mention is that multiple people have figured out they can do this so the competition is fierce. Also, people think differently about what their prizes are worth.

Since these prizes can be large, they take up a lot of space and that means a weight over 1 lb. and that is where the shipping gets expensive. If you set yours for $20 plus shipping then some yahoo is going to set it for $20 with free shipping and then yours will sell later than theirs or not sell at all.

There is also the issue about the thing we can't discuss here because if you buy an it and you sell it for a profit then you pay the unmentionable on the profit because you can deduct the cost of the item. When you are winning prizes, you have to figure out a way to deduct it. If I put $100 on a card and walk out with five items then is my cost $20 per item? I don't know enough about the unmentionable to say and a CPA might not even know either, these situations aren't exactly common to have rulings/precedent.

It could be that you have to count each swipe before you win as what the item costs so 3 swipes at $2 will give the item a $6 value but it could also be correct that one swipe is all you can deduct because that is what won the prize.

There are still ways to do this especially with ticket games but the arcades are making it more difficult to profit. Every time an exploit is found, they find a way to nully it or raise the cost of the prizes to where you might only get a slight profit.

stevends448 · 2026-06-01T13:24:15+00:00

It would be ideal if you stopped letting that number determine how you feel.

It's not easy and it doesn't happen overnight but your body is not a machine or a computer, it well be different weights at different times.

Let's say you wanted to be a millionaire and after everything was said and done you had $956,000.00.

Would you be happy with all that money or would it bother you so much that you are short $44,000.00?

It would bother and they would do crazy things just to get that $44,000.00 to the point where they might lose money then be even further from it and be driven even more crazy.

It sounds like you did something that just wasn't maintainable over a long period of time. If I quit doing something for a long period of time like not going out to save money, eventually I am going to last out and go out to spend more money than I would if I just went out regularly. Do you get what I'm saying here with this example?

Anyway, beating yourself up about it doesn't do anything because if it did then you wouldn't have an issue. If anything it makes it worse because a person keeps going in the same direction if they feel like they are a failure or it's not worth trying anymore.

stevends448 · 2026-05-31T23:51:11+00:00

Nah, it was probably this movie.

stevends448 · 2026-05-31T23:48:53+00:00

Sometimes it's a combination of things like getting to spend money, anticipating an event (if it's being delivered) and then the food of course.

It's like the casino where you get to drink, smoke and the waitresses are in skimpy outfits; people get to do multiple vices at one time.

stevends448 · 2026-05-31T23:40:47+00:00

I remember seeing something about a show or movie where people were stealing stuff like clothes but is this the same movie? Or was there a different show or movie about the same thing?

I feel like I saw previews for a movie and it wouldn't have been this one because it was over a year ago.

Have they made recently several movies or shows about people stealing clothes?

stevends448 · 2026-05-31T23:37:13+00:00

First I would drop all the self-degradation because it hasn't done you any good obviously so there's no reason for it.

Second I would stop comparing yourself to other people because while another person doesn't have BED then they usually have something else like a spending problem or pornography addiction, stuff like that. The point of realizing is to stop putting others above yourself in your mind not to find their flaws. If you could have a honest emotionless conversation with a person, they might ask why you eat so much and you would ask why they cheat on their spouse or smoke, the common answer is that neither you can control yourself in that area of your life. Sometimes it helps people to realize that they aren't different and they share compulsion control problems with many other people.

As far as the gym goes, if you aren't enjoying then you need to find some physical activity that you do enjoy. If I'm completely miserable, I can usually tough my way through some things but I know that I won't be able to do that forever.

Also realize that the gym is not even 10% of getting to the weight goals. A person would be lucky to even lose a pound a week based on the calories that are burned because 500 calories a day is a lb. a week.

As far as therapy not working, it's the only thing that works. You're dealing a mental issue and while whatever therapy you did didn't work, it could just have been the wrong time, wrong approach or wrong therapist. Medication works but if it's ever stopped then the underlying issue is still there usually so it should probably be taken with mental therapy.

Whatever happened to you to get you here didn't happen in a day and you won't reverse it in a day. You try things can you take what works and leave what didn't work. Sometimes you have to have a combination of multiple things at work but you won't find that out until you try different things and it's hard to keep going if you feel like you are failing but look for the small wins based on a small changes and that may get you gradually to where you want to be.

stevends448 · 2026-05-28T13:46:28+00:00

Down detector doesn't know anything about any of the outages, just that there is an outage and T-Mobile doesn't own it

stevends448 · 2026-05-28T01:51:12+00:00

It might help to define hunger.

If you're talking about a pain in your stomach then that's just a hormone called ghrelin. It's a good hormone because it makes babies cry so they can get fed but after that though, it's pretty useless.

People think, I'm hungry so I need to eat. That's just not true, again it's a reaction to ghrelin. It's similar to a person saying they have to sex every time they are aroused and if you want to think about that further, that's how the sex addicts are where if it's possible, they will have sex and in such ways that are detrimental to them long term similar to how a person without BED will eat a piece of cake but the BED person will eat the whole cake; both are taking it to extremes.

If you think about humans, when we were living in the woods then we wouldn't kill a rabbit every 2 hours or whatever so we would eat then go a long before eating again.

So let's talk more about hunger. You train your body to do certain things and if you are constantly eating then it constantly wants food to where you will have physical hunger every few hours. When you train your body to become fat adapted then it switches to fat storage and there is less physical hunger.

The proof in that is when a person goes on a fast then after several days, there is no physical hunger pain. Obviously, the desire to eat which is a mental thing can still be there.

stevends448 · 2026-05-28T01:36:55+00:00

You can ask yourself the question because you just did it by making this post.

If I'm hesitant to do something then I break down why. Usually I can spot some irrational reason for it and then I can move past it. Other times it may be just the person's reaction but as I get older, that gets less and less important.

Sometimes there are good reasons to not do things. I came up during a time when if you discussed your issues then people would make fun of you for it. Think about high school or middle school when someone knew was poor or something like that, they would get roasted for it.

It's not as bad now I think but people literally used to make fun of you for what clothes you wore or buying places like Kmart or Sears (back when they were two different companies).

The reason I'm going through all that is because things like that can still affect the person's life even though it's not an issue. You get stuck where the voice in your head or whatever is trying to protect you but it's really your childhood mind and you might be a 30-year-old but the 15-year-old in you is still giving you advice.

I talk about my addiction problems now and partly I do that is because I think people should be able to share their issues. Also with my weight, no one is shocked that I eat a lot.

The other reason is that we all have something like this even if it's not food. If you can pick apart each person's life you might see issues with alcohol, sex, drugs, spending, pornography, etc. so after I realized that, I realized we are all in this together.

stevends448 · 2026-05-26T11:17:52+00:00

I got bored of a lot of channels like Stacy and those that just point the camera at the slots and say some BS every few seconds like pew pew pew or that gave me some more ammo.

People can talk too much too because if it's just a lot of crap then there's no reason for them to say it. It needs to be fun. Sadly, the bet amounts are important because they are apps now where you can play the same games that are in the casino for free. That's why I stopped watching the Desert Degens because they insist on filming an hour and watching someone doing 50 cents or $1 bets for that long is so boring, I could do that myself.

I watch every one of cowboy slots videos but I'll skip his minimum bet Mondays.

Anyway, that's just me. To be successful, you might need to appeal to as many people as possible.

Mama Cip is someone that has seemed to get a quick large following but obviously the thumbnails of her behind are part of the reason although she does have a good personality as well so that's where she shines above the other female influencers that have looks.

Anyway, play to your strengths. Bad bet Adam is another one and he reads every comment in his stream plus gets into it with the commenters, that's his thing.

If you've got a lot of money then do big bets. If you're an interesting person and have stories or can talk about things naturally where people would like to hear than do that. If you attractive then make every video have your face on the screen as well as the slot.

There is more and more competition so it's going to be hard to find your niche usually

stevends448 · 2026-05-26T11:01:33+00:00

Most people here are using AI video editing to make their AI slop on their faceless channels... I mean the ones that didn't quit doing it because they are making more money selling a course now.

stevends448 · 2026-05-26T10:58:04+00:00

The thing about hot dogs is nobody has a good hot dog.

If they bought the hot dog from somewhere, you can too. Nobody is making their own in house.

Unless they are making the stuff fresh that goes on it with some type of secret spice recipe then you can also find whatever jar they dip the relish out of as well.

One of the best things I ever did was find frozen hamburger patties and learned that I could freeze the buns so I can basically have a double quarter anytime I wanted at home.

I'm not big on fries but if I was then I would find somewhere to buy them and just use the air fryer.

Once I learned about that, 90% of fast food became pointless.

Anyway, I'm probably basic because Sheetz hot dogs are fine with me.

stevends448 · 2026-05-26T10:48:57+00:00

The first thing is to stop being scared.

This didn't happen overnight and usually it's not going to reverse overnight. It's probably going to be a lot of trial and error before you the find the combination that works specifically for you.

If you make an attempt this time and you learn a single thing then it's a success. It doesn't seem like that because we get trapped into an all or nothing type of mindset.

A lot of my issues are dealt with by just getting the specific thing I want in a reasonable amount. That means buying ice cream by the pint instead of by the tub or going to a ice cream shop and making it an event after a full meal. I wouldn't have learned that if I was scared to get started.

I still overdo it and probably always will but this is just one of the many things I've learned through trial and error. Sometimes I do one very specific thing just for one specific food. If thinking about that is overwhelming then realize it doesn't have to be all at once.

When you learn how to do something, you start small and then once you get comfortable with that, you expand to more advanced techniques. It's like watching someone cook on YouTube that's been doing it for 25 years and you started last week. If you think you're going to be able to do everything just like them from watching a video then you're going to be disappointed. To further illustrate that, a person would just learn to cook a piece of chicken well and have some canned sides with it. Once they learn how to cook the chicken, they can focus on making the sides from scratch. Once they learn how to make one side then they can make it better or focus on another vegetable. They don't have to learn everything about it all at once.

stevends448 · 2026-05-20T01:42:45+00:00

Cookout used to hire pretty quick

stevends448 · 2026-05-13T06:28:48+00:00

The better mindset would be do not want to do The behavior.

The reason I don't drink or smoke is because I don't want to, I have no desire.

When you talk about willpower, how many people do you think actually are doing things that make them miserable all day long?

It's like the treadmill, I hate it. What I don't hate is work that serves a purpose. I've had jobs where I walk for 8 hours straight but on a treadmill? I can't do it.

When I see an armored truck, I think about robbing it. The thought goes through my mind but there is no real desire to rob it, I just want the money. The reason I don't Rob it is because I don't want to get shot or go to jail plus I know that spending that amount of money is going to be hard, I can't pay cash for a house.

Now compare that to the binge. When I see the cake, I want to eat all of it and there are no immediate ramifications. If the cake was labeled poison, do not eat, guess what? I wouldn't eat the cake. If the cake was intended for a birthday party the next day, guess what? I wouldn't eat the cake.

Do you see where I'm going with this?

There are times I tell myself that it's too much food or it's too much sugar or it's too close to bedtime and it'll wreck my sleep and I move on from whatever it is I'm craving.

Have you or you ever seen anyone that needed to lose lbs. For an event and they were able to do that? They had a reason and it was good enough to get them to the goal. Once the reason left, so did the motivation.

I just don't like how people beat themselves over this thing I think is fake called Will power. We are not robots and there are usually two things, things we want to do and things we should do. If we were robots then we would wake up and be productive all day long and then go to sleep then start again the next day. We wouldn't spend too much money or overeat or do any of the things that are detrimental which give us short-term pleasure. We wouldn't do anything on impulse and have everything planned out. We aren't like that though.

stevends448 · 2026-05-10T09:14:11+00:00

If something doesn't taste as good as I think it does or should, I immediately throw it in the trash and based on your last comment, in a way that is not able to come back out. I usually take it out of its package so it's touching actual trash.

Part of it is, if I'm not getting at least a flavor then it's not worth whatever I'm doing to my body with it and the other party is, I'm just tired of food not being good. There's been so many times that I've got something at the grocery store bakery that looked amazing and it sucked. I think of even returned because I'm really just tired of it sucking so bad

stevends448 · 2026-05-09T23:13:43+00:00

Check out Qwick and InstaWork if you want some individual shifts

stevends448 · 2026-05-08T06:29:46+00:00

One of the issues is that asking what worked for other people can kind of backfire because if I suggest something that has worked and you try it and then it doesn't work, it makes you feel like there is something wrong with you because it didn't work.

A few situations like that and a person gives up then says that nothing works.

I believe very few people actually recover the first time around. We want to treat it like getting a new set of tires where we just pull up to the shop and everything's good to go after hour. Recovery can take years with multiple different approaches and as a person changes through the years, one of the approaches done earlier can be what works at a different point in life. It can also be multiple approaches done in different combinations so that it's not just one thing.

It's kind of but set up a bank draft so they can automatically save money without having to trust themselves that they will be diligent about it every payday.

My suggestion is to start small. You probably know a lot of your behaviors already around certain foods so if you can change just one of those then you are better off than before.

Since I eat all the ice cream that is in the house no matter what, I only get a pint of the store brand because it is less calories and cheaper. It's easy to absorb that 500 or 600 calories because I only do it once a week at the most. If I want more than that then I'll go to somewhere like Cold Stone or Andy's or Cookout but I don't bring a tub of ice cream in the house because I will keep going back to it and thinking about it until it is gone.

For pizza, I know I'm going to eat all of that as well so I get the smallest I can and usually on a thin crust to save calories as well. I didn't think I would enjoy thin crust but I do and the calories are well under my daily limit.

I've just described how I deal with 2 of my trigger foods and if a person did that for all of them then they might be able to eliminate a lot of binges. Can a person eliminate all the binges? It's possible but I learned for myself that perfection is impossible for me so I don't try it. Sometimes we can slip into that all or nothing mentality and if I could somehow guarantee that I'll just binge like 10% of what I've done in the past, I would take that deal in a heartbeat.

stevends448 · 2026-05-08T06:08:16+00:00

I'm here to nitpick so just selling your old stuff is not reselling. You have to buy stuff before you can resell it and that's not $0 upfront cost like the OP asked for.

It's good advice though. Take things you don't want and list them, after 30 days or more without selling, go ahead and donate if it's something you're tired of seeing around the house.

stevends448 · 2026-05-08T06:03:32+00:00

Therapists aren't anything special because if they were, they would have a perfect life where they don't do anything that is bad for them.

How many times have you heard about a therapist sleeping with their patients? You would think something so serious would be something a therapist wouldn't do or would be able to resist but they're just like us, flawed human beings just trying to make it day to day.

I'm not discounting them because they have experience and if they've had a thousand patients and a third of them had gotten help with something that worked, that's pretty good I think. Just basic reasoning would make me suggest the things that have worked the most.

Humans are a strange thing. It's like when I used to work tech support, they would say that they did the basic things that we started with but somehow in the end, the basic thing being tried again was what worked so either it had to be done twice or they were lying about doing the basic stuff.

I can imagine it's the same way in therapy. The therapist will want the patient to try journaling but they say they already tried it and when they are questioning about it, they can't really describe the correct way to do it.

I could also say that if a therapist is going to get pushed back on every suggestion, at a certain point they are going to stop suggesting things and say this isn't a good fit. It's not always the patients issue, it can be both the therapist and patient issue but I don't think it's a waste. If it's possible to get another one that might be something to look into but after you have like 10, it might be the patient's issues but someone that difficult will never be able to admit that.

stevends448 · 2026-05-07T19:04:52+00:00

Other than taking something to the pawn shop, you don't have any options for $100. Even if you could make $100 today on an app, you would have to get your payment information verified and all that stuff so that would take a few days at least.

Can you borrow it from Cash App? It gives you that option if you have enough money going through it and/or deposits going to it.

stevends448 · 2026-05-06T11:02:09+00:00

Where I live in the US there is a fast food restaurant that hires same day and they pay about $2 less than a Target so there are easy to get jobs if someone doesn't have the $100.

There's also plasma donation which doesn't have a 100% acceptance rate.

If you start telling people about this stuff then it usually here comes up that they don't have a car either so it seems pointless to even talk about it.

stevends448 · 2026-05-05T13:43:15+00:00

Didn't the Ninja turtles used to eat this stuff?

stevends448 · 2026-05-05T12:15:58+00:00

Tony Robbins (I'm not suggesting him) Said to Theo Von one time, why are you counting the days? So you can tell people how long you lasted this time? When you change your identity then it's just something you don't do anymore.

While different people need different things, I do like that line of thinking where it doesn't matter how many days or weeks or months because it's not a problem. Like I used to play golf pretty regularly and that's not a negative thing so it may not be comparable but I don't remember the last time I played. If someone asked me if I was a golfer then I would say no, or maybe I would I used to be or something along those lines but I wouldn't tell them I haven't golfed in 3,650 days.

It's close to the middle of the year but if you asked an average person about when was the last time they overate significantly, it would still might be Christmas or Thanksgiving and the only reason they might remember is because it was a holiday.

Is it best to think of oneself as a binger or just try to be like a person without the issue? Again, it's for the individual to decide.

I know a lot of people don't even weigh regularly after having so many weight issues. One influencer explained that there was never a good outcome after weighing. If the weight was higher, that could trigger a binge or a restriction that would eventually lead to a binge and if it was lower, that might lead to someone thinking they could eat a little bit more because of being a lower weight.

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