by roundcoconut » Thu Jul 14, 2016 3:26 pm
I would say, fill your plate as prescribed -- half veg, half starch. Give yourself an ample portion, as judged by your eyeballs, not your binge tendencies. Then, when done, brush your teeth and leave the kitchen till the next scheduled meal.
If you are like lots of binge eaters, you are capable of thinking 40 minutes after lunch, "I could really go for four more potatoes" or "I'm gonna eat a few tangerines now." Don't listen -- that's your inner psycho wanting to spiral into an overeating episode!
So, plan how many meals you will have, and do not adjust on the fly. If you decide that after a week, you'd like to change your plan of eating (say, by scheduling yourself for first meal between 10am and 11am, instead of 11am to 12noon) then that is fine! But be sure you make decisions with a cool head, well before or after a meal -- NOT when your psycho is in charge.
Establish some meals you like -- and eat them over and over again.
Watch a buncha Chef AJ videos. She is lovely.
Listen to a buncha Susan Pierce Thompson videos -- she gets binge eating tendencies -- not many people in the plant-based community do.
It is never "eat all you want, as often as you want", especially in our situation. I totally get the tendencies to binge eat, and have gone probably a year or so, between having these tendencies and behaviors. So peace with food is possible!
Good luck.