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- Sep 20, 2016
Were Chantal to admit that carbs (or at least certain sources of carbs) are in any way a problem for her, she'd have to face the fact that she simply cannot eat her favorite foods any more because they contribute to, if not trigger, her bingeing.She's tried to argue before that carbs aren't a problem for her - does she not realise we've seen all the crap she eats? Even when it's fatty stuff like pizza there are still tonnes of carbs in there...
There is definitely a connection between compulsive binge eating and certain foods that are high in both highly-refined carbohydrates (including sugars) and fat. Chips, cake, pastries, ice cream, cookies, donuts, pizza, french fries, deep-fried foods, pasta dishes with lots of cheese, candy, and fast food are all commonly craved and devoured by binge eaters. In a pinch, if there is nothing else, and if they're too poor to buy much food, I've known people who binged on white bread spread with margarine or even mayo. Anything to get their fix.
Amberlynn's orange chicken? That shit's classic.
And really, the only way to get over that is to recognize what your binge foods are (and which foods can trigger the urge to binge), and treat them the way recovering alcoholics treat anything that contains alcohol--cut them out of your diet completely. Given that most of them are utter crapfood, and even the best of them are marginal as far as nutritional value goes, that leaves all kinds of tasty, nutritious food that is perfectly safe and won't trigger a binge, or that can't really be binged on because they require too much chewing or make you feel full too quickly--and don't give you a dopamine hit.
Going Keto, or even just an eating plan that allowed some low-GI carbs (such as South Beach, or old-style Atkins in its maintenance stage), would work wonders for Chantal--if she ever stuck with it. And to do that, she'd have to admit she has a major problem with carbs, and that she can no longer eat all of her old favorites.
That ain't going to happen. Food is literally her life; it is the only thing she is interested in or cares about; she has nothing else to live for. So we get to watch her eat herself to death, in between desperate, flailing attempts at "miracle" weight-loss schemes.