![]() ![]() But that’s not the only thing that the anticipation does. The thoughts of bingeing carry you straight to your binge. It’s those first thoughts about it, the anticipation which just carries itself and basically makes you feel as though you don’t have a choice. So your actual binge starts about hours, sometimes even days before the binge starts. Just the anticipation and desire of a binge creates activity in your brain that basically brings you to the binge. You know how sometimes it’s not even noon but you know that you are going to have a binge when you get home from work that night? You begin planning it, thinking about what stores you’re going to go to, what foods you’re going to get, where you are going to eat it, what you’re going to do when you eat it, what it will feel like in your mouth, what you will be doing while you’re bingeing (will you be watching television? will you be searching the web? will you be on the phone? or will you just be sitting alone with the food?) You begin to get excited and your amygdala (the part of your brain responsible for emotional reaction) lights up with excitement.
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