Binge Eating on the Road
I’m back from one of the most fun girl weekends I’ve had in a long time!! It was great hanging out with my friends and celebrating such a special time.
Since it was in Dallas, I decided to drive there. It’s only about 3 hours from where I live, so I made some fun CDs to prepare for my road trip. I think I was so excited on the way that I couldn’t think about anything else. I was singing and dancing at the top of my lungs =)
On the way back, I was so tired from only getting 4 hours of sleep the night before so my mind started to drift. I needed to eat lunch, so I stopped somewhere and then I remembered that this road trip was the first one that I’ve taken by myself since college… which is when I would binge eat. Of course I started thinking about that…
I would drive from Lubbock to Houston (which varies from 8-10 hours of being in the car) and it would be my excuse to just binge and binge. I guess it was probably from boredom, but it was also just because I could. I was alone and there were tons of fast food places on the side of the road. I clearly had my pick of whatever I wanted.
This is back when I ate meat and I one of my favorite binge places was McDonald’s. I would order a Quarter Pounder with cheese, fries, and a Dr. Pepper. I felt a rush immediately.
Hopefully I would see a Sonic because I loved cheddar peppers with ranch, a coney dog, and tator tots with cheese.
A binge for me wouldn’t be complete without Taco Bell… a bean burrito, nachos supreme, and a soft taco. Of course since I was on the road, I would have to be careful so that no one would see me eat. I was (and still am) weird about this when I was driving. It felt like I was exposing myself too much and that some random driver would know my secret.
Do any of you do this?
It was such a rush to have all of these food choices in front of me and I just couldn’t eat it fast enough… Of course this was hard since I was driving, so sometimes I would pull over to a place that seemed deserted to binge.
I would love to hear from any of you that do this, so please share if you can.