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By kilax, April 25, 2009 8:39 pm

Peanut Butter is a trigger food for me. It can sit in the pantry for weeks and I don’t even think about it, but once I open it, I eat WAY too much.

We had two containers in our pantry from November – creamy and crunchy. They were both half full this week. They are now gone – mostly because of me.

We went to Target today to get groceries, and even stopped by the peanut butter, but I didn’t say that we needed any, because I didn’t want it in the house. I was being selfish.

Steven noticed we were out when we got home. He was upset that we didn’t get any. I can understand that. He likes to have it every once in awhile. And it was wrong of me to only think of myself when making the grocery list. I told him I would go pick some up, but that it is a trigger food for me, so I had no idea how long it would last. And I have no idea how long this overeating/binging phase is going to last for me. Why do I go through phases like this?

So now I feel guilty for eating too much AND for not getting any more peanut butter for the pantry. Yay.

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By kilax, January 13, 2008 9:48 am

Does anyone else go through “food phases”?

For months, I will be obsessed with eating one food. I will crave it almost every day. I will still try to eat a balanced diet, but at the end of the day, I feel like I have to get some of that one food.

I hated peanut butter for the first half of 2007. It made me sick to even see it. But then I started wanting it every day – on crackers, on bread, on a spoon, in a cookie, in a Reese’s… now when we are at the grocery store, and I pick up some more PB, Steven asks me, “Are we really out of peanut butter? Again?!”

The same thing has happened to me with Nature Valley granola bars, the Thai dish “Pad Siew,” burritos, crackers… I am starting to wonder if this is a normal thing, or if I need to try to eat a more varied diet all the time so that I don’t get so focused and obsessed with one food!