Yesterday I had an experience of all or nothing thinking and recovered.

I had a cooking fail, and I was hungry so quickly made myself an alternative dinner. It wasn't the healthiest option but it was fine. But my little disordered brain immediately went down the road of "well you've messed up". And late last night I started to pull stuff out of the cupboards to make cookies in order to have a binge. And I stopped myself. I actually reversed and put everything away and made myself a hot chocolate instead and I was ok.

I allowed my thoughts to go into the grey area of "well, little detours in our eating plans do happen, just get back on track straight away and everything will be fine" But black and white thinking says "well you've blown it" and "you've let yourself down" I will mentally beat myself up and then felt the need to console myself with food. I did go down that path last night but managed to interrupt the runaway thoughts, challenge them and do something imperfect but wiser.