stop binge-eating

i feel like an adict…
things havn’t improved yet but they will!!

In the back of my mind I know I can do this… I just really have to want to do this for 100 percent. I have to find something else to comfort me at times when I normally binge (I do this when I’m under a lot of stress or feeling lonely and depressed). The last couple of weeks I’ve been doing better with this. I felt happier… But now I’m under a lot of stress because of the exams… so I’m bingeing again. I really want to lose some weight, to have my body back! But obviously it’s not going to work this way, I have to stop this N0W (easier said then done I’m afraid)

Be happy
enjoy life
be myself
appreciate the little things
enjoy the moment

I have just joined , I`m not sure about this yet , have just ordered the book by dr. Christoffer G. fairburn, I`m so looking forward to read the book while I`m in China.

Hi everyone. I’ve been a member of this goal several times in the past and have been really successful at times only to go back and do it all over again-you know the story. Anyway, one of those times, I met someone on here and we corresponded back and forth and both did much better in achieving our goal for having done it. I realise people don’t use this much anymore but I would love to see a small group of us get together and support each other and achieve our goal together. You don’t have to share anything you don’t want to-just know that there’s someone there for support and to help resist temptation and to report and celebrate your victories with.

Is anyone interested?

Is anyone interested?

Does anyone here tend to binge around the full moon or during PMS? This keeps happening to me and I don’t know how to avoid it. This entry might be the first time that I’ve delayed giving into it. I drank huge amounts of water and tea, had 3 apples and spicy lemonade and called a helpline to see if I could talk to someone who’d give me some advice. They directed me to overeaters anonymous and not much help there, I ended up tripping on the 12 steps, falling all the way out of there. So, after searching online for ways to curb it, looking up various tricks to get away, I decided after inhaling some cedarwood to join this thread to relieve some of the pain of this urgent compulsion. Usually, I just give in, but it feels so agonizing to keep returning to this same cycle.

If I could only understand the reasons for wanting to binge around this time, maybe I could remedy it. Herbs, healthy food and excercize seem like logical solutions, but they don’t help with the root of the problem. Right around the time of my period I start to wonder if I’m pregnant and feel very bloated and ashamed of my appearance and I think that triggers me to eat insane quantities, to deaden feelings, resolve fears of deficiency and avoid responsibility when I feel thrown off by circumstances when trying to please others or avoid making anyone angry.

I’ve read so many books on emotional eating, looking at it from the standpoint of cognitive therapy, spirituality, mindfulness, social responsibility, etc., but none of it sticks because I get thrown off so easily by encounters that I lack the discipline to keep with it.

Well, I feel a little better after ranting about this and less focused on food. Maybe finding my own personal way of resolving this would help more than any book for now. I feel way too on edge in this situation to follow any program and I can only look to what exists in the present moment from my own biased perspective and gather what I can from that. Maybe when this settles down a bit, I’ll have a better time applying what I learn from others. Sadness and overwhelming obligations and exciting leaps into unknown worlds make me want to hide away in food. I think I just need to make art.

binge eating has made me FAT, unfortunatly after many attempts at trying to stop i got into bad habbits such as throwing up after, not eating for 24 hours after or once i even took 2 boxes of laxativs in a desperate hopw it’ll “undo” the binge eating.

At the moment i’m not doing too badly; i’ve got into the habbit of exercising a lot after a binge which is a bit more normal but nedless to say i wont slip back into old habbits if i just stop binging all together.

my binges are not as wild as they used to be but still there never the less. i realy need to do this!

i haven’t had a binge in such a long time. i think it is because i have greatly cut down my intake of flour and sugar. it is great to say that for at least 6 months this year, i haven’t been bingeing. yay, amen, thank you God, thank you Self.

living alone has made my bingeing come back. it’s still not as bad as it used to be, but so far it’s been once a week and a lot, a lot of food. sometimes i will just be bored, or anxious about different things. it’s harder when there is no one to be accountable to.

how do i make sure my nights are binge free??

Restarted Wellbutrin at absolutely the minimum dose: 100 mg (max is 400) and that helped enormously. I gave up sugar except for weekly treats when out.

I reduced starches to the absolute minimum. For instance, sometimes I will melt cheese on rice or bread or tortillas, and even though the cultural message is that the carb is necessary to justify the cheese, I decided that was too easy for me to overdo. Instead I started to melt the cheese without the carb, and it was so much easier to be moderate. So I just ate 1-2 ounces of melted cheese alone with some spices added. It sounds unusual and I felt weird eating it in front of people, but it was satisfying and I did not want seconds. Sometimes I would eat it with an apple. Sometimes I would eat part of a corn tortilla afterwards, but I didn’t want even a whole one (a whole one is 60 calories). (Versus usually I would eat 2-3 tortillas.)

I made sure to eat hot food when I wanted something to eat. Melted cheese is unusual to eat, but more satisfying than cold cheese.

I exercised every day however possible, but didn’t go crazy with it. At least walking.

My weight has trended down, and I am now at the upper range of my usual weight range, about 8.5 pounds less than my peak in the late spring. I feel so good about fitting well into clothes. Now I want to lose another 8-13 pounds, but I don’t feel urgent about it.

After all this progress, I had a few challenges, some of which worked out.

1. Five days in advance of hosting a dinner, I bought ice cream. The next day I had just 1 spoonful. The day after, I had a bowl. The next day, another. After eating almost half the ice cream, I decided just to throw out the whole container. That’s a partial victory.

2. The day of the dinner, I bought another container of ice cream. This one stayed intact for the dinner and right after the dinner I gave it away to the new neighbors. SCORE!

Initially tried to give it to one of my guests because she was going to host something the next week, but she would not take it out of fear of temptation. I felt good to realize that I was not the only one tempted. Then several hours later, my (always thin) friend hanging out with me said he was glad I’d given away the ice cream b/c he would have wanted more and he was glad it wasn’t there anymore.

3. I baked brownies for a school potluck, but I came so late that everyone was almost done eating and I didn’t want to draw attention to my lateness by putting out my brownies. I thought about throwing them out right away, but instead I froze them for an event the following week. You see where this is going. The first day, I had just a little, the second day even more. By the fifth day, I had eaten more than half of them so just threw the rest out.

The lesson of the week is that as soon as I feel a little out of control, I need to throw out the food even if it’s a huge amount and perfectly good. As soon as I feel out of control, it’s waste or waist.

So now I am back to the usual state: no treats in the house.

I am going to try to rehab from sugar by eating a baked potato at night following the Potatoes, Not Prozac book’s suggestion.