stop binge-eating

i’ve spent almost all day and night binge eating and i feel so sick
i’m so frustrated… any new idea to beat the urge works only once or twice, and then i binge again

i haven’t binged in 5 months because i’ve eliminated sugar and flour. i’ve lost 30 pounds. and i feel so much better and more in control. good luck everyone.

Im 16. I’m struggling with food since 11. Which means already for 5 years now, or even more.
In last year, i’ve become a bit better which means my binges aren’t so gross now. But however, i want it to stop. Completely. And i know it will take a long time to complete that goal, but i know its worth. And thats what should matter most.

I have had periods when I binged, but this latest issue with binging happened when I tapered off Wellbutrin. Wellbutrin made me lose 5-7 pounds when I started it 7 years ago, so it’s not surprising that stopping it would make me gain 10 pounds now.

I’ve been trying to do all kinds of things to such detail including tracking my calories on Spark people, but tracking my calories is too much detail at the moment given that every other day (approximately) is an episode of disordered eating.

For right now, I only have three weight-related goals:

1. Start Wellbutrin again. That’s easy, just a pill. Stay on it until I’m back where I started. Bingeing is an eating disorder and if Wellbutrin can cure that, it’s justified to take it even if I’m not depressed.

2. Exercise every day. Write it down by hand in my calendar.

3. Don’t binge. Eat only when physically hungry.

No measuring cups. No diet scale. No cutting back on entire food groups to cut calories. No spending an hour per day online entering foods and exercises and earning spark points. Weigh myself no more than once or twice a month. No obsession. No thinking, “Everything will be better when I’ve lost weight.”

Weight loss in some cases is complicated, but in this case it’s not rocket science. I started bingeing again when I cut back on Wellbutrin. I can stop by restarting it and applying some will power.

17 years old and i had to drop ouut of college for an illness. I was happy with my weight untill i got a boyfriend, he kept buying me chocolate and we always went out to dinner etc. I also wasnt happy being with him. 3 months and 20 pounds later i dumped him, but am not happy, im bored and lonely, my friends are all busy with college and i have nothing. i keep bingeing during the day, when theres no food ill make cookie dough to eat. Ive tried to keep busy, im cleaning peoples houses and have 2 part time jobs, but it hasnt stopped me. Ive even tried to make myself sick but i guess i have a strong gag reflex cos it never works. i know this is good but it makes me feel like i cant even be depressed right. i am exercising, and eating the right things at the right times, its just in between things go pear shaped. i have another 13 weeks untill i start college, i dont want to put on weight, i want to lose the weight i put on. When im with people i dont think about eating at all, its just when im alone.

is it so hard for me to just eat like a normal person??? It’s so frustrating.

this happened the exact same time last week. i am trying to focus on the days that i didn’t binge (yay me) instead of this one slip up.

but it’s hard…

I woke up early this morning while it was still dark, around 4:30 am itching all over. I took my vitamins, did a few yoga sun salutations, read online about almond allergies and how they can without warning become fatal, and went back to sleep, and woke up feeling reasonably okay, and felt fantastic once I went to the gym while at work. Not to be TMI, but the almonds seem to have left my system by now, and I just feel relieved.

Right now I don’t feel like this is an experience that I could repeat.

I wonder how many binges from trigger foods are actually allergies.

During times of stress when I have sweets in my house, I have been known to go through them quickly over just a day or three, but usually it involves sugar.

Today I had an unusual experience. I had such a terrible first date last night that I actually felt nauseated by the end and this morning I got rejected on a dating site by someone I liked, so I had that emotional priming. And I had an ounce of almonds because everyone is always saying how healthy they are to eat in moderation. And I felt a little itchy in my mouth, my scalp, my face. And I wanted more.

I ended up going through the entire pound of roasted almonds over the next 8 hours, almost 3000 calories. I feel disappointed that this happened, that it’s a setback for the 15 pounds I’m trying to lose this summer, and yet it is really a textbook example of the kind of food allergy that causes overeating.

I knew that I tend to gain weight when I eat nuts, but I always thought it was purely from the calories. This is a really clear illustration that it’s probably an actual allergy. My nose keeps itching and my eyes feel a little sensitive.

Hi guys,
Tonight is the first time I’ve ever wrote about this. I have a serious binge eating problem. I am really good during the day, however in the evening I binge on chips, fries, pizza, cookies, candy…you name it ill eat it-and I can’t stop, then I take an array of laxatives to flush it out…I do this every single night! I so badly want to stop, I’ve put on 20lbs in 3 months and I need to stop this terrible habit or im going to loose my boyfriend, and push away my family/friends. I don’t know what is wrong with me, every night after I do it I say “I’ll be better tomorrow” and I never am, is it will power? I feel lost in a self loathing pit of dispair. I need to stop, I can’t keep this up. Does anyone have any advice on how they got over it?