u/ChiliCheeseBurrito78

I’m less than 2 months into recovery. I’ve had extreme hunger most of the time and moreso in the evenings (I work in the operating room so increasing calories during the day has been a struggle but it’s been attempted).

My EH seems to have lessened naturally the last few nights including what felt like tonight. I felt satiated after I had a bowl of oatmeal after dinner but I just kept eating and eating and eating. Now I’m more full than I think I’ve ever been in my whole recovery process lol.

I’m really worried I was eating out of boredom instead of my true EH signals. I am in a good headspace so it wasn’t emotionally driven. But I don’t want this to happen again or make a habit of it, and it’s now making my head spin that I made a decision when I could and should have stopped but I didn’t because I felt like I needed to keep eating.

I just don’t know what to do or make of my actions and feelings. Thanks for letting me rant.

Hi all,

I’m about in my 7th week or so of recovery. I’ve been seeing a therapist and dietician. I got really fed up with doing the “all in” approach because it was interfering with my job and home life. So I decided to scale back knowing how I normally feel with a certain amount of calories in general at the end of the day. Well, I made it 2.5 days easy, but I just ate myself into a frenzy after dinner. I had almost half a jar of almond butter, 5 slices of bread, and an entire box of high calorie oat-based cereal. Back to back. I could still keep eating but I have to get up early.

I absolutely lost my $hit and freaked out beyond necessary. I want to kick and scream that even in recovery, food still has this tight of a grip even though I have been thinking about it less and less. It makes me even question starting recovery had I know it was this difficult physically and mentally. I just thought I would eat and gain weight. Nope. It’s mostly just eating and crying and panicking on top of the weight gain. I feel like I have no choice or autonomy and I’m tired of being told this is the only way.

This all got started I believe because I tried to attend an online AN meeting and the moderator was the exact opposite of what I would want to see right now and seemed like not the best example of who one might want to see when recovering.

I just feel very trapped like I’m being force fed to eat and i don’t think this is the right approach.

Hi all,

I’m about in my 7th week or so of recovery. I’ve been seeing a therapist and dietician. I got really fed up with doing the “all in” approach because it was interfering with my job and home life. So I decided to scale back knowing how I normally feel with a certain amount of calories in general at the end of the day. Well, I made it 2.5 days easy and I just ate myself into a frenzy after dinner. I had almost half a jar of almond butter, 5 slices of bread, and an entire box of high calorie oat-based cereal. Back to back. I could still keep eating but I have to get up early.

I absolutely lost my $hit and freaked out beyond necessary. I want to kick and scream that even in recovery, food still has this tight of a grip even though I have been thinking about it less and less. It makes me even question starting recovery had I know it was this difficult physically and mentally. I just thought I would eat and gain weight. Nope. It’s mostly just eating and crying and panicking on top of the weight gain. I feel like I have no choice or autonomy and I’m tired of being told this is the only way.

This all got started I believe because I tried to attend an online AN meeting and the moderator was the exact opposite of what I would want to see right now and seemed like not the best example of who one might want to see when recovering.

I just feel very trapped like I’m being force fed to eat and i don’t think this is the right approach.

Hi all,

I am in my 5th week of recovery. I started getting EH after the first week and it was intense for about 2 weeks. It’s slightly calmed down, but I am now getting it really only at night and I’m consuming more calories in a 2-3 hour window than I do for the rest of the day (and I have my first breakfast starting around 5 AM lol). I’m eating every 1-2 hours max. Currently, I have stopped eating because it started getting boring and I have to be up early. Otherwise I could keep going.

I’m afraid this occurring at night is signaling I’m eating out of boredom, although i try and stop eating, I’m looking for food again within minutes. I don’t know what this is or how to try and direct this to not happen so late. I am eating as much as possible during the day, so I don’t know how much more I can add during that time. All I want is carbs too, so each morning I wake up puffier and puffier.

Has anyone experienced their EH hitting more at night and what did you do to address it? Thank you!

Okay please help,

I am (female) under the supervision of a physician needing to gain a rather large amount of weight and it’s not going as fast as anticipated.

I loooove Pb (and all but butters) but I can’t think of anything beyond Reese’s, ice cream, PB&J/banana/nutella etc sammies, shakes, cookies, or straight outta the jar.

If it’s a variant of this, that is perfectly fine, but I need someone else’s brain that also loves PB to help me mix it up.

TIA!