Hi
Does anyone have advice on how to stop binge eating. And before you comment telling me to eat enough during the day and get my protein and that stuff - i am. The problem is, im no longer restricting, but I still get the urge to binge eat EVERY SINGLE DAY. Like, I cant stop.
Can anyone help? For info im a twenty year old girl who really could use some advice
I need to cut calories to lose some weight. But restriction of any kind means I binge later. I can't keep doing this.
Does anyone tried this before and does it actually help?
Also how to do it in the right way so it won’t turn into a binge
Also when i binge does binges get weaker after doing this for some time?
I have a trip coming up in 2 weeks and ive been eating 5k calories every day for a week. It put me in around 20-21k surplus and I cant deal with that fact. I was barely feeling okay with the way I looked in a swimsuit before this, and now I feel like I sabotaged myself again.. This somehow happens every year, before any important event where I have to show more skin/wear tighter clothes. I know its not uncommon but rn Im just looking for a small pat on the back or something, I dont even know
Hi, I had a 6 day binge and it led to the scale rising 14lbs. I weighed in at 127 and now I am 141 lbs. I feel absolutely horrible. I’m inflamed and my stomach is making lots of noises. Realistically how much of this is true fat gain. And am I able to get back to my starting weight in 10 days??
i don’t get it.
i aim to eat balanced meals, i include sweet treats for cravings, i eat enough calories (2k daily as a shirt sedentary woman).
what on earth am i doing wrong?
i ate normally all day today. yet after a nice filling dinner, i ate an apple. then that apple turned into 6. plus some pears. random bits of chicken and cabbage.
i’m in so much pain right now. i can’t breathe. i’m so stuffed. it didn’t even taste good.
I go first
Mine said i should include my “scary food” aka the food i binge on , ever day and honestly i am noticing this has a good effect.
Sorry for the random post. I see so many of those “What I eat in a day” videos on social media and I truly do not un how they came to exist and why people watch or enjoy them.
They are either ED content (I.e. someone with anorexia bragging about how little they eat), someone who works out a lot or someone saying “what as I eat in a day as a girl who likes to eat”.
I don’t get it. It’s probably just a me problem but those types of videos piss me off. I don’t want to know what others eat. I just want to stop eating all the time.
Hi! I just wanted you all to know that instead of binging, I ate an apple and chugged 32 oz of water.
🔥🔥🔥 I’m on a roll!
Im so so so happy that I chose to start reta.
First week, I felt nothing (0.5mg) then the second week I bumped it up to 1.2mg and wow.
My mind has never been so calm. I pretty much don’t have words for how relieved I feel.
I know it’s probably not right to glamorise GLP’s but I’ve just never felt like this in my life.
If you’re struggling with BED and you were already thinking of trying Reta… all I can say is do it.
This is day 12 with no binging (granted, once I make it through the day). I haven’t gone more than a week without binging in months, so I’m feeling really good about it. I’ve been struggling pretty heavily with food noise, but not actual urges. Just wanted to share some positive energy in the feed. I even had a donut and a strawberry croissant the other day, both trigger foods for me (sugar and baked goods) and thought I was destined to binge. But I didn’t!!!
I’ve been binging for about 3 weeks straight. I absolutely hate myself for it. I got off track, and can’t get back on. Is there anyone willing to help me remind myself to stop? Or to walk away from food- or even better, walk away WITHOUT food in my hand. (Or mouth.)
I’ve been relapsing with my disordered eating for a few months now, but it is so much worse than it’s ever been before. And it’s been extremely difficult because the more I relapse, the harder it is to resist. I’ve lost so much confidence in myself, and it’s frustrating because I’m at the point where I have to eat the same safe foods at the same time every single day or I’m at risk of binging. I try so extremely hard, but for some reason the longest I’ve lasted recently is 4-5 days and then the cravings start to get bad again. I need some sort of sustainable solution, or non-medicated appetite suppressant, or just SOMETHING that can work more long term, because it’s getting out of hand. I can’t even go grocery shopping without eating what I bought on the way home, even though I always make sure to eat something before I go. My brain doesn’t care how much I’ve already eaten. I don’t know how to emotionally regulate myself when I feel the urge to binge because I get so anxious and panicky about it, and it feels completely out of my control. I’m constantly, constantly thinking about food, whether it’s about eating it or not eating it, or planning things out so I can prevent myself from not eating it. My whole. Life. Revolves around this right now. Any tips at all would be amazing.
I am a 27F and I struggled all my life with multiple ED‘s.. I now had a really long Phase of not that much food noise and really enjoyed life, but the last few weeks have been hell. Everyday I start the day telling myself it’s okay and to just live on normally, no restricting and trying to move as much as I can but always eating normally throughout the day. But as soon as I get home, no matter what time, I get really really bad food noise and always end up eating roughly 2-3k calories of food. If I have no food at home I just order something it’s like I’m possessed by something as soon as I get calm at home.
I gained 5kgs already and don’t feel comfortable in my body at all, always heavily bloated, nauseous and uncomfortable (obviously).
Does anyone have any tips? Medically I’m really healthy the doctors said I’m okay. Its just really exhausting losing control like that and always feeling sick when going to bed.
I am a 28 year old female in a healthy weight range so I don’t think I’ll ever get approved for a glp-1. The food noise and obsession I have to fight every single day is exhausting. I am fine with my weight and how I look at this point. I just want the food noise to end. Every single day is a battle to not binge, over eat, get euphoric about food, fantasize about food, etc. I’m so tired. Desserts are a huge trigger/temptation for me. I just want to be normal about food. Looking for an appetite suppressant that works.
hey guys. ive come and browsed a bit here, but its not a sub i can follow because seeing posts regularly can put me in a shame cycle :(
lately i have been binging so much and i feel so lost. my days off are filled with fast food and junk food, and when i work i try to do better by having a protein shake in the morning but then by lunch im eating fast food or i dont eat anything until after work and then it's fast food. i also have energy drinks at work, so i feel like on work days im putting my body through it.
i have no self control when it comes to snacks, especially sweets. and i have terrible health anxiety about getting diabetes so it sucks. if i have stuff like cookies or chips, ill eat the whole container or bag within a day or two. sometimes in one sitting. same with cereal. cereal is one of the worst ones because i can have 2-3 bowls in one sitting.
i game a lot at my pc when im not working so if i have stuff like candy or whatever on my desk ill eat it, and if im not eating it ill be thinking "oh in a little bit i can have this snack"
its so debilitating and i feel like no one takes me seriously. when i brought it up to my therapist about a year ago she just said that its because i was quitting weed and replacing that oral fixation with something else. but like... im still binging.
its terrible. i hate myself and how it makes me feel. if i wake up at night i have a snack and go back to bed. when i wake up i immediately order food or get coffee. i "treat" myself all the time for doing things like chores or appointments. i am always thinking about what ill get at the store or what ill cook.
i just want to get to a healthier place with food and i dont know what to do.
i have eaten healthy before and im not picky. i feel like im just addicted to fast food, snacks, and junk food at this point. as im writing this im literally thinking about doordashing myself snacks. like when will it end?
i feel like i cant have any of these trigger foods in my house but im afraid if i restrict too much ill fail. i dont know what to do.
any advice would be appreciated. please help :(
I need genuine help for binge eating. Not the whole “set a timer” or “take a walk”
You name it, I tried it. Yes, I have quit counting calories, it made it worse. I have stopped any compensation, just made me carry on and gain weight.
I even seeked therapy, got a meal plan and still. Nothing. Worked.
Countless videos, articles, research and I am still stuck in a hole I cannot get out of.
I need niche, unheard of tips that got you out of this. I am willing to do a lot. I am just sick of it frankly. Every week I make the same promise “I will honestly stop it”, including now, and then watch, one weeks time and I will have binged again.
This addiction has cost me money, caused arguments because I cannot even control myself around food and is so distressing. I need to get better and if anyone knows ANY tips, just tell me.
For example, my worst binging stories (yes, this is plural.) is that on birthdays my sister makes cake for people’s birthday. I cannot even control myself for a FEW HOURS. I scrape icing off, try to redecorate or hide my markings on the food. She will buy ingredients to bake like Nutella, and I will engulf it.
I also just overate vitamin gummies. Because I wanted food. wtf.
There has been times where I have binged the whole house out, we have had not much food, and then I JUST BINGE ON SUGAR. This isn’t even a night issue too, it has turned into a morning, afternoon, evening issue.
Surprisingly, I only gained around 5kg in total. This is only because my binges are currently weekly (slowly coming to be more than that tho- like I did 6x this month alone…)
I just don’t want this to be a thing where I convince myself “it’s only a kg… it’s only water weight” all the way up to plain obesity.
Im only 16, i dont want this to get worse than it already is..
P.s i research HEAVILY for hours into the brain amd all this habit stuff. I just cannot take that information and help myself with it,
ANY UNHINGED HELP. ANYTHING.
62 years young, compulsive/binge eater most of my life, due to food insecurity issues when I was young and the fact that I tend to eat my feelings. Had a 5-year interlude when I got down to ideal weight with the help of a commercial weight loss program and was in marathon-runner shape, but that didn't last. The old habits kept calling me and eventually I caved.
I'm about 70# overweight and have hypertension (surprise surprise) which has been resistant to medication. My doctor ordered some labs, which revealed that I also have:
I'm now on 5 medications to manage these conditions, which I absolutely hate. I'm not trying to break any longevity records, but my father has already buried 1 child, I don't think he could take outliving 2 of us.
I know I need to change my diet, and exercise more, but any approach that says, "you can never eat x, y, or z" again, I won't do. Big believer in moderation. I am leery of GLP-1's as they seem to be too new and who knows what side effects they might have?
Sorry y'all, just venting. I have no one to use as a sounding board, no OA groups in my town, so I'm on my own. This demon is a b*tch to conquer. It's hard to make peace with the very thing that's killing you. Praying for us all.
Hi (f21), having schizoaffective disorder bipolar type, binge eating disorder, and food addiction. It's so hard having both because they are the worst at the same time.
I got diagnosed with BED like 5 years ago; before that, I was struggling with disordered eating and all that. My ED is left untreated, and recently I got diagnosed with schizoaffective from this inpatient hospital. I got admitted there because I had psychosis. I have had 2 psychosis episodes for the past 2 years already.
Right now, I am really struggling with binge eating at home, and I know it's the meds that are causing that. I honestly don't know what to do. I talked to the psychiatrist yesterday because I have problems with the meds that are making me binge eat, and they want me to stay on these meds and to wait for 1 month to feel the full effect. I don't wanna be off of meds because I'm afraid of having psychosis again. So far, I've been to 9 mental hospitals: 4 last year and 2 this year. It has not been a fun ride. My binge eating disorder has already ruined most of my life, and now schizoaffective too.
I did an assessment yesterday to get into an outpatient ED program, so hopefully I'll get in. In the meantime, does anyone have any advice for a situation like mine?
4 days I go, I was very close to my goal weight. I felt really good physically and mentally. Since then, I have had 3 consecutive days of very bad bad binge eating (3k, 5k, 4k) . I feel so ugly and gross and bloated because i was on a sugar-free lifestyle before this.
How much fat could I have gained? How do i lose water weight fast? Any tips?