r/BingeEatingDisorder

I feel as though working out triggers me to binge more than anything else combined. Does anyone else have this problem? The second I get home from the gym I just want to eat everything in front of me, leading me to not want to workout, knowing this will happen 😭

I am lost, i want to lose weight so bad. It is all i think about every day, the whole day. Food is really my addiction, it's like i can't stop, like i have to eat. I eat an average of 3500/4000 cals a day.

I am a 24F, and i tried losing weight first when i was 16, i was quite skinny but that turned into me starving myself, then binging again and that became a cycle. Now it is just binging i'd say, but with constant regret of everything i consume, every meal or snack i have i start thinking that i need to start again tomorrow, i have hundreds of lists written down with food and diet rules that i never follow.

I gained 50 kilos in 8 years.. I have been through a lot and it might just be a coping mechanism. But does anyone have tips on how to stop food noises? How to stop treating yourself with food? How to get a healthy relationship with food?

I am desperate. I hate living in regret every single day. I hate feeling big, i hate being uncomfortable in my own skin, i hate how heavy my body feels.

I don't know why but somehow I feel like I'm one of those people who get help and advices for their problems and don't do shit about it. like i've had therapy, seen a dietician, yet I can't be bothered to put up and do the work consistently. the urges get stronger and I cave.

I feel like I'm one of those people that ppl online complain about that enjoy their sadness. I enjoy binging. I don't really enjoy the feeling afterwards, but the immediate relief seems mre important.

I'm just scared of fighting my own mind. I just wanna eat and be left alone

Don't know if I should do it but i feel like if I don't I can't recover.. But i live with my parents and i don't think that my dad sees it as a good idea.. I want to eat two normal meals and as dinner a bigger but low kcal dessert.. But these still contain lots of sugar like low calorie icecream tubs. Anyone here who tried it?

I’m a 21yo guy, I was cutting for the summer and achieved a lean phisique (the first time I’ve actually seen my abs good). I binged for 3 days in a row due to a moment of stress. Ngl I think I’ve eaten at least a 6000kcal surplus every day. Looking at myself in the mirror now I look like 2 months ago, I feel so defeated.

I EAT THEM SO MUCH and ofc bcs of the carbs i’m so bloated. These round potatoes from aviko i hate them cuz they so easy to binge i think i ate more than half of the bag(600g). How can i cope with this? I feel so sick. I did kinda ok these past few days, today relapse. I can’t afford to go to the therapist to get some help. Kinda sad that this is what i can do to feel better.

I hate this disorder. I hate the guilt and I feel like I just wasted a bunch of food. I’m so sad.

Hi everyone,

I don’t normally post on groups but I need some advice. Last week I competed in my second bodybuilding show and after 4 months of a really strict prep I got placed 4th and 5th in my classes and was told by the judges that I was still lacking conditioning. I’ve been fully disappointed hearing the feedback, and since stepping off stage I’ve fully lost control of my eating habits. I have been eating anything in my sight for the past week and it’s been getting out of hand. I’ll be fully ignoring my fullness cues and continue eating without even giving any time to let the remaining food fully digest in my stomach. I’ve been feeling so full to where I’m getting super sluggish and shortness of breath and it’s just been so uncomfortable to where I don’t feel like moving around. I really want to try to give some time for my body to adjust and digest the food I’ve been binging but it’s so hard to not think about food 24/7. On top of that I’ll be flying out tomorrow on a 2 week trip to Japan and even though the food is different there and many people get around by walking I’m nervous that it could make my situation worse and make me feel physically worse. I know not many people may have done a bodybuilding show or have had to go through a strict diet to prepare for something, but if anyone could share any tips and experiences on how they can manage binging on vacation that would be great because I’d really like to enjoy myself on my trip without feeling gross and uncomfortable. Any advice is greatly appreciated 🤍

hi! i’m 19 and have gained about 6 kg this year due to bingeing. recently, the bingeing has gotten so bad that i binge EVERYDAY. HOW do i stop. i feel like i am going to ruin my entire fucking future due to my binge problems. i used to put fitness before everything but now, every time i even get a bite of chocolate, i legit go feral. like i will want ALL the chocolate. i think i may have had 8 bars of chocolate and additionally two bags of smash chocolate bags. how do i stop???? does anyone have any advice?

I was wondering if this might be a common practice in coping with binging. Sometimes the urge to binge is too strong, but I try my best to maybe eat something more filling and healthier than my regular binge foods of goldfish, noodles, and ice cream. Sometimes I like to replace those foods with an apple walnut and chicken salad with feta, or some cheese and crackers with some fruit. It still sucks cuz I’m still binging and eating large amounts of food, but at least my bowels feel better the next day LOL!!!! I’m just curious if anyone else does this, and if you do what do you like to use as substitutes?

i have been thinking about my binges and their increased frequency lately and i think it all started when i started to sleep less. i have always had insomnia but due to high stress and other distressing factors i rarely get 7 or more hours of sleep. does anyone else with binging problems have sleep problems? there may be a correlation.

Okay so I've never made a post on this sub before but I think this has gotten pretty bad and I think I need help in this particular situation, so for reference I'm a minor I am underweight but the problem is for the past couple of days I've been purging and binging literally everyday constantly almost anything I ate , I've never really purged this much before and I even threw up blood I don't know if it's because I scratched myself or something, I am feeling very weird and extremely thirsty wich obviously I of course know why I did buy some electrolytes that you put in water but obviously it hasn't helped, I am alone at home and have been for the last couple of days and I keep eating to the point that I feel sick then purging , Im also feeling very cold...so...do I need to go to the hospital....the problem is I'm obviously not going to tell the doctors that I've been doing this on purpose but also do you think they will actually help?I'm really thirsty really thirsty.......

I’m curious what you guys think about this topic. I’ve been doing a lot of trial and error with different strategies / ways to tackle my BED.

I keep going back and forth with the idea that it is better to keep trigger foods or snacks out of the house or not. I keep finding myself , after a couple days of not binging , feeling like I trust myself to have some snacks I like in the house to have in moderation. Like I feel somewhat confident at that point.
But almost every single time I end up binging on ALL of them in one or two different episodes, the day after I buy them.
I just don’t know how to deal with this because I feel like it’s too restrictive to ban it from the house entirely or to consciously not allow it, if that makes sense. I feel like then I’ll just lose control when I am exposed to it in another setting, which I’ve seen in myself before.

This ties into something else I’m really struggling with in this stage of recovery which is trying to not lean back into my restrictive side in the process of avoiding binging . I just have no idea how to eat because the guilt of eating in a way in which im not trying to shrink myself feels wrong, uncomfortable and unfamiliar - but at the same time I physically am unable to restrict/control myself for more than like two days at a time without eventually eating something unplanned and then binging as a result. Any thoughts or tips on that I’d appreciate as well

PLEASE tell me what made you stop bingeing. I NEED TO KNOW. i am so upset.

Yesterday I ate around my TDEE but none of the food was actually satiating. It was just around eight small bags of low calorie snacks and then two bagels with cream cheese. The four days prior to that I binged around 12,000 cals. I look so bloated and puffy, especially in my face and stomach. The scale is up 9lbs from when I weighed myself a week ago and I’m trying to tell myself it’s impossible to gain that much weight that quickly but my body looks so much bigger it’s making me feel hopeless. I can’t even sleep comfortably I feel disgusting.

I had written a whole story out, but it’s a bit long and I guess, short story - alcoholic all my life but I binge and generally don’t have good eating habits when I’m sober - eating disorders are my fun replacement addiction- yay.

I try to keep all bingeable things out of the apartment and so last night, after dinner, I ate raw porridge oats straight from the bag washed down with milk.

Another one for the can’t have at home list which includes any chocolate, or sweet or salty snacks - basically any snacks, high sugar things like raisins or prunes, any kind of nuts, sliced chicken or other cooked meat or fish (once I open the package it’s gone), bread, pasta, pot noodles or any of those quick meal things. Probably a lot more. I try to cook big healthy things in bulk so at least if I’m going to binge, it will be on something decent. But I still find ways to surprise myself. It sucks tbh.

I don’t even know what I really wanna say it’s just been going on since last August and I’m so damn tired, I’ve been binging and restricting from August-April Then since May I’m trying to lose weight the healthy way but I keep binging multiple times a week and this week has been especially bad, and I ruined pretty much all the progress I’ve seen during the past month. I genuinely don’t know what to do man

It’s been months since my last calorie deficit and I just can’t stop eating. I’m constantly stuffing myself with everything I can find and large meals and no matter how much I hate what I’m doing and how loud the voice in my head is screaming at me to stop I just can’t. Im on track to being the heaviest I’ve ever been and I don’t know what to do. I’m eating everything away instead of dealing with it but when I stop binging I end up restricting and being terrified to eat anything that is nice so I don’t trigger a binge. I’m so exhausted with the constant loosing and gaining of the same 20kg my body isn’t coping well.

it feels selfish to feel this way but i’d rather have something like pica or arfid. spending every second thinking about food and gaining weight is better than feeling like food is a chore and staying skinny.