So I had a binge today

JTick

Isabelle_1929 wrote: »

I'm no specialist or anything, but I would add:

- When you binge, you do not eat like a "normal person". Period. We're not talking of a huge meal or a crazy Christmas fiest at Grand-Ma, here.

- No one binges in public or in front of other people.

- And ... typically, you will not talk about your binge (or will be vague and will not say exactly what you ate and how much) except anonymously, in a message board like this one.


That being said, overeating IS a problem in itself. But overeating is different than bingeing, and it does not necessarily call for the same solutions.

Points two and three are false. You're right, you're not a specialist. I bet you didn't even stay at a Holiday Inn last night.

RedArizona5

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RedArizona5

MsHarryWinston wrote: »

AlanaTedmon wrote: »

Isabelle_1929 wrote: »

Goodness, people have weird definition of "a binge" ...

What you did is to overeat.

How do you differentiate binging vs just overeating?
Isn't binging when you have over 1000 calories in under fifteen minutes?

If I'm sitting on my couch surrounded by the empty wrappers of 20 McDonald cheese burgers and crying into my mcflurry then I would consider it a binge. Not.... You know... Saying that's ever happened to me or anything *shift eye*.

I find the difference between binging and overeating to be a very personal mental and emotional thing where we all have to draw our own line. It's not the same for everyone.

LOLZ -Agreed tho, the pain def. stops me and its still over eating..but binging yeah sounds like its just much worse like nonstop till you pass out but buahahaha but on a more serious note don't binging go on for days, the moment you feel better the next day it happens all over again just smashing your face like a gluttonous devil? until you feel you had enough? -def. guilty of it short term wise but the last few years have been the best years of my food life that I ever had…

MsHarryWinston

RedArizona5 wrote: »

MsHarryWinston wrote: »

AlanaTedmon wrote: »

Isabelle_1929 wrote: »

Goodness, people have weird definition of "a binge" ...

What you did is to overeat.

How do you differentiate binging vs just overeating?
Isn't binging when you have over 1000 calories in under fifteen minutes?

If I'm sitting on my couch surrounded by the empty wrappers of 20 McDonald cheese burgers and crying into my mcflurry then I would consider it a binge. Not.... You know... Saying that's ever happened to me or anything *shift eye*.

I find the difference between binging and overeating to be a very personal mental and emotional thing where we all have to draw our own line. It's not the same for everyone.

LOLZ -Agreed tho, the pain def. stops me and its still over eating..but binging yeah sounds like its just much worse like nonstop till you pass out but buahahaha but on a more serious note don't binging go on for days, the moment you feel better the next day it happens all over again just smashing your face like a gluttonous devil? until you feel you had enough? -def. guilty of it short term wise but the last few years have been the best years of my food life that I ever had…

Nope binges don't have a set time. Sometimes it's just a shirt burst of action.
When I was actively bulemic the action was to "binge and purge", though it wasn't even necessarily a daily event.
Later on after I "recovered" from bulemia I would sometimes have bouts of binging. Just binging no purging. Something horrible would happen in my day and I would go straight for a rediculous amount of food. Just the one meal but HUGE.
I've always been an emotional eater so that didn't help.

Before I started tracking and losing weight I was still an emotional eater but I wouldn't binge. And of course sometimes I would overeat (hello that's how I gained weight these last 3 years) but my.binging days are well behind me.

But like I said, everyone is different. There probably ARE ppl out there that binge for days but I was never one of them. I've never eaten until I passed out and I've NEVER smashed food into my face like a gluttonous devil. Even at the height of my bulemia I was too much of a lady for that last one. Lol.