Binge eating tip

YogaMomma07

I read a great tip recently in a book about bulimia that pertains to binge eating. When you get the urge to binge:
1) Accept the binge urge
2) Delay the binge: wait 10 minutes
3) Distract: during the 10 minutes distract yourself and do something to keep your mind off eating

Repeat the steps as needed*

It may take awhile but you CAN do it!

emberlynn16

if you struggle with bingeing i recommend checking out the book brain over binge, it helped me out a lot

talliejtaylor

Good tips!

crabbybrianna

I’ve struggled with BED for years and someone recommended Brain Over Binge to read. It was one of the worst books I’ve ever read. It was truly awful and didn’t help me at all. I’m glad I didn’t buy it.

HealthyHannahJane

I've been advised to read overcoming binge eating by Chris Fairbirn. Has anyone read it?

Alfred650

I contracted my abdominal muscles a few times and it killed the urge. Flexing until it goes away kind of let’s you know why you are resisting. Much love and motivation to all.

proudlilmamiof2

Hot sauce helps n pickles

Sam29a

For me, the temptation to binge isn't something that just happens for a day or even two days. It builds up over a week, sometimes weeks. I can't sleep at night thinking about it, then I can't take it anymore and I binge. It's difficult to distract yourself for days, or weeks on end. I know I should exercise so I can eat more, but that's not happened yet. I was fine eating less for 1.5 years, but now get so hungry and I don't know why. I worry that there isn't anything that will ever stop me from it, I just hope that I don't regain all the weight I have lost.

wryone4

I also find brushing my teeth or having sugar-free mints on hand helps. When I have a minty taste in my mouth I am less likely to eat.

Also, if I am feeling hungry, I drink water - often I am dehydrated rather than hungry.

acorsaut89

As someone living with, and battling, BED this is not necessarily helpful.

Anyone who lives with any form of an ED will know that it's unique to everyone; no two situations will look the same.

For me, "accepting the binge" means it's going to happen. I cannot accept it, I have to deal with why it's happening. While your recommendations might work for some people - and if they do, great - but EDs are not black and white.

For me, I deal with a lot of depression and feeling like nothing I do is ever good enough. Most of my friends are married, with kids and a great life. I feel like I'm really behind, my house isn't huge (it's cozy and small, but not new or super polished) and I feel inadequate in so many aspects. I binge when those things are thrown in my face . . . maybe not on purpose, but when it's all around me I really struggle. I need to deal with why I feel that way in order to combat the urge to binge. For me, accepting the binge means it's going to happen and I don't want that. I do get those might happen for other people, but I think these are steps for people who don't have BED, but have the tendency to mindlessly snack and overeat. There's quite a difference between the two.

buggsby83

lemon juice works for me.... suck on a lemon I'm not even joking. you wont' want nothing after that.

curvymomo3

PossiblyVintage wrote: »

I've been advised to read overcoming binge eating by Chris Fairbirn. Has anyone read it?

I have!!! It was super freeing actually but a little scary too. I still use some of the principals from it ( no food is off limits) BUT I do portion the food out and count it on here. I thought it was an excellent book. The scary part is having all of your trigger foods stocked up in the house... But honestly.. at first when I had the Doritos in the house and the ice cream.. I did overeat at first.. but then the whole "taboo" of it being off limits and the desire to eat those foods.. disappeared! I STILL have almost a full 1/2 gallon of ice cream chillin in my fridge! Incredible!

curvymomo3

Hello everyone I have been battling the binge monster for going on 15 years now ( soon after my first child was born). I had put on a hefty 60 lbs with her and have struggled with depression, binge eating, and haven't been able to ever lose it ( I gained rather...) I am 34 and just started EMDR therapy for my past traumas ( I have recently been diagnosed as dysthymic ( low grade chronic depression), anxiety and panic disorder, and ptsd). I have always used food to comfort me as far as I could remember. On top of the abuse, we were very poor growing up and food was a luxury available to others.. to me not so much. SO needless to say, when food did come around I BINGED. My therapist believes that several months of EMDR therapy and I should be much better off if not cured of my food addiciton. It is an ugly long process but I have to fight.

amykay9377

YogaMomma07 wrote: »

I read a great tip recently in a book about bulimia that pertains to binge eating. When you get the urge to binge:
1) Accept the binge urge
2) Delay the binge: wait 10 minutes
3) Distract: during the 10 minutes distract yourself and do something to keep your mind off eating

Repeat the steps as needed*

It may take awhile but you CAN do it!

I don't think I'm a textbook binger, but I follow these same rules for eating junk food. Like, if I'm home on the couch and I really want to attack the new bag of Doritos, I tell myself I can have some in 10 minutes (or the next chapter, or the next commercial, whatever). I stay distracted by watching the TV channel or finishing the chapter. Many times I can delay AGAIN until the urge goes away, but if it doesn't, I'm happy to have delayed the binge and I feel okay getting chips.

Diatonic12

crabbybrianna wrote: »

I’ve struggled with BED for years and someone recommended Brain Over Binge to read. It was one of the worst books I’ve ever read. It was truly awful and didn’t help me at all. I’m glad I didn’t buy it.

I'm glad I'm not the only one, I threw it in the bin with others....4 tendencies.

pinggolfer96

Power of habit by Charles Duhigg is a good one too

xmarye

How about eating enough so you don't starve yourself and therefore break the bingeing-restricting cycle

I'm talking from experience here. Never realized I did that in the past.

Good luck! ♥

etfan

PossiblyVintage wrote: »

I've been advised to read overcoming binge eating by Chris Fairbirn. Has anyone read it?

I enjoyed it and found it useful