Binge eating

Rivvvy

How do you personally get over the urge to binge

deimosphoebos

Logging everything, including the binge. If I am not able to log the actual food, I'll add a 500-1000 calorie auto add to my log.

In the first 30-45 days of my journey, I had a few days were I would just binge on bags of candy or cookies and stuff.

This has become much less frequent 88 days into my journey. I can feel how my body reacts now to different foods, and I do not necessarily like the feeling I get after I binge.

I also eat when I am hungry, although I make sure the math keeps me under my caloric deficit.

1houndgal

For myself, I have learned certain foods seem to be ones I cant eat in moderation, that "one bite leads to many more".

Salty carb filled snack foods are hard for me to put down once I dig in. Potato chips, cheese its, wheat thins, crackers, buttery microwave popcorn. So I don't usually bring them in the house.

For popcorn, I do my best to scale measure out servings and don't eat more than I plan for. I switch to a piece of fruit or crisp raw veggies instead instead of crackers. And add some protein food to that, like a little string cheese, hummus, nut butters etc.

gymprincess1234

I've struggled with BED all my life.
I've made a rule that I track food before I eat it. That puts the possible setback in perspective. I still binge like 1x one or two months, but I used to binge like hardcore around 5500kcals of daily kcals (my maintenance is around 1700) . Now I never go past 3800kcal and the binges keep getting rarer and smaller every time.

gymprincess1234

1houndgal wrote: »

For myself, I have learned certain foods seem to be ones I cant eat in moderation, that "one bite leads to many more".

That's so true. I have to remind myself at the store " You know how this will end" when standing in front of crisps or ice cream.

1houndgal

gymprincess1234 wrote: »

I've struggled with BED all my life.
I've made a rule that I track food before I eat it. That puts the possible setback in perspective. I still binge like 1x one or two months, but I used to binge like hardcore around 5500kcals of daily kcals (my maintenance is around 1700) . Now I never go past 3800kcal and the binges keep getting rarer and smaller every time.

Great strategy!

1houndgal

gymprincess1234 wrote: »

1houndgal wrote: »

For myself, I have learned certain foods seem to be ones I cant eat in moderation, that "one bite leads to many more".

That's so true. I have to remind myself at the store " You know how this will end" when standing in front of crisps or ice cream.

Ha! I talk to the trigger foods also. Sometimes I talk to whole aisles of food or sections of food (like the bakery section).

mdcar1

I recommend reading the book Never Binge Again by Dr Glenn Livingston. It's changed my bingeing life

CheatinLil

There is a button we have that is called the IDC button. The I don't care button. Don't push that button! Also, my cheat days, I try and just cheat 280 calories so when I complete my diary I still lose weight in 5 weeks even while cheating.

bfanny

By enduring “it” and not reacting, each time we follow an urge we make it stronger, I know if feels SO bad but it gets better...eventually Good Luck!
To me a real Binge is not even about the food it’s just a bad habit...

Mikeyiscool182

Rivvvy wrote: »

How do you personally get over the urge to binge

I avoid the foods I can’t stop eating. If you put popcorn or skittles in front of me I’ll end up eating all of it, all of the time.

xxparodistxx

As a bulimic who's attempting recovery, I plan ahead. I set my eating windows a decent amount of time apart and try to keep a pattern.

I eat nutrient-dense low cal foods, and binge on those instead.

bogwoppt1

I avoid buying the foods I know I cannot stop eating. Once in a while I go wild though, log it all and move on. I will also accept that a whole container of Americone ice cream once in a few months will not kill me, and makes a perfectly fine dinner.

Jenniferakajacel311

CheatinLil wrote: »

There is a button we have that is called the IDC button. The I don't care button. Don't push that button! Also, my cheat days, I try and just cheat 280 calories so when I complete my diary I still lose weight in 5 weeks even while cheating.

How is this strategy working for your weight loss?

CheatinLil

The 1st 2 weeks (this time) I didn't loose a pound. I had my calories set to about 1560 to loose 1/2 pound a week. Then I switched it to 1 pound a week at 1360 calories a week. Now my cheat days (1 or 2 days a week) I eat 1560-1580 calories. I've lost 5 pounds in 3 weeks. I may have misspoke. It looks like my cheat day is 220 max calories over not 280. So far so good. I will keep doing it till I plateau then try something else. In other words, back in the day, my binging/cheat day would be 1000 calories in one meal of the day!

witcherkar

Honestly, I have Binge Eating Disorder and take Vyvanse for it (the only FDA approved med for it). It makes my brain forget about food, makes it easy to say no, makes me have a smaller appetite, l lose cravings.
Only when im really emotional do i binge and so i usually keep thing that i would binge on out of the house. Then ill get mad and slam cupboards and doors because i cant help my emotions with food. Then i seek comfort from my SDiT or i color and listen to my meditation app called Calm.
If i still need the urge to chew and "eat" then i get gum or my favorite, ice. I can eat ice all day.
Hope this helps?

flosoup24

am following here as I struggle with binging and haven't found a way out yet Im just getting bigger and bigger and the binges are becoming worse.

lexington88

bfanny wrote: »

To me a real Binge is not even about the food it’s just a bad habit...

I agree with this. I've binged on foods I don't even enjoy in the past, just because I want to eat something, even though my stomach is protesting and I feel sick. For me, it's more about the ritual of eating than the foods I'm eating, even if it starts with a craving for a specific food.

As for advice on how to beat it, I'm still working on it myself! I go through virtuous periods where I don't even think about binging, and then something triggers a binge and I'm having full on binges two or three times a week for a month or more. I'm working on fighting the urge, and have started trying to use meditation to curb a binge when I feel it coming on. It's working so far, but I might just be in one of my virtuous periods. It's really too soon to tell!

Feel free to add me if you fancy some accountability in trying to beat this together

jjpptt2

Tricks - keeping busy and jaw breakers/hard candy

Long term - I started by trying to recognize when it was happening so I could, hopefully, keep it from getting really out of hand. As I got better at that, I started sensing when a binge was coming. I'm still working on that, though.


But based on your post history, I think you may do better trying to be a bit more balanced and moderated overall, working on patience, and having appropriate expectations. But that's probably easier said than done. Balance has never been a close friend of mine, which is part of the reason I struggle with binging at times.

CarvedTones

I have multiple teens at home, so there are always snacks/desserts around and it isn't unusual for them to disappear quickly; it's like a setup for failure unless I exercise a lot of self control. I have been logging everything while I have been losing and I made the weight loss goal a focus that I probably obsess too much about, which is pretty much fighting fire with fire.

I have also noticed that some things I binged on are things that I don't really care that much for. I was the guy who wolfed down more than his share of the break room donuts. Now I could be one of the people who takes a quarter of a cut up one, but I don't really crave them.