Calling ALL binge eaters, bulimia and anorexia fighters...

FitnessBellaBarbie
FitnessBellaBarbie Posts: 46
in Motivation and Support
How did you get through it?
Why does it start.. Is there any end?
I want a healthy relationship with food!
Please help : )
Xoxo

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  • Hachiko89
    Hachiko89 Posts: 43 Member
    You have to be strong enough to fight it within. No one can fight it for you so grab it by its balls and tell it to F*** OFF!!

    You can do it, it does NOT own you.
  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    for me
    stress= emotional eating.
    mind stuck in past= emotional eating
    alcohol= overeating
  • oedipa_maas
    oedipa_maas Posts: 577 Member
    It took me 19 years to finally recover. Only a few things really helped me. Therapy with an experienced eating disorder specialist (I got them pretty low cost), group therapy through ANAD (totally free...http://www.anad.org), using the Dialectical Behavioral Therapy workbook on Bulimia (highly recommended), and working on all the things inside of me--memories, habits, ways of coping--that were driving my disorder. There is no easy way through, but I bet you are stronger than you know.
  • techgal128
    techgal128 Posts: 719 Member
    I'm a binge eater. I allow myself to binge every week or so and eat healthy and exercise for the rest. This might be more than most people can handle but it seems to work for me.
  • LEDrain
    LEDrain Posts: 61 Member
    Hi! My recovery journey from anorexia is written on my blog http://thefeatheredelephant.blogspot.com/ if you want to check it out!
  • Dr__Girlfriend
    Dr__Girlfriend Posts: 100 Member
    I opened up to my friends and family, that was the biggest step in my recovery. I was no longer in denial and I was forced to answer questions about my ED. It made me realize I had been subconsciously defending it. My S/O helped me destroy it. Talking about it helps so much.

    I also quit weighing myself. I now eat to fuel my workouts, and measure my progress with a measuring tape/pictures in the mirror.
  • PearlAng
    PearlAng Posts: 681 Member
    Possible TW below:

    I suffered from anorexia, and I'd binge at least twice a week, severely undereating the rest of the week.
    I was forced into recovery, though I think I was about ready to recover, or at least try, but the push helped. It was intervention style.

    From that day (March 1st 2013) until June, I ate more and felt positive, but I was gaining more weight than I was comfortable with, and I always looked very bloated, with restricting/binging almost every day. End of June, I joined I gym to begin running again (March 1st is when I was not prohibited to exercise anymore, which was hard, because I exercised a lot). I felt very good, but still had mil apprehensions about food. I went through a few more months of that, until December, where I decided it was time to stop. I vowed to eat only when I was hungry, try to really listen to my hunger cues and find better coping mechanisms, rather than binging. This has been going pretty good!

    What helped me the most is that nothing is off limits. IIFYM for sure. Getting plenty of protein helped me a lot, too, because I didn't feel so ravenously hungry

    Most days, it is a struggle, but I feel a little more same this way

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