Binge eating... SOOO P*ssed Off!

mattbryan

I don't quite go so overboard as some of the other posters on this thread, but I do really struggle with self control towards the evening (and the have the diabolical guilt that immediately follows)! My struggle is typically with dinner....I just can't seem to consistently eat a good dinner and watch my portions. When I'm off, I am a very emotional eater.

I'd love to help support anyone fighting the same issues....feel free to friend me if you'd like!

LauraMarie37

it is what it is attitude. log everything. sure, it sais 4,500 calories for a day. Yup. because hiding or pretending it didnt happen only seems to help justify it or allow me to cheat. being honest and acknowledging. "sure, i had a bad day" but logging it to see it I find is helpful. No shame, no feeling bad, just record it. eventually I got tired of seeing all the stuff i was eating and worked to remove some of the things from my routine. which leads to suggestion two:

As someone who really, really struggled with this, what I had to do was just learn to accept my binges. I had to accept that I ate like that, and it did not make me disgusting, a failure, or incapable of any control in may life. Once I stopped hating myself and getting mad at my binging (and that meant I had to log it and not be ashamed, like the poster above that I quoted), then I didn't feel so out of control. And then I found I didn't need to binge.

Forgive yourself and don't be ashamed first...then, later, you can change how you eat.

LauraMarie37

STOP weighing yourself!! Use a measuring tape and not a scale. People weight can fluctuate for no reason!!

Hahahaha that's ironic given your profile picture.

(i completely agree with you, it just made me laugh.)

busygirl1

I don't know if this will help or not but I am also a bit of a binger. My weight loss cals are around 1400/ day. I have actually upped these to maint and allow myself 1 chocolate thing a day. What I used to find was that I was so fixated on not eating cheat foods that i would eat everything else instead! I was craving a dairy milk but refused to have choc in the house so would eat 5 yoghurt's, 2 bags of crisps and basically anything else instead! I would consume less eating the dairy milk. Also logging helps, sometimes I feel like 'urgh what a binge' but when I log it its actually not that bad, maybe just a few hundred over maintaine cals. I am currently trying to level out my eating before trying to lose the last ten pounds, I want this to work so it might take more time but if I make peace with food in the interim then that will hopefully last forever. Good luck and feel free to add me if you need to vent anytime!

techteachergirl

Just like so many others have posted I could have written this myself! I am not excited about weighing in the morning! I have been stressed out this weekend over a few different issues and I think I have shoved everything in my mouth that I could this weekend! Yikes!

abdehor

I am with you all the way here and totally understand where you are coming from. I am over 50 now and have been binge eating since I was a small child.
I know my is linked to depression but I seem to cope with most things now except FOOD. My weight flutuates by 5 stone !! I have lost this 5 blinking stone so many times. Always put it back on.
I dont know what to suggest as I am still struggling with it. Maybe I am just greedy. I can not cheat once when dieting because it sets me straight away on a binge.
I eat things I dont even like. I go out and buy my binge food, sit in the chair with a book and eat the lot till I feel sick. I am never sick though. I have a flu like feeling the next day and take to my bed. It is like a form of self-harm.
I am trying to accept it and not beat myself up over it. Easier said than done but if you need to off load please just email me.