Oh you do not deserve it hun. It's a struggle, i know. It can be tough. I think a lot of us feel down because of binges, I haven't talked to anyone here who doesn't . Just know you're not alone!!!

Stay strong.

Yes, I agree with both responses. EVERY-SINGLE-TIME I binge. I have binged all weekend, today was a good day and I feel a bit better but go right back to that low feeling when I binge. Hang in there. Tomorrow is a new day. We are all here for each other!

I just binged today. And I am absolutely in the pits.

I know I don't deserve this disorder, but I know I deserve to feel awful about eating as I did today. I showed almost no restraint at all. One step out of line, and I was basically like "screw it". Boom-- binge day.

I feel terrible, I know I will gain weight from this. I am wrecking my own body, causing health problems, but I CANNOT STOP. I just can't. I would seek therapy, but I can't-- I have such a heavy courseload, and the judgement that my friends would pass onto me is unbearable. I wish I could just curl up and disappear. :brokenheart:

My bf always says to me, your body is beautiful,and yet you are punishing it and it does not like to be punished. He also told me that it will rebel if you try to fight nature by striving to be a weight that is unnatural for you, or by treating yourself badly.

My suggestion is, don't allow the binge to ruin the rest of the day, try and snap back from it, focus on something else, mentally draw a line and forgive yourself, not that anyone should have to be forgiven for overeating anyway. You did not commit a crime, murder someone or somesuch terrible thing. You ate too much. You will deal with the binging when you deal with whatever is underlying it, and you can do that yourself, without needing therapy. There is a lot of material online for a start, and you can also try meditating daily, and using that time to focus on your self awareness. Quit all thoughts of restriction and dieting and losing weight until you can get a grip on the binge eating, as I always find for me that planning on restricting or dieting, panicking about the weight gain, tends to make me binge more.

Maybe make a list of things to do if you feel a binge coming on.
Last night, I was so close to ordering in ben and jerry's ice cream by the pint at 4.30 in the morning, as I used to do when I felt overtired and had already overeaten. But I did not. I made myself read things online, and had some apples until it got to 5am at which point the pizza place closed for the night. Work on remaining aware, and mentally battling yourself when you want to binge.
Work on finding some other things you really enjoy doing, as an alternative, whether that be gaming, reading in bed, having a long bath or some sort of craft project, like cross stitch or card making. Write down the reasons that binge eating is a negative thing to do, and tactics for avoiding it. For me, I find it totally ruins the enjoyment of food, it wastes money, and the fact that doing it results in feeling horrible physically and emotionally, is proof that I need to work on loving myself enough to not want that for myself.

In addition to the emotions we feel after binging, maybe part of it is also from the kinds of food we just ate. Tons of sugary stuff makes your blood glucose go way up and then you crash.....I think it's can be partly a physical reaction in addition to mental.

In addition to the emotions we feel after binging, maybe part of it is also from the kinds of food we just ate. Tons of sugary stuff makes your blood glucose go way up and then you crash.....I think it's can be partly a physical reaction in addition to mental.

Because I tend to go for high fat, high sugar foods like cake, muffins and chocolate when I have a binge day, I find my moods become very unstable, and I suffer attacks of anger. I am sensitive anyway to stimuli and stress, so I am guessing the sugar really has a severe impact on some element of my brain chemistry. I don't just get depressed, I get enraged.