Hi all!!

For the new people who are having trouble right now - you are definitely in the right place. This group has helped me so very much.

I am also one who has trouble stopping once I get started, but I find if I keep logging, even if I have to make my diary private until I get through the worst of it, I do get back on track faster!! Try to be objective and analytical about your eating patterns and get as much emotion out of it as you can. I think we start a binge for many reasons, but we keep eating out of self-loathing and hopelessness. If you can see this as a long term goal and realize that one binge will not derail your fitness lifestyle, it will help you get less emotional about it.

You are doing great taking the steps you are to succeed!!

The little things you do are making a huge difference in your life. :drinker:

Finally and really important - The only failure is giving up!!!!!!

Hello to All!

I just joined this group and I've just realized that my overeating is really binge eating.....it finally hit me last night as I was bingeing. I don't know why I haven't realized this before now, but I haven't.

I lost 20 lbs last year and then starting in November of last year I started bingeing after a nasty fall that left me with a disloacted shoulder and a wound in my leg 1 inch deep and 2 inches across. I had to do physical therapy 3 times a week and go to the Wound Center once a week. I have bipolar disorder and had stopped my therapy in October because in the winter, the walkway at my therapist's office is very treacherous. I'm all healed now and I've started therapy again.

I hope to get support and provide support by joining this group and thanks to everyone in advance.

Donna L.

Hi, welcome, and glad you are healed and back in therapy.
Also suspected of having bipolar among various other things.

I counted yesterday as a binge day too. It is all about my behavior with the food. Unfortunately even a large amount of healthy food = unhealthy behavior. Obviously something was bothering me, but instead of using alternate coping strategies to explore and deal with it, I chose to turn to food. Made it an early night so that I could stop before I reached 3,000 for the day. I consider that a success though. It could have been far worse, especially if I had unhealthy calorie rich food in the house. Good thing I didn't.

Thank you all for sharing too!

Diane

I often binge when I get up during the night and I usually get up 2-3 times a night. I had a great day with no bingeing yesterday but did binge during the night. I logged it all which is a first for me. I am determined to deal with this issue.

I often binge when I get up during the night and I usually get up 2-3 times a night. I had a great day with no bingeing yesterday but did binge during the night. I logged it all which is a first for me. I am determined to deal with this issue.

I'm proud of you for making it through the day. I think it's all about small steps getting you in the right direction. Logging it can be painful, but it's great that you did it. I think it makes me feel more accountable for my actions. Just try your best everyday, one day at a time. I believe in you.

Heather

Last night I binged, and today I'm trying to eat normal. I'm under my calories for the day, so I need to eat dinner, but I can feel a binge coming again, and I'm terrified that if I start I won't be able to stop.

I'm probably feeling like binging because I only ran 1/2 of my daily training schedule, then I got a call from my boyfriend (who currently lives 8000 miles away) and I stopped. Now I don't feel motivated to start again, and I'm also feeling like I don't "deserve" food, which I realize is insane, and just setting myself up for a later binge.

I'm not sure what to do, but being able to vent about it (for the first time ever... I'm so glad I found like forum!) really helps...

I tend to feel very bad if I miss exercise myself, and for some reason, doing less can often trigger hunger in me, or the urge to eat bad things, but think to yourself, 'this is illogical. I could not complete my exercise, but as long as I stay within my goal by a few hundred calories, I am perfectly fine'. Life happens, including interruptions to schedule(which I hate, incidentally, being in the autistic spectrum). Instead of binging, have a really nice dinner, something you might normally consider too indulgent for dinner, and enjoy it. Missing half your training will not impact your weight, it does not work like that. In fact, often when people take a rest for a day and eat a little more, they lose more. It is to do with hormonal responses and giving your body a slight shock. Hope you manage to fight the urge and remember, you do deserve food. We are supposed to eat, regardless of exercise. Exercise should, in truth, be for health, stamina. Strength, wellbeing, fitness. Not a method of burning off calories. In the non dieting world, that just does not come into play. People eat well, within reason, with some indulgences here and there, and exercise because they enjoy it and it keeps them feeling well. Try and work on your mindset a little, it might help,

I often binge when I get up during the night and I usually get up 2-3 times a night. I had a great day with no bingeing yesterday but did binge during the night. I logged it all which is a first for me. I am determined to deal with this issue.

I think keeping your behaviour in your awareness and being accountable is a good step

I tend to feel very bad if I miss exercise myself, and for some reason, doing less can often trigger hunger in me, or the urge to eat bad things, but think to yourself, 'this is illogical. I could not complete my exercise, but as long as I stay within my goal by a few hundred calories, I am perfectly fine'. Life happens, including interruptions to schedule(which I hate, incidentally, being in the autistic spectrum). Instead of binging, have a really nice dinner, something you might normally consider too indulgent for dinner, and enjoy it. Missing half your training will not impact your weight, it does not work like that. In fact, often when people take a rest for a day and eat a little more, they lose more. It is to do with hormonal responses and giving your body a slight shock. Hope you manage to fight the urge and remember, you do deserve food. We are supposed to eat, regardless of exercise. Exercise should, in truth, be for health, stamina. Strength, wellbeing, fitness. Not a method of burning off calories. In the non dieting world, that just does not come into play. People eat well, within reason, with some indulgences here and there, and exercise because they enjoy it and it keeps them feeling well. Try and work on your mindset a little, it might help,

This is so true, and so beautifully put. I really believe weight loss is 90% mindset and 10% application.

I can talk to people and usually tell whether they are ready to succeed or not, its the same vibe I get when I talk to other people who have achieved their goals. Its like an undefined realization deep inside that can only be reached through personal growth. One things for sure though, you reach that level only by failing multiple times, and because of that every time we fail we need to grow from it.