Binge eating victory

Good work in your attitude change!

I have Compulsive Eating Disorder and find my binges uncontrallable. They can last weeks! I admire your resolve to keep it to one day and throw everything out

It tasted disgusting and with every mouthful all I could think about was what I was putting into my body.

But yet you kept eating it until it was gone....

The old me would have just eaten the rest of the pizza, chips and mayo today, but now care too much about myself to do that. It isn't just the calories and fat that is stopping me, it's the emotions that come after binge eating.

So today, although I feel like absolute ****, there's a part of me that is proud of myself, instead of ashamed of myself.

The old you being yesterday?

Seriously, people come on to these boards for support and get motivated and to spill their guts and not be judged. Food is an addiction for a lot of people and some times they slip up just like an alcoholic. She's not looking for somebody to tell her it's ok, she's looking for encouragement and support. Try to be one of those people or don't comment at all. Don't be a bully.

congrats on your binge eating victory and deciding not to binge anymore. I undereat 90% of the time and binge 10% of the time. I am working on eating properly like I am supposed to and enrolled in a 60 day ed rehab class to help me on these issues. I am deciding not to allow myself to undereat anymore either

Hello,

I was a binge eater (I like to say 'was' because I don't let myself binge any more) and yesterday I binged on an entire sharing bar of chocolate, chips, mayo, take-away pizza and garlic bread. I had a about a third of the pizza and this morning I woke up feeling absolutely terrible. Bloated and full of crap food that has definitely put a few pounds of water weight on me for the next few days. However, I ate a slice of the cold pizza today and I am now going to throw the rest away. It tasted disgusting and with every mouthful all I could think about was what I was putting into my body.

I'm very sad that I binged and I know I'm going to have to work twice as hard after that binge, but after the slice of cold pizza I will now throw the rest away. There is a part of me that wants to just eat it and make today a binge day too, but I want to take care of my body today. I want to be able to control my binge eating by just saying 'no, it's not worth it', because it's not.

The old me would have just eaten the rest of the pizza, chips and mayo today, but now care too much about myself to do that. It isn't just the calories and fat that is stopping me, it's the emotions that come after binge eating.

So today, although I feel like absolute ****, there's a part of me that is proud of myself, instead of ashamed of myself.

Good for you! I threw away all of the leftover Christmas cookies the day after Christmas last year so that I wouldn't be tempted to eat them. I allow myself three cookies on Christmas day--one after each meal (I call it "the gift of the Magi" lol) . The only other day in the year that I allow myself dessert is my birthday. Sugar and wheat are addictive---there have been numerous studies on both of them that point to their addictive power. So I avoid them. I never have any uncontrolled eating. While this may sound oppressive to some, I find it freeing. Freedom is a great thing.

Food is an addiction

No, it's a habit.

Studies have shown that food stimulates the same areas of the brain for food addicts that herion does for drug addicts.

Tell me it's a habit when my mum buys me a tub of Celebrations for christmas and ten minutes later I am sitting in the wrappers of the entire tub with no memory of eating any of them.

Tell me it's a habit when I struggle every day to fight it, to the point where I've cut myself over my own weakness.

Tell me it's a habit when my mind is SCREAMING 'STOP, ROBYN, STOP! PUT IT DOWN' and yet, I eat and eat and eat.

To OP, this is a victory!

Food is an addiction

No, it's a habit.

Not even that. Unlike heroin and alcohol, food is necessary for life. You can't just quit eating, which is why learning self control is absolutely critical. Yes, the urge to binge in some people is incredibly strong but if you want to lead a healthy life then it has to be overcome. The arguments about it being an addiction aren't helpful for this reason.

Edit: And so I'm not misunderstood at all, very well done, OP, on your victory. Keep it up!

OP the ignore user feature is a very useful tool:flowerforyou:
you click that little arrow down by his/her name and ahhhhhh you do not see their posts.


I am glad you decided not to continue your binge today.

The old me would have just eaten the rest of the pizza, chips and mayo today

Mayo... as in a jar of mayonnaise??

Food is an addiction

No, it's a habit.

is your attitude a habit?

that horse your on .....it's quite high, really hope you don't fall off and hurt yourself.

I agree. Men do not seem to understand the gender issues of body fat gain or loss. Women have 2 to 3 times the amount of leptin than do men AT THE SAME BODY FAT LEVEL. What this means is that leptin resistance is much more likely to happen to a woman. In turn, that makes a woman that much more prone to binge eating and food addiction because her brain does not tell her when to stop eating. Women also have the spur of their female hormone, estrogen which is a fat promoter and the more body fat she carries, the more likely she is to be leptin-resistant. And, as if that wasn't enough, she is today, often taking birth control pills, which shut down her natural production of progesterone (progesterone is nature's opposition to estrogen) and tries to replace it with synthetic progestins (among other things, a cancer-causer). The drug companies could have used natural progesterone when they formulated the birth control pill---but you cannot patent a natural substance. Estrogen blocks both the uptake of iodine by the thyroid (sending it into dysfunctional mode) AND it partially blocks the effect of thyroid hormone, at a cellular level. Progesterone is nature's answer to estrogen and it has thyroid enhancing characteristics.

Men, on the other hand, have testosterone in abundance, which promotes the building of lean body mass and the burning of fat. Because they have a higher level of lean body mass, they have a much wider margin beyond the 1,200 calories a day that every adult needs to have in order for their body to function. They should not judge women.

Do you think many men that control their diet get to a point when there brain says to stop eating? Using MFP you know exactly how much you can eat then stop. I just cant see that as valid reason.

I am so pleased that not all men are like this

Logical?

Do you think many men that control their diet get to a point when there brain says to stop eating? Using MFP you know exactly how much you can eat then stop. I just cant see that as valid reason.

I think that men have a biological advantage over women but it is obvious that women can overcome their natural disadvantage by using tools like MFP---we have a lot of testimonies to that effect.

Good to have some backing.