Binging and calories

Don't restrict yourself! After a binge just carry on as normal, drink plenty of water and get some good fruit and veg in. Don't restrict afterwards, it will only make you overeat again. Maybe go for a walk instead or some other form of exercise. Also maybe try to address the reasons you are bingeing and try and overcome them.

Yep, if you do have a binge dust yourself off and move on. I wouldn't restrict as I believe it would set me up for another binge.

You might want to investigate mindfulness. A lot of my bingeing happens when I turn my back on one inner voice and start listening to another one - the one that wants me to cram my pie hole full of nonsense. Mindfulness allows pauses where you can give your positive inner voice time to be heard. Rubbish explanation, soz.

Also make the calories you do eat count. I fill myself with protein and veg and yummy home cooked food. I go full fat on most things as it helps with keeping me full.

It's early doors for me and I have a way to go but the biggest thing isn't what I'm eating to be fair - it's what is going on in my head and how much attention I'm paying. I'm determined to have a healthier relationship with food, it just takes time.

Good luck

I've had moments like that before as well, one day ends up way over than I had meant it to be. Also like you I would try and make up for it the next day to make the week balance out. Sometimes it would work for me but a lot of the time I would still feel hungry enough I would give in and end up eating a bit more, and sometimes that bit more would end up bringing my day to another disaster day.

After a lot of practice when this situation comes up I have found that it's just best to stick to my original goal the following days after. If I ate too little I would potentially get hungry and binge again, cue the cycle. I had to just get in the habit of trying to hit my goal all the time so I could get in a steady habit of meeting that goal every day. Now I have learned how better to handle a random binge day and I can eat less the next day to make up for it but it took me quite a few tries and a lot of patience with myself to get there.

If you find yourself constantly yo-yo-ing like that I would do two things: 1) spend more time in the morning, or the night before, planning what you think you may eat the next day to give yourself a bit of a road map as to what and when you plan to eat. That way you can see what your intake is and seeing your food day planned out may help to avoid overindulging. 2) try and figure out why you are binging. Is it an emotional response? Do you just feel hungry? It could be that your intake it set too low and you are just not eating enough to keep hunger pangs away so you can't help but want to eat more.

A trick I was able to pick up that helped me refocus during times I wanted to grab something to eat (usually just because I was bored) was to keep tic-tacs or gum nearby. Sometimes I wasn't really looking for something to eat but I just wanted something to do and chewing gum or sucking on a mint would help.

This pretty much sums up my last few days. I too suffered from anorexia, and fear I have been slipping into BED. I completely understand how you're feeling. As hard as it is to believe this myself, I think the best way is, as everyone else has mentioned, just to pick yourself up and get on with it. I find the more I dwell, the worse I feel about myself, and the more likely I am to just think 'Screw it, I don't even care anymore,' and just repeat the cycle. Hang in there, and good luck!

Restricting after a binge just leads to another binge. Treat each day as a fresh start. I have struggled on and off with binging (currently on), and trying to restrict the day after adds to my guilt/anxiety over it and leads to me busting out even more.