What was YOUR worst binge story???

I usually binge eat after a move. pizza, soda, all that crap since i dont usually want to cook after unpacking an entire house.

I just thought of one more example. When I was in high school, I was very heavy. high school is hard enough without being severely obese. Well, as soon as I could drive, I was at fast food drive thrus. Except I wouldn't go to just one. I would research where there were a row of fast food places, and then I would pick my favorite things from each and go to each drive thru. So, I'd hit up Burger King and get a whopper and chicken sandwich. Then drive to McDonalds for two large fries. Then to Wendy's for a cheeseburge and fries. And then I'd take al of that back to my house, stuff it into my backpack, and run to my room and eat it all in about 45 minutes. SO yes -- that would be like 2-3 large burgers, a chicken sandwich, and 3 large fries. Then, I'd stuff all the garbage back into my backpack and find a public trash can somewhere.

I can also remember being around 12 or 13 and home by myself for a few hours. I ordered a larger pizza for delivery. Ate the whole pizza. Then cut up the pizza box, put it in a bag, and walked around the corner of my house where there was an empty field and threw the evidence there. Not only did I litter, I was binging at 12. Really awful. Once upon a time a few years ago, I had all of this under control. The sheer novelty of being at my goal weight and of being a normal size and treated like a normal person kept me on the straight and narrow. Then the old habits came back, and I am now desperately trying to stop this runaway train once again before it gets out of control. When I was 140 lbs, I swore I'd never let it go past 150 without taking serious action. That turned into 160 .Then I was stuck at 170 for the past year. ANd over the last 4 months, I put on 10 lbs. Now I am at 180 -- closer to 200 than I have been in 7 years -- and really trying to get it under control and get it right. I don't know if I'll ever be rid of the binging tendency, but I am trying.

After my first show placed 3rd ..( i was at contest range 4 % body fat ) ...i went to a food court then a hyper market and seriously bought the following( i still have the receipts lol) 1 - Domino's pizza ( 2 LARGE bbq chicken pizza , extra cheese ) , 2 -Chilli's (Chicken quesadillas, 10 blue cheese small cups , Fries ) , 3 - Ben n Jerry's ( 1 .5 kg Cookies dough ice cream ) 4- Nutella ( 2 750 G jars ) , 5 - Macdonalds ( 20 hot cakes , 20 syrups ) , 6 - Belgian waffels ( 10 thick ones plain ) , 7- Snickers , twix ,3 musketeers,milkway ( 500 g fun size bag ) , 8 - Peanuts, Cashews ( 250 G each ) , 9 - Macdonalds ( 5 Choco muffins , 15 soft baked chocolate chips Cookies ) , 10 - Pringels ( 5 700 G tubes ) , 11 - Heinz ( 700 G ketchup , 700 g BBQ Sauce , 700 g thousand Island ) ,12 - Dunkin doughnuts ( ALL) , 13- Pepsi ( 3 liters ) , 14 - Almond butter ( 500 g ) , 15 - Cinnabon ( 5 pecanbon extra caramel and pecans) ....i saw my body changes lol ..Slept for like 16 hrs that day ..and woke up with the best feeling and energy in my life lol .

I don't know if I can remember a specific time binging but I often have what I call 'binge phases' where I binge every day for a few weeks, and end up gaining a load of weight. This forum is really comforting!!
Two weeks ago I took a cereal bar into college for lunch and I ended up eating:
the cereal bar (90ish) chocolate breakfast biscuit (100?) 4 huge triple chocolate cookies (1600) chicken burger (400?) chips/fries if you're american hehe (500?) rocky road (400?)
and then about 10 minutes before I was due in to class I was like wow... I fancy some pizza right now so I had a huge slice of pizza with chips/fries (1000ish)
so thats 4090 just in one lunch time, and I continued the binge to when I got home aswell.. the shame

Just this monday as my lunch I decided to buy a tray bake of chocolate brownie, for 8 people. It never ends haha.


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It's funny -- I think many people have these episodes but it's so incredibly shameful that nobody admits to it. Right now, I'm sitting in a hotel room on a work trip. In the past, if I had an evening in a hotel, well then, that's when the binge would begin in earnest. Since I expense my meals for work, I'd order a regular meal and keep the receipt. Then I'd pay for all kinds of extras on my own so that it wouldn't be seen by anyone at my company. But I would order take out pizza, then room service ... I seem to have an issue with pizza or cheesy bread when it comes to binging. Anything with melted cheese on it. Melting cheddar cheese on a flour tortilla is one of my go-to binge foods. Except I'd make like 6 of them. I also have a problem with Cheerios. I could seriously eat half of a big box of Cheerios (with skim milk) . However, that makes me so gassy and I pay for it the next day. But anyway -- I am currently in a hotel room and this would be the perfect opportunity for me to binge. I am surrounded by restaurants at this hotel. Heck, they even offered me warm chocolate chip cookies when I checked in. However, somehow I resisted. And its a victory that I am not binging tonight. Instead, I am here, on these forums, trying to keep my mind off of food. I didn't do any exercise today, so I can't rationalize in my head that I exercised, therefore I can eat. I really want to. I'm kind of hungry, but the binges aren't about hunger. Ever. They are ... a need to feel satisfied. Feeling like I need just a bit of something sweet. And then, before too long, I have eaten to the point that my stomach is killing me, and I can't even stand upright. Hunched over in pain and all I can do is lay down and fall asleep. Which I usually do b/c my body just kind of shuts down.

Another secret, and this is REALLY shameful. Few years ago, we went on a cruise for vacation. I was terrified to go b/c a cruise is just a floating buffet to me. I don't think about the activites or anything. i think about the food. Well, I was really careful the weeks before the cruise. And back then, I was pretty much where I wanted to be weight-wise. Day before the cruise, I weighed in at 147. That was a good weight for me. I reasoned that this gave me 5 pounds to play with. On the cruise, did I spend time with my family? Do fun things? Actually, yes a bit. But mostly I ate nonstop. Told myself I earned it. While my kids were in the pool, I was in the buffet line. Again. They had a chocolate dessert night -- it was literally a chocolate buffet. They had small saucer-sized plates for people to use. I actually left that deck, went to another deck to where the grill was and where bigger plates were, grabbed a big plate and went back to the chocolate buffet so I could load a big plate. Funny, though, my binges are never focused on choclate or sweets. Some, but not much. My binges are usually all about FOOD -- as in pizza, bread, pasta, fries.

Oh -- that reminds me, too. In junior high, I used to buy family-size bags of Doritos. I'd hide it in my room. I could eat an entire bag in an hour. In college, with no money, I'd buy a bnox of instant mashed potatoes. I would make them, throw in a stick of butter, and voila -- that was dinner. An entire insutrial-sized box of mashed potatoes. Crazy. Just thinking about this makes me feel kind of sick. I don't know if I will ever get over binging ... if I could plan/control it carefully without any ill effects on my weight, I so would do it. But I don't trust myself or my ability to control it. So I just can't do it. I can't.

Anyway, it is a victory that tonight, with all kinds of food at my disposal, sitting in a hotel room by myself, I'm on these boards instead of binging.

At least I can start by saying I haven't binged since starting MFP, which is something..

My favorite binge in the past was one that I would do about once a month. I'd go out and buy a jar of nacho cheese and a bag of tostitos and I would take it down in about two sittings. I also had a weakness for eating a whole chipotle burrito along with a bag of chips and quacamole.

At the end of my undergrad I suppose the most food I ate was in the dining hall. Pound of wings, big milkshakes, 2 slices of pizza, pile of fries, pile of genero tso's chicken, pile of mac and cheese, pie, cake...then would do that about 3 times a day with a variety of food. Probably somewhere around 3,000-4,000 calories a meal for a few weeks. 12,000+ calories a day is a conservative estimate.

We made our own milkshakes. We'd take UConn Diary Bar icecream, which was only free at east dining hall, add some local chocolate milk, some whipped cream, and mash it all together in a 16 oz cup. Best milkshakes ever. I think I had at least 1 milkshake every meal for the past few weeks of undergrad.

I was losing weight at that time (I was 21 and really beginning to get very active), so I wasn't really concerned. But, it was a lot of food! Yumyum.

The week leading up to my daughter's 2nd major surgery on her skull. I ate until I threw up almost every single night because I didn't know how to handle the stress. It was the darkest time in my life. I still binge when I'm going thru a rough patch, but I try to make the choices healthier or I listen to loud music, that always helps ;-)

When my husband (then boyfriend) and I got into a car wreck in 02. I went from being a very athletic swimmer to having a broken wrist, lost 3" of muscle in my thigh...among other injuries. I ate like a pig and gained ALOT.

When my grandma died in 05. My coworker felt bad for me and asked if I needed anything from the store. I requested a small pack of peanut butter m&ms. He came back with the XXL bag. I ate the whole thing in a day. I probably gained 20-30 pounds after she died...

I think the most embarrassing was about 8 years ago. It was our first winter in the house and we were having a big storm on MLK Jr. Day. Hubs had to work but my company was closed so I dipped into my store of goodies - ate a pint of Ben & Jerry's and half of a large frozen pizza (maybe more than half) then went outside to do some shoveling. Well on the way back in I slipped on some ice and broke my leg! Had the ambulance come and called Hubs asking him to make his way home and meet me at the hospital as soon as he could.

When we got home, he saw the remaining pizza on the stove. Normally I was a sneaking eater so he didn't see most of the remnants of my binging but I had no way to hide that one and I was so humiliated. It stuck with me so much that I never binged on pizza and ice cream at home again! Not to say I never binged on anything but from that point on, my sneaking eating was strictly when I was in my car.

Thankfully I don't do any of that anymore!! Still eat pizza but don't gorge myself like I used to and don't keep ice cream in the house since it's a major trigger food for me.