Tips to Kick Binge Eating for Good?

Personally, I have found that eating enough during the day-especially protein, fat and fiber-keeps me satisfied so I don't binge at night.
Also I need to have at least one large meal a day to keep bingeing down with lots of nutrient dense food before indulging in my weakness-chocolate! If I eat this way, it really helps.

Decide that every night at 9pm (- for example) you're done eating for the day. It helps soooo much!

Also, check out the "No S Diet" (http://www.nosdiet.com/) as it's helped me tremendously, especially to stop binge eating.

eta - Whenever I'm in the middle of a binge, I try to interrupt it like a drill sergeant, "Chani8, for eating that, give me 10 pushups!" Once I've done the pushups, I usually don't go back to the binge.

As I've learned to eat healthy my binge urge has went away...for the most part. Yesterday I did have the urge to binge but just got busy doing something else and forgot about it.

I've heard all kinds of tips, from brushing your teeth to going for a walk. I too struggle with this -- and it's always at night as well, after a day of doing so well. The one thing that's helped me in the past is establishing a pattern of good eating habits and the passage of time. The more days that pass without a binge, the likelier I am to avoid a binge. But if I binge one night, eat well for a day or two, then binge again, I notice I set myself up for more binging. So, binging begets binging, and eating healthfully begets eating healthfully. I also noticed that after 3 days of eating healthfully, that's the point at which I am susceptible to a binge. So for 7 days in a week, I might binge two of those days. Currently, I have reduced that to one day a week and obviously my goal is NO days per week! But at least I am getting down to only one day. A binge for me is usually about 1,000 - 1,500 extra calories above my MFP calorie budget. So for right now, my calories in a given week look like: 1200, 1200, 1200, 2600, 1200, 1200, 1200, 1200 (give or take). Some people claim that an intentional cheat day/binge is actually good and can stir things up and spur weight loss. I personally have not found this to be true, but that doesn't mean it's not true! I'm just saying that past success with weight loss was when I was consistently eating 1200-1500 calories per day, with no binging. But if a cheat day/binge once a week worked for me, it would be really great because then I would feel like I could control my cravings by looking forward to a day where I could indulge them. Oh well. Hey, the good news is that if your binging is limited to the nighttime, try to do whatever you possibly can to not go into the kitchen and just go to sleep. In the morning, you will be glad that you didn't indulge!

I have that problem. The sun goes down, I start to eat, and then I just don't stop eating until I have consumed a couple thousand calories. I rarely have a problem during the day; it's always in the evening.

One way I combat it is by eating at specific times each day, with those times get closer together in the evening. I eat at 7am, 11am, 3pm, 6pm, and 8pm. I make sure that I get lots of protein at 3pm, to set me up for being full later. I make sure I get my protein again at 6pm, and I know that I will get to eat again in 2 hours so I only need a little bit of willpower to stop my 6pm eating. And then at 8pm, the protein I ate at 3pm and 6pm is working its way into my system so I feel less hungry at 8pm than I did right after I ate at 6pm. And again, I try to get a lot of protein at 8pm.

So I can stop eating when I hit my calorie and macro target at 6pm, knowing I will eat again in 2 hours. And I can control my eating at 8pm because I am less full when I start at 8pm than I was when I started at 6pm.

On those occasions when I do still eat a ton of calories in the evening, I try to eat from everything in the house. I figure maybe my body is telling me that I didn't give it some specific nutrient -- maybe it wants more niacin, or B-12, or Omega-3, or iron, etc. So instead of eating one thing (e.g., all the leftover pasta), I eat a bunch of different things -- tuna, beans, oatmeal, almonds, broccoli, salmon, yogurt, cottage cheese, etc. If I am going to binge, at least I am going to cover all my macronutrients and micronutrients while I do it. Sometimes, that prevents the problem from recurring the next day, so maybe my body wanted something, and I finally provided it, so my body quit demanding more.

How do I prevent myself from binge eating at night?

You can't "prevent". Think 12 step - one day at a time. It's a continuous process of continuously making "right" choices. And it will never end.

That's why we take it one day at a time.

How do I prevent myself from binge eating at night?

You can't "prevent". Think 12 step - one day at a time. It's a continuous process of continuously making "right" choices. And it will never end.

That's why we take it one day at a time.

And Mr. Knight here is a 100% correct a true disorder can only be managed one day at a time (one meal at a time, one minute at a time) every day trying to succeed.

Set a reasonable calorie amount.

Eat enough protein, fat, and fiber to reach this goal by 6PM.

Go to bed by 10PM.

Bam.

OP, please seek help.

http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/find-help-support

This.

at this point, I'm more about post-count

OP, please seek help.

http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/find-help-support

This.

Ok. You guys paid way more attention than I did...

WTH is this AV??



OP, if that is you - you need way more than binge eating advice.

I found her instagram. Part of it is corset waist training. But yeah, she has body image issues at the least.

Be aware of your habit, don't ignore it. Think consciously about whether you need it.

Also, if you feel like binging, look up rotting pictures of the food that you want to eat, then go find something else to do. Like coloring. Or reading.

OP, when you say binge eating...how much are you going over? What is your calorie goal?