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What do you consider a 'binge'?

Mir1999
Mir1999 Posts: 14
edited February 13 in Health and Weight Loss
There is the general straight out of the book definition describing it as to indulge, but personally what do you consider a 'binge' for yourself? There has been some conservancy over this but I know it varies person to person.
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  • MissSethra
    MissSethra Posts: 16 Member
    Before I started seriously getting my weight/health under control I would consider a binge a day I would just eat/drink whatever with no care of what I was consuming. Now I would consider a binge- eating at a "maintaining" caloric intake for my current weight.
  • ihateroses
    ihateroses Posts: 893 Member
    4000 calories+
  • Graelwyn75
    Graelwyn75 Posts: 4,404 Member
    Consuming a large amount of food, beyond the point where I am full, with thoughts of consequences absent, usually for emotional reasons.
  • LB30
    LB30 Posts: 109 Member
    I was 1.75 Mich Ultras over my goal today. Beer always kills me. I consider that my binge for the weekend. It is actually probably a pretty safe binge since I'm a craft beer (read: high calorie) lover. I probably could have (and have!) done worse damage. But, that is what I consider binge. Food? That I can handle. :smile:
  • bookworm_847
    bookworm_847 Posts: 1,903 Member
    I consider it a binge when I eat an entire something within a couple of hours that is meant to serve more than one person (large pizza, pan of lasagna, pie, etc.) Thankfully that doesn't happen much anymore.
  • ashleyisgreat
    ashleyisgreat Posts: 586 Member
    I consider it a binge when I just eat whatever and I don't care about logging it or stopping at a reasonable point. It is usually accompanied by some excuse: "I had a terrible day" or "I'm sick" (just recently did one of these and I ate double my goal for the day, which I didn't discover until I gathered up the nerve to track everything the next day).

    So, it's not necessarily a number, but more of a mindset. It's when I'm doing it, I can't stop, and I don't care about the consequences.
  • kerricus
    kerricus Posts: 165 Member
    I consider it a binge when I eat an entire something within a couple of hours that is meant to serve more than one person (large pizza, pan of lasagna, pie, etc.) Thankfully that doesn't happen much anymore.

    This. Exactly. A whole pizza or a carton of ice cream or a cake. Eating until your stomach hurts and then eating some more.
  • craftywitch_63
    craftywitch_63 Posts: 829 Member
    Eating past the point of hunger, sometimes until I'm in pain or sick and usually not remembering a bite of it. Anytime I eat and am not hungry and/or unaware of eating.

    I haven't eaten until I'm sick or had an "eating blackout" in some time, so now I consider eating foods not on my list or over my planned calorie intake a binge. (My last binge was exactly 7 Triscuits and 2 wedges of Laughing Cow light cheese :laugh: )
  • craftywitch_63
    craftywitch_63 Posts: 829 Member
    I consider it a binge when I just eat whatever and I don't care about logging it or stopping at a reasonable point. It is usually accompanied by some excuse: "I had a terrible day" or "I'm sick" (just recently did one of these and I ate double my goal for the day, which I didn't discover until I gathered up the nerve to track everything the next day).

    So, it's not necessarily a number, but more of a mindset. It's when I'm doing it, I can't stop, and I don't care about the consequences.

    What she said.
  • MarKayDee
    MarKayDee Posts: 196
    I've never been a binger, my mother would have a whole box of Oreo fillings for dinner some nights when I was in school, I have always been very cautious of not binging in an unhealthy way. Especially later in life when I learned that my mother, grandmother and great grandmother had all struggled with bulima during their lives.
    Now that I'm tracking my calories I consider a binge more of a place than an amount of food/drink consumed. That place is the bar that I love downtown, my friend does the music booking, and the bartender knows what I mean when I ask for something delicious with blackberry vodka... And the best dumplings I have ever eaten are across the alley. When I know I am going to Valentines I know to allot myself enough calories for 2-3 drinks and six dumplings with cabbage and fresh made thick peanut sauce.
  • moniquelovescats1
    moniquelovescats1 Posts: 8 Member
    Consuming a large amount of food, beyond the point where I am full, with thoughts of consequences absent, usually for emotional reasons.

    Exactly
  • GertrudeHorse
    GertrudeHorse Posts: 646 Member
    For me the definition of binge is being out of control, compulsively eating or being in a trance with no consideration for taste, food quality or pleasure. I would say that mindset, combined with eating a comparatively large amount of food in a relatively short period of time, would constitute a binge.
  • Slinky_BraveHeartBunsOfSteel
    Slinky_BraveHeartBunsOfSteel Posts: 10,988 Member
    I consider it a binge when I eat an entire something within a couple of hours that is meant to serve more than one person (large pizza, pan of lasagna, pie, etc.) Thankfully that doesn't happen much anymore.
    Got it in one! :wink:
  • mrsieve
    mrsieve Posts: 36 Member
    Eating a huge portion of something that I know is chock-full of completely empty calories. And then regretting it about 5 minutes after I'm done. PMS does this to me horribly some months.
  • florentinovillaro
    florentinovillaro Posts: 342 Member
    For me a binge is an indicator that I'm not taking in enough calories on a daily basis so that tells me to bump up my calories by 100 until the binges don't exist (usually after 1 week straight). I listen to my body and it responds with dropping weight.
  • Eleonora91
    Eleonora91 Posts: 688 Member
    A binge for me comes more from a state of mind than from an actual amount of food eaten. When I plan of having a pizza with french fries and coke even though I may not be happy about it, I know it's not a binge, because I worked hard to deserve that meal, even though it doesn't fit into my daily intake. A binge for me starts when I'm thinking about it, about the foods that I'd eat and how much I'd eat. It's not planned, I just reach for the fridge and eat. It doesn't happen anymore since I'm avoiding having binge foods in my place and I don't actually feel that tempted if I can only binge on feta cheese and tomatoes :tongue: but since I'm overweight I've been there several times.
  • Dewymorning
    Dewymorning Posts: 762 Member
    This is a binge

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    I am not a binge eater myself, I am a bit of a 'just one more slice', but after becoming friends with a girl recovering from an eating disorder and having her describe a binge to me, no, I have never done that.
  • michellemybelll
    michellemybelll Posts: 2,228 Member
    ...being out of control, compulsively eating or being in a trance with no consideration for taste, food quality or pleasure. I would say that mindset, combined with eating a comparatively large amount of food in a relatively short period of time, would constitute a binge.
    + massive regret and shame after
  • hortensehildegarde
    hortensehildegarde Posts: 592 Member
    I agree with the "eat all the foods" definition (also hyperbole and a half is a wonderful wonderful website).

    I'd consider it one of 2 things- either where I eat well past being full, to the point of discomfort or where I eat and eat and eat and eat mindlessly any random thing I touch without paying attention at all.

    Learning to not eat to where I hurt myself and to not eat to where I am inhaling stuff without even noticing are some of my goals.

    Oh, and if I drive from one drive-thru to another and eat the stuff from the second (or third) drive-thru even though I was full after 1/2 the order from the 1st drive thru? That would be a binge too. Not that I have EVER done such a thing. Of course.
  • Matekor
    Matekor Posts: 1
    I can control food binges since I started using MFP. To be honest I had no idea how many Kj's are in my favourite foods like pizza, McDonalds, Hungry Jack etc., I knew it was a lot but didn't realise it was THAT much. Logging everything helps a lot.
    My binges tend to be alcohol, have reduce it a lot but need to reduce a bit more.
  • GertrudeHorse
    GertrudeHorse Posts: 646 Member
    ...being out of control, compulsively eating or being in a trance with no consideration for taste, food quality or pleasure. I would say that mindset, combined with eating a comparatively large amount of food in a relatively short period of time, would constitute a binge.
    + massive regret and shame after.

    You are correct!
  • Illona88
    Illona88 Posts: 903 Member
    Eating so much that my stomach hurts and that I feel disappointed with myself after.
  • Cainandable
    Cainandable Posts: 13 Member
    That's exactly what happens to me, and I agree with your definition. Its when I cant and don't care at the moment it happens, but afterwards - deep regret!
  • 10manda86
    10manda86 Posts: 229 Member
    I consider it a binge when I just eat whatever and I don't care about logging it or stopping at a reasonable point. It is usually accompanied by some excuse: "I had a terrible day" or "I'm sick" (just recently did one of these and I ate double my goal for the day, which I didn't discover until I gathered up the nerve to track everything the next day).

    So, it's not necessarily a number, but more of a mindset. It's when I'm doing it, I can't stop, and I don't care about the consequences.


    i just did this today... and agree, this is a binge... mindlessness and WAAAYYYY over calorie goals :'(
    and then you feel sad and disappointed in yourself
  • SindyMcDougall1409
    SindyMcDougall1409 Posts: 5
    I consider it a binge when I just eat whatever and I don't care about logging it or stopping at a reasonable point. It is usually accompanied by some excuse: "I had a terrible day" or "I'm sick" (just recently did one of these and I ate double my goal for the day, which I didn't discover until I gathered up the nerve to track everything the next day).

    So, it's not necessarily a number, but more of a mindset. It's when I'm doing it, I can't stop, and I don't care about the consequences.


    i just did this today... and agree, this is a binge... mindlessness and WAAAYYYY over calorie goals :'(
    and then you feel sad and disappointed in yourself

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    I agree with this & I'm fed up of doing this as I feel waaaaaay out of control when it happens
  • amcsouth
    amcsouth Posts: 283 Member
    Consuming a large amount of food, beyond the point where I am full, with thoughts of consequences absent, usually for emotional reasons.

    ^^ Exactly this. As well as eating until I feel physically sick AND still eating more after that.
  • chunkilios
    chunkilios Posts: 7 Member
    I agree, I agree and I agree... I am a serial binger. Mostly after I've disappointed myself. Whether that be that I didn't deal with something correctly or that I didn't react at all and instead of kicking myself, I binge. For me, Emotional ineptness = Binging This is a problem I know I have and now that I've joined MFP, it will hopefully become a thing of the past!! We have a choice, I need to just have a word with myself - loudly enough, to stop a binge before it gets a grip.
    Negative people can't lead Positive Lives!!
  • HappyStack
    HappyStack Posts: 802 Member
    I don't put a label on it.

    I overate. It doesn't much matter if I overate by 500 calories or 5000. Saying it's a binge makes it sound like a disorder, in nutritional terms.

    I have full control over it, so if I choose the whole carton of ice cream, or the whole pizza, or a whole tube of Pringles, I need to make sure the next time I'm presented with that opportunity I exercise some self control and eat a sensible portion.
  • YearsWorthOfFAT
    YearsWorthOfFAT Posts: 210
    When i start eating a lot of things suddenly, without stopping even though i'm not hungry, even full. Whether it be 500 or 1000 calories, i still call it a binge.

    I remember when i thought a sandwich with cheese was a binge... sigh.
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