anorexia/ binge eating

The binging is likely a reaction to the extreme restriction.

Are you in therapy to treat your eating disorder?

I'm really sorry. I think you should find a counselor who specializes in eating disorders. When you drop your calories really low like that, your body will eventually take over and drive you to a binge. It's not healthy nor is it effective for weight loss.

no im trying alone

that needs to be the first change. seek a professional.

i suffered from a binge eating disorder after i lost weight before. i refused to get help and gained 70lbs and spiralled into depression. please consider getting help, it's much harder on your own!

i joined slimming world and it helped me a lot. although it may be triggering after having anorexic tendencies

hey, after restricting/bingeing for a while and then try to eat normally it will take your body certainly more than a week to reset for you to start losing weight (you may even gain weight at first...hard to accept i know). but go back to trying to eat you TDEE and give it a while; your binging will continue to decrease and you weight WILL go down.. trust me....its the most difficult thing but its worth it!

im a year into my recovery for Bulimia just about to get discharge from the eating disorder service

Hi there! I feel your pain… I was a hardcore dancer and had to keep my diet on point to maintain that "dancer body"… except it got out of control and i was severely underweight (5'5 and 102) … i was too tired to exhausted to do anything, basically a vegetable. Ultimately, i binged like many cases, and went up to about 135. NOT happy. I know this is a healthy weight for our heights, but i put on a ton of fat and no muscle. For the last year or so i have been trying to get my body back to its normal healthy weight where it wants to lay which is around 115-120. Honestly, the only way to achieve this is by eating HEALTHY. i have been on a paleo diet (caveman diet..google has more info) and eating what my body needs to burn a day. http://walking.about.com/cs/calories/l/blcalcalc.htm fill that out and you will see how much your body burns just by being alive. Add in cardio and weights and you'll start seeing a difference. Unfortunately it takes time but REMEMBER that the number on the scale doesn't mean much. when i first started eating healthy i gained weight but i noticed i gained muscle and my fat started dropping after that. Hope this helps! stay strong!

i hate asking for help and it was seriously the hardest thing i've ever had to do. BUT the relief of not being alone and having help and support is huge. i couldn't have done it without help.
Most important thing is, you have to want to get better! i couldn't cope with it anymore. at my lowest point i was living on 150 kcal a day(mostly of liquid) and burning 1750kcal through exercise....i don't know how i did it but i never want to go back it EVER!

It does not getter better. It just gets worse. I am in recovery for Binge Eating Disorder and Bulimia after 30 years of not working my plan and trying to solve it on my own. Seek professional help. Eventually it will become such a heavy burden to carry that it will impede all other aspects of your life. Try to solve it before it becomes something you always do.

It is normal for BED to spring from a period of restriction. Don't beat yourself up. I also liked the book Intuitive Eating and also Overcoming Binge Eating Disorder. I did not really like Brain Over Binge but it had some good points about how every time you binge, you hardwire that feedback path into your brain. Stop dieting now and work on this first. That's why I struggled for 30 years. I wouldn't stop dieting long enough to work on my ED.