BED (binge eating disorder) friends

Good luck to you in you quest for healthy eating.

I don't know if I have an official disorder, but I binge eat after 9 p.m. I try not to, but it is so hard to keep it up day in and day out.

Maybe we can help each other just by knowing others struggle with this issue?

im exactly the same. im an emotional eater too. xx

Hi I haven't been diagnosed but my family think iv got a problem binge eating then getting rid of so you are not alone
Feel free to add me

Now this is my sort of post, in for fellow addicts I'm happy to be added, just throw me a request and boooooom you're in the crazy gang

Hi....I feel like I have this from time to time. My day is either perfect or if I venture off the whole day is over. Sound like you?

I'm a BED survivor as well, I was at my worst about 6-7 years ago. I sought help but never fully recovered. I'm currently on my road to recovery. Feel free to add me if you would like.

keep up the good work

I haven't been diagnosed, but I've definitely noticed that, in the past, I have exhibited actions that could be considered symptomatic of BED. I'll be full but continue to mindlessly eat. I'm not sure why. Part of me would say stop but mechanically I would keep going. this happens much less frequently now, but from time to time it happens. I feel abnormal since I can put away a LOT of calories' worth of food, but my fiance never fails to stop eating when he's full without the mindless snacking. It's like there's some faulty wiring inside me or something

I've been dealing with this recently too. I can do fine counting my calories for a while and then I'll have a few days where I'll just eat everything in site and put on about 8 pounds and then I get back on the diet again. ITs SO frustrating. I would love for some friends to add me so we can support each other!

I'm really glad you posted this thread. It seems like some people even on MFP don't understand that some of us really struggle with binge eating. Honestly, after I made my MFP diary password protected, some of my friends were commenting on how much I could blow program on some days. The comments were not helpful. I know that on my really bad days I can really blow the program. Commenting on it to me doesn't help. A lot of the time it's emotional eating as well. On a bad day when life kinda sucks, sometimes I reach for those comfort foods and it gives me a slight emotional boost until the guilt sets in over how I chose to eat that day.

Most of us are already familiar with the process of emotional eating as a "pick me up." Sweet foods give us that little boost until the 2 hour mark where we're just full of regret. Where I live right now, terrible junk foods are available all the time. Brick cheese, endless amounts of sliced bread at 100 calories per slice, saltine crackers and animal crackers. I try to stay out of this food most times through sheer willpower. But unfortunately, the food is always around, and in plenty of quantities. So if I'm having a personally challenging day, going upstairs and making a "cheese" sandwich of caloric slice bread and 1 or 2 slices of cheese is sometimes more like a coping mechanism. I don't define caloric sliced bread and wrapped single slice cheese as "health" food. Neither are saltines or animal crackers. Cookies get made a lot around here and left out. So I struggle with emotional eating and something like binge eating, and generally unsupportive family members who "support" me in the abstract theory realm, but not in the real world where their social habits have real effects on my weightloss goals.

It took them a while before they accepted me passing on birthday cake and ice cream during the string of birthdays in the family over the summer. They use the string of birthdays as an excuse to eat that stuff. But we have like 5 birthdays to celebrate in the summer. It was a while before they stopped insisting that I "break my rule for just THIS day." Now they will accept me celebrating a birthday without eating the cake and ice cream. But on my birthday, I guess I'm still expected to eat that **** because it's the only way they know how to celebrate birthdays. You'd think that on my actual birthday it would be my privilege to skip the cake and ice cream if I don't want it, just as I'm allowed to on other people's birthdays. But no, when it's my birthday, "it doesn't seem right" if the birthday person doesn't have cake and ice cream. So unfortunately, I'm still expected to indulge in that crap when my birthday roles around.

I have never been officially diagnosed, but I am an emotional eater, I would love some more friends that understand...I also eat late at night or when I am overtired...and I have a very hard time setting limits on my intake.

Im really glad to find a thread on this, especially being my first day. I recently graduated college were the pressure to be thin was paramount to my eating desires, and I developed an unhealthy sneak eating habit. Along with that I would obsess with working out. Back then I was 155 about. Now, with no pressure of going out as much and instead being at home, my sneaking is much much worse, and my binge eating is/was completely out of control. I gained so much weight in such a short amount of time friends and family were legit concerned for my health and I ended up going to a treatment center were I was diagnosed with BED. At my highest weight I was 240. I am now 225 and want to break out of the 200s. I feel like I'm in a strangers body, and there are no words I can express to say how much of a depression it has put me in. It is a daily battle. Its hard for others to understand why I would want to eat an entire pie of pizza, when it makes me so sad after, but it truly is like I'm on auto pilot, and once the idea is there its very hard to say no no no....

I want to be back in my healthy weight which should be between 135-165. I just seems overwhelming. Right now all I can do is take each day at a time, or sometimes each meal at a time.

I struggle with binging too. Yesterday actually was a bad day. I hate that most people in my life do not understand how food is just like a drug to bingers. A legal drug.

Hi,
I've never been diagnosed, but coming from an Italian family, binge eating is in my blood!!! I'm not a great friend. I suck at motivating people, it takes me forever to get back to people, I'm very crude and curse a lot, I'll constantly ask to borrow money too, but I'd be glad to be your friend

Thank you so much for posting this. I haven't been diagnosed but I know I have a problem. Like others, I can be totally on track, but then something triggers the binge and I just can't stop. It's especially hard for me when I'm home alone with the 2 kids after a day of work and don't get a chance to sit down to eat my own dinner so I start binging on whatever I can find . . . goldfish, graham crackers, pancakes, chips . . . if I can get my hands on it, I eat it!