Binge eating
rachelvillalobos39
Posts: 27
My problem is that i cant seem to stop eating; i get stressed and freak out if i think i might miss one meal. I know I need to lose weight and I want to. I used to be Anorexic early in high school, but it didn't take more than a year before it turned into this. I have struggled with binge-eating since i was 16. I am currently 24. 8 years later and I cant seem to stop thinking about food and weight. Am i the only person with this type of ED. I feel alone.
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I also sometimes struggle with this. The only thing that helps with me is surrounding myself with people. I don't like eating in front of people, so then I won't. Otherwise I don't have a solution for it unfortenatly0
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Being overweight with a hx of eating disorders can feel like such an impossible situation. For me, the journey was years of intuitive eating (and fat acceptance) and now finally really, really, really slow weight loss with a lot of physical activity (so I have to eat). Really, even the amount of weight I have lost, and the small amount of deficit eating has been triggering as hell - like you I become obsessed with thoughts of eating, weight and food really quickly. I found myself b/p after literally a decade of recovery.
So, my thought would be to take a break from trying to lose weight and focus on nourishing your body with healthy foods, exercise that you love, and self love. That sounds super, duper cheesy, but its all I got.
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thank you. both of you. Ive started eating more portioned meals as well as adding some healthy foods into my diet. I also spend more time around other people now. I have realized that gum helps curb the hunger as well with me cutting back.0
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No. You are not alone, not at all actually. I have been a size 4 to 18 and that is usually within a year. I go back down and get back up. I have probably lost and gained somewhere around 500lbs in my lifetime. I have to realize my first step is that I have an extremely unhealthy relationship with food, and it is taking its tole on my quality of life.0
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Im back and forth as well im afraid. I finally told my husband what was going on.... and guess what. He doesnt think binge eating disorders really exist..... so i guess no family support. He says that he noticed my eating habits change after we went through a state of total financial poverty and had no food for a week. and that i tend to binge eat more when we get low on money or food. So on the bright side i think i figured out a few of my triggers. I still havent talked to a doctor because im scared of getting the same response i got from my husband...... basically a "your crazy and thats not real" response.... ): now i lie about eating more than i used to making me feel even more guilty.0
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I was 100 lbs before kids, then I was gaining 65 with each pregnancy and then going back down and losing it again and then being 180 after one of them and not being able to lose it, I was always going up and down it seemed which killed my metabolism the Dr. said. I got into a cycle of starving myself and losing the weight and then my body was so starved I would eat everything in sight for a couple of days, then I would be so disgusted with myself the starving would start again, this went on for years.....it finally stopped when my Kids got older and moved out of the house (except for one I get every other weekend) sooo... I don't keep my "trigger" foods in the house anymore....maybe thats not being "better" or "cured:" , but im much less likely to binge if there is nothing in my cupboards to binge on!0
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I go back and forth between wanting to restrict and wanting to binge. I have the same meal plan during all of those times, and sometimes it's a struggle to eat it all, and sometimes it's a struggle to just eat that and nothing else. Structured eating helps me a lot, so I suggest figuring out a meal plan that has you eating balanced meals regularly to avoid blood sugar spikes/drops. If you don't have a nutritionist/dietician to help with this, the Kartini clinic meal plan is available for free on the internet (just google it) and that's a very solid structure in my opinion.0
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sounds interesting I will look it up 0
