What triggers your binges?
MacCroc
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I have been noticing recently that my binges have a very interesting pattern. Putting aside the binges caused by simple undereating, which I consider physical and not emotional, I tend to overeat when life circumstances are good and I get bored. Problems, and especially relationship problems, have the opposite effect: I stop binging and start restricting pretty successfully… until everything stabilizes again.
What about the rest of you? What provokes you to binge, restrict or start eating healthily?
What about the rest of you? What provokes you to binge, restrict or start eating healthily?
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I have this night time thing. I just want comfort food. I think its hard for me to wind down after a long day. I'm not hungry and don't think about food the whole day. I'm so busy teaching and everything and am zooming all over all day. At night I finally sit down and my food monster comes out. lol0
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Good moods, bad moods and being unprepared mostly.0
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I feel it's also when I convince myself that "I don't have an ED" and that it's okay to be a little relaxed about eating things that I know trigger me. I tell myself "you can just have a little." Wrooooong!!! Yes, that would be a goal, but as of right now, it's not working. Go away tricky little ED voice, I don't like you!!
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I feel it's also when I convince myself that "I don't have an ED" and that it's okay to be a little relaxed about eating things that I know trigger me. I tell myself "you can just have a little." Wrooooong!!! Yes, that would be a goal, but as of right now, it's not working. Go away tricky little ED voice, I don't like you!!
The ED voice sucks, doesn't it?? But you're right, that is the goal. You know you are not there yet, and that is okay.0 -
It's all a journey and progress. It's slow, but I'll take every little bit of recovery I can get.0
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For me it's always worst at night, but it only happens when my boyfriend is with me or if I'm playing videogames. For some reason I want to keep my mouth and hands busy during games and my boyfriend is comforting but I feel like I need more. Lately I've tried drinking tea like mad instead of eating but it's not working. Instead I decided to try a detox and see what happens. So far I've had no binges but tonight is the real test.0
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chigiriswrath wrote: »For me it's always worst at night, but it only happens when my boyfriend is with me or if I'm playing videogames. For some reason I want to keep my mouth and hands busy during games and my boyfriend is comforting but I feel like I need more. Lately I've tried drinking tea like mad instead of eating but it's not working. Instead I decided to try a detox and see what happens. So far I've had no binges but tonight is the real test.
Please ditch the detox!! They are complete bunk. And for someone with an ED they're an even worse idea than normal. If you know this is a snack time for you, try building that into your calorie allowance. You can have loads of air popped popcorn for relatively few cals for example, easy to fit into your day.
Some more reading on detoxes and why they are a bad idea: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1159755/looking-for-a-detox-cleanse/p10 -
Nony_Mouse wrote: »chigiriswrath wrote: »For me it's always worst at night, but it only happens when my boyfriend is with me or if I'm playing videogames. For some reason I want to keep my mouth and hands busy during games and my boyfriend is comforting but I feel like I need more. Lately I've tried drinking tea like mad instead of eating but it's not working. Instead I decided to try a detox and see what happens. So far I've had no binges but tonight is the real test.
Please ditch the detox!! They are complete bunk. And for someone with an ED they're an even worse idea than normal. If you know this is a snack time for you, try building that into your calorie allowance. You can have loads of air popped popcorn for relatively few cals for example, easy to fit into your day.
Some more reading on detoxes and why they are a bad idea: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1159755/looking-for-a-detox-cleanse/p1
I definitely agree with skipping the detox. Its a waste of money and also probably not great for your physical or mental health.
As for having air popped popcorn, its not a terrible idea. I just think that you can still overeat something even if it is healthy. (For example, last night I had 6 servings of lovegrown honey o's (like cheerios but a little more natural) I felt incredibly sick, even though I hadn't necessarily consumed more calories than I am comfortable with)
You should definitely give it a try, because maybe it will work for you. But binging can still happen on filling and healthy food too (especially if its not from hunger, but more emotional or out of boredom)0 -
I can definitely over eat popcorn. It's one of my trigger foods.0
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Stress, boredom, self-loathing, depression. When my mindset gets into that negative talking to myself it all goes downhill pretty quickly.
I too would have all these emotions or moods, binge, feel guilt, restrict, binge, etc. over and over. All because I mostly just didn't like myself very much and I almost felt like I was not deserving of success, deserving of being human and making mistakes and not letting those mistakes be the next reason to binge again.
It's like falling off a bike, you fall off, it hurts a bit, you pick yourself up and get back on. When I fell off my bike, it hurt like hell and I was mad as hell so I threw that damn bike, breaking it and made that one little situation 50 times worse and in the end I was left with a busted bike. Make sense?0 -
Anxiety is my number one trigger. But I'll also binge when I'm angry. I'll get stuck in these binge/restrict cycles. Been stuck in one for awhile now.0
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hyliankitten wrote: »Anxiety is my number one trigger. But I'll also binge when I'm angry. I'll get stuck in these binge/restrict cycles. Been stuck in one for awhile now.
Is there anything we can do to help you break that Hyliankitten?
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I had a bad one last night. I had nothing sweet in the house and it's like I can't go to bed without having a sweet treat. So I decided at 10:30 to go to the store and get some diet sweet treats. A box of 12 fudge pops, a pint of low calorie and low fat ice cream, sugar free syrup and diet hot cocoa. Well it started out as one pop, two, three.... then I knew I was in full binge mode. I used syrup and hot chocolate power all mixed in the ice cream to make it a strawberry chocolate maple ice cream. Of course then comes the guilt and the purge. Went back to sleep. Woke up at three thirty and at an apple, 3 mini bags of croutons and some wasabi peas.
I'm only sharing because this is the only place I feel I can get it off my chest. I want to think about what triggered it, because this is how my binges go....at nighttime.0 -
I don't if what I did was considered binging or just overeating but I definitely had a tricky weekend. Thursday night and Friday night I ate around 1000 calories extra (above maintenance) which was just me shoving food in my mouth in my room by myself. And then Saturday and Sunday were probably 500 over maintenance (but just because of family dinners) last night I had a slice of extremely sweet cake. I really freaked out and almost made myself sick. I never realized before but when I eat a lot of sugar (and by a lot I mean a lot) that I start getting really depressed. I am still feeling the effects today. I am trying to get past it but man I feel so negative about it all.0
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Restricting for long periods of time, which causes my body to think I'm starving and lead me to reactive with binging0
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Being upset, stress , and chocolate are all triggers for me0
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I have this night time thing. I just want comfort food. I think its hard for me to wind down after a long day. I'm not hungry and don't think about food the whole day. I'm so busy teaching and everything and am zooming all over all day. At night I finally sit down and my food monster comes out. lol
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Oops..for me it's stress, no me time, and cookies0
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peanut butter. carbs. bread. candy. anything sugary and creamy, ugh. cheesecake, too. cake and cupcakes in general. any of that.0
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Stress triggers include: not being able to fit into an outfit, mistreatment from family, people trying to police my food (I had this happen recently by an acquaintance), and gender dsyphoria. Physical triggers include: low glucose levels and hormonal changes because of my illness.0
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I have family triggers and stress/anxiety. Started back on MFP (this is week two). Had healthy meals prepared. Allowed myself "real" meals (whatever I cooked for my BF for dinner). This week talked myself out of a binge twice and had a super close call this morning (like, called and cancelled the food order I ordered online). Today was really tough. My BF is going away for the weekend and I'm afraid I'm going to cave. I don't know if I have "trigger" foods... I guess. I have foods that are my go-to's when I plan to b/p. The doctor also changed my meds. One is supposed to help me not binge and one is to block the euphoria after a purge, but I know I need to force myself not to get there in the first place.0
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hyliankitten wrote: »Anxiety is my number one trigger. But I'll also binge when I'm angry. I'll get stuck in these binge/restrict cycles. Been stuck in one for awhile now.
Yep this for me too word for word. Also bored and sometimes I really have no idea why, just this driving need to stuff my face. I recently started with a therapist and the new BED medication Vyvanse it is helping soooo much, but I do still struggle from time to time but my time between binges are a lot more now than they used to be.
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Loneliness!0
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Stress and feeling overwhelmed. Feeling like I can't handle life right now. Wanting to check out from reality for a while.0
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Loneliness, stress, any type of emotion I don't want to particularly deal with. Also, if I have the house to myself... yeah, that's a bad thing, lol.0
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Stress,boredom and sometimes I dont even know why it happens its like a devil that suddenly attacks. I binged again yesterday and the feeling sucks terribly I look soo bloated now. im determined to get better from today onwards I know I can do it! How did you manage to stop the urges? Could use some tips
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I can't put my finger on what triggers me. Impulsiveness and eating makes me want to keep eating. Hunger is horrible because I know I need to eat, but then I don't have the wherewithal to stop eating.
I have ADHD, so this is a big, big part of it. I'm on Vyvanse for the ADHD and it hasn't changed my eating much at all. I'm switching to Concerta and Topamax to help. I just need my overall impulsivity to go away. I'm pretty good at making good decisions when I *can*.1 -
Relationship problems and sadness, loneliness definitely make it easy for me to restrict. When things are going well and my boyfriend is around, that's when I tend to eat more. He is well aware of my eating disorder and tries to keep me eating properly. When I am left to my own devices, I would probably starve.1
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Thanks for sharing leahisnotmy.. i feel the same. If i didn't have family or someone around i don't think I would bother eating, and if I did eat, not healthy stuff.0
