How do I stop my binge-fast cycle/erratic eating patterns?

Yikes! That certainly doesn't sound like a healthy way to live at all. Besides, once you get back to your goal weight (as quickly as possible) it doesn't sound like you'll have learned how to maintain that weight, either. There's nothing wrong with eating one big meal once each day but if you then go off on a binge that destroys any calorie deficit you've created over the last week or two it's obviously not working for you.

I've seen a lot of people talking about deprivation/binge cycles in these forums. Going without eating for long periods of time seems to make it much more difficult to eat a moderate amount once they actually eat. Disallowing themselves foods they like and eating only things they deem "healthy" creates a strong craving for foods they consider "unhealthy" which eventually leads to a binge session on those foods.

The first, and easiest, thing to do is get rid of the food you typically binge on and simply stop buying it especially in bulk. If you don't have 4000-5000 calories of binge food in the house, you can't eat it. It's very difficult to eat that many calories in veg. Buy single servings of treat foods to allow yourself an occasional treat but not enough to make a binge possible.

It seems to me that you need to start eating at regular times and perhaps even plan what you're going to eat at each meal and make that plan before the day actually begins. If you're eating at regular times, have a plan in place, and you're eating both enough calories and foods you enjoy eating, you should feel less compulsion to binge.

Books by Geneen Roth. Also tons and tons of yoga -- as many different types of teachers and classes as you can possibly manage.

I have done things like you in the past and sometimes I have a small binge but I always feel awful afterwards both physically and mentally. What I do to break the cycle is plan, eat as planned and if I feel bingey I get up and walk right out the door and take a walk until I feel I can control myself. I have had to do it for every meal of the day until I could get control over my urges. You need to ask yourself how you are feeling when you want to binge. Are you tired, bored, anxious, sad, angry, happy or just don't care? When you get back from walking do something that is not conducive to eating like sewing, crocheting, knitting, play piano, anything you can do where you want to keep your hands clean. You don't want to slop grease or ketchup or crumbs on your hard work. Most of all, come here and post about it. There are lots of people who care. You can friend me if you want. I understand. I also understand how hard it is to change your ways. I call it mind over fatter and I work on it daily.

ChangeThePath wrote: »

Listen.
You either want to stop or you don't.
You are not weak willed.
You are not powerless.
Wake up.
Grab a bite to eat.
Focus on your life.
Have lunch.
Focus on your life.
Have dinner.
Focus on your life.
Have fun.
Love yourself.
Be a sponge to all the good in life.
Stop punishing.
Start living.


This is my perspective.
I no longer binge.
I understand how you feel.
Fly free.
Whether you realize it or not: you are.

I am most likely to fall off the wagon just before supper. I do much better if I have a snack at my low sugar moment in my last hour at work. That way I don't show up at home with the hangries.