I feel like I can't stop binge eating

Can you open your diary so we can see what you're eating?

Sometimes it can be helpful to keep certain foods out of the house. Anything you tend to binge on, get rid of. It's okay to eat it once in a while, but buy it in small quantities or force yourself to go to a restaurant to eat it.

Have you tried meditation for stress reduction? I was on the bus last April, agonizing over something that had happened in the long past, or something ridiculously dramatic that would probably never happen. Either way, my thoughts were racing, as usual, and I couldn't take it anymore. So I breathed in and out, thinking "Breathe" on every single inhale and exhale. Of course the thoughts came back over and over again, but I kept doing it until more pleasant thoughts started coming up.

It sounds so silly, but I haven't binged since April. I've overeaten a few times, but nothing that felt shameful or like I was out of control. It's free, you can do it in public and no one will notice, and it's helped me learn how to take care of myself better.

Also, yes to the new therapist if you don't like your current one. Why isn't it working?

Thanks for telling us what the triggers are. Stress is a trigger for me too so when i started my diet in beginning of 2014, i decided i'd get councilling asap and resolve the stress. Resolving the stress got me back on track almost straight away. So avoid stress and if you can't just resolve it asap. Get help. Talking it over with a councillor helps me to start finding solutions and when my mind goes in that direction, my stress goes.

When you do eat, even in a stressful period, you will probably not be able to stop yourself eating more than you should. Accept it and choose better foods and allow yourself to satisfy yourself with good quality food. Even if it means you eat more than your calorie limit.

Studying stress is almost impossible to avoid in my opinion. Just accept it and eat big meals but very healthy ones. And then if you find you do need to eat between meals, again, choose low calorie foods. Don't worry because that just adds mroe stress and it all compounds and gets worse. Also get plenty of sleep.

I think a big part of getting control of our weight is about learning to eat healthy food all the time and minimising unhealthy food. So i avoid sweets because they are the worst thing for me. I only ever eat them in low risk situations - ie when friends offer them to me or i'm with people. I usually don't buy them for myself at all anymore except in certain special circumstances. These strategies have worked so well for me. I used to just about live on icecream and sweets of all kinds. Now i live on fruit and vegies, pasta and wholegrain bread, tofu, eggs etc. I don't have sugar in coffee on my oats or anything at all. Fruit is my only sweetness on a day to day basis.

Today at the supermarket, i'd missed lunch so i bought a packet of savoury crackers and ate the whole lot + a punnet of strawberries but i can do that and not trigger a binge. Its only sweets that are the issue for me so i hardly ever eat them. And when i'm stressed I want to eat sweets so i eat fruit instead and more bread than i would normally but still try to eat my vegies. This really does help.

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