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  • ab6046
    ab6046 Posts: 371 Member
    I had a mini binge last night. Nothing horrible, but I think it was anticipatory. Today at my internship we are supposed to have a doughnut day. I'm doing all I can to not binge in anticipation. Friday is also going to be extremely hard and it's difficult for me to not justify just having a free week and starting over next week.
  • ab6046
    ab6046 Posts: 371 Member
    Definitely feeling bingey
  • daniellethesheep
    daniellethesheep Posts: 117 Member
    Binged last night after a near perfect day. Came back to my room after studying til midnight, ate a whole jar of PB and 3 Greek yogurts. Up seven pounds and I feel absolute disgusting. Still having urges even though there's no food in my room. I haven't stopped thinking about it all day and I just want to rip my skin off. I haven't been working out much at all and I hurt my hip last Saturday. I'm disgusted with myself. I need to get this weight off now.
  • ab6046
    ab6046 Posts: 371 Member
    How did the rest of the day go?

    Mine sucked. I had a couple mini binges in the morning then three after my internship. I also ate trigger foods at my internship. And now I'm plotting to binge again, as I'm waiting for a box of twelve doughnuts and a few one pound chocolate bars to come my way. I would say today hasn't been a full blown binge, but smaller episodes. I think a lot of this is anticipatory. We were supposed to have a doughnut day at internship today, so I binged. It's koffies birthday on Friday and we have all kinds of food plans, so I think I'm just stressed about that. It's very frustrating. I hope I can stop and that I haven't already found myself in another bingeing cycle. My last one barely ended.
  • daniellethesheep
    daniellethesheep Posts: 117 Member
    Ate fairly okay for the rest of the day. Around where maintainence was when I was working out so definitely too much for now. Weighted myself and I'm now up 10 lbs from Monday. Perfect
  • ab6046
    ab6046 Posts: 371 Member
    It kind of sounds like your desperation to lose the weight might be fueling your bingeing. Would you consider not weighing yourself for a week or so? Have you ever tried that before?
  • daniellethesheep
    daniellethesheep Posts: 117 Member
    Yeah. I've done it a few times and gained over 10 (real) pounds each time.
  • ab6046
    ab6046 Posts: 371 Member
    Same here! It's such a great idea in theory and works for so many people, but not for me. I'm sorry to hear you've had the same experience.
  • ab6046
    ab6046 Posts: 371 Member
    It seems I'm back to bingeing. That was the shortest restricting cycle ever. So frustrating. I think it's because I'm anticipating Friday so much but then after that I'll have a bunch of other stuff too. Lame.
  • RespectTheKitty
    RespectTheKitty Posts: 1,667 Member
    edited May 2016
    It's 5:15 PM and I'm at -168 net calories for the day. This is not good. Definitely in a restricting cycle. If I keep this up, I'm going to crash and binge so hard.

    Thing is, I'm not even feeling hungry. Not sure what's up with that.
  • ab6046
    ab6046 Posts: 371 Member
    Yikes. Yeah you should try to eat even if you're not hungry. Don't like force feed yourself thousands of calories but if you're restricting this much consistently then you are very likely going to end up in a horrible binge cycle.
  • ab6046
    ab6046 Posts: 371 Member
    Started the day off bingeing. I know it's in anticipation of tomortow
  • ab6046
    ab6046 Posts: 371 Member
    I think I'm in my next bingeing cycle...already. I've binged consistently for the last three days. This morning I woke up at 6 AM and ate 42 large doughnuts, yogurt, chia pudding, and a bagel and peanut butter and banana sandwhich. Then I ate five slices of stale bread fried in coconut oil and sugar and cinnamon, then came to my internship. Once I got here I ate my lunch right away. I don't know what's wrong with me. God I'm so mad. I've been doing so well too. I'm on the fast path to gaining back any weight I've lost plus some. If I can just start over this weekend (tomorrow is Koffie's birthday so we have lots of food plans) then maybe I can start to reverse the damage. My goal for this week was to lose 0.3 pounds which I already exceeded, but this binge will likely put me back to maintenance or gain for the week (I track based off of a trend app's expected weight instead of actual weight, otherwise if it was actual weight I'd be up like eight pounds at least haha).

    Sorry for being all over this forum. I hope everyone is doing better than I am!
  • drpsamin
    drpsamin Posts: 265 Member
    When I read all the comments above they really resonate with me. I have BED (diagnosed)..thereapy where I live is so expensive and I cant afford it at the moment. It is sad because I really need it. I'm currently on a relapse and havent binged for 3-4 months. I'm down 12kg(25lb) and 5kg away from goal weight. I had a baby 11 months ago and my binging got worse post partum when I started eating all the time. Binged few times a day and always felt hungry, depressed, ashamed.

    I still feel the urge to binge...But so far have been succesful for the past few months at resisting.

    I've heard of the OA 12-step program but I'm not religious so I'm not sure if I can joiN?
  • mweckler
    mweckler Posts: 623 Member
    I think you can find the steps online somewhere, but I believe it is very religiously themed in the steps.
  • FreeVeg
    FreeVeg Posts: 46 Member
    Started well, ended badly...Binged..bread rolls, chocolate cake. Feeling miserable...though today in the morning I checked my weight and I"ve lost. That's good, but still... Depressed. I did so good for few days...and...
  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    I couldn't sleep because I was very nervous.

    I wanted to binge but managed to just explore the Internet on my phone for two hours.
  • drpsamin
    drpsamin Posts: 265 Member
    Didnt binge today
  • RespectTheKitty
    RespectTheKitty Posts: 1,667 Member
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    Hooray for no binges!
  • ab6046
    ab6046 Posts: 371 Member
    Woke up with a really strong urge to binge. Today is my day off and I almost talked myself out of exercising. I ended up doing it, but only twenty minutes. This could be a bad sign.
  • FreeVeg
    FreeVeg Posts: 46 Member
    Well, done quite good for 1.5 days...No binge, trying to relax more. Still the evening to survive, feeling a bit like eating some trigger foods, but...Will try to avoid. Hope all goes well till bedtime!
  • RespectTheKitty
    RespectTheKitty Posts: 1,667 Member
    Last night was a rough one. My neighbor was being loud for hours, while I was trying to listen to the baseball game. I got so anxious I became dizzy and started sweating. Then I couldn't sleep because of the anxiety. Of course, I turned to food to help calm me down. I kept waking up and going to eat, several times last night. I don't think it qualifies as a binge, since it was small snacks each time, but I definitely ate more than I originally planned to.

    I talked to my landlord again about the noise. Not sure if anything can be done. I really need to stop getting so worked up over a little noise.
  • tinytomato12
    tinytomato12 Posts: 5 Member
    Had a pretty rough day yesterday. I binged like crazy on a ton of carbs-granola, potato chips, pasta, and cheese. I had one binge in the afternoon and then another in the evening. Went to bed feeling pretty gross.

    But today is a new day and I have not been having any binge urges. Usually the day after a big binge I don't have much of an appetite, but I still eat because I feel like I should. Tonight I am having some friends over to cook and make dessert. I hope that if anything I just overeat instead of binging. I am going to try to focus on the company instead of the food as well as eat my meal mindfully.

    We'll see how it goes!
  • FreeVeg
    FreeVeg Posts: 46 Member
    Ok..I didnt make it...:( But I managed to stop...yes i started..yes i ate...but i stopped. Kind of feeling proud that I managed to regain control over food...and the binge. That gives hope.
  • ab6046
    ab6046 Posts: 371 Member
    Yesterday was really bad for me. I managed to avoid bingeing until the late afternoon, but then I had six English muffins smothered in cheese, two pints of ice cream, 50 salt water taffies, three doughnuts, a box of Swedish fish, lots of bread, chocolate, a few bowls of almonds, tons of rice, and the list goes on and on and on. I'm definitely back in a bingeing cycle and really unhappy about it. My goal is to simply not binge again until Monday. Then after graduation, I can binge as much as I want that day. I just need to make it until then.
  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    FreeVeg wrote: »
    Ok..I didnt make it...:( But I managed to stop...yes i started..yes i ate...but i stopped. Kind of feeling proud that I managed to regain control over food...and the binge. That gives hope.
    That's awesome. I honestly don't think I've managed to stop a binge once it's started until the next day. I usually start in the middle of the night, or an hour before bed. The most food is consumed between that night up until some time before noon, around 2,500-4,000cals at night alone. I'll "graze" smaller portions until 5, when I'm so sick I lie down and usually sleep. Afterwards, I try to remind myself of how sick I feel, but say screw it, and eat what I can until bed.

    Oddly, while I hadn't binged, I had that specific "after binge hunger" on Tuesday. A day or two after a binge, I'll be abnormally hungry, but it feels different from the norm. A little more... hollow?

    Like I said in my previous post, I was very stress and had the strong urge to binge on Monday. Resisted, but I guess my body didn't expect me to.


    ab6046 wrote: »
    Yesterday was really bad for me. I managed to avoid bingeing until the late afternoon, but then I had six English muffins smothered in cheese, two pints of ice cream, 50 salt water taffies, three doughnuts, a box of Swedish fish, lots of bread, chocolate, a few bowls of almonds, tons of rice, and the list goes on and on and on. I'm definitely back in a bingeing cycle and really unhappy about it. My goal is to simply not binge again until Monday. Then after graduation, I can binge as much as I want that day. I just need to make it until then.
    That's rough. I really hope things start to improve soon.

  • msty112
    msty112 Posts: 199 Member
    A few of you have sent me messages checking up on me so I just wanted to check in really quick. I'm doing okay, therapy is really helping me. I've realized that MFP is not a safe place for me right now so I've decided to step away from it. Calorie counting and weighing/logging food are not good for my obsessive mentality. Coming on here and seeing other's losing weight, although I'm proud of everyone, is a major trigger for me because I am not losing at the moment. Also reading about everyone else's binges has also become a trigger for me. I'm learning through my therapy that I worry far too much about what other people are doing and what others might think about me. So right now I'm trying to rid myself of the background noise in my mind and focus on me. Maybe I will be back some day, who knows. I want to wish all of you good luck and that we all beat this disorder.
  • ab6046
    ab6046 Posts: 371 Member
    I'm really happy to hear from you, and really glad that you're making this decision. I suspected that was probably the case! I suspect once I start, I will find myself in a similar situation. Best wishes to you!
  • ab6046
    ab6046 Posts: 371 Member
    I binged a lot today. Got to work and nobody had touched the treats I binged on on Monday so I took it upon myself to eat them all. Then my supervisor bought me a milkshake. So naturally I came home and binged some more. Right now I'm gorging myself on Reese's pieces and milk duds. My goal is to not binge tomorrow through Sunday. That's all. Then I can go crazy on Monday.
  • ab6046
    ab6046 Posts: 371 Member
    I'm really anxious today. I have the final presentation of my grad school career and I'm really nervous. I spent all day bingeing yesterday and now I'm bloated and my face is swollen. I'm unprepared for the presentation and I'm terrible at public speaking. There's probably going to be food there and because I'll be nervous I may be able to avoid it, or otherwise I'll gorge myself the whole time to avoid talking about my project. I also won't eat until before then because I'm nervous which may set me up for a binge later. I need to just not binge until Monday afternoon. That's it!
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