What exactly is considered bingeing? What is full?

Brenda_1965
Brenda_1965 Posts: 314 Member
edited September 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I'm starting to question what the true definition is... Is it only with sweets? Is it only if you stuff your face all at once? Is it only bingeing if you feel sick afterwards? Or is it considered bingeing if you just plain overeat throughout the day in it's entirety?

I'm thinking that eating 6 small meals is logically a good idea. This way I won't over fill myself, I can relax and savor it more, and I can tend to my body's signals that I should eat something. But I'm still confused about when I am actually full. Does a full feeling feel just a tiny bit uncomfortable or what?

Brenda

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  • Brenda_1965
    Brenda_1965 Posts: 314 Member
    I'm starting to question what the true definition is... Is it only with sweets? Is it only if you stuff your face all at once? Is it only bingeing if you feel sick afterwards? Or is it considered bingeing if you just plain overeat throughout the day in it's entirety?

    I'm thinking that eating 6 small meals is logically a good idea. This way I won't over fill myself, I can relax and savor it more, and I can tend to my body's signals that I should eat something. But I'm still confused about when I am actually full. Does a full feeling feel just a tiny bit uncomfortable or what?

    Brenda
  • lotusfromthemud
    lotusfromthemud Posts: 5,335 Member
    What is binge eating disorder?

    People with binge eating disorder often eat an unusually large amount of food and feel out of control during the binges. People with binge eating disorder also may:

    * eat more quickly than usual during binge episodes
    * eat until they are uncomfortably full
    * eat when they are not hungry
    * eat alone because of embarrassment
    * feel disgusted, depressed, or guilty after overeating

    I copy/pasted the above from the website: http://www.womenshealth.gov/faq/binge-eating-disorder.cfm

    For me, I think that the big part is feeling "out of control". . .although I have had what I call "anger binges" where I am aware of what I'm doing. . .it feels like an act of rebellion. What it is is self-mutilation. (IMHO)

    Here's a link to a very useful "hunger/fullness scale"

    http://intuitive-eating.blogspot.com/2007/02/different-hunger-scales.html
  • Binxy2004
    Binxy2004 Posts: 65
    What is binge eating disorder?

    People with binge eating disorder often eat an unusually large amount of food and feel out of control during the binges. People with binge eating disorder also may:

    * eat more quickly than usual during binge episodes
    * eat until they are uncomfortably full
    * eat when they are not hungry
    * eat alone because of embarrassment
    * feel disgusted, depressed, or guilty after overeating

    I copy/pasted the above from the website: http://www.womenshealth.gov/faq/binge-eating-disorder.cfm

    For me, I think that the big part is feeling "out of control". . .although I have had what I call "anger binges" where I am aware of what I'm doing. . .it feels like an act of rebellion. What it is is self-mutilation. (IMHO)

    Here's a link to a very useful "hunger/fullness scale"

    http://intuitive-eating.blogspot.com/2007/02/different-hunger-scales.html

    very good point, to me a binge is just that, out of control eating untill you feel sick almost. eating smaller meals more frequently i think feels better too, especially if you have the opportunity to do so
  • stillkristi
    stillkristi Posts: 1,135 Member
    So, the question about feeling full or not, this is just me thinking, and I am not a nutritionist, but I do know that when we are in the middle of our addiction, and have been somewhat out of control for a while, we are out of touch with how our body should feel. So, maybe for a while an idea is to plan your meals and snacks pretty meticulously and stick to that plan. If you are still hungry after a meal, maybe have more water, of even something like crystal light. Try the three meals, three snacks plan so you don't ever get super hungry during the day. After a few days, you should begin to be in touch with your body again and know what feels right. I suspect we will still need to count calories and measure portions carefully.
  • lotusfromthemud
    lotusfromthemud Posts: 5,335 Member
    So, the question about feeling full or not, this is just me thinking, and I am not a nutritionist, but I do know that when we are in the middle of our addiction, and have been somewhat out of control for a while, we are out of touch with how our body should feel. So, maybe for a while an idea is to plan your meals and snacks pretty meticulously and stick to that plan. If you are still hungry after a meal, maybe have more water, of even something like crystal light. Try the three meals, three snacks plan so you don't ever get super hungry during the day. After a few days, you should begin to be in touch with your body again and know what feels right. I suspect we will still need to count calories and measure portions carefully.

    I still measure every portion, and stop when that portion is finished.

    I said to a friend the other day that I don't have a full. Seriously, after years of therapy and reading on the subject, and going years without a binge (I had a relapse recently. . .but that's another story.)
    I still honestly don't know where "enough" is.

    I have an acquaintance who is a recovering alcoholic and she said to me "I would only stop drinking when I was unconscious. . .that was "enough" for me". . .I completely understood her. I have never purged on purpose, but I have literally eaten myself sick.
  • molsongirl
    molsongirl Posts: 1,373 Member
    funny thing bingeing, it can carry on to other aspects of your life. My sister has a bingeing problem when it comes to shopping. Her psych told her she's a binge shopper as well as a hoarder, and it seems that she's also this way with food, this I just found out. She shops for a pair of jeans, and just loses all control, she has to get, a top, bra, socks, jacket, shoes, bag, her $75. jeans turn into a 1300. shopping spree, and it happens every time, now imagine that only in calorie form...scary, don't know hoe to help her onthis one though, I can only say.."I'm here for you" cause I don't understand it.
  • Brenda_1965
    Brenda_1965 Posts: 314 Member
    Oh my GOSH! Everyone should read that thread. I think I will order that book, intuitive eating. It may help me with my questions on savoring in my other thread!!!

    I also see now, that the only area I binge is on sugar. In fact for most of my life, all I ate was sugar. I'd bake a cake to be embarassed when the entire thing was gone the next morning. Hubby would go to sleep, and I was the only person who could have eaten it. It was embarassing, but I really could not stop myself. I do believe I have done this since childhood with sugar.. (ADHD, Sugar, Feingold diet, sugar sensitivity, allergies - I'm sure it is all connected somehow.)

    Brenda
  • kimber607
    kimber607 Posts: 7,128 Member
    Hi

    To me bingeing is when I've just had a snack or meal and am NOT hungry but eat anyway...and eat LARGE amounts in an out of control/numb manner
    I will finish off an entire box of cake, or the entire box of pop-tarts
    For me, it's always sweets/sugar...cake, candy bars, an entire jar of frosting with a spoon
    I read about a book in a mag called crave it (i think that is the name..I'll post the exact title and author in a bit)...I think I might look into reading it

    Kim
  • pammiles47
    pammiles47 Posts: 36
    Hello binging is when you take in more calories then you put out. And I learned to not eat to get full but to eat to get satisfied. So after eating for 20 minutes stop and ask yourself am I still hungry or would I be satified I stop right now.


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