I have a binge eating problem.

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First, don't feel ashamed. Be happy you are working towards getting this under control now while you are young and still in your normal weight range is great.

What do you binge on? Maybe you are missing some needed nutriants.

Also, how long do you go in between meals? I notice my binging went away when I actually started eating 5-6 times per day. Now I get hungry after a few hours, but just a little fills me up. Now I am to the point I can't even binge on holidays as I get full very fast. It does take a few months though to get to that point.

After you run, do you eat? It is recommended after hard workout to eat within 20 minutes. A carb and a protein.

I love this answer and I too was in the same boat but I would very little through out the day then chow down later on a heavy meal that was very carb heavy. I have been able to stop eating large amounts of food at one sitting by eating regularly through out the day AND by eating what my body is telling me to eat! If I am really hungry rather than ignore it I will eat something within reason of course, if not I am likely going to chow down later out of hunger and frustration which makes me over eat.

Good luck on your Journey!

I'm 18 too! I used to binge eat all the time, especially when I was like 13-15. Once I ate an entire family sized bag of chips in one sitting.

These things have always helped me: If you feel like you are going to binge, brush your teeth, or chew minty gum. The strong taste will help calm the cravings and usually if you eat anything with minty mouth, it tastes bad. Make yourself drink a full glass of water before you let yourself eat. It will help fill you up and give you some time to get out of binge mode. I also like to get a shower, take a walk, anything to get me away from something I could binge on and take my mind off of it.

Make sure that you're getting enough calories, though. Often, when I would try so hard not to binge, I would end up depriving myself of food in general and ended up not eating very much at all. It's all about balance. Good luck!

I sometimes indulge in what I call "stress eating" which I'm not sure = binge eating, but it's eating more than I need and also sometimes eating when I'm not hungry. I have 2 suggestions that work for me:

1) Just don't have temptations where you live. When I'm at home and all there is to eat is beans, brown rice and broccoli, it's very easy to not over eat! Also, if most of your food has to be prepared (i.e. not instant meals or quick microwaveable stuff), then this also serves as a disincentive to overeat if you lazy like me. I don't even own a microwave so I have to heat everything up the old-fashioned way!

2) This can be difficult by try cutting out refined flours & sugars (almost all baked goods, packaged/ processed food). These can bring your blood sugar way up and then lead to to come crashing down where you will be craving more of the same. This happens to me when I eat something like a bagel. However, if I stick to brown rice, quinoa, this seems to make it easier to eat more healthily and eat less.

Good luck and try not to feel bad about yourself. Just learn from your own behaviors and try to improve

Hey! I am recovering from binge eating. You're definitely not alone out there at all. I started as a teenager, my worst years were from 13-17 by far. At 18 I saw a doctor about it and lost some weight, but I didn't really take it seriously and found the weight adding back on slowly but surely I'm 24 now, I regularly see my doctor and, for the most part, I have it under control. Today was a bad day for me so I like to think that seeing your post was a good sign!

I'm going to add you though, it will nice having someone who is going through the same thing!

Have you tried eliminating gluten and sugar from your diet? Some believe you get an actual physical dependency to these foods which when combined with emotional eating results in binge eating. If you get rid of the physical addiction easier to say "no".

My hubby says I have gotten to where I only binge 4 or 5 times a month which is way better than every day. However, I would love to stop. I can usually reign it in except at my TOM. I really wish to get rid of that!

Binge eating is horrible and it makes me feel so bad about everything! It is a self destructive tendency I will somehow conquer!

You realize that simply eating 500 calories of food at once does not a binge make? I am more worried that you are taking a diet mentality and turning it into an eating disordered one, I did not look at the height/weight chart, but are you at a healthy weight for you? I don't mean what you'd like to weigh, but what is actually healthy for your height and age?

My guess is that you don't eat enough, you run 5 miles, and then you get really darn hungry. Make sure you are eating enough, fuel your body for exercise, and give yourself permission to eat when you need to. Just my 2 cents.

It's relative I suppose, but 500 calories is nothing from my perspective. Today is my binge day where I binge all day on purpose. I will consume around 2000 calories 4 times today...LOVE IT!

As bad as this sounds, it keep me good all the rest of the week.

I think what your doc said about figuring out why you do it is going to be the key for you. Are you just letting yourself get overly hungry then feel starving so you have to binge? Or is it an emotional thing. Hopefully you can get this figured out and under control so you no longer have to struggle! Kudos for making your goal more about healthy, non-binge eating vs an actual number weight.

I seriously have the same problem! I am also in college. I run, do insanity (a work out) and still really don't loose weight! I am also 5'5'' and currently weigh 142! so i wish you good luck!