HELP PLEASE!:BINGE

i am no expert, but i also tend to eat a lot of sweet and fatty things in small periods of time (dont know what qualifies as a binge...) and ive been told to think of the part of you thats craving the things that arent good for u as a "monster"... a bad little thing growing insdie of you. and the only way for "it" to die is to "not feed it". hope this is not taken in a wrong way- not about starving yourself! just killing that spontaneous voice that tells you to eat that extra bar of chocolate. good luck! i have yet to conquer the little monster inside of me.

Focus on being healthier and becoming more fit. Spend more time in the gym and less time worrying about food. You're at a healthy weight and judging by your info, you have already seen the downsides to eating disorders. The scale is just a number, it's not going to help you like yourself and feel confident if you don't take care of yourself first.

You know what helps me? Eating healthier food. I find I don't even want to binge if I eat healthy, organic, tasty food. I mean it! Even just protein (I'm a total carb fanatic)...give your body what it needs. Exercise plenty too, find something you enjoy and do it like it's your daily job...that will help compensate for any extra calories. Focus on what is causing you to binge and combat it...is it boredom? Depriving yourself of foods you want? Have them and treat yourself so you don't binge later. Also...keep "trigger" foods out of the house. For example, I can't have cookies in the house or the whole bag will be gone in two days, and that's me being good with them!
I hope this helps. I know how painful (physically and emotionally) binging is.

I haven't been on this site very long. But today I messed up. Wasn't feeling good, mother's day, etc, etc. But I'm not going to let it get me down. When I'm tired I tend to think I deserve a few extra goodies. NOT SO!!!!! As one of the bloggers said, The MONSTER is rearing it's ugly head. So, tomorrow I will get up, put today behind me and stay within my limits. We all make mistakes and they are to teach us how to do better. Don't beat yourself up. Just find ways that help when the binging hits. It happens to all of us.

People who binge usually eat a lot of processed foods, or they eat very low calorie. Both cases, nutritional needs aren't met.

I disagree. I binge because eating fills an emotional need. I've trained that lovely dopamine-reward pathway in my brain to respond to food Actually, my parents helped with that one. And, come to think of it, 10,000 years of evolution have helped me become hard-wired to respond to food and over-eating too with lovely 'feel good' hormones.

I imagine a lot of people are similar in that it has absolutely nothing to do with how processed their food is and everything to do with being human.

That said, OP, you can do this Just pick yourself up when you fall. Keep trying. You'll re-train yourself. Best wishes!

Sometimes, like once a month or so, I get the emotional need to feel full at all costs. I have no idea why I feel this way. What I have done is sit down with a bag of carrots and pig out. Or celery, or cabbage. It fulfills the emotional need and only makes a tiny dent in my diet. Is it as satisfying as sitting down with a bag of cheetos and going to town? Of course not, but it'll do the job.