mini rant for those of you who "binge"

I just binged on 24 ounces of mixed baby greens T___T

Binges are different for everyone. Duh ...

just putting this out there to set the record straight; it makes my skin crawl to see some people logging a 400 calorie snack attack as a an "OMG massive, disgusting, binge." there is a DIFFERENCE between someone who overeats a few hundred cals (usually because theyre depriving themselves) and someone who gorges themselves on a few THOUSAND calories because of emotional reasons. for someone like myself who's had 3k-5k emotional and horribly compulsive binges, its a slap in the face when i see people who call these ~under 1000 calorie meals~ "binges." its just overeating. i feel like theyre totally misinformed, saying they have a problem that is actually very serious for other people.

am i crazy or am i right? i see it time and time again.....

I haven't actually seen it, but I agree, a hot fudge sundae is not bingeing.

I have a similar problem with people misusing the term "addiction." i also dislike it when people who lack a clear sense of normal weight ranges will go off about how someone else is eating too few calories.

What can I say? I guess they need the drama. Misinformation creates plenty of drama.

It's insulting to say that because someone didn't consume 5000 calories that their binge wasn't a binge. That it is somehow less painful and emotional than those who did binge on thousands of calories. You mean to say, that when I ate more than I planned, and ate too much and I don't care if it's 50 or 5000 calories, that the disappointment and guilt and shame and sadness not to mention anger I feel towards myself isn't 'real' or it's not at the same level as you because your binge simply resulted in more calories consumed?

Good gosh, how flipping backwards and quite frankly depressing is that. People vying for the title of Ultimate Binge Eater.
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I think that those of us who really truly binge (meaning 1,000's of calories) understand. When I overeat and go 400-1000 over my calories because I was eating cookies, or chips, or extra servings of dinner or bored or having a bad day.... it's not the same as when I am out of control and shoving a whole loaf of bread+ butter, a block of cheese, etc. in my mouth, over and over until I have added up 2,000, 3,000 calories.

Most of the girls who say they "binge" are already on a massive caloric deficit, when they eat anything under 1k, it is fuel that their body can USE. A real binge in terms of the disordered binge is a massive intake over which the body can naturally utilize in the course of a day, within their TDEE. So yes, a binge does have a threshold of calories before it can be considered one. The "compulsion" is not a compulsion as it is someone eating to refuel their body. A binge is a compulsive eating in which surpasses hunger AND what the body can naturally process/utilize in the course of a day, accounting for your BMR and TDEE.

SO true. *applause*

I don't -like- seeing it because it seems insensitive to people who have binge eating disorder. I also don't like looking at people unknowingly saying trigger phrases when they know damn well they have people who are recovering from EDs in their friends list.

I've never been a binge eater, but to me it's the same as some lower weight friend talking about how fat and disgusting they are while I'm looking to get to their fat weight.

It's unintentionally insensitive, but still insensitive.

I agree lol! When I binge I can eat any where's from 3000-20,000! I guess no one feels good when they even over eat, so they call it binge because their uncomfortably full! But I do understand what ur saying, because I'm extreme, and BINGE when I binge! I don't even call 3000 calories a binge anymore, that's just over eating, and I don't even let myself feel guilty over that

I don't like the word binge.

It sounds odd.

Binge. B-i-n-g-e Binge Binge Binge.....

Say it with me now...Binge.....Biiiinge.....biiiiiiinggggge. Bingey Bingey binge...

INCOMING >>> Quote:
Red Forman: It kinda pops you know, hip, hip, hip. ...
Red Forman: Hip, it starts to lose its meaning after a while you know, hip, it's not even a word.

I like the word "cheat" much better

Uh yea. I try not to worry about what other people do....but it does piss me off when they whine that...."OMGGGGGGGG I screwed up my diet....my world is ending....OMGGGGG Feel sorry for me....WAHHHHHH"

I am also a diagnosed binge eater (who is in treatment).....You want a binge? I'll show you a f***ing binge. Give me a break, people!

You are in good company with your opinion. I wish you luck in resolving your disorder.

Thank you! I will be in treatment too in a week and it is a disease not matter what shape, weight, whatever you are. It is a handicapping disease and it is ruining my life... and I don't like to see the word "binge" thrown around all the time because it is so sensitive to me and I'm sure it is to others who struggle just as I do.

And just to put it out there about the state of mind. A state of mind during a "binge" binge for someone who is seriously binging (this is in my opinion and from my struggle) is not just nibble of this nibble of that... it's a trance, it's as if someone took over your body and you are in a frenzy to get to the food. You need it, it's like a fix, like a drug. It's an addiction. At that point no phone call to a friend, no distraction, no bath, no soothing alternative will stop you from binging - you've decided on it and you're going to do it. So yes, there is a stark difference between "overeating" and "binging" because I overeat and when I overeat I perhaps have snacked too much, maybe just indulged a little too much. Binging takes on a different life form. And it doesn't matter what it is - be it cookies, broccoli, chicken... I've binged on plenty of "diet friendly" foods, but its still a binge because I needed to cure an insatiable need (of course a psychological hunger for something other than food).

And I think I've contributed enough to this thread, I'll shut up now and leave you all to it

Here's the thing, it doesn't really matter how many calories the binge consists of. But the loss of controll counts as a binge. Sometimes I know I am going to go 2000 calories over because I am going to eat out and/or drink. But when I have even 300 calories of food that I didn't plan for, and that I ate because of emotions, that is considered a binge to me.

I just want to say as someone with anorexia that everyone's binges are definitely different. Instead of trying to stop other people from calling things binges, maybe you should be working at preventing your own.

There's only a certain amount of food my body can handle, and on a daily basis I've been eating 600 calories. It's not much, but it's more than I used to eat. But because I've been eating so little, my body now can't take as much food. Yesterday I had around 1150 calories in the form of a sandwich, easy mac, oatmeal, hotdogs and marshmallows. That wasn't my entire day. My entire day ended up 1,913. That's a lot for me.

The 1,150 calories made me physically sick. Considering that i eat really low calorie things, I could eat A TON of those things adding up to around 300 calories, and I could definitely consider it a binge. And on the topic of "500 calorie snack". There is no such thing in my mind. A 500 calorie SNACK is appalling to me.

Point I'm trying to get at is that I eat past when I'm uncomfortably full. I eat past when I'm painfully full. I could still stay under 1,000 calories most of the times I do that though. I'd still consider that a binge.

Opinions on here hugely reflect on the personality of the individual.

To use a different example:
I get chronic daily headaches. They have made my life hell, and I'm currently on a strong combination of medication which allows me to get to work in the morning and through the day (most of the time). I don't know anyone else who has headaches like this.

So when a friend complains that they have a headache, do I rant at them and tell them to stop moaning because they don't know what it's really like? No, of course I don't. I know how they're feeling, and I know it's crap, so I offer sympathy. Occasionally, when I'm feeling particularly bad, I will make a sarcastic comment. For which I then feel guilty about and have to apologise.

Please don't belittle other people's problems. Just because yours are worse, that doesn't give you the right to judge other people's situations and claim that their problems don't exist.