Fantastic post, I agree that binge eating stems from emotional instability and it's controlling (or better still trying to rectify) the cause of those negative emotions (in my case stress) that is the key.

I've lost 4 stone recently and in trying to lower body fat to single figures I have a low calorie/low carb eating plan in place... problem is that this often results in cravings and on the occasional day (talking once or twice a week) I end up caving in... and then it's no holds barred for the rest of the night... I'm talking perhaps 3000-4000 calories in a matter of an hour or two. Weird thing is that I know what I'm doing and am telling myself 'wtf are you doing Dan' and yet I carry on. And then the next few days its back on the healthy eating plan.

It's been a difficult last year - financial issues (still in debt although getting better), fiancee split up with me six months back and within a week was seeing someone (we also have a 1 and 3 yr old together) so I'm currently living at Mum's while I try and get back on track. I am in business with my ex fiancee's father (we have a convenience store together) as well as having a freelance design business and doing a fitness training course to help the financial situation (plus I want to be a PT to maintain a healthy lifestyle for me and kids and help others). So I guess trying to do all this and have the kids 3-4 days a week is perhaps the source of the negative emotions lol.

Thanks for the suggestions, will try them out. Also looking forward to eventually having my own place - I'm either at Mam's or the convenience store business (it has attached house/accomodation) and both have too much in the way of temptation (sweets/chocolates etc). I know that in my own place there will be absolutely nothing available to binge on.