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The scales can tell one story, but how you feel is a different one. Do you have conto issues when it comes to food? Do you exhibit the behaviors of someone with BED? Then you should be able to get the support you need. I luckily have been able to lose almost 100 pounds in the last year, I take Vyvanse, and Adderall to help…

Hello and welcome. Thank you for sharing your story with the group. Yes the group is still active just a little more quiet lately. I still check in daily and see if anyone has posted anything and try to respond as quickly as I can.

The feeling you have the first few weeks will subside and it will not be as noticeable when you take it longer but the medicine is still working I promise. Your body has jut adapted to the new normal of the Vyvanse. So that rush and hyper focus feeling faded and becomes less noticed. It will still control your appetite but…

I have been on Vyvanse for over a year now. It has helped me gain control of my binging and unless I am under a heavy stress load and usually at night I have little to no urge to binge. I lost 40 pounds since starting Vyvanse and have been able to maintain my current weight for a year or so now. It is a great option as…

@shinycrazy Hello and welcome and thank you for sharing. Some people have been diagnosed others just come here for support and help. No one can tell you what the right thing to do is as far as seeking treatment only you can make that choice. I just know for myself I was at the lowest point in my life, the heaviest weight I…

The one most people are on is called Vyvanse. Vyvanse is an ADHD drug that they found can be used to treat B.E.D

I am the architect of my own demise, as I am a chef and work around food all day. For me my medication helps with the binges, and learning what triggers a binge for me has been helpful as well. Also figuring out the signs that a binge is going to happen then telling someone about it, like texting the wife so she is aware…

Sadly there is no one stop answer as to why binges happen. Some will say restricting cause it, for my it is stress, others it happens because it is Tuesday. You can change your daily calorie limit and know that you have a buffer on the days you feel the urge to binge, while on the other days trying to stay within the…

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Hello, I have taken Vyvanse for the last year, in the beginning it worked great. I lost 35 pounds without doing anything at all. But the problem for me was the dosage, I started at 30mg and it worked for a couple weeks, then needed to change to 50mg. That worked for about 3 weeks then I would get off work and after 8 hours…

You make a lot of really good points. For me weight was not a big problem until the last 4 years. I would gain weight then be able to lose it and get back to my original weight. But about 4 years ago after my youngest was born I started to put on the weight, and kept on putting it on. Then from the stress of the job I was…

I would like to know as well. I did a genetic test to see which medications I responded to, and which to stay away from, as I did not feel the Vyvanse I was taking was working as potently as I needed it to be any more. I was also at the highest dose I could take as well. But for me I have always tended to go towards sweets…

Thats awesome.

I know the feeling, I have to bake cakes, and am making sugar cookies from scratch for tomorrow and trying to not eat them all is quite difficult.

Just made a tree nut free pesto sauce, it turned out very nice, then put it on a flatbread crust, and topped it with fresh mozzarella cheese.

Or the feeling over being powerless at not knowing what is going on with your own body, and not knowing how to stop it from happening. It is a scary feeling not being in control of your own actions.

@ActionAnnieJXN If I may ask, what medication are you taking? I myself am on Vyvanse.

Sadly most people who suffer with Binge Eating Disorder can check in with people a million times a day, but that does not mean anything. For myself I lied to so many people then ate things in secret shame. I got busted once leaving a store and wolfing down doughnuts in my car, and was seen by one of my wife's co-workers…

In the U.S.A with my insurance I called a number that gave me a list of Psychiatric Doctors in my area, I began to call them and the first office I called had many Doctors and I took the first appointment they had which was less than a week after I had called. If wherever people live takes longer to get in to get help,…

I used to have that when I first took it, I could almost feel it kick in, like everything just became sharper and I was hyper focused, and had boundless energy, and was doing a bunch of projects around the house which I had neglected during my depression. My wife was SHOCKED!!!! It is the closest to autopilot motivation I…

I was taking the Vyvanse at around 5:30am work and get kids by 3pm, then keep them alive and safe and bed time around 10pm to do it all over again. But by 3pm I was spent, I would come home on the 50 mg dose and have to fight to stay awake, which after a bit I called my Dr and talked about what to do, then we move me to 70…

@Look_Its_Kriss I was on 50 mg but after about 8 hours I would crash and have no energy to do anything, so we changed my dose to 70 mg, then that started to not be able to cover the entire day, not I take Adderall 30 mg when I wake up then 70 mg Vyvanse 3 or 4 hours later.

I am currently taking Vyvanse 70mg which in the USA is the highest dose you can take. Most Pharmacies do not regularly carry Vyvanse unless someone else is prescribed it. When I first started taking it my Dr had a free 30 day trial I was given, and she wrote the prescription into 3 different doses for me to test out to see…

With B.E.D, it does not just come down to calories eaten. There are other facets to this, like the feeling of shame, hiding the eating from those around you, eating to the point that it hurts, eating while not hungry but not being able to stop.

I thought this may help some, from the DSM-5 and what they look for when diagnosing B.E.D. The key diagnostic features of BED are: Recurrent and persistent episodes of binge eating Binge eating episodes are associated with three (or more) of the following: Eating much more rapidly than normal Eating until feeling…

@fourtherecord I fully get where you are coming from with feeling embarrassed about reaching out for help. I am a male in my mid 30's married with kids, and for over 3 years thought I was loosing my mind on a daily basis. I used to be in decent shape and weigh in around 170 lbs. Then I started to get larger and larger and…

@Taylor076097 an industrial kitchen like bulk banquets and caterings, or like an ala carte restaurant kitchen? Restaurant kitchens - imagine everything around you is on fire, and no one knows how to turn on the water, then add in loud noises, and somehow the heat all around you gets even hotter, then some weird person is…

@jdelaroy yes buy a food scale and start weighing out the ingredients, baking is very precise so the best recipes to use are the ones in weights. Start small and expect to mess up more than once, and accept that failure is ok while learning. Also even if something does not look pretty at the end it may still taste good.…

@Francl27 once the cookbook comes out I will let you know.

@Francl27 I was lucky enough to learn pastries from an amazing pastry chef, who has won 2 Food Network challenges, 2 Gold medals in the World Pastry Olympics and is currently writing his own pastry cookbook. I will look for the recipe for eclairs when I get home and transcribe it and message it to you. I am not sure what…