Weird Binging dreams?

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Weird Binging dreams?		direwolf689
		Jul 19 2008 21:03
Lately, I hate to admit, I've been under in my calorie intake (Though I'm definately not giving it the college effort), but lately I've been having these weird dreams where I'd binge and binge on food, then wake up in the morning and feel disgusting. I've checked to see if maybe I was sleep eating, though in the morning no food is missing (and usually in the dream I'm binging on things like cake and tuna casserole, weird foods that aren't in my house). I was wondering if anyone else had this problem? Or even what it could mean?

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#1	bucketofglitter4	Jul 19 2008 21:58
Yes! I go through the same thing. These dreams are like nightmares to me. Most of the time it's me sitting at a table with an entire chocolate cake, and I eat the whole thing and then something happens to prevent me from being able to purge. Then I feel extrememly fat and disgusting, even when I wake up..because I don't come to the realization that it was only a dream for a few minutes. I have this dream maybe once or twice a month, and sometimes I eat different foods in them, but most often it's chocolate cake...and I don't know why...because I actually hate chocolate cake!
#2	fidget84	Jul 19 2008 22:05
ur binging about eating coz ur starving. 1200cals is the min the site reccommends but that doesnt mean that its enough. u need more like 2200 or 2300.... and u will find ur body tryin to sneak ways of getting food into u. this is one of the reasons we binge. its a survival technique. i told u this already but theres not point in stopping binging if u are going to continuously eat 600 cals. though i have a feeling this may be falling on deaf ears. u will have a serious serious binging prob if u dont get ur cals up. ur body always wins in one way or another..............
#3	direwolf689	Jul 19 2008 22:18
bucketofGlitter4 - Oh my God, it's the same thing here. I don't even HAVE chocolate cake in my house and I dream about eating it. And then I have problems through out the day just getting the calories up. i don't actually have a binging problem, but Having those sort of dreams make me wake up in a cold sweat and wanting to run a mile to burn off/get rid of what calories I THOUGHT I ate. fidget84 - I know you're probably sick of me, but I am really, really trying hard to get up to 1,200, though by the time I actually realise how little i've eaten, I'm ready to go to sleep anyway.
#4	lalabanana	Jul 19 2008 22:26
"... I am really, really trying hard to get up to 1,200, though by the time I actually realise how little I've eaten, I'm ready to go to sleep anyway." Then you've got two choices: you stay awake a couple of hours to both eat those extra calories and then let it go down before you go to sleep, or you make sure you have one hell of a breakfast to make up for it the next day. If you're dreaming about binging while taking in 600 calories - or less, yes, I've seen your journals - you'd think it's your body trying to tell you something. 1200 is not just a goal, it's imperative. And I'd like to say, while I remember your journal - EDNOS stands for Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified. See those first two words? Eating. Disorder. Just because it doesn't fall under a more common title like anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa does not mean you don't have real issues. You are not "claiming" to have problems - you have them, full stop. If you are honestly finding it difficult to do on your own, you need to tell this all to a doctor. The first step towards health is helping yourself.
#5	fidget84	Jul 20 2008 17:54
im not sick of ya dire wolf not at all! but i suppose i was the same and tonnes of other girls were the same too (loadsa posts)... "im too full" "i cant eat anymore food" "im eating way more than i dererve"..... we all come up with the same lines and excuses to NOT go near the minimum necessary intake. i remember being terrified of eating normal portions. petrified. iv told this story a ton of times but i was admitted to an eating disorder unit. my weight was ok maybe 130. i had been extremely light and had recovered my weight but not my head. my eating and thoughts with my body and food were screwed. i was not eating properly but remained at the same weight... doin a lot of exercise. the 1st week on the programme i was weighed. i was not allowed to exercise at all and me and all the girls on the unit stayd in the lounge all day except for groups. my diet was this breakfst 1glass oj, bowl cereal (not bullsht portions... normal ones) 2 slices brown bread and pat butter and jam. lunch 2 medium potatoes, a breast of chicken or salmon etc and veg. dessert changed but usually mousse or choc cake or apple tart n custard etc. tea. 2 slices brown bread, and something hot like omlette, or chicken and rice, or fish n chips (YES REALLY!). not huge chipper portions. but a plate full. evening snack btween 200-300 cals (had to have) this was the weight maintenance plan. to show me that i could eat and not have to exercise. i followed this for 3 weeks..... i lost 4 kilos in these three weeks. i couldn believe it. i was stunned. i was sure i would put on a ton of weight.... this cal intake for totally totally sedentary was about 1800... (clearly i needed more... hence the weight loss) BUT my point is this ..... u can ask for all the help u want here and nothing in ur life will change until u change ur eating. the prob is with the eating, which is causing further probs with ur head. none of us can make u eat but if u really want to start to improve ur life then take the reins. cut the I cant eat crap..... u can. u choose to and u do it. add higher density foods, bread, banannas, some treats, cereal,.... u know these foods coz u avoid them religiously. ur body knows what it wants and if ur so preoccupied with food that u dream about binging then it means ur hungry.... very hungry
#6	eerica	Jul 21 2008 12:06
whenever i start to restrict my calories, i get those dreams. they're really unpleasant because when you have an eating disorder, they REALLY freak you out.
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