Health & Support

I wanted to start a thread that would help give support to all of you.  I'm all of the above which they all pretty much go hand in hand.  I'm looking for support myself too.  There's not many support groups offered where I live and I need all the help I can get.  For all those suffering through this as well it's absolutely exhausting and makes you feel so vulnerable as to many other things.  Lets all support each other.

bzb

yes, im sorry but i do believe those are eating disorder habits.  have you thought about talking to someone about this?   in the bright side, it seems that this was a slip up, and they are bound to happen once in a while.  but today is a new day and you can start a new!  it sounds like you want to lose weight the healthy way and thats great.  just get back on track and keep working at it.  its never easy, believe me, but we just have to keep each other motivated and remember why were doing this.. to be happy! 

Doug- Thanks. I appreciate that. I have never told anybody about it before, but it feels good now that I did. ANd I am back on track. I had a healthy breakfast and I went to the gym today. I also had a healthy lunch. I just hope this thread lasts a while so we can all really help eachother.

so i just ate over 4000 cal today  no exercise...i hope tomorrows better, gonna try put my stress to exercise rather than binging but its hard all i want to do is eat

I am so relieved to have found people who understand what it's like to live a day in my shoes. The most frustrating part, I think, is making it the whole day with a good calorie count and then "ruining" it in 20 minutes. I ate a sausage burrito and a bacon/egg/cheese biscuit from mcd's (not my best start clearly) this morning and I am determined to NOT let today end the way the rest of my days usually do. I WILL stay with in my calorie range.

Trishy-That is what I try to do or have been trying to do. It makes me feel so much better and I can usually work out whatever is stressing me out while I exercise. ANd I know the feeling of just wanting to eat and eat and eat. I hate it. And it always happens when I am bored.

yea, i know how it feels to be so careful all day and then lose it at the very end. yesterday i killed it by inhaling granola bars. the day before i was doing good. then i broke out the cookies and ate almost a whole bag of chips deluxe.

last night I wanted to binge sooooooo bad! It was 11 and I told my boyfriend to order pizzas! He didn't listen(THANK GOD BECAUSE I WOULD HAVE EATEN A WHOLE LARGE ONE) so I had a craving for toast. Luckily I didn't eat the whole loaf. I had two slices w/ ICBINB, some bananas and strawberries(maybe half a cup), and a few almonds. Disaster averted. I know I would have eaten the pizza, then the icecream, then some chocolate, and then purged. I hate this.

So my hubby was away this past weekend and I used it as a binge fest cuz I knew I wouldn't get caught.  I made myself so sick though that I'm physically grossed out by everything.  I made 2 cakes while he was away because I love to bake.  I'm pretty sure the 1st cake is what made me sick because the 2nd one I've only had one slice of it.  I'm trying to drink lots of water and Iced tea to keep me hydrated and full.  My only problem was this time I tried purging after binging on Saturday but I couldn't.  The first time in my life I couldn't.  So I just suffered the consequences of being uncomfortably full the rest of the day and didn't eat anything else.  I'm so out of control when no one is around.  That's when it's the worst.  I can control it as long as I'm around other people.  I sound like a true addict.  I have to get this under control though because I'm going back to college in the fall to finally get a degree and I can't be consumed by this.

Bzb I definitely think we're a lot a like.  We think constantly about food and what will be the next thing we eat.  Or atleast that's how I am.  Love the bully dog too.  I have 2 american bulldogs and so I'm a sucker for those wrinkles.

jeri- I totally think about what I am going to eat next all day long. And if I plan my meals I can't wait until the next one. I am glad I am not alone. But for some reason counting everything really makes me slow down.

jeri-and thanks for the compliment about Chops! I love all animals, but bully breeds are my fave! I have a frenchie, too!

Hey everyone - so glad I've found this post.  Everyone else on this site seems so angelic with their caloric intake, but I feel like sometimes I really struggle and binge - which is why I'm overweight of course!  I'm like you, Doug76, I usually binge at night.  Sometimes I can have a perfect day calorie/nutrition-wise and ruin it all after dinner for no reason except that I feel the compulsion to eat.  And alcohol makes me much worse - I have the appetite of an elephant after a few drinks! 

Any tips on how to stave off binge eating? 

bzb

yes, we can support each other, and all here on this crappy situation.  but like you and jeri..i do the same thing.  we could be just sitting down to lunch, not have even ordered yet, and im already thinking about what were going to do for dinner.  it makes me so ashamed that i think like that.  its all i can think about sometimes..  and i hate it when i ruin a perfectly good day of eating at night too.  the last two nites, i have been better and have really stopped to think about whether i need to eat that..  i managed to keep it to a little pop corn and some jello with whipped cream.. and i felt okay with that...noy great..but okay.

mialondon

yup..were very alike that way i guess.  and yes, alcohol makes it almost impossible to control.  i know its not healthy and i know it will happen most of the time, but i do enjoy my wine in the evening.  its bad in two ways..alcohol is just empty calories (but again, i alot some of my daily cals for it), and it lowers my inhibitions and i binge more at night.  i really should give up the wine, but its almost like a reward at the end of my day.  does anyone else do this?  for some it might be a little chocolate (hey..both good for the heart, right :P ), or a little cookie..mine is a nice cab! 

Whats sad is that it isn't even about the next meal. It just about what I am going to eat next in general.

no, i hear  ya..  im thinking what i can and cant eat, should or shouldnt eat.  like tonite, im hoping to go the cheesecake factory..i love eating there...and i think more about i want my husband to eat!  this is because i pick off his plate to satisfy my cravings..so strange isnt it?   i always get the same thing..ceasar with dressing on the side, side of pico de gallo and jalapenos, bottle of tabasco and dijon mustard.  haha..and you know while im eating dinner, ill be thinking of whats at home to snack on later.  terrible isnt it?  :P  we are so very simliar... happy friday though!

It makes me so happy to see forums that describe me in the title. I'd like to join you all :]

I was doing so well today.. I even made my own veggie burger which turned out pretty nice. I logged in all my food and I got an A for my nutrition grade for the day!

BUT then I blew it all away. I don't why.. I had a stack of crackers, topped with cheese. Then my dad brought some ice cream, and I had 3 bowls. Granted, this is one of my lesser intense binges, but I still hate the feeling of not having control = \ I didn't log the last things I ate because I know I'd be well over 2000 calories, and it'll probably send me back to my purging cycle.

Nice to meet everyone here.

 

Hello,

    I find this interesting subject on binge eating. I went on a diet with Slim 4 Life with a 1300 calorie diet. I found myself constantly hungry all the time so I would end up binge eating. I am not sure if my hunger was part of nicotine withdrawal since I quite smoking at the same time. I do know that I will eat if I feeling depressed. I believe food has replace alcohol and cigarettes. I used to binge eat when I was younger too.

   I read a book on emotional eating. I found out that night time is the prime time for binge eating due to low energy. Food provides energy so it make you feel better. The book recomended some type of exercise like walking will help curb the hunger.

    I am trying to beat the hunger this time by eating calories at my goal weight. It is 2400 calories. I am on day 2. I am not that hungry however, I do feel that I can eat much more. I am surprised how many calories I consume when I make an effort to record them. I bet I can eat 5000 more on a regular basis. I am not exercising right now due to an car accident. I have really put on a lot of weight. I will be doing a mood journal if my hunger seems to continue to see what triggers my binging.

 

gah, this is one of my biggest problems.  My problem is chips and other snack food...and I don't care what anyone says, it's impossible to substitute that kind of thing with carrots and celery.  I've tried.  I'm trying really hard not to overeat, but it gets really hard when you're super hungry.  Today was my roomie's turn to cook, but she decided she didn't want to, so I made one of those boxes of scalloped potatoes and ended up eating the whole thing!  I actually didn't look at the box because I was much too afraid to see how many calories I actually ate.  The sad thing was it wasn't very good, and it was an older box so the potatoes weren't all the way soft like they should be...

an entire box!

Yesterday I narrowly avoided purging. I was doing fine until dinner. Now I didn't binge this time, I just over ate, but that will still make me want to purge. My bf and I went to have Mexican food and I had half of a way overstuffed chicken quesadilla, some chips, a chilli relleno(more like the batter w/ some cheese and strips of bellpepper. not a real one), and some of my bf's rice and beans.  I was at 860 calories up until this meal. I came home and logged the calories. Then I had a BK Sunday pie! Argg!!! I was doing so well b4 dinner and pissed it all away. The only way I could make myself not purge was knowing that I had gone to the gym b4 dinner and burned 1000 calories. But I still really, really, really wanted to get rid of dinner. Really bad. Today is a new day and I can't change yesterday.

doug-Cheesecake Factory is EVIL, but I love it!!!!! I get the Miso salmon now and only eat half the salmon and half the rice. Or at least i try to. And I try not to get their cheesecake or anything else off of the Menu becasue 4 some reason I go straight home and purge.

Hello Sharkie, PerfectPanda, and Foodi. This forum is spuradic, but at least it is a place to talk about things you may not be able to tell others. And just because we are not as severely sick as some others on cc doesn't mean we don't have a problem. I know I do.

Ugh. For the past two nights I've been binging on cereal... like horribly binging. I hate how it makes me feel and I hate how I know I'm going to binge before I even start but that I still do it... I know today's a new day but I can almost "feel" the binge creeping up on me again today. I don't want to binge tonight though... I can't. I'm sick of this cycle.

I just had a bad binge.  I've been struggling with binging as I've been recovering from anorexia for the past year or so.  I've been binge-free for two weeks, and then I just completely fell apart today when my mom brought a bunch of food home from a bake sale.

I feel horrible and ashamed and I feel the need to tell someone about it instead of keeping it all in like I always do.  I can't talk to my parents - my mom will just shake her head at me and accuse me of still being anorexic and worrying over nothing.

I thought that jotting down what I ate might help.  Here it is:

2 tbsp marshmallow fluff

2 tbsp peanut butter

1 serving of Wheat thins

1 serving of sunchips

1 brownie

1 chocolate chip cookie

Half of a stromboli sandwich

3 double chocolate chip cookies

1 tbsp frosting

I just wish I would have binged on healthy food at least.  It helps a little to know that I'm not the only one going through this... that we all lose control sometimes.  I just wish I didn't have to live with this constant fear of binging.  It pervades my thoughts every day, and often prevents me from enjoying life.