Eating disorders - binge eaters in particular

[Daph31]

practical tips please on how I can stop my binge eating. It’s getting worse now because of the obvious - not going out much day to day activities and no human contact (well I have kids to chat to but not same). Also silly things in my mind like “I can’t eat that apple there won’t be any healthy snacks for kids” or “I might as well eat all their Easter eggs as chocolate not good for them”.

Please be kind I’m not being greedy, binge eating is an eating disorder I struggled with for years. The way I overcame was by being more social, immersing myself with work and just being more active so had less time to. W lonely and depressed.

Everyday is a struggle, kids so small so by the time I deal with all their tantrums etc. At the end of day I treat myself and have a glass of wine which makes me eat further

OA does it for me. Like AA but for food. You can still connect, meetings are via zoom etc. You'll meet your people there ❤️

www.oagb.org.uk/

Wish I knew. Since childhood I have flipped between starving myself; bulimia; and binge eating disorder.
I found the best thing I did was when my ED counsellor asked me to complete a food diary and to set reminders to make sure I ate something every 3-4 hours. That broke the cycle of restricting food all day then losing control and then bingeing. I need to discipline myself to do that again.

I have masses of Slim and Save meal replacements that I ordered ages ago when I was determined to shift some weight. I'm going to start that again. SnS is the same type of thing as Exante.

Happy to help encourage others and to be encouraged by others.