Binge eating.

[doughnutcraver]

I have just ordered new jeans in a size 22. I will be a size 30 this time next year if I don't stop.
Can anyone please recommend a book that may help me.
I have tried every diet in the book but I cannot stop my binge eating/ compulsive eating ways. I probably eat 1400 calories in meals and 2400 cals on chocolates, nuts and crisps each day.

I've just bought Brain Over Binge and started listening to the podcasts and they have really resonated with me. I've had a relapse but I know its not an instant overnight fix.

I feel your pain, it's bloody rubbish and an endless cycle. Wish I could just eat like a normal person. Good luck and I hope you find something that helps!

Thank you. I'll get that and add it to my audiobooks. I hate the way I look and feel so achy carrying around all this excessive weight.

I found counselling really helpful to be honest. Bingeing for me was a way to soothe uncomfortable feelings so identifying how I was feeling when I binged (bored, sad, stressed, overwhelmed) and finding alternative soothing behaviours has been the best remedy. Often identifying I want to feel better and then actually giving myself the time to think about whether bingeing will make me feel better (before counselling it all just happened too quick and I’d done it before I even knew what I was doing almost) has helped. The rules of normal eating is out of print but I bought I second hand copy and that helped a lot too though I can only read it a chapter at a time as it’s so hard going (as I resonate with so much)

I think it’s called I Can’t Stop Eating by Sarah Dosanjh and also anything by Geneen Roth.

I think it’s good to recognise everyone has negative behaviours - some turn to alcohol, some to exercise (and this isn’t the positive it sounds if it goes too far), some get angry. It’s important not to think of yourself as unusual for having negative behaviours to outside stresses and just like anyone else you have to find other coping strategies. It’s not worse because it’s food!

I'm with you OP. Reached the top end of size 24 before finding sanity. The only thing that worked for me was Overeaters Anonymous www.oagb.org.uk/. I was insane about food. I would binge and binge and binge even when promising myself I wouldn't. Once I started eating I simply could not stop. Just crazy. When I went to my first OA meeting it was packed out with slim people who were all publicly admitting to many of the crazy food behaviours I engaged but (but I would never have admitted to them). I am now over 4 stone down and still losing weight. I eat 3 healthy meals a day with nothing in between and I have shedloads of support from compulsive overeaters when I slip. I can't tell you how much better I feel. Feel free to PM me. Good luck

I didn't even know over eater ominous was real! I will definitely look into that.
My feet are really swollen and hurt so bad with all this extra weight I'm carrying around.
I wish I could afford surgery!

The thing that has worked for me is removing food altogether! I started The New You Plan just under 8 weeks ago. (Thread on Weight Loss Chat, I you want to read!)
I haven't had anything other than the allowed products since then and I used to LIVE for a weekend binge. I had honestly got to the point where I could eat 4 pain au chocolates while deciding what I wanted for my cooked breakfast.
Today, I got to 3 o'clock and realised I had forgotten to eat. I NEVER thought I would be THAT person. I am 2 stones and 5lbs down at the 7 week weigh in.