to ask how to stop binging?

[happylittlefish]

Title says it all really. I have a really unhealthy relationship with food and cannot stop binging. I've gained a stone in a matter of weeks. Someone please help me!

[cathyandclaire]

I found low carbing really helped for me. I don't limit quantity at all, just don't eat carbs. It was hard at first but have mostly stuck to it and binges down to once every month or two. I can't have sugar at all though, it's like crack cocaine I can't stop eating when I've had some.

[Popartist]

I would definitely recommend Susie Orbach's fat is a feminist issue.

[happylittlefish]

Came back to post today:

• 3 Weetabix, milk
• Nuts, raisins, yellow pepper
• Tuna wrap, apple
• Fish, rice, salad, broccoli, peas

Also gone for a walk. Dead proud of myself today - I've just eaten what I wanted when I wanted 😊

[KindDogsTail]

It really helps to not go on a diet, or worry about something you think you should not eat. Instead make sure you do eat meals and snacks (three meals and two snacks even if small) that mean you get enough protein, vegetables, fats in the form of seeds nuts oils and some whole grains and plenty of water at each meal/snack. It helps to make sure you start with breakfast. This keeps your blood sugar even, even helping before periods, and makes cravings lessen.


If you think you have a real problem, eating a huge amount of food in secret, then compensating, it may be best to get help from an eating disorder specialist. Sometimes binges start as a physiological reaction to dieting, then become entangled with covering over unhappiness and stress, then guilt over the binge then it becomes a vicious circle and can become a habit.

The urge to Binge can be a sign of being very hungry from your body not having what it needs, and it can become a hard-wired habit. Added to that it can come on from misinterpreting a cue of emptiness that might be there for another reason like loneliness, boredom stress, loss of a loved one something difficult in the past.

Overcoming Binge Eating: The Proven Program to Learn Why You Binge and How You Can Stop9 Aug 2013
by Christopher G. Fairburn.
Brain over Binge:
by Kathryn Hansen
Are helpful books.

The recommendation to eat plenty of protein and vegetables and whole fruit and grains is not specifically covered in those books, but those foods are well known to keep blood sugar even and the body feeling full and satisfied.

Sleeping enough, but not over sleeping, also helps a lot.
Look after yourself in general in lots of small ways, and never think you do not matter. Make a priority of doing things you love when ever you can.

This is quite an interesting blog.www.eatlikeanormalperson.com/how-to-stop-binge-eating/

Mindfulness can be very helpful. Emotional Freedom Technique too.

[Noonesfool]

OP you have started a number of worrying threads about your children's eating.

I feel concerned about you, and then.

Is there any way you can access some direct, RL support for your own food issues?

[Noonesfool]

*and them

[KindDogsTail]

QueenOfToast Wed 06-Jul-16 18:37:56
This might be too much of a light hearted response, but while you're doing all the other good emotional stuff why not try taking up something like crochet, knitting, doodling
This is a really good idea in my opinion, as when there is a problem with eating there can be a dissociation between the brain and the body. This would a brilliant and simple way to bring them together. Yoga - exercise plus breath would do the same. Mindfulness too.

[RubbleBubble00]

I'm a binger. I'm controlling it at mo by eating loads and regularly during day as seems to stop night eating plus I don't keep any of my triggers in the house - biscuits, cake, ice cream, crisps, choc

[RubbleBubble00]

should added - loads of good foods, like whole large tub of natural yogurt for brekkie with fruit, then large banana, cereal bar and huge latte as snack mid morning etc. Lots of water or dilute juice seems to stop the need to feed so much too

[FinallyHere]

Another one checking in here.

Like cathy ^ any refined carbs set me. Low carb bootcamp (a MN thread) works well for me in conjunction with eatingless.com All the best, hope you find what works for you. xx

[minatiae]

I started cooking everything from scratch so there were only ingredients that required a lot of prep etc in my fridge, then only making enough for the days meal when I cook. It's much easier to avoid binging when it means you have to cook twice. I don't keep anything in the house besides things to cook meals with so there's. nothing to binge on. Well, there's raw carrots and stuff but I dont find those tempting enough and if i do eat some it's healthy anyway so doesn't matter

[maggiethemagpie]

I too have suffered from binge eating disorder what makes it ten times worse is I am a diabetic... I have suffered vision problems and at one point had sight threatening complications. You'd think the fear of that would stop me bingeing and I'm definitely a lot better than I was but it still creeps in sometimes.

I have come to see it as an addiction to sugary/carby foods, a bit like an alcoholic is with alcohol. I literally can't stop once i get going. I am ok in the day time but after my evening meal I can literally just sit there and scoff for hours.

I'm trying to snack on healthier things but really I think I just need to stop eating in the evening somehow as that's the time I lose control. It's really really hard though, the cravings can get really intense.

[MrsDoylesTeaParty]

Another binger here. I've put on 4 stone in about 6 months! I am usually quite good at keeping it at bay (by being overly strict) but I go mad with food when I lose someone, and it was my dad this time so it's my worst binge yet.
People worry about putting on a few lbs since last year and it's a different world to me when I can put a stone on in two weeks!
I wish I could be normal and just enjoy food in a sensible way. I feel like us bingers need out brains fiddling with as a permanent solution!

I'm pregnant now though so the urge to be sensible is coming through. Funny how we can do nice things for others (baby) but not be kind to ourselves.

[HerRoyalFattyness]

mrsdoyle pregnancy made my binging worse. I was suffering severe SPD, still battling PND from my dd (there's only 19 months between my youngest 2) and he was a massive baby. I couldn't move to burn off the calories I was eating (I was on crutches at 17 weeks, had to be carried to the downstairs toilet by 30 weeks because I was in too much pain)
and I didn't stop after he was born either. I've battled PND (again, which I've only just admitted to myself) and then trying to deal with DP losing his brother to suicide at Christmas. I try to be good but then I get stressed and I binge worse than ever.

[HerRoyalFattyness]

but really I think I just need to stop eating in the evening somehow as that's the time I lose control

Me too. During the day I'm sensible, but once the dc are in bed, everything plays on my mind and I binge

[maggiethemagpie]

My new strategy for evening eating - after my evening meal I decide to allow myself one treat, and I get it out/measure it/prepare it. I make a decision to eat ONLY that until the morning,
Once that has gone I lock my lips until I've gone to bed!

I've got a colouring book and some pencils to keep me busy should the cravings start.

Will let you know how it goes

[HerRoyalFattyness]

Good luck Maggie