Beating Sugar addiction and lifelong eating disorder.

[Dina82]

After 23 years of bulimia and binge eating I have concluded that I cannot stop emotional eating.

It's too ingrained in me and I say this having had many sessions with a psychologist but it has not helped. Yes, I recognise any negative emotion, regardless of how minute causes me to feel hungry and eat sweet foods which results in binging and occasionally purging.

I have for the last 20+ years tried, self help books ( I've lost count how many) , psychologists ( approx 2 times in this duration, ( several eating programmes that I can never stick too.

Last year I gargled with bleach just to physically make myself unable to eat or binge. It didn't do anything.

I only ever binge on sweet foods so is it unreasonable of me to make a decision never to eat cake/ sweets: desserts again as this is what is exasperating the emotional eating.

I have tried it in the past but only lasted 12 days. What other option do I have? I often think of how I will take this with my to the grave.

I come across as confident, articulate, and strong but I'm a complete train wreck. Sometimes I just wish to die as I literally have exhausted all options.

I tried Prozac last year and it helped briefly with the intensity of the binges but after 3 months I was binging again.

I use clue for general cycle tracking. It has lots of different metrics and you can chose which ones you use and track. I’ve just checked and there is one for cravings

I have PCOS too.

Dina82 - no I haven't read the Binge Code, I will have go and order it now. Just back from a weekend away.

Hi op just wondering how things were? With Christmas it's been very difficult to remain focused on not eating sugar. The dc still have tons of sweet stuff left. I was finding it much easier not having any sugary food in the house and will not be buying any treats once the crap has gone. Oh until Easter

I also had a massive issue with crisps so 2 months ago I just stopped buying them. That's been easy to give up, sugar however is like a pure drug, so so hard to give up.

Any tips welcome!

Discovered this oldish thread tonight.
Very interesting .
Dina82 are you out there ? How are you getting on?