How to stop a binge

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Posting here for traffic. I tend to be quite healthy for periods of time, and then I descend into just eating loads. I'm currently making my way through an entire packet of biscuits just because I can. I wait to feel like I need to get back into the healthy eating but this can take weeks. Any tips how to break out of it? I can tell I've put on weight

Is there something emotional that’s triggering the binge? Identify that and try and address it?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Overcoming-Binge-Eating-Second-Program/dp/1572305614

I should probably read this too…

Allow yourself some of the food you crave more regularly so you know you can actually have it. So if you want a biscuit have one and then stop. If you want crisps, have some and then stop. Banning all foods can lead to binges

I was a binge eater op. I never used to be, but mine was triggered by having to have a restricted diet in pregnancy due to gestational diabetes. Once my baby was born, I ate anything and everything. I couldn't stop. I put on so much weight (it was also lockdown). I managed to lose some weight just before I got pregnant again, then lost a lot during pregnancy due to having GD again, but I was determined not to fall back into binge eating.

There was a while where I could lose some weight, then I'd reward myself by having a "cheat day" which turned into a cheat week etc. I've finally managed to break out of that mindset just recently. I haven't had a binge for a good while now. You need to essentially re-wire your brain.

Every time you give in to the urge to binge, your brain programmes you to stay that way. If you resist the urge every time, you change your brain's way of thinking and the urge gradually decreases.

I started by following Lorna Costa on Instagram who gives really good advice. I didn't purchase her programme but i was able to do it myself just by reading her posts for motivation.

I'm a (kinda) recovering binger. It's gotten easier as I aged.

Don't have bingable food in the house. I find that if you have to go and buy it, it tends to be less. You binge and then feel gross and chuck the left overs, leaving you with nothing again. It limits the damage to that one meal.

Strip naked (only works if you are unhappy with your weight) look at yourself in the mirror.

Practice delay don't deny. Give yourself a deadline in the near future 2-3 or a special occasion and say, 'i'll eat it then' make a list.

Watch mukbang videos of people overeating

Watch 'my 600lb life!

Gorge yourself on something you love but fits into your eating plan. I keto and sometimes roast a whole chicken and eat it out of the pan with a fork, dipping chunks into the juices.

But a takeaway but a healthy one. Shish Kebab with salad, chicken tikka etc etc.

Drink water

Take mounjaro

I find a little of what I fancy but regularly is key

Hard to achieve as I’ve been exactly like you - healthy for weeks then 4 cupcakes in one sitting. It’s been really tough.

Mine was always caused by pms/hormones/tiredness and being too restrictive. Do you know what might cause yours?

Every night I have some dark chocolate with tea and it helps me - I also go halves on desserts sometimes.

Ive recently tried these supplements called ‘metabolic fix’ and I’m only two weeks in but when presented with a bag of cookies I only had one. Even the next day I didn’t want more. It has reduced my cravings.

There are ways but it takes time

Thank you everyone! And apologies for not replying sooner. I don't know what triggers mine. I think my baseline is an overeater - I really love food. But then I get waves of being really motivated to be healthy, and that can last for weeks. But it just seems to slip, or I get bored of being healthy if that makes sense. Its often tied to other things going on in my life. Like if I'm taking care of myself/ being active I'm less inclined to over-eat but if I'm in gremlin mode (tv/ not enough exercise) there's just no stopping me. Like this morning I have already eaten about 15 biscuits, I didn't even particularly want them. I'm sort of waiting to feel over this current unhealthy stage so I can get back to being healthy but I suppose I shouldn't wait to feel that way and the feelings will come once I start acting that way.

That's the thing about sugar - for a lot of people, the more you have, the more you want. Something to do with how it affects your insulin production. Personally if I can go about 5 days without it I don't much want it. But fall off the wagon and I'm in trouble for days.

Either that or you're undereating a lot of the time (nothing wrong with the healthiness of the food, but there's just not enough of it) and eventually your body just goes NEED MORE CALORIES and triggers more hunger.

I'm exactly the same OP and I don't know how to stop it.