Binge eating disorder

[Nocluegardener]

Hi
I’ve come to terms with the fact I have definitely got a binge eating disorder. And I have dove for many years.

Ive always had a strange relationship with food, I eat when I’m happy, sad, angry so food plays a big part in my life.

im not overweight, I will calorie count and eat healthily but with low calories 90% of the time but then that 10% of days I can go out buy £20s worth of cake, crisps, chocolate etc and eat it all until I’m full then feel disgusted with myself and sick.

i have no idea why I do it apart from a weird craving I get to just do it!!

I’m in a new relationship and this has been a good distraction and has meant I want to look fitter and my best so I’ve had pretty good control over the bingeing. Then my new partner went on holiday with his friends and I thought well I might as well eat badly….and I have!!

I want to stop this cycle and the craving to binge but I just don’t know how!!!

I'm sorry you're going through this. Someone close is similarly afflicted and I feel powerless to help her. She found speaking to a helpline helpful.

I found this charity which has numbers to helplines https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/

I hope you find some help x

At least you aren't overweight from it. Are you hungry when you do this ? Could it partly be that you deny yourself too extensively the rest of the time ?

I am not going to give you any advice about how I stopped binge eating as I am in a different situation now which is the other extreme end but you do need advice from the right person who understands what it is. It’s not just from being hungry or from the restriction of denial it is about a lot more than that. Being too hungry increases my risk of bingeing but it wasn’t the cause. Binge and restrict is the cycle, you binge then you restrict because you binged. The solution isn’t just to eat more it doesn’t stop the urge to binge.

I am also going to speak to BEAT I think the posters advice was good to do that