Compulsive overeating support thread?

[Hope4thebest]

Hello

Namechanger.

I overeat to cope with stress/low self-esteem. I am a size 22/20. I want to be a healthy weight and role model to DS. I had a fat mum, I don't want him to have one.

I have had a couple of binges this week. Feeling fed up. I need to loose weight to help with my ttc plans, but I have weighed the same weight for months now, it really needs to go down.

However, having read this thread and thinking about how I really need to do something different, I think I am going to try this.

For a month (I think I need to focus on the short term, long term is too overwelming) I will:

• aim to have 3 meals a day & 3 snacks
• reduce sugar (esp cakes)
• exercise 2/3 times a week
• write my feelings down

Anyone want to join me?

Or to share their struggles with overeating?

I do believe it is possible to "recover", others have, I just need to find the right solution for me.

TIA

Hello

Sorry for the delay. I did reply the other night, but I realised it didn't work!

Hope the Jubilee weekend is going ok. Holidays generally bring extra food and family stress or they do for me.

Still managing to stick to lowish GI.

Typical day:

Porridge - with water for breakfast, teaspoon of honey + some fresh fruit on top
Lunch - modest jacket pot with low fat cheese, ham & hummus + salad
Dinner - fish ("dusted" with I think with crumbs), lots of roasted veg, a few homemade chips
Pudding - a couple of scoops of ice cream
Snacks - couple of bits of fruit, a low fat yogurt + maybe hummus on ryvita.
Basically trying to eat every few hours and not feeling guilty when I do.

I am eating more than I used to when in diet mode, but I am managing to hang onto the idea that if I eat the above and abstain from binging on cakes etc overall I will actually be eating less and treating my body better.

Feel a bit thinner. Trying not to hop on and off the scales all the time. Esp as DS (4) asked to get on them the other day ... Have hurt my leg so I cannot run which is making me anxious, planning a swim tomorrow to compensate.

Ordered some new trainers, physio said I should only wear them for c6 months if I run a few times a week...they are a couple of years old!!!

Still sporadically clothes shopping (and then taking them back) and do feel v up and down mood wise. But I wonder if that is effect of ?removing? (well for now) my crutch.

Sitting here feeling panicky about the amount of work I have to do before Wed (obviously MNtting helps!), but the desire to reach seems eerily absent. I feel like it isn't going to actually help....

MaloryMad sorry to hear about your feelings about France. It is the land of the slim French Women that eat cheese and drink wine... (yes I know I am generalising). Can you plan your outfits, wear accessories to make you feel better (if that is your thing)? How you feeling about it now?

Maybe a higher cal ?healthy eating plan? would be good for you?

Hope everyone is ok, do check in when you feel like it.

Another latecomer here. So amazed to find others like me! I am 5'7" and a size 26.

I do not know why I overeat. I had a happy and normal childhood but have always had some weight issues. After having DD I was referred to an eating disorder group but they didn't seem to know what to do with me when they couldn't find any childhhood traumas to blame it on! I also don't have real self esteem or confidence issues (other than being conscious of being overweight) and have a lovely life which I am generally very content with.

I have done every diet known to mankind, they all work for a while then I slip back. I have noticed I eat more when alone so it has got worse now DCs are older and I have more time to myself.

I feel like there has to be a reason for all this and when I find it it will be like finding the missing piece of a jigsaw, but so far not found it.

Hi everyone, hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend.

Hope4 - great suggestion about planning my outfits and accessories ! That will do the trick and also I'll pack less. I'm a terrible overpacker. I used to work in travel and was always off somewhere or other, but I never learned to control my packing.

Thanks also for showing me an example of a day's eating. I could definitely live with something similar, will look into low GI.

Welcome fiftyshades.

Hello everyone - I would love to join in. I overeat. I don't think I have ever understood the relationship between mindful eating and the trance I find myself going into when I do eat. It's too much and too often.
I could probably eat the entire contents of any deli counter.

Hi all

Hope you are doing ok? Welcome 50shades and Itsin.

50shades interesting to hear that an ED service didn't know what to do with you, as it were. When I hear all the stuff on the news on about "fat tax"/forcing ppl to loose weight I feel really :( as I think there is no allowance/understanding about compulsive overeating.

Been away, so gone of the plan a bit. Was also with family, so plenty of overeating assoc following me around the caravan! But no real binges, however time/access for it was limited which always helps.

Decided not to punish myself by getting on the scales this am. Know it will be up, so decided to just get back to what I was doing before.

Foot is nearly better too so looking forward to going for a run again.

Feeling miserable abt TTC though. Probs are prob weight related. Starting the am by POAS is such a miserable way to start the day, as it all it does is reminds me how rubbish my cycle is. Just sets up to feel like a failure before breakfast :( Am lucky that I am OV but it is dangerously late in the cycle, could mean no chance of any fert egg implanting. Sorry I no this isn't the conception thread!

Anyway, hope Sun is ok for you all.