How to stop binge eating through emotions!

[lorza03]

Ok I’m a mum of 3 under 5 ! Since having my 3 rd child which was a surprise ! I have struggled to control my lack of self discipline with food! I’ve always been a yo yo with weight but never gone over 13st (5ft5) but now I’m 14st 8 and I hate this feeling ! How did you managed to get out of this bad cycle or are you in it with me ? !

Hello! When I weighed myself 2 months after the birth of my 4th child, I was 95.5kg (over 15st, I am 5ft7).
This morning I was 70.9kg (11st2lb).

I have yo-yo dieted all my adult life (I have lost and put back at least 500lb over 20 years).

I used to think I was bingeing because of my feelings / emotions etc. and everytime I managed to lost weight, a single "treat" was enough to bring the binge back.

Then I read "Brain over Binge" and it totally changed the way I view my eating patterns. Learning to separate your emotions from your behaviour is empowering.

I would recommend Brain over Binge also. I still overeat and am still overweight (partly a thyroid thing) but importantly for me I am no longer putting on more weight, and I don’t have “out of control” type binges like before.

Yes I feel that if I eat 1 chocolate ect it’s enough to start the train of bad thought and keep on thinking I’ll just have another it’ll be fine! I’ve signed up to the new Russel bran 12 day change but I will defiantly try this book! Thanks ladies

You could try Overeaters Anonymous. It changed my friend's life after years and years of emotional eating and yoyo diets.

I’m just listening to brain over binge - wow it is so good . I am going to keep listening thank you all it’s been very helpful advise

I just stumbled on this thread looking for advice on emotional eating. I am terrible for it, sitting here now and not hungry at all but can’t stop thinking about eating. I will have a look at that book too. I desperately need to lose about 3 and a half stone and have lost and gained the same stone and a half for years now.

@ciwirocks ! I am always feeling the same - you should definitely try listening to this podcast ! I’ve listened to 3 so far and done a bit of ready. It is already changing my view on everything! Good luck give it a try

This book by Allen Carr has cured my emotional eating. It's been amazing, like a switch has been flicked. I read it in November and since then I've lost 8lbs.

I eat when I am stressed but I am totally convinced that I have some sort of sugar/white carbs addiction.

Even at my calmest moments at home, I just need a piece of toast, a coffee with sugar and I develop these very intense immediate cravings. It is like a drug.

I avoid eating carbs and anything with sugar in the mornings, otherwise I get so “hungry” during the day I cannot even concentrate at work.

Gastric band, if I binge I'm violently sick.
Tried to stop emotional eating for 50 years but nothing else worked for me.

What do you binge on? Is there a particular type of food? Like sugar or carbs? Or is it anything ie you'd binge on salad if that's all there was?

And what emotions cause you to binge?

There seem to be two brain over binge books. Are we recommending the Kathryn Hansen or the Joseph Sorensen?

I went to therapy and actually addressed the underlying issues. It was the only thing that helped and I've lost 120lbs since.

That's a fantastic achievement, doublebarrellednurse. Do you ever lapse with emotional eating or has the weight stayed off?

Kathryn Hansen

TheMotherOfAllDilemmas I agree that carbs are addictive (I have been no-carbing since November 20th because I could not cope any more) but the book helped me reconsider those "irresistible" urges.

I’ve discovered this podcast which I’ve found really helpful in battling emotional eating.
The Life Coach School

She has lots of episodes which deal with everything under the sun but for weight loss I found episodes #1, #18, #76 particularly good.

Thanks @RoyalChocolat
I’ll give it a whirl

@Longwhiskers14 it stayed off until recently but I'm 35w pregnant so I'll give myself a break 😂

It's been off for 2 years now. I eat what I want largely but I haven't binged in nearly 3 years. It used to be nearly daily and I was around 21stone/300lbs. I was around 20lbs off my goal weight when I fell pregnant and a size 12 from a 28.

I broke the cycle of binge/starve and diets and just started to eat normally. At first having whatever I wanted was weird, I always dieted and then binged but I just lost the need to binge as if I wanted ice cream I had some.

I didn't try and balance the scales ie starve after ice cream or work it off etc. My eating was so disordered.

doublebarrellednurse I think you're allowed to lapse in the circumstances! Congratulations – both on your baby and for overcoming disordered eating. To get a handle on it and drop eight dress sizes is incredible.

I was a terrible binger - felt like an eating disorder as I just had days where I couldn’t control it. Sometimes used to make myself sick afterwards but usually just dealt with the guilt. Nearly two years ago, I suddenly developed an allergy to dairy and eggs. It wasn’t an intolerance, it made me v ill so I had to go cold turkey and cut out all dairy and eggs completely from my diet. Amazingly this stopped the bingeing. It has been such a wonderful liberation. My weight has stabilised throughout the last 18 months too when it used to fluctuate within about 2-3 stone. Not sure if it would work for you all but you could try giving up dairy to see if it helps?

Thank you @RoyalChocolat, I’ll have a look at the book. In my case, the vast majority of times it is the sugar/carbs that creates the emotion (anxiety, anger, desperate rush) rather than the other way around. How did you go about going sugar free? Did you take it gradually or stopped sugar and white carbs all together suddenly?

I've been to therapy which has helped everything.

@RoyalChocolat, it seems to be at least three books called Brain over Binge with different authors, in Amazon, which one are we talking about?

@TheMotherOfAllDilemmas I went cold turkey, giving up all sugar and starch (even things like brown rice and pulses). For the first couple of days the cravings are unpleasant. You have to be careful not to try to limit your calorie intake while you are getting the sugar out of your system.

I am a SAHM and I have no social life, which helps.

It is not the first time I have gone no-carb, but it is a little different this time because I am breastfeeding a CMPA baby, so cheese is out . I eat meat, eggs and lots of vegetables. I snack on raw carrots, cherry tomatoes and ham. I am very careful not to starve myself.

The weight is going down, but I find the other effects more impressive : more energy, better skin, sharper mind.

The book is the one by Kathryn Hansen. It helps me a lot when I still get the occasional urge to raid the biscuit tin.