When a binge is coming

Wanted to get some ideas to derail my impending binge.  Today was probably the worst day for everything to unravel as it has since it's a birthday and the sugar laden buttercream cake will more then suffice for comfort later.  It's a huge treat since we really don't do a lot of sugar at all in the house and I know it's going to be hard to ignore while I'm up late tonight.

I've been drinking extra water, have to stop for a while since I have that sloshy stomach feeling but hopefully that'll help.  Is there anything else anyone can think of?  I'm an emotional eater and stress is my trigger..... I can't destress right now either.  Had a boss that used to say I was wound tighter then a $3 watch sometimes..... in this case he was really right.

I didn't eat enough today (nervous stomach) so I had a 2nd helping at dinner (healthy and filling at least) and that with the water....ugh..... I'm a little full now.  Just worried that as I'm sitting up waiting that cake is going to really get the better of me.

I'm an emotional eater and I've done well with not binging in a long while.  Lost 8# on vacation and all in all I'm trying to not focus on derailing my progress.  I can't let the depression over messing up = feeling totally worthless = more food = anger at self and right back to depression...rinse & repeat.

My mom had surgery 2 1/2 weeks ago to replace a non-functioning shunt in her head and we just found out today that the new shunt is also not working.  Her head, hands, feet and legs are significantly swollen (very bad as she's diabetic) and her stomach is very disdended (internally...it's not that noticable externally as she's a little overweight) and they're concerned about sepsis and stress on her other organs.  She battled CDif post surgery 1 and supposedly is testing negative but she's still having major bouts of diarrhea that require her to wear diapers.  They mentioned a possible blood clot in her foot earlier in the week but I haven't heard more on that today.  I'm 1200 miles away and the CT scan today prompted a rush to the hospital for emergency surgery this evening.

I'm trying to focus on everything positive but I'm just a mess.  My dad isn't handling it well and I can't even comfort him.   I'll be up at least the next 6 hours waiting for word and I'm just worried the extra cake is going to find itself getting packed away in my gut.

you are going to think i am crazy for saying this, but here goes. eat the cake, take it out of the box get your plate ready, slice off a peice and enjoy it. you dont have time to de-stress and in reality all of the stress is telling your body to conserve every morsal you eat. so even if you dont have the cake the stress has already sent the message to your body that you need protecting. so it is going to do what it was designed to do. it is going to store fat. I am not sure how much you weigh, how much weight you want to loose, but stress in and of its self will de-rail every effort you make at loosing weight. that is why you binge eat. its your bodys way of adding extra fat so it can store it. the more you allow the stress the more fat your body is going to store, thus the more food you will have to eat.

trish

Original Post by trish55011:

you are going to think i am crazy for saying this, but here goes. eat the cake, take it out of the box get your plate ready, slice off a peice and enjoy it. you dont have time to de-stress and in reality all of the stress is telling your body to conserve every morsal you eat. so even if you dont have the cake the stress has already sent the message to your body that you need protecting. so it is going to do what it was designed to do. it is going to store fat. I am not sure how much you weigh, how much weight you want to loose, but stress in and of its self will de-rail every effort you make at loosing weight. that is why you binge eat. its your bodys way of adding extra fat so it can store it. the more you allow the stress the more fat your body is going to store, thus the more food you will have to eat.

trish

Sounds crazy, but it makes sense I guess.

Original Post by soupcanx:

Original Post by trish55011:

you are going to think i am crazy for saying this, but here goes. eat the cake, take it out of the box get your plate ready, slice off a peice and enjoy it. you dont have time to de-stress and in reality all of the stress is telling your body to conserve every morsal you eat. so even if you dont have the cake the stress has already sent the message to your body that you need protecting. so it is going to do what it was designed to do. it is going to store fat. I am not sure how much you weigh, how much weight you want to loose, but stress in and of its self will de-rail every effort you make at loosing weight. that is why you binge eat. its your bodys way of adding extra fat so it can store it. the more you allow the stress the more fat your body is going to store, thus the more food you will have to eat.

trish

Sounds crazy, but it makes sense I guess.

i didnt mean to quote myself i only wanted to quote u Soup, i know it sounds crazy, but its not. sense you are simi open to that statement, i have other information that i can share with you along those same lines, if you would like to send me a p.m. i will share all that i know.

trish

I'm sorry to hear about your mother.. best wishes.

I have no advice on not binging - I'd say drink water until you're floating, and too full to eat snacks, but I really don't know about these things.

I mostly just wanted to drop a note of support, and hope things turn out well for your mom and she gets better...

Thanks everyone.  I did drink water more last night and ended up being awake far later then intended. Mom is doing ok and hopefully we'll get good news today.  They say things come in 3s so hopefully this is it and nothing else is going to crop up.