Binge Eaters, Compulsive Eaters, Emotional Eaters Welcome!

I wanted to start a thread that would help give support to all of you.  I'm all of the above which they all pretty much go hand in hand.  I'm looking for support myself too.  There's not many support groups offered where I live and I need all the help I can get.  For all those suffering through this as well it's absolutely exhausting and makes you feel so vulnerable as to many other things.  Lets all support each other.

Hello everyone,

     I just read all the posting tonight. I see people will binge and purge. I have not purged after a binge. It sounds like people may be sensitive about their image. I am guessing on this point. Counseling has helped me look at how I am feeling when I binge so I can look at other ways to deal with the problem.

I have been overweight most of my life. I am also active except for the past year. The army keep me weight under control by having to meet weight standards. I usually at the high end or over. I am getting unhappy about my size plus the fact I am out of shape. I was 214 last year and now I am 254 as of today. My goal weight is 185 or body-fat percentage under 20 percent.

       I am a person who just constantly snack or eat meals all day long. I can't remember whose post I looked at about the type of foods when binging. I just can not eat fruit or vegetables during a binge. I will say a binge is everything but fruit and vegtables. I have favorite food like pizza and lasagna that I will eat even if I am full. I just don't completely understand why I do this. I don't feel depressed at time when I do get carried away with eating.

sharki007- I've been doing a lot of reading on the subject of binging and emotional eating.  They said usually during a binge you turn to your comfort foods.  Like if you have very happy memories of your mom making chocolate cake and how happy you were a lot of times you turn to chocolate cake because it brings back those happy feelings.  Or if every time you had pizza it was a reward you might turn to pizza cuz it brings back those kinds of feelings.  The advice it gives is that after you have a binge record what you ate and what brought on the binge.  Then it says to take each food you ate and write if it's related to memories or feelings of the past.  Don't know of this helps but it's made me analyze things and figure out some things.  Plus, I'm not big on counselors so I like to psycho analyze myself. lol. Good luck.

Howdy everybody! I am somewhat new to CC, just joined about a month ago. I am in the process of recovering from anorexia (had it for several months now) and ever since starting recovery, I have been over eating and turning to food for comfort in crappy times. I'll eat until I am so uncomfortable it is sickening. I restricted and had such great will power before recovery, never even dreamed of picking up a cookie or a scoop of ice cream. I convinced myself that stuff was evil. Instead, I went to the other extreme- over eating junk food. I'll range from 2,500-3,200 calories a day and half of that is from late night binging. I then exercise like mad the next day and the vicious cycle continues. I wish this could all go away.

by the way here are my stats

Age: 15  Height: 5'3  Lowest weight: 87.5   Current weight: 93  goal weight: not sure, may want to stop now

 

Hi all, I'm an emotional eater myself. I didn't realize it until I joined CC, hadn't even heard the term, but I fit all of the descriptions. After the kids get in bed it sets in. While upstairs getting them ready I would feel fine, not hungry in the least, but as soon as the kids got in bed, as I would walk back downstairs, I would suddenly be famished! I've mostly overcome that one though.

Watching tv and reading in the evenings are the worst times for me- I feel like mindlessly snacking.

The worst part of it is I think I may be training my kids to become emotional eaters, as I sometimes show my love with food, if that makes any sense. I don't want their feelings of happiness, sadness, etc to be linked to food :

I don't think I've been truly "happy" since becoming a binge-eater. It's comforting to know that I am not alone in having this problem, but yet it pains me greatly to know that so many people are feeling as bad inside as I am feeling constantly. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and feelings here.

I am feeling completely miserable right now. I am at a plateau and have been for 3 weeks and I am disappointed. I am working out so hard and counting calories and since it isn't freakin' working I feel like I want to totally binge on everything! I am at workl and I can't but I feel like when I get home it is over. I know I shouldn't be thinking like this, but i can't help it. I want to go out and just order everything(appetizer, burger, fries, coke, dessert, more appetizer, more coke). I am telling myself right now I am not going to do it, but I want to. I will probably just binge on some special k or something. I hate this. All aspects of it. Disappointment on both ends.

hi guys,

       &nb sp;    i competely agree with all of you, everyone has there problems and everyone has there cheat days. I kind of like to compare this to school. If you do your homework, stay on task, and not give up, you'll get good grades. If you miss days and not do your homework it'll be harder getting good grades but still acheviable. Same thing on a diet, if you stick to your diet, excersize, and do what your suppose to then you'll lose weight. If you have cheat days and eat junk food then it'll be harder to lose weight but still acheviable. Stick to it everyone and remember to never give up.

Hey everyone.  I'm still eating more than I should but I'm finding when I binge it's not as severe as it used to be.  I'm doing a lot more thinking before I totally crash.  I'm actually thinking about what I will think afterwards so I'm able to stop myself and not eat everything.  It's still more food than I should consume in a short period but it's not as much.  I still believe though that this is progress. 

Hi Jerichocheyenne,

      Thank you on your adivice on how I relate pleasant memories to type of food I eat during a binge . Do you have any books you can recomend to me on emotionally eating? I never thought of myself as an binge eater. I realize there is specific foods I lose control on.

     The thing I find the most frustrating is the fact I quit drinking and smoking so know food replaces my addiction. The hard part is trying to figure out this demon that I am repressing. It seems like when I deal with one issue there seems to be another lurking in the shadows. I believe the problem to solving binge eating is understanding is dealing with the demon inside. The analgy  in AA is quiting drinking is the easy part. It is dealing with those demons that will keep you sober. I have heard emotional eating is like addiction. My mother and her mother suffers from the same infliction. I know self esteem is one of my demons.

 

Hey everyone. My name is Emma and I really need to talk to someone who understands. I can't tell anyone at home..they don't have my problem. Thank you so much for starting this post, I can't believe that there is more than one me out there lol. I'm not really sure where to start, everything has just been so messy.

In May 2008 I was so happy, I was eating less than 300 calories a day and losing pounds rapidly. Now I stand here and I binge on over 3000 calories a day and have never been so unhappy in my entire life. I am completely out of control when it comes to eating. I weighed around 116 lbs without exercise and I didn't know how well I looked but now weighing an uncomfortable 126 lbs, I do not look or feel well at all.

Every night and everyday when I am alone (i am too embarassed for anyone to see me) I binge and I binge and then i binge some more. This cycle wont stop and it happens for the same reasons as everyone here..stress, depression, boredom, loneliness.

I binge on disgusting foods like cereal and toast, in fact whatever I can get my hands on late at night. When I eat I feel nothing, it dosen't make my unhappiness go away, it dosen't take my stress away. It does nothing. When I binge I feel pounds heavier...i am pounds heavier!! I feel so much bigger I don't want to put tmy jeans on and I can't go out the next day....just eat some more, why not, you're not gona see anyone anyway.

Its amazing how you think you can have another bowl of cereal and you think that its ok. You always know that its not ok but you can't stop doing it anyway.

I'm trying to work out when or how my binge eating started and it was after I had virtually stopped eating in May. I must have needed the control of not eating and now I try to gain control by eating until I am so ucomfortable I feel sick...but don't purge.

It has come to my conclusion that the only time I am truly happy is when I'm strictly not eating.

I have so many events coming up and a UK size 6 dress to get into by january (i fitted into it 10 pounds ago!) No matter how many events I have coming up, I can't get motivated and when I do, I lose heart because I'm still fat ( i know i'm not fat).

I want to do all the things a 16 year old girl does...go out to parties, go shopping. But I am too ashamed to because I feel fat and my jeans are not what they used to be (petty excuse I know) I am obsessed. Friends go out and don't care what they look like but I don't envy them. i envy the girls who eat whatever they want and how much they want and still go out and look gorgeous and skinny. They do exist! It sickens me so much that I stay in at the weekends just eating and hating myself.

Sorry Im so dramatic, i just don't know how else to describe this discusting cycle. But, knowing that there are people who suffer from the same thing has given me a bit more hope and I hope that we can all support and help eachother because I would love to help someone too. Please reply I eally need you.

Thanks Em

 

Sorry I didn't realise how long that was gonna be! Thanks x

I'm suffering from Bulimia last year and now I have to fight Binge Eating that makes me gain 20 pounds. I'm a quite hopeless....:(