If I binge on "healthy foods"... (sry, vent)

than it becomes unhealthy, doesnt it? :(

I can't seem to stop binging.

I buy full fat, unhealthy foods thinking that thats my trigger and if I let myself have some, I'll be satisfied. Nope, that just leads to super caloric binges. And me feeling disgustingly unhealthy.

Than I just buy healthy foods only and binge on all of it. For example I just ate an entire tub of 650g fat free sugar free yogurt, several tortilla wraps, 1/2 tub cottage cheese, tons of fruit, etc. Basically i stand in front of the fridge eating everything.

Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever be normal again. I'm really unsure how to 'fix' my brain.

I know exactly how you feel. I find myself doing the same thing.

Just know you are not alone with this problem.

Have you read up on BED?

If you keep eating "healthy" foods and keep on being unsatisfied (as in, they don't fill you up or make you content with what you've eaten), I think you should allow yourself a treat, say, once a day like a small decadent dessert so that you don't feel deprived.

Also, something that's worked for me is simply focusing on eating 3 times a day and not so much on WHAT you're eating for now. Once you learn to eat regularly, then you can start focusing on switching to healthier foods.

Bingeing is bingeing.  The actual food you're consuming is irrelevent.  It's the loss of control and resulting bad feelings that define the word "bingeing", unfortunately.  Which means there's no such thing as a "healthy binge".  That's like saying "healthy smoking", it doesn't exist.

You have my heartfelt sympathy because I am a binger.  I don't know how to fix the problem, but we are intelligent women which is a good starting point.  Maybe a good strategy is to treat yourself as kindly and lovingly as you would treat your best friend.  You wouldn't force-feed her until she was sick so why should you be so cruel to yourself?

Like I said, I have the same problem, so I can't tell you what to do, but on an intellectual level I think we need to change the way we think about ourselves, and treat ourselves with more love and respect.

I know, me too :( I wish I can be in control of my own body again!

i also binge :( it sucks because i'm good all day and control myself and eat pretty healthy (when i try to be good, this week for instance haha) but at night, dinner time, i eat like probably what amounts to 3 dinners! its disgusting and i hate that i do it, but its so hard not to! ... i dont always do this, usually i can be good for a week, but then one night i completely binge and its usually downhill from there

wow i did the same thing last night.  i seem to go three days now and then i binge which this week i have had no energy to control myself for to go to the gym which makes it worse.  people say i should do this because i am underweight but it is awful feelinging i ate a tub of yogurt as well w maple suurup half a tube of polenta, 2 apples 1 banana and about 4 cups of cereal with milk,  some cookies.... and that was on top of my should eat day,  i wish i knew what my emotional issues i needed to work out were,  i just have no idea what its like to eat normal so i just eat everything till i am sick

Binge eating is a serious problem and if you wish to provide support please do, but can we not turn this thread into a thread bouncing off one another and listing our binges, please.

Broom, I think you need to go to your doctor and talk about treatment in a hospital. You've talked about this before and I hope you took on board what you were told there but honestly, you have to go to someone about this.

Binging is of course a sign of an eating disorder that does need treatment.  I myself have one (binging along with purging), but cannot bring myself to see a professional about it.

Until you can confront your demons and find a professional, I highly recommend the book "Life without Ed".  It has been helping me realize why I have these binge sessions and it provides exercises to help you confront it head on.  The exercises quite honestly seem ridiculous, but there is a method to their madness and they work.

I agree with one poster that no one should encourage this cycle by sharing their own binge stories.  It only feeds the thoughts that: "well, if so many others do it, then it's ok if I do too".

I wish you luck!