Binging after months of eating healthy?

Since the beginning of April Ive transformed my fast food, candy & soda diet to a healthy nutritious diet. Lately the thought of vegetables disgusts me, I can barely eat fruit anymore because its so distasteful, and all I want to do is eat lots and lots of candy. I load up on nutrigrain bars or granola bars. I'm absolutely full BUT I CANT STOP EATING. Im bloated and disgusting but I can't stop, its like the food is possessing me... wtf is wrong.

It's called 'forbidden fruit' and it's combined with 'boredom' and possibly 'not enough energy'.  You've jaded your palate by sticking to a limited diet... even if it has been healthy and nutritious.  You're bored with the healthy food (maybe you're finding it tasteless?) and now you're craving the things you've told yourself are unacceptable.  I think you'll have to work through this to its natural end... There will come a point where the all the sugary stuff becomes just as unappealing.

Have another look at your healthy diet.  Could you experiment with new recipes and try new foods and new flavours?  How could you make fruit & vegetables exciting again?  Could you include some not-so-healthy foods in the mix for fun?  Also, make sure the total calorie-count you're getting is where it needs to be.  Healthy foods are generally lower in calories so you need to eat more volume.

Good luck

Do you think you were/are doing yourself a favor by loading up on Nutrigrain & granola bars?? Granted they are better than candy, but they are still sticky sweet processed junk food.  Loading up on anything packaged is always a bad idea.  You probably have not weaned yourself off of your addiction to sugar and processed foods.  It is time to say goodbye to them!

I agree that you should really look into what you are doing with your diet. I know for myself when i was considering a lifestyle change I told my doctor I was a chocoholic. She admitted that she was one too. She said what she does is budgets her calories. She knows that she has to have chocolate everyday. So what she does is she eats a couple hershy kisses, or the treasures, or the fun size bag of m&m's. I have done the same thing and it has worked for me. I dont let myself go with out any of my favorite foods. I just eat them in moderation. For example... today we had a BBQ at work, and I knew that were were going to have one, so I budgeted out my calories in order to eat with my coworkers..I had pasta salad, 4 oz steak, and Boston creme strawberry cake.... and i havent even broke 1500 calories yet today with breakfast and a snack.  Try indulging in your favorite foods once in awhile in moderation and dont forget that if you fall of track that tomorrow is a new day.. hope this helps

omg i know what you mean! i cant stop binging! i used to be SO healthy, and the worst part is these days i dont even crave something specific, i just want to eat food! i hate it! i tried going on a forum a year or two ago, and it really helped me to stop binging, but then it started again, so can we help each other get through this or what?!!! we can do this!

i know exactly how you feel. I cannot control myself around foods that used to not bother me at all i.e (cereal, ice cream, chocolate...). I told my mother in the hopes of some support but all I got were accusations that I just wanted attention and that I could control it if I really wanted to. The latter is very true but it is also very hard. I can tell myself all I want that I do not want the cereal but in fact I do. And when I find myself alone in the kitchen, I see the bowl in my hand, the cereal being poured with the milk and me eating it down. I also told her because I began to purge after my binges which scared me more than anything. Anyways...You are not alone. And I am glad to know that I am not either. We just need to make a commitment to start anew and start to be healthy again. We KNOW we can because we have been there before.

I've really been thinking about the whole "eat/taste" relationship lately and have had some random thoughts that seem to help me. I'll give them to you, just in case they might help, too.

The pleasure that comes from eating foods I'm "craving" (usually junk) is really, really transitory. The smell, taste, feel of the food in my mouth, and the act of swallowing all feel good--and then, boom, it's over. There is simply no healthy way to keep those pleasant sensations going for any length of time. Whether it is 2 bites or 20, it doesn't take much time--then I'm back to square one. So why not stop at 2? 20 will not be any more satisfying; I'll still want more.

I sometimes felt/feel that I will "regret" not eating all of something when I have the chance. But, I have been experimenting.  I have a small amount of something I love, then I get busy with something else that really engages me. I have not yet felt any actual "regret" for not eating more, and when I log and see my progress, I'm very happy with the decision I made--no regrets.

Eating is an easily accessible and relatively inexpensive form of "instant gratification." We may see many, many things around us that we cannot have--we don't have enough money, for example, for that beautiful bracelet or sweater. But we can afford that chocolate bar . . .

I think I tend to eat out of sheer boredom sometimes.

I know these are totally random comments, but if they help you, I'm glad I took the time to put them here. Good luck.

hey there, wow theres so many of us i had no idea, it sucks because i dont really have trigger foods, its just food in general ,and you are SO right, its instant gratification, even if im STUFFED already, so goal 1: is to go a a week without binging, the only thing is at night, once i start thinking of food, its hard to physically distract yourself, its like your possesed! but im going to come here and distract myself, i have to do it for my health