Posts by broom_closet

Hope this isn't OT and sorry for my ignorance... but do you actually need medical clearance to enter a nursing course/program??

The whole box. Or two.

I'm sad to say that I can absolutely relate to all these posts and that I'm on the same boat :( I hate being this way.

Christine - me too with the 'stealing food', cause technically it is stealing food. for me its okay to eat my forbidden foods if its 'free/stolen', but id never go and buy my own. cause i know that id binge on it if i buy my own.... but really, there's no difference.
and im like that with the sugar free stuff too. its ridiculous how many cans of diet soda im going through lately :(

Chrissy - i lick plates too.

Thanks for all the suggestions, I will keep them all in mind and try anything.

Its really disrupting my sleep as well, I wake up in the middle of the night and can't fall back asleep until I let myself binge for several hours in the kitchen. Again this past night, I wokeup at 2am and binged for 2 hours and than went back to bed.

And I ate before going to bed too, to make sure I wouldn't wake up being hungry.

I'm thinking of trying sleeping pills tonight... it might give me one night's good sleep.... i know that its not a cure.... but hopefully i can start by breaking the 'binge cycle' thats been going on for the past 2 weeks.

I'm horrible! I ate 4 boxes of cereal in the past half a week....

I know, its not a balanced diet at all!!

Would it really be that bad to just eat cereal all the time just cause I want to.... :P

I wonder if I'd ever get sick of it!! But I guess nobody gets sick of their drugs/addictions eh....

Wow, I have a lot of mixed feelings about this.

I moved into a place where I lived alone after having been in residence the first two years.

I thought it was a good idea, being a health-freak (& I didn't have to eat the limited residence healthy choices) 
--> at this point, I only very rarely binged on trigger foods.

But when I lived alone, being a perfectionist, I tried so hard to be healthy and perfect -- ie. whole grains, low fat, etc. I knew the calories of everything because I did all the grocery shopping. I found that it became very obsessive, too many options and planning. And very time consuming. It just intensified my food addiction/obsession so much more.
This past year, I've become a binger. In fact, I've been binging almost every other day recently :( Its so stressful and depressing for me. It affects my life.

I wouldn't necessarily contribute it all to living alone, but it definitely played a factor.

For me, I used to think that living on your own may encourage more binging cause you're always alone. I know I stand around the fridge for over an hour sometimes, stuffing my face. However, even when I go back home on wkends, I do the same thing as well. EXCEPT there are more high cal junk foods in the cupboard for me to binge on, which makes me feel even more guilty. At least when I live alone, I make sure to keep these things away -- but as someone else above said, its so easy just to go out and buy junk food during a binge, Ive done that before. Everything is just really close.

If I had a chance to redo this year? I would have chosen to stay in res with my meal plan. I really miss residence food and the convenience. But that's just me.
But than again, I mightve become a binger even than, and having that hugeee meal plan would mean unlimited access to cakes, cookies, etc. So who knows for sure? Maybe it was for the best that I moved out. Only time will tell for sure....and even than, you can't know for sure. Good luck though... :) I know binging is so tough :( and scary.

Feel free to msg me anytime if you have any specific conerns/questions.

I think CC definitely causes disordered eating.

And than it helps to cause some eating disorders.

However, despite being one of the unfortunate people who acquired an eating disorder through using calorie counting sites (and her own personality) I think CC does do more good than harm in general.

lalabanana, so you're binging habits just stopped by itself when you were at a normal weight? 
and btw i don't think that was weightconscious' purpose of her post. i think she was basically trying to tell us to eat whatever you want and that'll crush cravings.
wish that would work for me. but nope. if i had the bar of snickers, id be looking for even more chocolate afterwards. i think sugar/chocolate is a real addiction.

bobo1, glad to hear you're getting better as well.

unfortunately im still at the stage where im standing in front of the fridge /kitchen for an hour grasping at everything until im sometimes sick/hurting to the pt where i cant have another bite.

i wish i could settle for one thing, sit down and truly enjoy it. but i just want to try everything.... and once i start, i have to finish it, so i end up eating way too much.

also unfortunately, i dont find fatty foods particularly filling. i can eat several larabars along with peanut butter, slim fast shakes, almonds and cereal all at once. ive eaten a jumbo box (nearly 1kg) of granola in one sitting before along with a whole bunch of other stuff.

but hopefully the binging does stop.... it feels more cognitive than biological at the moment. which is why im skeptical that returning to a healthy BMI would stop the binges.

Hey, I love the support I'm receiving around here!

HOWEVER.... :(

I'm pretty sure if its an overly unhealthy obsession, because sometimes I find that food distracts me from other things as well (ie. im so busy thinking about food, i can't carry a proper conversation with my full attn while i'm eating or something)

I also religiously look at nutrition facts so much, I have calorie #s for food memorized :S

Also I tend to binge a lot as well... once I start with my trigger foods, I can't stop until I'm very very uncomfortable.