Help - advice to avoid binging

Ok I am currently in recovering for a binge eating disorder. In the last week I have been doing farely well. Today I am not having a good day. I allready had a huge donut and a tiny muffin and a hundred calorie balance bar. I feel so guilty and I feel like i cold binge more. Please please can someone give me advice. what should I do to make it through today. I dont think I will get to the gym

Why do you feel you want to binge?  Are you stressed?  Tired? Angry?

i just feel like really behind in my life. I hate my job... not in school.... work out at the gym all the time but Im not getting the results I want and now today i woke up and my neck and back hurt me. Im just fed up with everything. I just want to feel normal and not always have to be on the edge cause of my binging.

Well eating is NOT going to make you feel better.  It is going to make you feel worse.  You are going to add guilt to that list above.

Maybe it is time to make some changes but binging is NOT going to help.

Actually getting proper rest/sleep, eating healthy and getting the right amount of calories HELPS you both mentally and physically.

Im doing all that I guess at this point its just me beeing strong enough to fight the addiction. Its hard because im a perfectionist and the results that I see are very very slow. I just want quicker results and its taking long and me having alot of patients with my body wich is very hard for me. I just feel like i want that binging urge to go away and never come back and it keeps on coming back. and how will i be storng enough to fight it?

~ waves to salome ~

OMG soshy I totally understand.  But you MUST keep trying.  One day at a time.  One meal at a time.  I am battling the same thing.  I get depressed, tired, etc. and I either turn to food or drinking.  NO MORE.  I will not allow myself to continue that pattern.

Good luck sweetie.  You have the strength.

*Waves To United*

thanks soo mush I will try to just think of today. I still have the rest of the day to be better. thanks you salome and united together. i will really try.

Good job.........and I am going to check on you tomorrow.  :)

Hi Soshi, I read your profile. Good for you for going to a therapist. I have battled depression all my life. At different times over the years, I went to three different psychologists for help. The third one was the one I made the most progress. all three would tell me the same general things, but somehow with the third one, I guess it was her stlye - I made amazing progress. I am saying that so that you will know - if you ever feel that the shrink isn't helping you, don't give up., try a new one. Take good care, we are all pulling for you!!!

Hi soshy.  The best advise I can give is to not be so hard on yourself.  Think about all the things you are doing right.  Start over tomorrow and pledge to do better from this moment on.  Life is about the slate before us, not the trash behind us. 

For the past week, I was doing awesome in terms of exercise and my food intake.  Tonight, I came home and had two plates of spaghetti...at 11:00 pm!  Not a good thing.  I've forgiven myself, and I'm going to start over tomorrow. 

Hang in there.

Checking in on you.   How did you do?  Take it one day, one meal at a time.  *****hugs*****

Hey,

Today is a new day! thank god! I appreciate it more and more every day because today is better than yesterday. It was really hard but I made it... I did not binge allthough I have to say I was not perfect either but I have moved on. You guys helped me. Im trying to figure my triggers. I know sugar is definitly one of them like donuts and cookies and sweets... hard core sweets.... But today I am doing better!!!! I want to try to start going to group therapy anyone know any in the new york city erea?

Wow. I relate so much to this posting. You are not alone, I know you've heard it before, but I cannot emphasis how similarly I feel way too often. Especially now with end of the semester and holiday crap. But seriously, try not to let "slips", or whatever you choose to call them, ruin your day. We cannot give food and our addiction that kind of power because eventually it will use it as ammunition to kill us! Stay strong and get that work out in, it will make you feel body, even if you think it's not possible. Wishing you strenth.

thanks!  guess that there is proof that we can all recover from slip ups. Today I feel sooo much better than yesterday. My freind who is a former alcoholic spoke to me yesterday and i was telling her that I feel crazy and alone becuase I feel like I am not anorexic or bulimic but im the in between one. Sometimes i feel crazy and you know what she told me... your not carzy, we all have feelings and emotions but they all manifest in diffrent ways... Some drink, some do drugs and some eat(like me). I used to feel hopeless but now I dont i feel like its a long way to recovery but i feel like there is  hope for me. Ok... il head off to the gym now to get some serotonin zaps.... later freinds.. and by the way I want to try to start a support group for all of us fellow bingers in the new york city erea-brooklyn- if anyone has any feed back lemme know

*hi5s soshy*   You CAN do it!!!

hey salome. just got back from the gym and eating my lunch. I dont know if anyone is experiencing this but the choclate baskets are just pouring in and i keep on having to dodge them it sucks.