I've been over eating the past week...

Hello,

I know many of us do over eat here and there, and I am having one of those weeks.  I eat to the point that my belly is stuffed to the limits and feel the need to vomit to feel better, but I do not vomit, I just sit in a food coma.  I hate myself when I get to that point and say that I'll never do that again, but then hours later I am back shoveling food down my throat.  I have been doing this all week long and can't seem to take control for some reason.  I kept on thinking because of my monthly visit and hormones up and down.  But I have not been this out of control for months now.   I guess if I wrote this to anyone then it may help me to realize what i am doing wrong for my body rather than just be in the moment  and keep doing it.   I dont mean to ramble but I just feel ashamed of letting msyelf lose control and making myself sick by stuffing food constantly...

Thank you for reading and I'd appreciate any feed back that you can offer...

I'm sorry you are going through this, this happened to me last week too.  I think a change of scenary/routine helps a lot.  Are you home all the time or are you working?  Try waking up and going for a run... or take a walk to the store or something in the middle of the day to switch up your routine.

Also planning your meals out specificially the night before helps to get back on track for the next day.

Most important know you can overcome it!  I binged for 3 days straight last week and after a few days of clean eating and good workouts I am back to where I normally am.  Think positive, you WILL do this! :)

First off welcome to CC.  I just wanted to give you a hug. I have sooo been where you are.  Its tough.  For many of us feeling like we have no control over food is a reality.  It used to be my reality.   I dont know how I changed my view or that I did anything specific it was more a bunch of little things.  I said to myself that I had to stop dieting and make some lifestyle changes.  I needed to eat so that I didnt get hungry and stop when I felt full (the instant I felt full)  and to do that I had to slow down when I ate.  I was literally inhaling my food.  It was hard to slow down.  How I did it was I would take 2 bites and then have a sip of water.  Killed 2 birds with one stone.  It uped my water intake and I believe it helped me to get full faster.  You have to find out what works for you.  All I know is that if I allowed myself to get the point where I was starving.. Self control went out the window.

You can do it.  :)

i did the same thing jenaphier :(  last night i threw out all my fattening foods... easter candy/chocolate, chips etc.  and then i posted a sign on my fridge telling myself to eat veggies/fruit and a list of things to do when i get the urge to binge.  i feel better already.. well besides the stomache ache from eating all that crap the past 4 days.  now im gonna clean house and then try and go for a long long walk. 

i think we can get back on track !! we just have to focus! :)  good luck!!!!

I work full time 8-5pm and have a part-time job couple nights a week / one weekend night. I was planning meals but stopped - which was wrong. Have to start planning again. There are some lifestyle changes that I need to make. Thank you for your suggestions and kind words!

Hello.I get u!!!Totally!Today i had a nervous break i think and i did eat 15 chocolate candys and one big chocolate cake.So afterwards i was feeling veryyyyyyyyy upset and nervous and just like a big pig trying to understand WHY i did it.I don t know why.I was eating well these days...so..i don t know why.But afterwards,i was thinking that i can lose the weight i put on today i think 1 and a half kilo for sure from all that chocolate.So i am gonna do 3 days of veryyyyyyy little eating and some sport.Hopefully i am gonna make it.What i want to say is that ure not alone!!!

I was and am still struggling with binge-eating.

I think a major part of binge-eating is believing you are out of control and being really hard on yourself/getting depressed. First of all, although it is healthy to recognize that yes you do indeed have a problem, the unhealthy part happens when after you realize you have a problem you start getting scared and think you aren't in control anymore, and you can only submit to this disease that makes you eat more and more and more to the point of throwing up. You must stop that part! Think about it! You DO have control. No one can force you to put anything in your mouth. Remind yourself that the eating does NOT make you feel BETTER, only WORSE.

Secondly, don't beat yourself up about this. That is the thing that makes this a horrible cycle. It's hard to get back to normal if you keep feeling so depressed about it. I find that I binge the most when I'm really depressed about my weight/control issues... I can't seem to let go of the fact that I binged yesterday, therefore I get so angry and depressed at myself that I binge today. You must put a stop to this madness. You must, and you can. Great advice I got from someone on CC before was ACT as if you already ARE. Act like you want to be healthy, and you will be! Seriously, there is nothing stopping you. It is all in our minds where we imprison ourselves. Battle it and win. We can do this.

something that will make you feel better:

go for a really long uphill hike... bring some healthy snacks and water  for when you reach the top.. you'll feel like a healthy person again

Original Post by airina:

Hello.I get u!!!Totally!Today i had a nervous break i think and i did eat 15 chocolate candys and one big chocolate cake.So afterwards i was feeling veryyyyyyyyy upset and nervous and just like a big pig trying to understand WHY i did it.I don t know why.I was eating well these days...so..i don t know why.But afterwards,i was thinking that i can lose the weight i put on today i think 1 and a half kilo for sure from all that chocolate.So i am gonna do 3 days of veryyyyyyy little eating and some sport.Hopefully i am gonna make it.What i want to say is that ure not alone!!!

Airina, the solution to a binge is NOT to eat very little to compensate. This will only make you hungry and more likely to binge again, leading to a binge/restrict cycle. Simply move on and try to make better choices in the future.

Jenaphier, you're not alone. Many of us struggle to be in control of our eating behaviour, whether that be overeating or undereating. I like some of the previous posters' suggestions, such as slowing down. I also believe in plating everything you eat, and sitting down at the table to enjoy it. Don't just eat straight from the packet - if you really want something, take it out of the packet and put it on a plate, that way you can really see how much you are eating. And take the time to enjoy it! I notice on your profile it says how much you love food, but I wonder if you have actually allowed yourself to taste and enjoy the food lately... probably not if you are binging.

I'm also a believer in what you don't have, you can't eat. Stock your pantry full of healthy choices and not food that will trigger you to binge.

Thanks girls.I really appreciate u and i get u too!

I did went for a nice walk yesterday thingirl and i did eat today a nice fruit salad.I don't throw out,i was bulimic in the past but i got over that.I am not a gurmand,i really am fussy about food.I eat only chicken,fish and rarelly beff.nothing else on meat stuff.Not a big fan of cheese i do love mozzarella and asiago...but my problem is chocolate.Thats it.I will treat myself with one piece of some chocolate ones a week i think that will do me good.I have some family problems right now and its hard to deal with and i am looking for jobs too and with this crisis u can't find anything,looking for some courses to learn a new job...anyway..lots of stress,so its a nervous and sometimes boring eating.

Thanks for ure support.Really.The persons that are members here can really understand.THANK U

Original Post by purpleorchid89:

I was and am still struggling with binge-eating.

I think a major part of binge-eating is believing you are out of control and being really hard on yourself/getting depressed. First of all, although it is healthy to recognize that yes you do indeed have a problem, the unhealthy part happens when after you realize you have a problem you start getting scared and think you aren't in control anymore, and you can only submit to this disease that makes you eat more and more and more to the point of throwing up. You must stop that part! Think about it! You DO have control. No one can force you to put anything in your mouth. Remind yourself that the eating does NOT make you feel BETTER, only WORSE.

Secondly, don't beat yourself up about this. That is the thing that makes this a horrible cycle. It's hard to get back to normal if you keep feeling so depressed about it. I find that I binge the most when I'm really depressed about my weight/control issues... I can't seem to let go of the fact that I binged yesterday, therefore I get so angry and depressed at myself that I binge today. You must put a stop to this madness. You must, and you can. Great advice I got from someone on CC before was ACT as if you already ARE. Act like you want to be healthy, and you will be! Seriously, there is nothing stopping you. It is all in our minds where we imprison ourselves. Battle it and win. We can do this.

everything you just wrote here, purpleorchid, is precisely what i have been battling with to the umpth degree for the past few years.. finally, finally, i've sought out therapy, psychiatry, etc... but you just put my mind into words...

Ease down again, don't try to snap back into your lowest calorie count the next day, or even worse starve yourself - and make sure that you give yourself plenty of good foods to look forward to.

I don't know what your daily limit is, but say it was 1600cals, and you're eating unknowwn amounts right now, but averaging just for example over 3000cals? Just on that theoretical figure, I'd aim to hit 2200cals on day 1, 2000 day 2, 1800 day 3... you get the picture.

BUT - important point - from day 1 eat your meals as and when you'd eat them if your diet was going perfectly, and have your extra calories AFTER the meal, as snacks or desserts.

There's a bunch of research on how we learn to crave stuff we eat when we're hungry, and doing this gets you back in the pattern of eating foods you crave when you're already somewhat full with good stuff - it also gets you back to eating meals instead of mindless ('scuse the phrase!) grazing and bingeing.

But do make sure that you ease down slowly, and that you still include your favourite goodies so that day 1 doesn't seem like the start of a famine - you want to motivate yourself first to get back to planned meals only at first (snacks too if you have them as part of your plan, but ONLY at the times you would if you were dieting successfully) and then slowly cut back the extras...

Better yet, work out healthy lo-cal meals and snacks etc that let you keep your favourite tastes. First comes the structure, then comes the fine tuning!

Sorry for the novel, I spent SO many years dieting then having weeks like you've described where I gained it all back and more, and i broke the binge monster's back forever by just easing down, going for structure ahead of deprivation, and not getting into a mindset whereby dieting successfully felt like hell on earth.

And yeah, what everyone else says too about taking a look at why  - good luck hon!

You know this is not healthy and you have to take the right steps to stop this. If you are hopelessly out of control, see your Doctor or a health care professional asap.

Want a wake up call like I did?..get a Blood Pressure monitor at any drug store...take your BP before, during and after your eating frenzy...see how your heart is reacting to all these, fats, cholesterol and caloires.  That might make you stop...It has to be your choice.