what triggers your binge?

For all of you binge eaters..just curious what a binge looks like for you and what triggers it? For me, usually eating nuts trigger me to eat more nuts...or cereal. Cereal is a big one that always makes me want to go back for more. Of course i can't eat just 1 chocolate bar or luna bar. Also some times when i look in the mirror and feel fat it triggers me to binge..weird huh? When I get near locations where I've previously binged before that also triggers a binge..like for example my parents' house. Also when I see pictures from the past when i used to be heavy that some times triggers me to eat..not nessicarily binge but eat something. Also, when I feel my belly hanging on my legs when I sit down that also triggers something in me too.

Right before your hungry or binge..what does it feel like for you physically? For me, my mouth waters up, I get a weird lump in my throat, I get a little migraine or I get a very very small tingly sensation in my hands.

I have to say that alcohol always gives me the munchies!!  A glass or two of wine and I get an enormous appetite for the very worst kinds of foods.

having a stressful or not so good day, or having a craving. i usually crave salty things (mcdonalds fries)

Not getting enough sleep (biggest trigger).

Having a bad day: feeling down makes me feel like I deserve to be fat (completely irrational).

Cereal is a big one for me, too, but I wouldn't have stopped at two bowls. Pastries, cookies, chocolate, almonds, pizza, bread/pasta, and especially granola. But not granola bars, they're "safe" for some reason.

Cereal and ice cream!! My counslor just told my mom that she needed to get rid of all our cereal for awhile because it was my biggest binge trigger. I would eat like 6 bowls with milk and the other night I ate an entire box of Life cereal!!

Don't feel so bad..in the past i've ate just as much as you've listed as well. Hm..I notice a lot of girls on here have a big problem with cereal. You know, sometimes when i'm in the supermarket getting food and i see women buy cereal or chocolate bars or cookies i'm like: "how could they buy that and not eat the whole thing?!"

alcohol does the same for me! It does it for everyone though. That's the only reason i dont wanna drink alcohol...cause i dont wanna get the munchies. Such a lame reason for not partying =/ I don't even care about the calorie-content of alcohol. I'm DONE with counting calories as long as it comes from not binging i don't care.

i cannot identify the triggers - i have binged when i shoul have been really happy but had an unhappy binge :( i have NO idea what triggers these mofos....

cereal is a BIG one for me...ice cream...any baked goods really. Binging itself...or eating an unhealthy food makes the binge more and more severe...the inevitablity of purging makes it even worse too :(

I wonder what it would be like to live in 1 big mansion with all of my calorie-count companions. Man would lunch time be full of tension...

For the most part I am really good about my calories but when life gets really stressfull or I am feeling really down I eat a ton of bad foods such as chinese or ice cream or brownies (with ice cream).

Other times I have problems is when I know I am going to a bad situation, such as a family bbq or a party I give myself permission to eat poorly and then don't stop myself.  I could for example jsut have a small salad and a burger but instead I'll have 2 burgers and 2 hot dogs.

The real problem comes later when I ask myself why did I do it and then work out like a madman to eat up all those calories.

Cereal was a bad one for me in college.  i dont allow myself to eat it anymore except for fiber one, and its just a small handful.  I would eat it straight out of the box and before i knew it, more than half the box would be empty.  i think it was that that actually started me to begin purging.. 

luckily ive been able to overcome that part of it (the health risk of purging really started to scare me after i started having heart palpitations!) but the binging part never really went away. 

i believe alcohol triggers many of my binges and also maybe not eating enough during the day, even though i feel full.  probably depression and boredom and the "want" of just eating something.  it will start off slow..small piece of chip here and there..small bite of cheese..then i just keep getting up and doing it over and over again.  i like my glass of wine in the evening, and i know it triggers my binging, but i will not give up my evening drink.  is that so weird?  especially since i know that is one of my many triggers?  kinda self destructive right?  does this happen to anyone else?

everyone definition of binge is different...the type of food and the amount.  i try and eat very carefully and try and keep a close tab of how much i eat during the day (i even save calories in the day for..you guessed it..my evening glass of wine).  so for me, my binge may not seem big to others, but its big to me.  it will typically be 5-10 tortilla chips or one string cheese or multiple tbs of non fat reddi whip or taking bites or random left overs in the fridge.  eating vegetables straight out of the salad bowl with hummus or salsa..  picking at bread in little small pieces if its there.  i could eat one of these or a combo of them...it all depends.  like there is a bag of tortilla chips at my house right now (it really shouldnt be there) and last nite i ate about 10-15 chips...that was my binge and i feel really guilty about it today. 

everyones different i guess, but the cause and our reaction to it is the same.  im glad there are people out there who are as lost as i am about this and understand the feelings that we go through.  lets all just keep helping each other through this day by day...

carbs. carbs carbs carbs carbs carbs.

any sort will do, but refined ones and the ones in alcohol are especially potent. i'm less likely to binge after a piece of whole wheat toast or a serving of rice than i am after a white roll or a bowl of cereal or a cookie or a slice of pizza or...

you catch my drift.

i get the mouth watering and the throat lump too. it's bizarre. lately, though, i've been able to stop it by staying out of the kitchen, practicing piano, and drinking so much water i feel like i'm going to explode.

Boredom and lonliness.

Oh, don't even know where to start.  FOOD NETWORK.....  I love watching food network and I learn a lot from it but every single time gets me sooooooooo "hungry".  Then I eat, I cry because I just ate and I eat some more because anyway I just blew it.  Also, for some reason after the gym I'm so hungry I can't stop myself unless I have eaten my dinner, fruit, and some ice cream or chocolate one on top of the other (reminding you that dinner is satisfying enough).  I don't even remember if I breathe in between...  Horrible. 

I have noticed though that I don't have self control at all.  On the way home I talk to myself suggesting what to eat but when I get home totally the opposite happens.  I'm so bad that even though I have told my husband to let me know when he sees me overdoing it, the poor guy every time he even opens his mouth about it I just get mad at him and ask him if he thinks i'm fat.  Ofcourse he sais no and then I just say "well then let me eat" and I continue eating. 

 

I have this weird obsession with watching the food network channel or looking at online cook books while I eat... is that weird?

I only really binge on cereal.... reasons for doing so? Hard day, late night, drun-chies (this is what I call being drunk and wanting munchies...), being sad, bored, lonely...

so really only when I'm emotional. Oddly enough if the scale doesn't say what I want it to say I'm also more prone to binge...

Original Post by g1rl79:

Oh, don't even know where to start. FOOD NETWORK..... I love watching food network and I learn a lot from it but every single time gets me sooooooooo "hungry". Then I eat, I cry because I just ate and I eat some more because anyway I just blew it. Also, for some reason after the gym I'm so hungry I can't stop myself unless I have eaten my dinner, fruit, and some ice cream or chocolate one on top of the other (reminding you that dinner is satisfying enough). I don't even remember if I breathe in between... Horrible.

I have noticed though that I don't have self control at all. On the way home I talk to myself suggesting what to eat but when I get home totally the opposite happens. I'm so bad that even though I have told my husband to let me know when he sees me overdoing it, the poor guy every time he even opens his mouth about it I just get mad at him and ask him if he thinks i'm fat. Ofcourse he sais no and then I just say "well then let me eat" and I continue eatin

livetolove, No..it's not weird. I usually always eat alone. When I do, somedays i don't want to eat in silence so I turn on the food network or something food related so I don't have to feel like i'm doing this aCtivity without someone else accompanying me..like on TV or reading about it. I do it so i'm not so much in my own head. I really dont think its weird. Check out all of us on here...we're all listening the same behaviors..I really dont think its weird any more. Ya know, after reading all these posts and replys to post's that i've been posting lately it's making me a lot calmer knowing that i'm not the only one struggling with this. Maybe its not even a struggle..enough people are dealing with it that it seems more normal..we just all hate the results such as stomach aches and weight gain and guilt.

I am a sugar fiend. I love sweets.Especially anything that is crunchy an sweet, like granola, cereal, graham crackers. My binges usually happen at night. I'm not even hungry. I'll just have a little something then I can't stop. It's almost like a drug b/c I can't fall asleep it. And in the unlikely case that I do fall asleep, I'll wake up in the middle of the night to eat. Then I always wake up the next morning pissed at myself. ugh!

either i am lonely/bored/bad day - totally an emotional eater!

OR i screwed up the morning and instead of having a better night i blow it off completely and eat WHATEVER i want...or whatever is in my dorm room to snack on (apples, cereal, oatmeal that i will then mix with chocolate, almonds, pistachios, raisins, granola and granola bars for sure) and then if i am not satisfied (which is gross because i will consume 1000+ calories) i will go the vending machine...

OR i will lie and say - i haven't eaten anything today (even though i binged) and then go out to eat with my friends and eat a ton because i "haven't eaten much today" which is a binge on top of a binge

...i have gotten SOOO much better at controlling this. especially the late night alone in my dorm room binges - actually have not had one in a while.

starts off the same as all of you...just one little bite or one granola bar turns into endless snacking...then i feel gross.

i am glad this habit is more under control. and actually - writing about it makes it seem totally controllable. which is good...because my final exams are fast approaching!

WE CAN DO THIS!

girl79- i am so the same way!  i love to watch the food network too and it also makes me hungry..and jealous!  when i see them cook and then indulge in what they just ate..i so want to be able to do that too.  like giadas weekend getaways..where she just eats to her hearts content..mm.. i want that too!  or the worst for me is diners drive ins and dives.  watching that show makes me sooo hungry.

also we are simliar in that i too, have asked my hubby to stop me when he thinks i should stop snacking or dont let me buy this or that at the grocery store.  but just like you, when he does say the smallest thing, i take it totally wrong and get mad at him.  i feel so bad because its such a lose lose situation for him.  he always tells me im fine and i havent eaten too much or whatever, but then i just tell him that hes telling me what i want to hear, even if its the truth.  so hard..its no winning for anybody in these cases.  so, im trying to get better for me, but also for him.  :)

bugweight - Hey when I was in college out of state I did the same thing as you. Geez I felt like I was so alone too. Everyone would be hanging outside of the dorms laughing and the girls would be having fun and I would be alone in my dorm binging. You know whats worse?  Well...the way my dorms were set up is 2 rooms would be connected by a bathroom so 4 girls would share a bathroom. Anyway, so I would sneak in to the the other girls' dorm who i shared a bathroom with and would steal their little chocolates that they kept in a jar!  I felt so ugh!  I would feeel like a lil kid. I know I KNOW its bad.  I don't know man..i have a lot of weird behavior.  I would go grocery shopping for the week at whole foods and then eat all my grocerys in 1 night.  So i used to be afraid to keep food in my dorm any more and i would tell me roomate not to bring food in..she must've thought i was weird.

 

I've gotten a lot better at controllling this too. Its good to know i wasn't the only one in college doing this stuff..

I have gotten a lot more under control over this once i started to eat REAL food  and not just binge on a bunch of junk and then not eat anything for the rest of the day because I went over my calorie consumption already. 

I think the key is to eat all your nutrients no matter if you binge and after 2 weeks it will go away. YOu'll gain weight but your body will realize that you'll feed it the right nutrients and then you can start over again and loose the weight your unhappy with but ya gotta get your nutrients. Its better then binging FOREVER

basically i binge when i'm stressed, nervous, upset, depressed, bored, or don't eat much during the day. some people can't eat when they're nervous...i wish i could be like that (well, not really...just not binge). one of my biggest things is binging at night and then not being able to eat much during the day, then binging again. kind of a cycle i've gotten into that i hate.