How I gained more control over my binging!
Hey there,
I am a long-time lurker and just decided to finally register and post my story with binging.
My mother died about 4 years ago, and I think that's when I first started officially binging. It was the combination of stress probably, as well as a new desire to be "perfect", look really thin, etc. I managed to develop a binging (but never purging) habit, and would eat mammouth amounts of sugary and salty (carb!) foods and then "restrict" or "diet" the next 3-4 days to "make up for it", and feel starved by day 5 and repeat the cycle all over again.
That went on for the next 3 years.
Lately I have noticed that my binging habit, has SIGNIFICANTLY improved! It's actually been wonderful. Within the last year I discovered something I probably should have known all along-which was that my binges were resulting generally from the fact that I was just hungry, and my "self-control" widdled by the time day 5 or 6 rolled around and I was just so hungry.
What I also had to teach myself was that it was better to just eat the caloric amount neccessary for my body that day and not binge-because then it was truly just easier for my body to continue through the day and "self-control" became so much easier. I found naturally trying to satisfy my body-with those calories it needed, took much less energy than needed.
The other thing too, if every once in a while, about once every one or two weeks, I eat 200-300 calories above what I am "allowed" to; it never ends up being a huge problem, because the next day I find I'm able to eat a bit less. And I also learned that it is MUCH better to eat just a few more calories than normal-with that brownie at Starbucks late at night, etc. than to binge 2-3,000 calories a night.
I hope this helps someone! Also, I found my trigger: it's sugar, but not all sugar, really just especially processed sugar, like oreos. They say sugar and salty foods make you hungrier, and protein makes you more full. This is so true! I also increased my meat sandwhich eating, and found that helped a lot.
Good luck to everyone!
-Replytothread
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