[ICUwishing]

A binge is definitely a behavior instead of a number. As someone who once sat down (in front of the refrigerator) and ate 2 heads of lettuce, leaf by leaf ... my personal experience is that it's probably far more similar to a demonic possession than anything else. 3 cookies might not be a good choice, and it might have a skewed sense of post-chewing guilt associated with it, but I seriously doubt it's a panicked, out-of-body loss of control that ends with physical pain from being overstuffed. My two cents!

[stargzr]

I know someone previous defined how they think of a binge in a thread in the 20-somethings, but I can't even begin to think of which one... Anyhow, they called it basically mindless eating. Where you just start eating, without regard to how much, how long, or how many calories it is. I think what someone else said (demonic possession) is pretty darn close. It's like your brain just shuts down while doing it. Then you finish and you realize what you just did. You'd think - why didn't the person just stop? Because they can't. It's like an uncontrollable thing once you're in it and can't think until you're done. This coming from a reformed binger.