[ManiMar]

Binge eating is one of those habits that I find doing if I feel irritated, bored, tired, or sad. It isn't plates of food but snacks which I think most people do anyways so I don't feel completely bad. However, I do think it is mind over matter and self control. Not saying that its easy, I have to force myself not to eat all the snacks but that's what I mean.

[grenn01]

sometimes I feel obsessed with the food especially the noodles

[ValerieTelle]

good work everyone

[ValerieTelle]

“If you keep good food in your fridge, you will eat good food.”

[Rick.Foster]

Same Problem...Thanks for advice

[LadyBinger]

Originally Posted by Wannabehealthy

Ladybinger, binge eating is a big problem with most overweight people. We seem to be addicted. It's a hard habit to break but it can be done. Try cutting back on portions for just one day. Don't look ahead or behind. Once you get the first day under your belt, try to do the second. If you fall off the wagon, just pick yourself up and get back on. Keep coming here to post for support. There is always someone here who will help you. We all have the same goals.

Thanks Carol, I am finally back on the site after a five year absence. I am still trying to have a successful day one (have been trying all week). It always goes well in the morning and early afternoon and then the general emptiness of my life hits me and I binge. Some of us, not all, have to make major overhauls to our lives and fill them out more so we don't try to fill the emptiness with food. Not sure how to do this, but it has to be done.

[pastelplaidunicorn]

Originally Posted by monomoco

I don't ever purge, but I have a serious problem with binging. I don't understand my strange obsession with food. If someone brings a cake to work I will sneak piece after piece and scarf it down in my cubicle, and if I know there's some left in the fridge on a weekend I will come back to the office and finish the entire thing. This makes no sense since I could just buy cake and not come all the way back to the office, but I won't stop thinking about it until it's gone. I am the same way at home. If my boyfriend brings home cookies or crackers I will feel this intense need to finish them, almost to just have it over with. This is especially hard for me to control if I haven't slept enough, which is the case more often than not. Does anyone else have these uncontrollable impulses?

Yes, I have the exact same problems! I do the same at work. I have not gone back to work to finish a cake but I obsessively check. I go by the lunch room every time I go to the bathroom if I know there is a dessert in there. I can't stop, like you said, until it's gone. And sometimes I still check after that.