I've had a binge eating disorder for as long as i can remember. Went through a period of a few months where I purged, but haven't done that in years. We love fast food and my kids always want McDonalds, etc. We were eating out at least once a week.

My gallbladder stopped working back at the beginning of August and for 3 months I was unable to eat anything other than turkey, potatoes, carrots, peas, and soy sauce. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner was the same thing. It sucked SO bad. I lost 40 pounds in about 2 months. We never did any fast foods because I couldn't eat there anyways.

Three weeks ago I got my gallbladder out and of course now I'm not getting any attacks from eating. I've now gained back 5 lbs. Today I ate ate ate all day, dinner I had pizza, and then snack I had nachos and then cookies and milk. All of the foods that I could not eat, not even a bite, I have been binging on. ( Of course the pain in the rib cage is gone when i eat greasy foods, and the nausea is gone for the most part from the greasy foods, but when I binge I still get the upset stomach, bloating, and pain in my stomach.

Binge eating is what screwed my gallbladder, I'm sure of it. I just don't know why I can't just stop. Sweets and carbs are my biggest triggers.

I've been binge eating now for a full week and am too scared to get on the scale. In reading your post, I thought maybe you could give yourself the right to eat the foods you haven't been eating...but just make them the healthy ones? How about making a burger at home and making it healthy (like on a Forman grill). Or if you want a sweet treat, maybe some fruit that you love. It will take some time to retrain your brain but it would be so good to stop this before it gets out of hand because it will be so much work to lose that weight again.

I almost thought about not posting this. I've been binge eating so much that I don't feel I'm in any position to offer advice sine I can't even solve my own problems. Mainly, I wanted to let you know that there's someone out there (me) who is struggling too and if we all sort of try to support one another, maybe we can somehow overcome this problem.

No no, please don't ever hesitate to post on one of my threads. I know there are so many others like me out there, but sometimes I feel like a bit of a freak and that I'm one in a million with my problems, know what I mean. It's just so dumb because I know that I'm harming my health by bine eating.....but during that time of the binge I feel soooo good and i'm so comforted by those unhealthy foods.