[lieber508]

Hi, I am new to the website, but have been browsing all summer.

I am young college-aged female and in the past year I have dropped probably around 20 pounds. It was all in hard work: working out almost daily and eating right.

But in the past few months I have had tons of problems with binge eating. I really cant stop. Tonight I did it again. I eat healthy all week and then let myself go. It may have had to do with the fact that I am not in the happiest of place right now--I know it is summer, but I have had some depression issues.

I am just asking for you guys to take a vow with me: to stop the binge eating and instead allow yourself to accept who you are.

I will never be a size 0 and that is okay. I can be beautiful at the size I am now. Right?

Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks so much!

[chickybird]

Hi! Welcome to 3FC!!!! I struggle with overeating too. I recently started going to Overeater's anonymous, but I realize that isn't for everybody. Please post whenever you feel stressed or need to talk!

[SakuraRose]

I know exactly what you're feeling, I go through that a lot of times too. I've done it so many times its probably second nature to me now. However I finally got to a point recently where I realized that every time i do it, I get up feeling like the world's most horrible person. And so to counter act the effect of wanting to binge eat so badly, I keep pushing the thought of how badly and horribly I'll be feeling after and it makes me rethink my decision. Even if its not easy.

No matter what size you are, you're a beautiful person, just think of it as stopping a bad habit to make yourself healthier. Because in the long run it's really hurting your body, and your body is something important that needs to be taken care of. =)

[CAROLINAINDC]

I am new to 3FC but not to binge eating. I used to do it all the time. It seems like Eating disorders have nothing to do it food. I was going thru a bad marriage and I was deeply depressed. So food became my clutch. I haven't done it in a long time. All I can say is ED have nothing to do with food. You need to find out what your triggers are, and try journaling. It helped me a lot.

[darra89]

Hello there leiber, I know how your feeling, I also have just finished binging after eating healthily all week. It's so frustrating especially when u feel your on track and for no reason at all end up self sabotaging with endless amounts of food. Sometimes I feel it is because we do not love ourselves enough to reach our potential, I am my own worst enemie and am always looking for an excuse to binge especially on the weekends, completely undoing my weeks good work. For me vowing to never binge again is not realistic, to do that I would have to love myself all the time and that is just not possible for me right now. Just so you know;; your not alone,,, I know what your feeling and at least for me anyway it's a comfort to know im not the only one.

[marielenrdz]

Darra89, sabotage is the perfect description. It's like we cant love ourselves enough to feel we deserve this happy, healthy life. I've been binge eating all week and I think I know how it started now that I've heard you say sabotage.

I live in a little town whose favorite sport is gossip. I've lost weight and now get a lot of compliments, but in the process, several older ladies have started gossip that I am now acting inappropriately...which I haven't done anything wrong! It's like they believe that because I look better now (after 13 years of being a frumpy, overweight housewife who never went anywhere), I'm going to go out and cheat on my husband or something. I went out to get my hair done with my friend and came home around 10:30 in the evening after eating a late, but light dinner. My grandmother (who listens to the town gossip) asked me the next day what business I had being out late like that and she hoped I wasn't out doing anything I wasn't supposed to be doing! WTF?!?

I always get my hair done at this particular hairdressers because she stays open late and is a good friend. When I was fat and unattractive, it wasn't a big deal to come home late from my hair appt....but now that I'm thinner, it's an issue? So, I was thinking, why be thinner and healthier if the small town drama is going to start rumors about me? I had also heard from someone else that they heard my husband and I had seperated! Population 3,000 and in everyone else's lives...that's my town!

I'm thinking now, that the thought imbedded itself in my sub conscious and that triggered my binge eating this week. Screw the town, though! I'm healthier than I've ever been and my husband knows I'm faithful to him and tells me not to worry about the gossip. I just need to regain control! UGH! Small town life is supposed to be simple and worry free, but sometimes I feel like I live in some kind of reality tv show full of back stabbers and busy bodies! It's true that binge eating isn't just about the food...there's always an underlying issue that triggers it.

[EatYourGreens]

Don't worry about the binge eating dear, depression and low serotonin levels are known to inhibit impulse control so there's no reason to be upset with yourself. It's more important to remember, as you say, that you are beautiful under any circumstances.

[darra89]

Marielenrdz; congrads on your weight loss// you must feel great about that. Sorry to hear your having a bad time right now, but believe me they will find someone else to talk about soon enough . Dont worry about your binge week, this happens to us all, just get right back on track and continue where u left off before the binge.