This whole month has been hectic and I've been on a week long binge of eating nothing but poptarts, donuts, tastycakes, etc and I'm done. I've gained 50lbs in the last two years and I'm tired of feeling like shit. I manager to lose 70lbs back during quarantine but once life got back to normal I fell back into old habits. I went to the doctor yesterday to bring up my concerns and figure out where I should go from here. They were honestly very sweet and understanding. Since my BED and mental health issues are interlinked I scheduled a therapy appointment (mainly cuz i haven't went in over a mon ..read more

i've been trying to identify my triggers and eating habits recently, and i'm seeing a few patterns. most days i eat a normal, healthy breakfast. then a protein bar and a piece of fruit at work. my job is pretty physical, so i usually cooked home pretty tired and hungry. i make myself lunch, usually a tofu scramble or sandwich, or something of the like. i finish my meal and i feel satisfied and full, but i want something sweet. so i eat something sweet, like sweetened dried fruit or a lollipop. then i want more. so i have another food item, like a granola bar or something. then i start scaveng ..read more

Growing up my sisters and I were neglected physically and emotionally. We didn’t get hugs, praise, balanced meals, support, etc. but what we did get.. was a candy bar and a Diet Coke. I’m an adult now and I want to go out and have friends and hobbies and I want to live my life. But all I can think about is food all the fucking time. The food noise won’t go away. I don’t want to leave my house because I hate not having access to food at any given moment. I can’t focus on a task because I’m thinking about what to eat next. I just don’t know what to do anymore. I want help. I want to change but ..read more

I have ADHD and anxiety/mild depression, for which I am on medications that work pretty well. I'm doing well in most aspects of my life nowadays (mentally) and have squared away most of the mental health issues I've dealt with and gotten support for them. But the one thing I'll seemingly never be able to crack is my binge eating. In this economy especially it's so bad, the money I spend on food is way more than I need to. I don't eat anything healthy because I binge myself sick on snacks. And I can't stop buying them either. I just wish I had some way to stop the cycle. I know from experience ..read more

Just asking because I’m considering asking to be considered for this medication and I don’t want to have to be on it forever. (I’m in therapy but I feel like I do need some time of medication to prevent further weight gain while I try get to the root of my binges). So ideally I’d like to try it until I feel like I can control urges without it. submitted by /u/wtficantdothis [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

I just binged 3 chocolate bars and I'm lactose intolerant I took some miralax to clear out my system is this bad behavior I always take miralax after a binge and it makes days of agony and feeling to full go away. submitted by /u/OppositeScheme7519 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Hello and welcome to Day 25 of the April Recovery Challenge, how are you? Can you believe we are almost at the end of another month?? Wishing you peace and success for today :) Today's check in: What's something that's going well this week, or if it doesn't seem like anything's going especially well, is there anything that's not a disaster? Bonus exercise: the relapse triangle There are many frameworks around relapse prevention, here’s one of them! ​ https://preview.redd.it/56nnlea36mwc1.png?width=689&format=png&auto=webp&s=9d6ac768aa2216f9b406b7af80110668108e360c In order for a b ..read more

I am seriously considering getting it from one of those compound pharmacies. I am desperate to stop binging and lose weight. Hopefully get my BP & Cholesterol down. My doctor is old & uber conservative and won’t even entertain the thought of prescribing it. Has anyone else taken it & which pharmacy did you use? submitted by /u/Parked-79 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

So I was going to this therapist for over a year, but since I’m kind of becoming stagnant my psychiatrist recommended me a new one he works with. It’s been two sessions. Lately I’ve been struggling with binges (purges are very rare, once every few months), although to a lesser amount than a couple of years back (about a couple per week). This new therapist recommends me to try a method she’s used with other patients before. She describes it and uses the metaphor of electrically shocking a dog/mouse after getting a reward so that the brain-wiring sort of gets rewired into thinking after a rewa ..read more

Recovering from a binge eating disorder, is just that. I know that when I focus on loosing weight, I loose control. How many times have you told yourself ' next summer / next birthday / next holiday ' and when the next event comes around, you are in the exact same place. For me, diets do not work. And because for so long we have lived in diet culture where restricting ourselves has been ' normal ' it makes it so much harder for us with BED's. Here are some of the things helping me, but I understand this is not everyone experience and I truly hope you find something that helps you. I have stop ..read more