Why Is There Not Much Help For Binge Eating Disorder (and if there is, where is it?)

oopsadaisydoddle

Just another question, Daska if you don't mind!

When you lost your weight, did you restrict calories as well?

daska

No I didn't, but when practical I only ate when hungry, sometimes 3 times a day sometimes only once, very much depended on what was going on, I didn't sit there with an empty plate if we were have a big family sunday lunch. One massive advantage of low carbing is that you can eat very large meals when you want them but actually it's very good for reducing your appetite as your blood sugars aren't peaking and troughing so you tend not to.

Sometimes my 'meal' might just be an avocado with a vinaigrette, sometimes a full roast with mashed cauliflower and spiced red cabbage and beans etc. Really I just allowed my hunger and tastebuds to dictate rather than trying to follow social conventions.

oopsadaisydoddle

daska wrote: »

No I didn't, but when practical I only ate when hungry, sometimes 3 times a day sometimes only once, very much depended on what was going on, I didn't sit there with an empty plate if we were have a big family sunday lunch. One massive advantage of low carbing is that you can eat very large meals when you want them but actually it's very good for reducing your appetite as your blood sugars aren't peaking and troughing so you tend not to.

Sometimes my 'meal' might just be an avocado with a vinaigrette, sometimes a full roast with mashed cauliflower and spiced red cabbage and beans etc. Really I just allowed my hunger and tastebuds to dictate rather than trying to follow social conventions.

My problem would be knowing when I am actually physically hungry! As you know, I get emotionally hungry a lot of the time and find it hard to differentiate.

This bug thing has had it's benefits though...I've hardly eaten anything the past couple of days!!

I think you have done brilliantly, especially to 'fly in the face' of what we're told is healthy. You have found what works for you and that is great. Especially since you have seen such an improvement in your health.

I assume also, that your weight loss was done without exercise if you have ME/CFS. What an inspiration!

daska

I know you believe that it will be a struggle, but I was like you, I could eat ALL the time and frequently did, I would binge several times a week if not daily. What I recognise now that it's physically under control is that I was never an emotional eater (though I thought I was) it was all to do with my blood sugars, eating habits and an addiction to sugar. I can now eat things occasionally and not have that urge to carry on but if I eat them regularly the urges kick back in and I start to binge again. But I'm enjoying my food more now that there isn't a compulsion to eat it

Jox

Hi oopsa, how are you managing the cfs? Have you made many changes (must be hard with keeping the family happy as well!)

I've been a lot better since I made a big effort to reduce sugar. I'm eating more fruit and vegetables and drinking water. I eat meat, but not too much, maybe once a day. Less bread, cheese and pasta as well.

I've been drinking a smoothie every morning with 2 frozen bananas and spinach and an apple. I add Udo green powder to that (it cost £19 eek!!). I take a spoonful of liquid iron for my anaemia. I've just started taking digestive enzymes as well as I feel very bloated so I'll see if that helps.... I went through Topcashback to Bodykind to get my vits so I got £1.90 cashback lol.

I've not been having the cakes at work every Friday! I take mine and give to my hubby, he looks forward to them now lol.

Hope you find some things that work for you

sophlowe45

I've not been having the cakes at work every Friday! I take mine and give to my hubby, he looks forward to them now lol.

lol. Great.

Jox

I'll make him fat instead! He does a hard physical job so burns more calories than me, I just sit on my backside at the office or on the train for most of the day!

oopsadaisydoddle

sophlowe45 wrote: »

I've not been having the cakes at work every Friday! I take mine and give to my hubby, he looks forward to them now lol.

lol. Great.

Wehay this is fab!!:T

That is brilliant progress!

oopsadaisydoddle

Jox wrote: »

Hi oopsa, how are you managing the cfs? Have you made many changes (must be hard with keeping the family happy as well!)

I've been a lot better since I made a big effort to reduce sugar. I'm eating more fruit and vegetables and drinking water. I eat meat, but not too much, maybe once a day. Less bread, cheese and pasta as well.

I've been drinking a smoothie every morning with 2 frozen bananas and spinach and an apple. I add Udo green powder to that (it cost £19 eek!!). I take a spoonful of liquid iron for my anaemia. I've just started taking digestive enzymes as well as I feel very bloated so I'll see if that helps.... I went through Topcashback to Bodykind to get my vits so I got £1.90 cashback lol.

I've not been having the cakes at work every Friday! I take mine and give to my hubby, he looks forward to them now lol.

Hope you find some things that work for you

I haven't really 'done' much in relation to the cfs. The household has been poorly for a week now so just been getting on with it! Littlest DS started last week with D&V, then it was little Miss Oops and now DH, DS1 and I have had it.

Have no idea where to start really apart from using the advice that Daska pointed out. Trying not to overdo it (which I often did without realising). Thinking of my energy as like a bank account and trying not to go 'overdrawn'...although I think after this bug, I'll be getting major overdraft charges!!! I seem to have had this worse than DH and I wonder if this is because of the ME/CFS. I didn't move most of yesterday.

I get a bit frustrated during the times when I feel floored and previously have tried to counteract this by doing more, which then has a knock on effect that makes me suffer later!

Eating wise. Errm, not sure. Liking the sound of low carb but when I attempted Atkins before, I felt sick at all of the protein. Like I was desperate for veg! Have just had a tiny amount of scrambled egg but I don't think it's agreeing with me much!

daska

May I humbly suggest that you were doing it wrong? You can have huge portions of veg on Atkins. You need protein and fat and eating them is what helps you feel sated (especially at first) but it doesn't have to be all steak and whipped cream LOL. Just major on the dark leaf veg, courgettes, cauliflower etc.