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

sophlowe45

Crying session, life is always challenging!

I should try making sweet potato chips, they are delicious.

adouglasmhor

Some good recipes for sweet potato oven chips on spark recipes sweet potato oven fries The spicy ones are great.

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Turns out my soups are going brilliantly!

I'm still not over-keen on root veg and sweet potatoes, but I've done some tomato and red pepper and some tomato and onion and they were both great!

Also - I made beef stew and it was watery, so I kept the leftover gravy, chucked in a load of tomato puree, onion and pepper and blended it all - it was delicious

Hopefully nice hearty soups for lunch will help me lose weight and save some cash

HBS x

*Vikki*

I could have written this first post on this topic sounds just like me. How have you been doing?

oopsadaisydoddle

*Vikki* wrote: »

I could have written this first post on this topic sounds just like me. How have you been doing?

Hi!

I know - I think there are plenty of us who feel this way and I truly believe now that it is definitely the type of food that makes a difference (for me at least). Carbs are the devil - well refined ones anyway.

I have been sticking to low carb recently and it took a while to get the hang of it but what a difference it has made to my cravings and binges! Hardly had any! [well apart from this last week when I have had tonsilitis and I opened the carb floodgates again]! Not that I am making excuses but having tonsilitis meant I felt rubbish and even more tired than normal and for the first time in a while, I craved carbs and unfortunately I gave in.

The thing is though, I don't see it as a failure this time like I have previously because I am not thinking of this as an 'all or nothing' diet. This has to be a lifestyle change NOT a diet. Obviously if you restrict carbs enough then you can lose weight which is something I haven't yet achieved, however, the difference in how I feel in general at the moment is far more rewarding than the weight loss. I will aim for weight loss shortly but I have a couple of things going on so until they're sorted, I will just continue with lowering the carbs enough to keep the bloating and binges at bay.

I have also been reading lots. At the moment i am on to a book called 'escape the diet trap' by Dr John Briffa. That is a really good read on how and why it is the types of food that we eat that cause the problems and it does remove the incessant sense of failure that i have had for years about not being able to stick to a diet - this explains why!

Hope that helps!xx

daska

sophlowe45 wrote: »

How are you all doing?

I lost some weight although I am worrying about what I lost, bodyfat, water or muscle. I would like it to be bodyfat but not sure how you know.

This particular issue has been really bugging me. I saw a reference a couple of months ago to a study which included doing MRI scans of the subjects before/after undertaking a fat fast. I've not been able to find it but I have found one that scanned type 2 diabetes patients before and after undertaking a moderate low-carb diet which demonstrated a preferential loss of visceral adipose tissue (that's fat around the organs to you and me LOL) particularly in women. Unfortunately my head hurts when I try to read it - just got too much on my plate at the moment to dedicate sufficient energy to it.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3138148/

sophlowe45

daska i read only a little of the link you posted.

Rant - I hate cooking.

I was going to go do a few things after work, however decided to come home and eat as I was starving, so I got home and immediately attempted to make something to eat.

One sweet potato in the oven, a random mix of veg which has ended up as a chick pea curry. But gross. I've had butternut squash in the fridge for weeks so decided to use it. How the hell do you cut those things? I'm lucky I didn't cut myself. And the mess all this makes.

I have seen people put sugar in curries and thought seriously?? Now I understand why, to make it taste nice and thats why Sacla pestos use sugar and glucose fructose syrup.

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Butternut squash is a little sweet for curry, unless you're making a creamy one like a korma. If you weren't, did you put any tinned tomatoes in? They help with the taste. You really don't need sugar to make things taste nice!

And how to cut a squash...carefully I think is the answer!

I finally got my new blender so managed to do some soup from the leftover stew gravy. Made a chicken stirfry and had some brown rice cooked in veg stock to go with it for dinner.

HBS x

sophlowe45

The squash didn't cook, so I put the pieces in the oven as it was still warm.

I started off with carrots and was going to add more veg, but the carrots burnt so i added tinned tomatoes and a bit of water along with mushrooms and beetroot right at the end just to warm it. I had wanted to just stirfry some veg. Cirio tomatoes do taste really nice.

How do you make food taste nice?

I opened a pack of smelly mackerel after eating a bit of the chick pea dish and the sweet potatoes and squash. I managed to have a piece but yuck. The pack says once opened use immediately, so I put the remaining 4 pieces in individual bags in the fridge, the pack is dated 26th May. Does it sound ok to do this?

I was still really hungry so had some buffalo mozzarella and a piece of rye crispbread with peanut butter just before going to bed, milk and a bit of red cabbage. I have a huge problem with eating a lot before going to bed, if i'm hungry I can't sleep. But speaking to someone in the NHS, they said don't eat anything after 5pm. I wanted chips

Chicken stirfry sounds good

margaretclare

Some people do say don't eat after 5 pm. Others say not after 7. So what would happen if you went on a foreign holiday? The French don't eat dinner before 7 pm at earliest, the Spanish even later!

This is a matter of opinion. I've read it, I don't necessarily agree with it. Other people say differently.