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

cleggy.

oopsadaisydoddle wrote: »

Would you say the same to an anorexic?

Or a bulimic?

Why is it different then, just because I don't purge after?

I didn't take the things of MIL - they came with the kids. And yes, once they were there, I ate them.

I agree about your analogy to likening the situation with a drinker...the difference is, if a drinker asks for help - they more often than not get it.

I don't buy stuff for me. The things I have mentioned have been gifts. In fact the turkish delight was a gift for someone else until I ate it.

Theres lots of excuses and distraction in your post but you don't say what action you intend to take to HELP YOURSELF.

Do you intend to do anything?

I had a 7 day a week wine habit/addiction for several years so made aplan to stop on new years eve just gone. I have done. I intend to never touch another drop.

Nobody can help you with what and when you eat. It's 100% your choice whether to stop bingeing or continue.

Jox

I have a problem with eating, I want sugar all the time, it makes me look and feel awful, every now and then I reach rock bottom and give it up and after a few days look and feel much better and feel more in control...then I allow myself 1 of this and 1 of that and before I know it I'm back in the grips...

I gave up smoking 7 years ago (that was hard but I never want to go back), I was a heavy drinker and got myself into all sorts of shameful situations and now I rarely drink...but the sugar, the sugar, I can't stop, it's ruined / ruining my life, my looks, my mental health....every day I say I will be strong but I make excuses, the commute was stressful, my job is boring, I didn't have time for breakfast / to make lunch / to make a healthy dinner and the never-ending cycle repeats itself ad infinitum.

I want to go to a clinic as well, I want them to make me better. I will have to do this myself, but might have to book a week off work...I've read loads of books, I've got a juicer and smoothie maker, I have good intentions...it's hard.

I've been agreeing with Josie Gibson lately, sugar is like heroin!

adouglasmhor

cleggy. wrote: »

Theres lots of excuses and distraction in your post but you don't say what action you intend to take to HELP YOURSELF.

Do you intend to do anything?

I had a 7 day a week wine habit/addiction for several years so made aplan to stop on new years eve just gone. I have done. I intend to never touch another drop.

Nobody can help you with what and when you eat. It's 100% your choice whether to stop bingeing or continue.

You haven't even been of the booze 8 weeks but you feel qualified to hector others! (And your tone was hectoring and self righteous). I stopped using hard drugs over 20 years ago and would never communicate to anyone with any issue related to any substance abuse the way you did.

OP good luck you are already on the right track in your mind and heart, your body will catch up.

adouglasmhor

Jox wrote: »

I have a problem with eating, I want sugar all the time, it makes me look and feel awful, every now and then I reach rock bottom and give it up and after a few days look and feel much better and feel more in control...then I allow myself 1 of this and 1 of that and before I know it I'm back in the grips...

I gave up smoking 7 years ago (that was hard but I never want to go back), I was a heavy drinker and got myself into all sorts of shameful situations and now I rarely drink...but the sugar, the sugar, I can't stop, it's ruined / ruining my life, my looks, my mental health....every day I say I will be strong but I make excuses, the commute was stressful, my job is boring, I didn't have time for breakfast / to make lunch / to make a healthy dinner and the never-ending cycle repeats itself ad infinitum.

I want to go to a clinic as well, I want them to make me better. I will have to do this myself, but might have to book a week off work...I've read loads of books, I've got a juicer and smoothie maker, I have good intentions...it's hard.

I've been agreeing with Josie Gibson lately, sugar is like heroin!

IMO a juicer is not the best thing for a sugar abuser, less fibre to slow the absorbtion of the natural sugar in the fruit.

Jox

I juice vegetables sometimes, but my problem will never be too much fruit or freshly made juice, it is the processed foods, the chocolate bars, the teaspoons of sugar in tea and coffee, cakes, toast and jam / honey.

I would be happy if the only sugars I was consuming was fruit sugars, but I want the overly processed, evil, packaged stuff.

oopsadaisydoddle

Thanks for all the replies!

I am work right now but will respond more in depth later.

@FireFox - you are probably right. I have no idea what is a well balanced diet - I have spent the last 15 years thinking about nothing bit weight loss when it comes to food. I know you have replied to my preious threads and I really do appreciate the time you (and everyone else) take to reply to me.

@Cleggy - YES! I do want to help myself...I just want to know how to go about it long term. Like i said, I can't just stop eating completely which means until I am educated (or educate myself) about how to nourish my body, then I am rather stuck in a bit of a viscious cycle. I totally believe if I nourish my body properly then my problems should start to improve.


Of course I know I shouldn't buy the junk - it's just something I have done but I intend to overhaul the whole family. I don't buy an awful lot for the kids but there is always something there so I know I need to address that.

heartbreak_star

Habit breaking was also mentioned a lot at the ED clinic. If you know you always eat through an evening TV show, record it for later or do some push ups, squats and plank in the ad breaks. If you always have 2 sugars in your tea and a few biscuits with it, have a glass of milk or some hot water and lemon instead of tea so you can't dunk. Mix things up a bit.

Put yourself off snacks by "earning" them. It takes about 45mins of brisk walking for one bag of crisps - you can't have the crisps till you've done the walking. That helped the trance-eaters in my group!

Good luck hun

HBS x

daska

cleggy. wrote: »

Theres lots of excuses and distraction in your post but you don't say what action you intend to take to HELP YOURSELF.

Do you intend to do anything?

I had a 7 day a week wine habit/addiction for several years so made aplan to stop on new years eve just gone. I have done. I intend to never touch another drop.

Nobody can help you with what and when you eat. It's 100% your choice whether to stop bingeing or continue.

Ok, how about you put yourself in the same position as the OP. You tackle your addiction by continuing to drink 3 times a day.

Come back and let us know when you get sober again...

heartbreak_star

I think therein lies the difference between food addictions and many other addictions.

Drugs/alcohol/cigarettes can all be removed from a persons life completely.

But you can't remove food.

HBS x

cleggy.

adouglasmhor wrote: »

You haven't even been of the booze 8 weeks but you feel qualified to hector others

8 weeks is enough to break any habit. Not having a plan and just moaning is a sure way to continue just as you are.