That's a great idea, "I don't need to binge." I really might try that.

I'm pretty excited, actually made it yesterday, and so far today also. What is that, 36 hours? YAY!

In all honesty, I never went to therapy to address my ED. At all. Mostly because I was never underweight, so most professionals didn't really think I had a problem, or my problem was "that bad." Although, I've been binging and purging either through exercise, laxatives, vomiting, or fasting since 11 or 12. I used to binge and purge 20 times along with literally half a box of laxatives every day at my very worst. I did briefly try to bring it up in therapy, but I always had to press the issue and it felt like I had to try to convince everyone that I was actually sick (and I was always thrown to the wayside as soon as a "real" ED patient came in) so I gave up talking about it with therapists (and basically everyone I know IRL)...

So I just do everything on my own. The distraction thing does work. I also try to prevent myself from getting really hungry by eating many small meals throughout the day every 2-3 hours. I try to keep my diet as healthy as possible, with lots of produce and low fat dairy. It's difficult though because I'm not currently the one buying the groceries around here. Right now I just try to completely avoid binge foods as best as possible. Maybe with time I can learn to eat like a normal human being but until then... I just want to be a little more stable first I guess. Also, moderate amounts of exercise has been so helpful in just changing my attitude and helping me not hate myself so much all the time. I'm slowly getting used to what it feels like to just be "in" my body, in my self...

Most of my methods are suited more for long-term progress I guess, but I do have a lot of difficulties in the short-term, dealing with those immediate crises or impulses. So I have never really stopped completely, but usually my binging and purging is maybe once or twice a week (except the last two weeks were really bad). But that idea is really good, I'm really going to try it next time!