Dear Liz,

I appreciate your honesty and courage in writing about the details of your experience: the food cravings, the frustrating shopping experience, getting and eating the food that you didn't want or need but felt compelled to eat. It sounds so frustrating to be eating this food when you really don't want to be doing it.

I personally think it can be a great first step to tell other people what happened and I think it's great that you did that!

You mentioned that you haven't eaten all the food you bought yet and you don't want or need it. You could decide to throw the rest of the food away. I know for me when I went through my binge eating when I was in my 20s it was such an important step to start getting food that I loved and that I felt like was good for my body. Like, OK, instead of getting ice cream and chocolate and crap today I am going to get some bananas and apples and almond butter and I will sit here and eat it and think, “I want to nourish my body in the best way I know how.” This really helped me start getting out of a pretty horrible binge pattern. I really appreciate what you are going through and I support you in taking the rest of that food and destroying it! Like burying it or putting it in someone else's garbage can. If you want you could go get some nice healthy thing like grapefruit juice or some pineapple or something to celebrate that you are taking care of yourself!

If you need any other ideas, thoughts, or support, please ask.