[Sabrina]

I can't stop eating!!!! Bread, so much bread! The last 4 days have been awful with binging and I can feel the weight gain as we speak. I just don't know when to stop. I don't know how to stop! I am so miserable!

[eskielover]

Are some of those past things in your life still unresolved? Sounds like you are in need of feeling comfort & bread can definitely give the comfort while eating it not so sweet that it tastes yucky, but just a nice flavor to make you feel the comfort while eating it that you aren't getting with unresolved stresses in your life.....eg....your husband's application for the job in Dubai without telling you anything about that.....did you ever confront him about the way he is treating you as his wife? Know you have new puppies in the house & even with it being a wonderful thing, it's still stressful thinking about finding homes for every one of them. You may feel miserable after eating all that bread, but it's usually because there is something miserable going on in our life that is the trigger in the first place that needs to be resolved.

I have the opposite reaction to stress, but not eating leaves me feeling as horrible as overeating does in your situation. I know that it's always due to underlying issues that I need to deal with & I really can't resolve my eating issues until I resolve my life issues.

[Sabrina]

I am sure it is related to issues in my life, but probably not the current stressors as this has been going on for years. This is not new. I eat when bored and I eat, well, because I can. I tell myself not to, I tell myself I am not hungry, but I do it anyway. It's like an unseen uncontrollable force that takes over me. I keep saying I'll start fresh tomorrow, but it's always the same.

(PS, hubby and I have spoken, but only briefly, we still need to address some of the deeper things I am feeling)

I see your 'so much bread' and raise you 'way too many packets of cookies'... I'm struggling with overeating at the moment, too. I think I'm just going to have to go 'cold turkey' by not having these food in the house - but I'm literally sat here totally agitated because I have nothing to binge on! Arrrgh. During the day when I'm out and about food is often a low priority, but at night when I'm alone in my room it's all I can think about. Trying to occupy and distract myself by spending time here on PC, painting my nails, etc...

[Sabrina]

Going back on anti-depressant meds. Perhaps tackling depression (which I am not sure I have) will be a stepping stone to tackling the weight and eating issues.

Originally Posted by Sabrina

Going back on anti-depressant meds. Perhaps tackling depression (which I am not sure I have) will be a stepping stone to tackling the weight and eating issues.

Make sure they don't prescribe you some that stimulate your appetite! Avoid Mirtazapine and Amitriptyline if you can. I speak from bitter experience with these drugs...

But yes, this could be a step forward for you, good luck

[Sabrina]

Oh, I gained nasty weight and this whole weight issue started because of anti-depressant meds some years ago. So I told my doc that he could forget about me taking any meds if weight gain was a side affect. He has prescribed Depramil / Citalopram which apparently does not have weight gain as a side effect.

[eskielover]

Prozac & Wellbutrin threw me into anorexia.....lost so much weight they put me into an eating disorders treatment center. It was when I first started having depression issues back in 1994 & guess they didn't realize that prozac had those miserable side effects. My weight was low enough to start with that anything that caused me to loose weight was going to cause that problem.....but my pdoc didn't know me or know what my background was.

The issues with your husband aren't new in your life either....he has treated you that way since you were first married to him.....so that has been ongoing in your life & not just current either from what you have said.....all these things pile up & probably even from a child, you got comfort from eating.....so your neuropathways learned that is how to react when you feel the need for comfort......you have to reprogram those neuropathways......awareness of what you are doing & stopping yourself when you see you are doing it (self-control)......definitely easier said than done.

I have just the opposite problem & I know how hard it is to self-control myself into forcing myself to eat.....so I know how hard it is to force ones self to stop eating. Either end of the spectrum is difficult & takes work to change the reactions we have learned throughout our life....but it can be done.

Dealing with the cause of your depression will definitely help, but don't be surprised if the way you are being treated by your husband isn't feeding into your depression. Years later, I realize that my depression wasn't just about loosing my career, but my career was my escape from my marriage to a guy who refused to communicate & lived in his own little world & thought that all he had to offer to a marriage was his career. Think we really don't realize how negatively something like that effects us when we cloud our vision thinking that love makes it not matter. Eating/not eating are an indication that something isn't right in our life that needs to be dealt with & when there aren't many things that we have going on in our life.....it definitely ends up pointing to those issues we have & don't want to deal with.

[Matrix_therapist]

Eating disorders victims have abnormal eating patterns, such as overeating as well as extreme concern about body weight and shape.May be due psychological or biological reasons such as low self esteem,Pressures to be thin.It may lead to other mental illness such as depression, anxiety and alcohol/drug addiction. It is a treatable illnesses,Counseling helps a lot in such cases.