[avuna]

I'm currently testing a treatment involving using CBT to stop my sweethunger on top of other anxieties, and i wonder if you try to look at a cake and try to go through the anxiety, is the anxiety suppose to arrise and you keep eating bites of cake everytime the anxiety gets too high, or is there other ways of doing this? i'm already through half the cake, so it's quite an offer to keep doing it. Is it actually the sugar levels talking or is it your mind? can you treat bingeeating by stop and think about what you're doing, and then just wait longer and longer for each time, or are you in need of getting a mindcheck on every time you practice this? like set a number or something? or to find a reason for what you're feeling? what are you suppose to be thinking to avoid keep eating?

appreciate any answers.

[MudCrab]

Hello, avuna. Have you asked your treatment team about this?

[Azza123]

Hello Avuna

I'm no expert but from all my readings about BED and ED in general, over eating is a kind of coping mechanism. And from my understanding in order to recover you need to replace binge eating with a healthier coping mechanism.

This is hard and something I am struggling with. The problem is that eating works! It makes you forget about what you were worried about, stressing about or replaces boredom. I also binge when mentally I am feeling really down, so my motivation is not there to find an alternative.

I wish you the best....stay positive

[sunsetsunrise]

Hi Avuna and all. I have found that the only successful method for my specific kind of obsessive eating is to completely cut out the things I crave the most. eg: no sugar. I found a low calorie kind of potato chips called popchips. I had a small bag. I think there are 120 calories in it. of course that escalated to a bag a day. And then it was 2 bags a day. I cannot have this. It is on my list of foods that I must stay away from. For me it is like an alcoholic is with alcohol. Just as they cannot have a sip of alcohol. I cannot have those things I like the most. I was eating a half watermelon a day. So I had to stop that. I then started eating an apple a day. That escalated to 2. So I stopped apples. While this is treating the symptoms and not whatever is the underlying cause. It at least manages the condition.

I do not think my soecifics are applicable to everyone. But it is the only thing that behaviorally works for me. I do not eat sugar or wheat. I will not have snack foods. If I start, it will get out of hand very quickly. And I have to limit many other foods. Painful. But whatever works. Wishing you luck trying to navagate your way through what works for you. Its a challenge, to say the least