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I feel so alone with my addiction. I binge excessively. I have gained 30 pounds in 4 months an I can't seem to lose the weight. I've tried everything to make me stop eating but I can't. Someone please help me. I can't go to impatient treatment because it's too expensive. I don't know what to do. I'm even in therapy. I've struggled with eating disorders since I was 9. I've tried to throw it up a few times but mostly I keep the food down. I feel so out of control. What should I do? I feel so alone.
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(((Taylorlamelza1997)))
I am so sorry that you are struggling with this. Do you have a medical doc or pdoc who also knows about this behavior? Are you on any medication that may be causing food cravings? I would call your T as soon as you can and also go to your doctor and ask about your meds. Have you tried distractions like games, puzzles, writing, reading and the like to get your mind off of food? Can you replace the food with drinks like hot tea or similar fluids that you can sip? Maybe even call someone that you trust and talk with them about this so you won't feel so alone. I hope this helps in some small way. Best wishes ![]() |
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I don't know if this will help because I don't have an ed, but I was binging for some unknown reason a few months ago and started gaining weight. I was eating a half of a carton of ice cream a night, half a container of chips, I just couldn't stop eating. so I downloaded a calorie counting app on my phone and discovered I must have been eating 4-5 thousand callories a night. so I cut it to 1200 then upped it to 16, 2000 max a day. but I just switched out everything for lower calorie versions. mayo was 90 but if you get the olive oil mayo it is only 35. bread is 110 a slice but sara lee has bread for 45 a slice. tuna is low calories. yogurt for 80 calories. sugar fee pudding. ice cream on a stick 160, some less. frozen dinners 210-270. so I still ate every hour, I just ate lower calorie versions and I could keep my calore count on avg around 1600 a day. I had my coffee with sugar and cream every morning which cost a lot of calories and I eventually switched to artificial sugar so I could have those calories elsewhere. by keeping count of the calories I started making wiser food choices and really questioning wheter I wanted to eat something or not. within a couple months I had lost all the weight I had gained. and only in this last month have I stopped binging
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I gained about 28 kilos in one year It is frustrating because I need the meds, but I hate the weight ![]()
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I was kind of hurt by that
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That's what my psychiatrist did too. She doesn't care. People look at eating disorders like they are easily fixed. They are addictions just like alcoholism. It's not fair. Did they ever think that our mental health issues are caused by the stress of binge eating?
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My P.doc shrugged it off, and I felt like he was thinking that the problem was all in my head and to just stop eating. It's hurtful and unfair...and then they give us meds that make us even hungrier and gain weight It sometimes feels like a losing battle
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Now I am can address the binging behavior.
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My P.doc had me on Prozac. It gave me really bad tremors He took me off Prozac for that reason I told him that it was embarrassing because I was at work, with my hands shaking, people would ask about it
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My psychologist did that too. I brought it up so many times. But still, nothing. If anything, it made me worse. I feel your pain, and Im so sorry you have to go through this.
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Diagnoses: Depression, Anxiety Current Therapy: CAMHS Medication: None |
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Thank you for your support.
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That is why we are all here
To help, listen and support each other. To talk to people who understand ![]()
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I'm stuck in this cycle too. Almost 100kg. :O No ideas on helping it.
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I want to quit the meds, but I know that is way too dangerous for me to do (bipolar)
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i haven't been able to stop either. after each bad meal/bad day,k when i notice that i'm so bloated i look almost pregnant, i tell myself "this has to stop, now is the time!" but the next day i fall back into the habit again. the one thing i have found that's helped a little bit is getting on wellbutrin again. it kills my appetite and other kind of impulsive/compulsive activities. not completely... just helps give a little nudge in the proper direction. i'm doing a little better now. still bad days but not as bad as bad used to be and slowly working down to something reasonable, trying to lessen the addiction and the reliance on food as a coping mechanism. hopefully you can too. "it's just one meal, just one day... " tomorrow is a fresh day and in making an effort to muster the willpower to stop, try to remember that stopping is not synonymous with absolute perfection overnight. the way black and white thinking goes with binging is scary... it might take time, you might run into bumps, but it's the endgame that matters.
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Thank you for your insight and encouragement. |
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I will think - Oh well, I ate this cupcake, the whole day is ruined now This, to me, sort of gives me permission to binge all day Do you try to replace food with another coping mechanism? Is it even possible?
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i'm not doing so well with depression now so i'm finding what i do is just face the feelings head-on rather than trying to stuff them back down with food. i own my binges, i guess. rather than beating myself up relentlessly, i'm trying to stick with the mantra "i screwed up one meal, it's just one meal, it's just one day, it won't affect the overall progress, back on track tomorrow!" also, just like one cupcake can lead to a whole day, a whole week of binging - one healthy choice can lead to the same if we allow it to. not easy... still in the beginning stages myself, but i've seen some improvement. definitely easier reasoned and said than done though... black and white thinking is the worst part. have you tried therapy? (i haven't but i know certain programs can help people with the black and white thinking) |
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