How to stop
I just feel like my whole world revolves around food. And I just feel the need to clean out the cabinets and refrigerator. But I get more disgusted with myself and sad that I have gained weight. It seems like all I want to do is get comfy and eat. Its like my coping mechanism. But it influences my self esteem and body image. How do I stop a binge when I know its coming? I know I need to stop because its been going on for months now.
@skhenshaw99
Argh! I know! I had 3 smaller binges this weekend. I think the first was disappoinment from not losing weight for my weekly weigh-in. Now that's not responding to the situation logically, is it? Dern. All I can do is begin all over. I'm journaling my eating intake in my food diary, and trying to make better choices today. I have committed to turn to my d.b.t. skills when I feel a binge coming on, so I hope to follow through today.
@MsBrownieBee. Binges are part of a cycle. They can come from emotional eating, but as long as a person is restricting food intake - as in dieting, there will always be binging. This is the reason diets dont work! The diet industry makes a huge amount of money on the fact that diets dont work! The way to stop binging is to stop restricting! As for emotional binging, yes that can be a factor, but emotional binging cant even be addressed until the restricting stops! In fact, the biggest predicting factor of whether someone will gain wait is whether they are dieting! Putting down the diets and eating according to your bodys queues will help to reach a healthy weight for you. But a healthy weight for you might not be the cultural ideal! I dont know if this helps, because it is hard to give up the idea that a diet is going to make you thin for good. But - diet= binge.
@RainMarieMFT
Thanks! I concur. I never had any food issues until I began dieting. But I do still weight myself once a week, to know where I'm at. I have a couple of boundaries around food, but it's about the way I eat;, not what. Thank-you for reminding me diets don't work. Preach!
@MsBrownieBee gain weight* not wait! I dont know why those typos happen! Lol