Scarlett1983

what helps

Posted on 08/28/08, 06:17 am

I binge eat about 1-2 times a week. Not stacks of food but perhaps 2 days calorie intake in 6 hours.
What stratgies help you when u feel a binge coming on?
Thanks guys
Also anyone tried hypnotherapy?

• Reply #1 10/13/08  2:54am
  
  Jen0
  I have done 5 days worth of calories in about 1 hour. :/ I know how you feel though. I have noticed when I feel a binge on if I get away from food and surround myself with people the binge goes away after a while. However I am at college and sometimes this is hard to do, yet you would think it would be easy. Also I try to get away from food and go on a walk and just listen to music. That helps me too. I have wanted to try hypnotherapy but my doctor suggested no however a deep part of me wants too. She explained it to me as it was deep deep relaxtion etc.. If you try it plz plz let me know how it goes! : )
• Reply #2 12/10/08  8:29pm
  
  bayoulady
  I just had a binge, after several healthy weeks. It is always after I have been passive, or not really dealt with some stuff. I know the pattern. My weight can't seem to go below the present weight---its as if I self destruct. I lost some 40 pounds, and can't seem to go any lower. I know its not about a number on a scale--but there does seem to be a relation to fear of thinness, I probably did about 1/2--1 days food in a couple of hours, then felt like a blimp. Miserable. If I could have gotten out of the house, I would have been able to stop--that always helps. Positive people help. Writing sometimes helps.
• Reply #3 12/31/08  5:09pm
  
  bayoulady
  I tried hypnotherapy(about 3 sessions I believe) and did not get a lot of results. I had had some sessions before that were most helpful--they were like Jeno mentioned, more of a deep relaxation, and were with a therapist that I knew and trusted implicitly. I am doing talk therapy now--and journaling about my feelings. A day of being non assertive, and having to "swallow a lot of stuff" almost always results in a binge. Binges are shorter than they used to be. I find exercise very helpful if I can make myself get out and do it. For me, its like I crawl in a shell. Journaling helps, a food plan helps, learning to recognize triggers, and being assertive, talking your feelings out, and doing non eating things for yourself--ie, exercise, massage, manicure, bubble bath, reading--as rewards. I am trying to replace food as a comfort thing--some success.

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