check out the food addiction community on here...there you'll find a lot of people who binge or atleast used to

I have struggled with binge eating for a long time. I am going to check out the food addiction community like KLSar suggested. I think if I just did it and then didn't feel so guilty and hopeless about it, it wouldn't be so bad. After I binge then I have a reason to binge, because I am so mad at myself. I kind of starts a downward spiral until I snap out of it.
You have goals and you are working towards them, so try not to be too hard on yourself. Habits like that are hard to beat. The important thing is just to move on as soon as you can.

i do the same thing, especially on days when im lonley. i get so sad and i think some chocolate will make me feel better. it never does. know that you are not alone. God BLess you.

i do good for a time then the damn candy bars are callling my name or the donuts, at work they have donuts everyday so i didn't eat one today lol thank god.I think with me its something else, craving sugar can be a few things not just a food addiction. It's good to see a dr about it if you can. I am as soon as my insurance kicks in. take care.

I have been this way all my life. I will loose 10-15 lbs do great and then for no reason at all, stop and start eating crappy again and gain it back. It is seriously emotional for me, I just do not know how to stop it!

each day, each hour, each minute is new and is start over time! I tell myself - I screwed up, but I'll start again. Also write down what you were thinking about or feeling at the time this binge started. It can help you see them coming on and avert your thoughts/activies else where!! You/we may have a temporary failure but it only becomes permanent if we allow it!

Oh totally.
Sometimes it's not even emotion-related. I just eat something because "eating is what I do" or "i'm passing the kitchen" or "whatever"

I've taken advice from a sketch that I think was on Mad TV..maybe SNL.. with Bob Newhart.. He's a psychiatrist and the patient is saying something along the lines of "I'm terrified of being sealed in a box, I eat uncontrollably, I'm always saying things that I don't mean.."

and Bob Newhart's advice is simply "Stop it"

When the patient protests this simple advice.. he changes it to "Stop it, or I'll put you in a box"

It's a good sketch.
And.. good advice :)

When I catch myself reaching for something to eat that I know I don't need, I know I'm not hungry for, and I know that I wont even derive any pleasure from it.. I tell myself "stop it" (or sometimes "Stop it or i'll seal you in a box")

I make myself some herbal tea instead. Or drink some water.

After doing this for a while, it's seeming like the tea or water calms down the compulsion pretty nicely.

Sometimes I get into full blown arguments with myself in the kitchen.

"stop it. no. what do you want the pretzel for? are you hungry? No! are you trying to sabotage your diet? is that pretzel really going to be sooo good that it's going to be worth sabotaging your diet for? No! can you really not wait an hour until dinner? are you doing this just because you live on your own now and mom isn't here to tell you that you can't have a pretzel before dinner? Well your mother had a good point! Just walk away from the kitchen..and instead of empty calories.. you'll get a nice feeling of will power and pride.. there you go.. walk away.. here you go, now strut, because you resisted that darn pretzel.. yeah!"

Sometimes when I get bored, I eat and eat and eat, sometimes when I get depressed, I eat and eat and eat.
Then sometime I can not eat I go with out eating until my sugar drops and I have to eat, I just can't make myself eat, it is really strange, how sometimes I can't stop eating, then other times, I can't eat I put the food in my mouth and just have a hard time chewing and swallowing.

I agree with mayfly. WE haveall been there and it is definitely an addiction and mental. Acid foods make you crave more acid forming foods. It's not always sugar. But when it comes to theses craving, addictions, bad days etc. you have to have the mental strength to deal with them. However, over time we wear down. So don't neglect exercising your mind as well whether it is through meditation, prayer etc. Keep your mind and soul in good condition. If you are having a lot of bad days it is time to reevaluate your life. It might be an extremely stressful job, relationship, friendship or something else. All these things are taxic as well and itmight be time for you to change them. Or it might just take a wake up call where you see someone on the news that is in much worse conditions than you are and you learn to appricate your life again. This is part of our growth. If you don't grow, you go nowhere and start feeling the effects from that. There can be many things under there so really try to nail it down. Don't give up and say I don't know. Really think about it. If you can't seem to think it out, write it out in a journal or on a dry erase board in bold colors. You can get this under control before it gets worse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYLMTvxOaeE

Thinking about it made me have to check youtube. this is the bob newhart sketch on youtube :)

mayfly81and arbgrandma-Your comments were very helpful. Thanks it is good to realize that others can battle this and win. If you can do it, we all can. Every good decision yields confidence and self-control.