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night eating/ insomnia

deleted_user
deleted_user
Ok, so I can get through a whole day sometimes without bingeing or purging.But as soon as I get in bed at night time, no matter what time I cannnot get to sleep untill I've binged its like my brain needs to know that I have binged before it will let me go to sleep.Then I will stay up untill around 4am or later binge eating.Has anyone experienced this or have any tips to help me get a good nights sleep? I'm a recovering bulimic so my stomach is tender and needs healing so I could do with some sleep.
:( xxxx
good2go2001
good2go2001
Ive never had this problem before but just started for me in the last 2 months. My therapist says its the bodys way of getting the calories it hasnt got during the day time... i restrict not even on purpose just happens for me.
I cant seem to sleep good and then im up at 3 or 330 and just binge... sometimes i dont even know im doing it till after ive been awake for while... then i wake up all the way from a daze and im eating something. Dont know how to control something that i dont even realize im doing at first. Then i feel so sick cause i let myself do this or my stomach hurts so bad i purge just to be able to go back to sleep. Just wanted you to know your not alone huggggzzz i hope you can get some good advice.. i need some about this too.
deleted_user
deleted_user
thankyouu :)..sounds so familiar! see i think that too b/cos i often eat soo much at night i never really eating that much during the next day but then when i get hungry at night i just go overboard and its so difficult to stop.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I don't really have the sleeping problem but I do know the binging problem whenever my family goes upstairs at night I just binge then I end up purging it is a terrible cycle and I really want to get rid of it. It has made me so behind in school because I end up spending most of my night binging and purging
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