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Panic! at the Kitchen

Smash
Smash
It's like I know that it is going to happen, I know that I don't want it to happen, and I still Binge anyways- which just leads to either a purge or SI. I think that all of that starving myself did serious damage to the way my appetite works. Does anyone have any ideas of how to tame this drive I have to eat the whole kitchen??? I don't mean ways to stop myself from binging or distract myself from the thoughts of it. I mean like actually get rid of the bitch inside my head that tells me the world is going to end any second if I don't stuff my face right away.
missyS
missyS
i know that when we starve ourselves, our bodies try to drive us to eat...hence the preoccupation with food...thinking about it, smelling it, cooking it.....ur wanting to eat alot after starving urself is the bodies urge to replenish the supply it has lost...and to take more than it needs so that if it has to go thru another period wihtout fuel....it can survive
deleted_user
deleted_user
hey smash,
Im in the same boat, sometimes I binge to the point that im actually hurting, like physical pain, i gotta say i think its screwed up. I dont know why i do it.
But Im trying to get over it. What ive done is sit down and thought about what it is that triggers it. I found that if im home alone or bored (which basically is having half an hour to kill before i have to leave the house) I will eat (and eat and eat) so what i need to do is make sure Im never in the house alone - i'll go to a friends house, or go to the movies, or do an extra shift at work, I just wont do it, i cant afford to or i'll find myself nursing a stomache that feels like its going to burst.
I was the same, I starved myself for a few years when i was younger.
youve gotta figure out why you do it, or what causes you to binge and plan well ahead so your never in the situation to let it happen again. and eventually a healthy routine, will over ride anything else your body is telling you.
its an addiction, just like alcoholism, and it takes work. but you can do it.
keep a journal, talk about it, plan ahead, occupy yourself with more enjoyable things and you can kick it in the arse.
good luck, let me know how it goes.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Wow smash it really is amazing how alike all us binge eaters really are. I totally can feel my binge builing up and building up and i try to talk myself out of it sometimes i can and other times i just can't the feeling gets stronger and stronger until i feel like i am no longer in control of my body and i eat and eat and eat till i feel sedated and physically sick. Things that i have found that help me are when i feel that feeling coming on i know i have to get out of the house because if i don't i know that i may not be able to stop it. Once i am out i go somewhere peaceful to me like the bookstore and get a soy chai tea which calms me trememdously, or I get a healthy snack out and go to the beach and sit on the sand and look out at the ocean it calms me. So what i am trying to tell you is that you need to find some things that really relax you and get out and do that when you feel a binge coming on. Also check out the books (THE TRUTH ABOUT BEAUTY) by Kat James- and (THE ONLY DIET THERE IS) by Sondra Ray. These books help me on a daily basis order them at the bookstore.