
Food Addiction Support Group
An individual suffering from a food addiction disorder frequently experiences episodes of uncontrolled eating, or binging, during which they may feel frenzied or out of control. They will eat much more quickly than is normal, and continue to eat even past the point of being uncomfortably full. Binging in this way is generally followed by a period of intense guilt feelings...

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Ok, maybe I shouldn't start this discussion, but I want to keep on track with my healthy eating so that I can lose enough weight to let myself overeat/binge during Christmas. Everyone else does it, so surely at this time of year it doesn't count as destructive behaviour. Right? I've been weighed today for the first time in amonth and after two weeks of bingeing and two weeks of healthy eating I put on 5lb which is a lot less than it was before I put a stop to the bingeing. So I know I'll probably undo a lot of good, hard work if I eat crap over Christmas but this is how i survived the last twice that I lost 8 stone. I let myself have mini binges every time I reached a stone but I always managed to get back on track. Until i lost it and put it all back on that is. But I don't think I'll ever get over wanting to binge and if we can learn to somehow keep it in perspective that should be enough, shouldn't it?
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The best we can do is try to support each over over the holidays to stay on track, and help each other back onto our feet quickly when we fall down. I know this is one of the hardest times of year for me too, and I am going to need as much support as I can get.
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besides holidays, and weekends here are some of the other situations in which i "give myself permission" to overeat -
whenever no one is home.
whenever i am alone at work.
whenever there is just a little bit of something left.
whenever there is a lot.
whenever someting is going to go to waste
thats all i can think of at the moment but i know there are more. i am working on that idea of permission - to try and re-format my thinking.
i do not have permission to binge. EVER. there is no reason, no need no excuse. EVER.
i do have permission to treat myself with respect and to take good and loving care of myself. i do have permission to be healthy and happy.
first, i dont think its ever ok to give yourself permission to binge...but overeating is different. have some junk, just dont get out of control...and we all know how that feels.
second, instead of saying "its the holidays" or "its christmas time" for like 2 weeks, pick one day and have that be your overeating day. you'd probably want it to be christmas day or christmas eve, depending on how your family does things...just make sure you pick the one that will have the better food! one day wont hurt, but anymore than that can have an impact and set you back a bit. just try telling yourself and those around you that you're saving yourself for the "big day".
That is SO true.
Well, here's what I do and it lets me eat a lot but not TOO much. Every year my family goes to a particular hotel on either New Year's Eve or X-Mas Day for a buffet and we really do stuff ourselves silly. I usually just told myself - one plate w/as much as I can possibly fit on it for main course/starters and 1 like that for desserts. Nothing more beyond that.
The problem with buffets to me was always bit by bit and then you never know. If I loaded the plate from the beginning I am toooo lazy to go again and know right off the bat how much I dealt with. There's no guessing or hiding it so it kinda helps.
But seriously, only make it a habbit during the holidays and you guys/gals are totally right, we have each other for support. ;)