what is done is done and you can not go back. But you can start over from now. Beleive it or not that one binge will not do as much dammage as you think. you have to consume 3500 extra calories to gain a pound. So don't let that one binge lead to a full day of bingeing. Just try to get back on track now and maybe do some extra excersize and drink some extra water. Purging will not solve anything and could lead to real problems with your health. I know how hard it can be and have binged many times. Learn to forgive yourself and just start again now, not tomorrow and not on monday but right now. You may also want to figure out why the binge, did something happen, what were you thinking about, could you find something else to do next time? I hope you have a better rest of the day.

No purging!!
Coming from someone who has overcome bulimia.... NO PURGING!
If ya binge, ya binge. Forgive yourself and move on and make the rest of the day count.

Good luck!

I can relate. I binged just last night. No 'cause I was hungry just because I came back down stairs after going to bed. I had done really good all day and it just felt uncontrolable. I had 2 ham sandwiches with cheese and mayo. I don't have any suggestions because it is something I have battled with for years but I just wanted you to know you are not alone. Purging in my book is just gross, so I wouldn't recomend it. Start over and let the past be the past. Good luck, Your friend Meghan

Don't purge, just go back to eating on your program the next meal. You will be ok. Everyone slips everynow and then, and it is ok. The thing is to just get right back at it. Just don't purge, it is so bad for you.

Purging is an interesting thing we do isn't it. We feel down, angry or sad then we EAT! There was this lady on Oprah who talked about binging and she said basically the same things the other ladies on hear have said. She said don't beat yourself up just live the rest of your day as if you hadn't binged! Forgive yourself and go forward! I'm one of these people that if I eat anything with sugar in it I call the day a failure and I keep making poor choices the rest of the day? I have decided some forgiveness would be good and I can go back to eating regularly and move on! As far as the purging....I used to do that when I was 21! I only did it a couple of times after I drank to get rid of the empty calories? The scariest thing happened....A week later I bent over to blow my nose and I almost threw up automatically! It was scary to me how my body assumed this was going to be my normal behavior! So I stopped! Please don't purge it could become a new addiction to add to your struggles! Hang in there!

Gosh....I can't type today! My first sentence was supposed to say Binging is an interesting thing!!! Sorry

I can't emphasize enough the fact that for so many women with weight problems that CARBS ARE THE DEVIL. I'm serious; one bite of even some "complex" carbohydrate can trigger a binge. I once heard of a technique called the "Binge List". You had to start with salad- just the lettuce, a lot of lettuce, then dill pickles or green olives, then hard-boiled eggs...the point was that to get to the carbohydrate you were craving you had to consume an awful lot of non-carb stuff first, washed down with water or diet soda. I did it a couple of times and, sure enough, it was too much trouble and too much food.
Don't let yourself get really, really hungry. That's why eating six times a day is so important. But, remember, CARBS TRIGGER BINGES.

OH hon I can so relate to you. Its hard to gain control once the binges start. My drug of choice is food. Its like I need a fix and when I need one boy do I need one and I will go to many lengths to get my fix. I am here for you and understand what you are going through. I haven't been able to beat it yet myself but always here if you need someone to talk too

Binging has been a thorn in my side for as long as I can remember. I had a pretty hefty one today. Felt sick after and wondered, as always, WHY do I keep doing this to myself. It's the definition of insanity to me and I live it everyday. Purging will just make you feel that much worse which will probably turn you to food and on and on. Try not to compound the issue by purging. Give yourself permission to forgive yourself for your slip. You're worth it!

Oh, how I can relate. I have been "sober" food-wise for 3 days now and I am right this second fighting an urge to order pizza or devour whatever is in the house.

I must agree with LauraInTheGarden: simple carbs are Satan's Supper! They are sheer evil.

I have given up white flour and obvious sugar and it has helped me fight the urges to overeat.

If you can get off these carbs for a few days, I think your urges to binge will decrease.

You aren't alone. Don't beat yourself up. You did the right thing by coming here for support.

I always start the day with good intentions then around mid afternoon get bad cravings and then can't stop. I always tell myself I will be better the next day but then it all starts over again.

NOT JUST SIMPLE CARBS! Potato, rice, brown rice, fruit, carrots, corn, peas, nonfat milk, whole grains...All of those things can trigger binges in weight-prone women. Some of us just can't handle them, especially after we have yo-yo'd a couple hundred times and starved our metabolisms into super-slow-mode. It's nuts. You give a "normal" person a serving of carrot or brown rice, there is a slow rise in blood sugar and no frantic urge to binge. With us, the same serving and our blood sugar spikes almost as fast as if we ate candy ,then drops almost instantly. That is what triggers the binge. While many of us can do the "South Beach" or lean-cuisine or WW's approach, some, like MOI, can't lose weight or avoid binge-setbacks unless we stick to protein, cheese, cream, eggs, salad, lowest-carb veggies, a few low-carb nuts and maybe a couple of strawberries if we're careful. I've never had non-cal/carb soda trigger cravings, But some people say they feel the need for "real" carbs just from something that tastes sweet. Yikes. Going over some of the food choices in journals and discussions I can tell you that if I ate that many carbs it would be a disaster for me. STAY AWAY EVEN FROM COMPLEX CARBS!...darn it. I'm sure most of you are not as carb-sensitive as I am, but the days of the 1,200 calorie "balanced reducing diet", and the low-fat and high-fiber craze made a lot of us fat. And not just fat, but sick with diabetes, heart disease, stroke, awful stuff. They used to think the crud clogging our arteries and stuck to our butts came from dietary fat, not just the "white foods" until they tagged foods with radionucleotide indicators and fed them to fat ladies. Once inside the PET scanner, tracing where tagged carbs ended up, it turned out to be the CARBS that were being TURNED INTO FAT...not the fats/proteins. For weight-prone women, that proved it wasn't the butter that was causing obesity, etc. it was the WHOLE WHEAT TOAST.
What I should say, is that, at 45 and five-two, worrying about my son's wedding, panicked when I hit 145, because I gained from having to take estrogen. I had kept my weight down from 170lbs (about nine years ago) on my teeny-tiny frame for quite a long time. I don't feel like a whiz-bang "success story", but I did lose it and more or less kept it off. I know this doesn't sound like I have as difficult a time as many of you, and I don't have the complications of arthritis or CFS. However, since I was a young teen I have battled fat, bulimia, anorexia, suicidal depression, and the only one damn thing that ever really worked was treating the depression and drastically reducing carbs. I'm a lousy exerciser unless I am slogging around the garden, but even exercise comes second to cutting OUT the @#$% carbs.
There, now...I feel better. If I'm being too preachy or obnoxious I hope you'll let me know, but, seriously, sisters, some of us can't hardly touch carbohydrates.

one thing about the carbs and your blood suger is that each person is different as to which ones raise your sugar and set you off. I am a diabetic and test my sugar often. At one point I tried to test after each meal to see what I could and could not eat. I was shocked, I could eat potatoes and even ice cream (small amounts) and no problem with my sugar and did not trigger more cravings. But half a slice of pizza and my sugar was through the roof and I just wanted more and more. So it seems that each person needs to figure out which things trigger you. I was very shocked to find that pizza sent my sugar so high. Even the doctor and nutritionist had suggested pizza, light on cheese and veggy but for me any pizza is a no no. But I do have a baked patato with butter spray or mashed with butter spray, no real butter and my sugar is fine and I feel satisfied. Now rice even brown, but worse with white again sets off cravings. I think we need to keep real good track of what we eat and see if we can find the patterns of what triggers some of the cravings, when it is a craving and not an emotional binge. The emotional binges need to food triggers at all.

Anti-Carb Ladies, wow... I feel like my mother came on DS, she is so into Adkins and spent a lot of time trying to get me into it, gave me the book, etc.

I tried it... but I cannot make myself stay on it for more than a week or two, mainly because the only thing I can eat on the adkins plan is the meat - I can't eat salad, it's like eating air and quite frankly, salad and low carb veggies gives me the runs and THAT is why I can't stay on it.

Please keep in mind that not everyone has the same problem with carbs and declaring carbs are the devil can be very discouraging to some people.

To me, it is a great motivator... reminds me of when I lived at my mothers years ago and we were both on diets... she counted and limited carb grams (even before adkins) and I lost over 75 pounds - more than she did, by just not overeating and I ate a snickers candy bar in front of her every day just to be mean (I was a brat kid.) I also know what triggers my binges... its not carbs, its not food at all.

Yes, I understand that some people have a problem with carbs (like my mother) and there are some people with unknown allergies to wheat (one of my sister had that problem) and I am glad that you found what works for you... it's great to share your experiences and let other people know that carbs could be a problem. But it's the cure all for everyone.

Personally, I believe that some carbs are good, like bread carbs (not candy carbs) and I've been adding bread carbs to my meals, now I'm trying to add fruits and veggies. I see bread carbs as important... manna is bread... the bread of life... manna fell from heaven, not steaks.

Mostly I miss eating all the fresh fruit I want. I try to think of bread as the same as candy. I'm betting that those of us on the NO CARB bandwagon are the ones (like me) who brutalized their metabolisms for years (anorxia,bulimia,yo-yoing). I really scream about carbs when I read about those who are struggling and suffering and losing very little and/or plagued with binges. For many, even a small amount of "healthy" carbs could very well be what's making things so frustrating.