I Don't Want to Binge Eat So Why Can't I Stop?
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- Опубликовано: 8 дек 2022
- I DON'T WANT TO BINGE EAT SO WHY CAN'T I STOP?
In this video I touch on the idea that a part of you doesn't want to stop binge eating. I make a differentiation between an urge to binge and the desire to binge and what they may mean.
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Binge eating has ruined my life, I don’t even binge and restrict it’s just flat out binging every single day. I have the same intense urges every day. I can’t go a single day without doing it. I’m 19 years old and I’ve lost all hope that it will ever stop and I don’t want to live my life like this I don’t know what to do anymore
I have also suffered from this disorder for years and I also struggle with it literally every single day I Binge eat...
Here is my dilemma: I only binge when I restrict. But if I don't restrict I can't lose weight and I am morbidly obese so I have to loose weight. At the very least I have found that low carb/high protein is the best method for satiety which leads to less binging but it's still a trigger; always hovering in the background
you wanna do exactly the opposite of low carb if you want to achieve normal weight. you're gonna lose a lot of fiber and nutrients from low carb, as well as mess up your insulin metabolism from high fat. Go plant based or nearly plant based with lean meats and cut out dairy, eat as much as you want without any restriction following this type of pattern and the weight will fly off. Veg/fruit/starch/nuts and seeds/lean meats
This is so true, Sarah. For me, escapism and food restriction played the biggest part in bulimia. I've been in true recovery for about 2 months, after almost 2 years of wanting to get better, but failing constantly. I just couldn't see what the real problem was and I even made it worse for myself with trying to incorporate some kind of rules all the time. But when I kind of surrendered to chaos and really started paying attention to my emotions and behaviours, instead of weight, calories, food rules etc, that's when I started to get better. Recovery is so scary at first, but it helped me to learn so much about myself, it's definitely the best thing I did for myself in years. Now I literally can't believe how I don't even have this desire to binge anymore and I finally feel like I have a clear mind to see how irrational my thinking was. I feel like I could write a book about this. 😂It may sound silly for people who are still actively struggling with bulimia or BED, but now I'm grateful for this experience, because I learnt so much from it, even though it was so hard and took so many years of my life, because now I know I'm finally on the right path. I think you said something similar before, too.
Thank you so much for your videos, because they were really helpful for me while I was confused and struggling. I feel like you opened my eyes back then. ❤ I'll always watch your videos, because I know there are still a lot of things that I could learn from you and also to remind myself of where I was, how much I fought through this and how far I've come.
This is fantastic!! I love hearing how far you’ve come and I am honoured to have played a part in that. Well done for facing the fear and finding the willingness to let go ❤️❤️
Irina I would love to hear more about the steps you took to get your feeling better about the binge eating. I have had BED since I can remember (around 8/9 years old and I am now 34). I want to get better and reading your comment was inspiring. Hopefully you can help me see the light.
@@Antonio-pq4fb I'm so sorry you're going through this, but please believe in yourself no matter what! It doesn't matter how long you struggled with BED, you're always able to recover from it. For me personally it was around 10 years, because I developed bulimia when I was about 15. I think for me the big game changer was being aware of physical and emotional triggers for bingeing. Now idk if you also have bulimic behaviours like I did, but I realised that the biggest physical trigger for bingeing was restriction, over-exercising and then purging, after bingeing. That's what was creating the endless cycle. First I stopped restricting my food intake in every way, I stopped counting calories and I did my best to stop purging. I gave myself permission to eat anything I wanted, whenever I wanted. Ofc, it was all junk, high-carb and high-fat food. It was so scary at first, to the point I was having panic attacks, but that was the whole point. I had to shock myself and go to the extreme in order to learn something from it. After about 15-20 days, that desire to eat non-stop started fading and I actually got sick of the things that I used to binge on. Now that I remember it, it's funny how I actually did throw up on my last binge lol, but not because I was afraid that I was going to gain weight, but because I felt physically sick from all the food I consumed. 😂Then I lowered the intensity of my workouts gradually and I totally stopped working out at some point. The only exercise I did was walking to work and back home. Now I'm gradually getting back into exercising, but I'll never get back into working out 2 hours every day, while living on 500 calories a day like I used to. In the meantime, I started working on my emotional triggers, like why did I even develop bulimia in the first place and how did it happen. That's going to be different for everyone ofc, but the most important thing is that you never judge yourself. You're not to blame for anything that happened to you which led you to this behaviour. As I said in my comment, escapism was the main thing for me. I felt like I couldn't live my life and with my emotions anymore, so my eating disorder became my life. Ngl, recovery process is living hell, it feels like a never-ending fight with yourself, but it's so worth it in the end. Embrace the chaos of it and let it tell you exactly what you truly feel and need. Even though it's been only like 6-7 months since I started recovering, all these years of bulimia now seem like a nightmare I finally woke up from. I haven't binged or purged in months and I know now that I have no need to do it anymore. Every single aspect of my life started improving during this time of recovery and it's only getting better every day, believe me. Now I actually can't believe how fast I managed to get my life together. 😂 Back then, I thought it was never going to get better, but you'll have that big change of perspective once you start feeling the effects of the progress you make.
I truly hope I helped you at least a little bit. I wish you the best of luck! Trust your intuition, have complete trust in yourself and never give up! You got this!
The desire is like I still have a choice. Putting some space between me and the desire to eat.
Great distinction, Sarah! Thanks!
Thanks for the differentiation Sarah. It’s helped me see that in my case I experience compulsion less nowadays and I recognise the desire for what it is moreso than when I began trying to figure all this out!
Woooooow!! What an amazing content 🥰 loving it from the beginning to the end. Every single word. Thank you Sarah! 🥰
Thank you. This was really helpful information. Stopping restriction and dieting has mostly eliminated the strong compulsion, but I struggle with desire to overeat on an almost daily basis. I’ll keep working on it!
I can honestly say that the compulsion part is gone for me but urge part is still there. I do want to numb or zone out occasionally. I have overeaten during a few of those times but not binged. After hearing what you've said about that, I see that the inner work is what helps ease that. So, onward we dig and feel. Thank you so much for this Sarah!
Interesting and helpful. I get the urge v desire and wanting to check out by slow binges … the urges are less intense now but often a desire for a certain food will trigger off a binge.
Always helpful insights - bless you Sarah!
Ps love seeing what nails you have each time 😂 liking the Christmas theme! 🎄
I'm the opposite, I totally want to binge. There's a part of me that thinks I can't truly have fun if I don't binge. I enjoy it. I don't purge and I always feel bad after but my dream would be to be slim and still eat the way I do.
It's interesting what you say about hormones though because I have pmdd and I definitely binge more in the pmdd side of the menstrual month.
🥰thank you !
I started binging and purging when I was 14,now I'm 20 and I do want to recover. Wish me luck
Good luck ❤️🩹 I hope you find peace xx
Do any antidepressants help with this??
I haven't noticed any difference personally and Iv been on antidepressants for years
I wish this was interesting. I honestly did not hear the main points.
Do you see clients??
I’ve replied on your other post