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Question by Amber W: I have a binge problem, advice please?
[I know this is kinda long, but I really appreciated anyone who takes time to read it and offer advice]
So, I used to be overweight as a child, then as I learned about nutrition and exercise I lost weight. I was almost at my ultimate goal weight when stress hit me and my weight climbed up almost 20 lbs! Over this time (the last several months), I developed a binge problem. I am disgusted with it, and I keep making the decision to quit and lose weight again, and I may be successful for a few weeks but then it starts again. I eat very healthy and exercise almost every day, but I repeatedly am self sabotaged by binging. I keep telling myself “just toughen up” and thinking I can do it, but the longer this cycle continues the more I begin to think I’m fooling myself.
I think I need professional help — I hate to make this into something bigger than it is, but I’m very serious, this is taking over my life. It’s gone on for too long and it needs to end. The problem is …(cont.)
The problem is that I don’t know how to tell my parents (my binging is done secretly) because it’s so humiliating, and I know they will think I’m silly to want professional help, further more I do not think we can easily afford it (we could though). I don’t know what to do…advice?
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Answer by Lucien B
Congratulations, you see the problem and that is a great start!
Trust your parents and tell them what you are doing (use the same way of discussing it as you do here) and I would be surprised if they didn’t sympathize with your problem.
Professional help may be in order as you are going down a path to cope with stress that is self-defeating.
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I have undergone what you are going through and still do to a lesser degree. My bingeing was at its worst at the end of summer, knowing that school would start soon, and at that time I didnt work full time. When school started, i used to hang around with friends all the time and started training for taekwondo almost 5 times a day. During those 5 days, i eat really healthy … meaning good breakfast, protein carbs and fat in right quantities, and on the friday night i look at myself in the mirror and say, “hey, youre looking fitter than you did a week ago.” But on a saturday morning…im so lost for a routine, that i just sit at home and munch on and on until i crave for something more so i go outside and get more food to eat. It sometimes goes on until sunday night. And then my weekday routine comes back to me and the next 5 days i eat really healthy. Ive been losing weight off of this cycle. But binge eating still disgusts me. I am at a realization that it is a lack of an action plan/schedule that causes me to binge. I binge all day, and at the end of the day i have no work done. Instead i should start setting targets for the days i am most likely to binge and then I may get my mind off of it. Hope this helped you. Feel free to contact me if you need ne help.
is there someone at school you can tell, like some really cool teacher you can trust? u really should tell your parents, and I don’t know them but there IS a chance they won’t have a good reaction. that would be really sad for you and that’s why it’s good to have another person in on your situation, so you could talk to them if the parents don’t react well. also, another idea is to check into Overeaters Anonymous which is a group of people wiith food-related problems. their mtgs are free…you don’t say how old you are but iif you could get to the meeting that would be great. do a google search for “overeaters anonymous” and your city or county or state. it sounds like you have a good understanding of the problem but I hope you can understand that this is not a character failing of yours, its just an illness and you are stronger than it is.
Are you being too restrictive, and cutting out your favourite things, and not letting yourself have ANY so you end up gorging?
I know how you feel I am starting this. I used to hardly ever think about food and now I’m constantly holding myself back. The more I obsess over it the more I wanna BINGE