binge eaters, share with me.

[stringer belle]

give me a rundown of a typical "binge" for you. i'm curious to see what other people consume(d)when they binge eat (or ate/past tense), how much they consume, and in what time span..

sometimes my binges were so severe and massive, i couldn't fathom where the food went, and how my body could hold it all. actually, i don't know why i'm bothering with past tense - i still have issues with binge eating, so...

anyone? bueller?

[Pony]

Well, first I will welcome you here to ED. I don't think I have seen you down in here before.

Most of the time that I get sucked into binge eating patterns is when I am stressed out or emotionally upset by something. I tend to just snack on whatever I find.....and graze like some cow out on a pasture.

Other times it might be because I didn't eat all day, for whatever reason, and by the time I get home from work I am so hungry I snack on stuff from the refrig. while I am cooking dinner. It's nothing for me to eat a package of cold hot dogs...one right after another.

Most of the time the time frame is stretched out .... but like I never stop eating little bits of everything all day or all night.

[Nina Kay]

I can finish off a box of ice cream by myself and a pkg.of cinnamon rolls plus a few fig newtons and all in one sitting when I'm really at a punishing myself and deciding that I'm tired of caring about anything anymore mood. It's awful, but it's the truth. Needless to say, I'm very sick the next day. I'll talk more later, but I have to go to bed now. I'm so tired. Hang in there and keep coming back. It'll make so much positive difference for you, at least it does for me.
(((((((((((Caring Hugs)))))))))))))))

[Pony]

OH yeah, a whole bag of chips in one night....easy !!!

[Biscuits]

Hi all

Before recovery my running joke was that i could eat anyone under the table, and boy did i mean it. I was not a grazer who ate throughout the day, my binges were huge amounts of food bought specifically for the purpose of a binge (always a very initmate affair with doors locked and curtains closed and in secret). Anyhow a normal binge would include a 6 pack mars bars, slabs of bread pudding, 2 or 3 cornish pasties, sausage rolls, chococate cookies, cakes from the bakery and normally full fat milk to swill it all down. Some days i would only do this once but this desease is very progressive and sometimes when i was feeling really low it would happen 2 or 3 times a day. Depending on where i was with the desease i would either be gaining huge amounts of weight or when my bulimia was active losing huge amounts of weight as i never kept any food in my body at times.

Pure living hell, thank God for recovery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[stringer belle]

thanks for the welcome, pony!

biscuits -- your binges are def more like mine, but even still, mine seem excessively awful.. like, a typical binge episode for me is a complete 1-2 day stretch of nonstop eating, stopping only when i'm uncomfortably full.. then sleeping, only to wake up and eat more.

in a 48-hr period binge, i can and will consume at least:

1 whole gallon ice cream
1 jumbo box cinnamon toast crunch cereal
1 whole bakery carrot cake (about 1.5 lbs of cake)
1 whole bag of potato chips
6 honey buns
1 large sausage pizza
6 krispy kremes


... and i'm not purging when i do this, either.. just taking it in and getting rid of it the um, "natural" way.. lol

and feeling absolutely horrible and out of control/weak when i'm done - as well as greedy and chubby.


thanks everyone for sharing.

[Jwife22]

oh....i'm the grazer if I don't watch it. I've done so much better about it lately, but even now, I'll catch myself snacking while I am making dinner if I'm not careful......actually, now that I think about it....I'm doing ALOT better on that end of things...

[ladyamalthea]

I wish I could say what exactly I binge on... it really just depends. It usually, however, involves pizza, cookies, chips, or maybe hamburgers...

and no, I don't purge either... which is why I weigh 270 pounds at 5 ft 2!!

[cali]

It's been almost two months since my last bindge.
I just got to the point that I am willing to do whatever it takes NOT to.
Just like not drinking and smoking-I am willing to go to any lengths-
Just for today!!

[mamashell]

I have what I assume is night eating disorder. I guess it is from starving for years. I wake in 20 minute intervals & overeat. I cannot go back to sleep unless I do. I cannot control it. It got so bad I was actually suicidal at one point.
I have eaten an entire peanut butter cheesecake, 12 poptarts, globs of peanut butter, dry cereal(whole boxes), anything that doesn't have to be cooked.
I wake up so sick to my stomach. I stay sick for hours.