Re: Binging and Gaining Weight
In Response To: Binging and Gaining Weight ()

Welcome, Kathleen gave good points. I just want to add that I used to binge too. I wanted them to stop. I trusted this program and the ones who had gone before me. If I had a binge I didn't worry about. I got up the next day and did the food. Finally the binges were less and less often and less and less sugar. What you are feeling is normal.

Work on breakfast that is the only thing you have to worry about for now. How is your breakfast? Do you like the food you are eating? How are the 4 parts coming?
1. within an hour of waking (I do best within half hour)
2. complex carb. (I like oats but whole grain toast is nice)
3. Proper amount of protien for your weight.
4. everyday :h4)

I do a shake 3 -4 days a week. It works best for me. Quick and easy I can drink it while getting getting ready for work. I also enjoy breakfast foods so on weekends I could eggs and potatoes and such. Chloe

: I've been binging on sugar and
: gaining weight - about a pound a
: week for the last few months. I'm
: not sure what happened - I had
: been feeling good and maintaining
: a pretty low body weight for about
: a year, and not having binges or
: feeling attached to sweets.
: Something happened and I lost
: control. That's why I'm here. I
: have been doing step 1 for about a
: month and started journaling a few
: weeks ago.

: I know logically this is reversible,
: not the end of the world, and that
: doing the food, healing and
: eventually moving away from sugar
: is the real solution. Not just for
: my weight, but for the painful
: feelings I am struggling with, the
: cravings, and for feeling so
: compulsive and out of control
: around food (really, sugar).

: I am asking for support. I feel so
: helpless and disappointed in
: myself about the weight gain and
: the sugar binges. I feel sad and
: ashamed (I work in nutrition and
: I'm supposed to know how to take
: care of myself and set an
: example.) I feel afraid that maybe
: this is a sign that I'm getting
: depressed again. I feel desperate
: to try to keep my calories at a
: reasonable level (truly
: reasonable, not trying to lose
: weight right now, just to stop
: gaining) and then crazy when I
: fail and find myself binging.

: If you've been through something like
: this, can you tell me it gets
: better? I am hoping for some
: reassurance. thank you for
: reading!

: Bevy