I am a compulsive overeater, and binger and would like to know if there are any out there that feel that they need help and support. I would love a place for people who feel they are addicted to food to get together, and share our thoughts and feelings without fear of being judged, embarassed, or critisized.I sometimes feel like a "pig" because I am able to consume thousands of calories in a sitting, and feel uncomfortablely full yet continue eating. I have a hard time sticking to any weight loss plan, and trying to control binging.Maybe if I am able to understand why I binge and such I will be able to take control of my life again. I know I have a problem and admitting that I do is the first step I suppose...Anybody out there suffering from the same problems I am?Or if you have recovered from being a compulsive overeater/binger please share your success story with us..

I am not a one to sit down and gorge myself at one sitting, (though I have done this before), I am more of a compulsive grazer that can't leave food on the plate, yet pile it sky high. I usually do this when I am not doing Atkins.

I find my my appetite is less and the cravings are less when I am on Atkins. Though I have to keep my low-carb icecream bars in the freezer in the garage, because I would keep eating them until they were gone.

I do see a need for a compulsive eaters group because if we do not take care of the psychological aspects of why we do this, then when we thin down, we will bounse right back up in weight compulsively eating all the way.

I do this too. I was raised a member of the "clean plate club", and I do the exactly the same thing. Well, I used to. It is not so bad now, but only because I do not allow myself to be. I no longer buy the ice cream bars. I had to get rid of everything that was a problem for me, thankfully my husband is fairly good about it. We cleared the entire house of what I cannot have. I too suffer from having to eat the whole box.

I am still somewhat of a grazer, unfortunately. I eat when I am bored. So I try to find other things to do. I come here. I play games. I am a smoker, so I smoke more. When I cook, now I cook less food. I cook just enough for my husband to have 2 servings, and for me to have one. We have 2 different sized plates, larger dinner ones that my hubby uses, (he is a rail) and smaller what I call luncheon plates, and I only use those. Keeping the bars in the Garage would not stop me, I would bring the whole box in and eat them anyways. Just can't have them .

Hi there,
Its so nice of you to join me. I know exactly how you feel about piling food sky high. I have done that whether it be low fat or low carb. I have ate a whole low carb cheesecake throughout the day. What really kills me though is I hate the after taste of splenda cooked yet I still eat it. I sometimes dont understand why I'll even eat something and I dont even enjoy the taste of it but its just there to eat...

Hi Dreamenfae so nice to meet you Do you ever do really good on your plan for say 3 days, have lost some weight, and then all of a sudden go on a binge? I do that alot, and I'm trying to figure out what triggers me. I am like you I eat out of boredom. But binging is like I dont even realize that I have ate that much until I actually sit down and look...

Try this one...(I'm really confessing here) ever eat m&m's you found in the couch??

I think everyone at one point in their life has done that Dont feel bad about it all. Food is an addiction, one that I want to get rid of.

I am not sure whether to say I am a compulsive overeater who is learning to curb it, or that I WAS a compulsive overeater, or am a recovering compulsive overeater (kind of like alcoholics, they are ALWAYS alcoholics, even if they're not drinking). Anyway I would compulsively overeat, but was really embarrased about it and would HIDE food. Usually this would involve be buying large amounts of various candies or other junk foods and eat a bunch in the car and then pitching whatever I didnt manage to eat before I got home. I would eat so much I'd be ill for hours after.

I am learning better habits and am finally getting to the point where I don't overeat or binge even on healthy foods.

hi ssofian, that is wonderful that you have overcome your battle with it. How long did it take you to understand what your triggers were to binge? I have gone and bought huge amounts of food as well, and ate them in private while hubby was asleep. I would say that I had bought gas at a convenient store when in all actuality I had bought junk. How does eating during a binge make you all feel, and how does it make you all feel afterwards?

I do this all the time, I worry that I will never be able to live a low carb lifestyle because I do this and my weight goes up, then I get discouraged and use it as an excuse to eat more junk food. My worst is at night, I will eat ok all day and at about 7pm for no reason- certainly not hunger- I will eat everything I can get my hands on, even to the point of going to the store just to get food to binge on. I will eat until my stomach hurts then feel bad and want to sleep and not be able too because my stomach hurts so I take an over the counter sleeping pill and sleep it off.

When I go to resturants, I can't imagine not eating all I paid for. If my wife orders prime rib, I always have her get the king-cut because I can later snack on it.

If I go to a buffet, I try eating the higher priced items.....Damn I am a financial overeater. Trying to eat the best value for the buck.

Anyway I don't binge, I might take a larger portion, and worry who will eat the last of something.

I guess overall pretty pathetic. I eat when I am happy, sad, indifferent, or opportunistic. For example: we live by an indian reservation. The price of gas is cheaper, but is 20 minutes away. My mother smokes and wants her ciggerettes from the reservation because they are a whole lot cheaper. So I pack the family after work and we are off. Now dinner has not been pulled, but there are leftovers. Here is the opportunity. The reservation also has a large casino there. The casino has a huge buffet with pretty much anything imaginable and kids 6 and under eat free (bonus). We get there and we buy two adult dinners and two free kids dinners and the bill comes to 29.95. Over eating thus comenses. The buffet has shrimp, crablegs, prime rib, along with 5000 carb dishes. I have to get my dollars worth. Needly to say I ate beyond well, but stayed in the bounderies of induction except when to stop when "comfortable". OK, maybe I will continue to lose weight on Atkins, but, what happens with the same situation when I might not be so carb consious? This is why I need help.

I am the same way.. I have the best intention of sticking to plan during the day, and then only in the nighttime do I have the most problems. What really gets to me is that alot of times I binge on foods that I dont really even enjoy. I have this mentality that I have to try and get all the food in as much as I can because I wont be able to eat it the next day. I understand about sleeping the food off as well, but the next day I always feel like a ton of bricks are sitting in my stomach. I know that it hurts me yet I continue to do it..

Bigdaddys ((((((Big Hug)))))) I know how you feel...Know that you are not alone...and you are NOT pathetic for eating out happiness, boredom, etc. We dont know of any other way to cope with things I guess. Thats why we are here to learn from each other, and try and find different things than food to fill that void. Did that make sense?

We need to really try to work ourselves toward the "food for fuel, not for pleasure" persona. Between the guilt and the anxiety the food causes some.

Then there those who have our disorder and purge themselves. They are looked at simpethically, but we are considered glutinous. Like we choose this, we hide our addictions in private, yet we understand that we have a problem.

Tonight for instance: I knew there was a lowcarb ice cream bar in the house freezer. I know that it is late and I have had my 20 carbs. The thing sticks in my mind, I try to busy myself with other things but it is still there. I am drinking alot of water, but the "food" causes me to not crave it, but to think I am wasting it by having it sit in the freezer. That is a bit messed up.

Portion size and de-sensitizing me to food might be the answer. Maybe a shrink to pick my brain for childhood memories on how food shaped my life. Or become one of those fitness-aholics, where my running 10 miles, with weightlifting for 3 to 4 hours will burn away those extra calories from the food. ( I understand that the first one is the best answer, with this forum being the "shrink".)

Bigdaddys Great job on not eating that ice cream bar! You're not letting that icecream bar go to waste by not eating it, you're saving it for a day when it will fit into your 20 carbs, or maybe thinking I'm saving that icecream bar for a special occasion? I know though what you mean about weird thinking. Sometimes I wouldve bought something lowcarb and I would've eaten the whole thing just so that the next day I wouldnt have that temptation in the house, and then I would be able to start clean. Of course most likely I would eat too much of an allowed item, or I would binge. I liked the days where I would eat too much of an allowed item because I didnt have guilty feeling, or feel ashamed of myself..

didn't look at your stats..didnt need to. All I have to say is that I have totally been in this situation more than once. I used to eat 3 or 4 sncikers bars in a day, a plate of 4 cream horns, a half a thingie of oreos.......and the list goes on. For me it was boredome and emotional issues. I never was obese, but I had certain people in my life that used to make fun of me when I was 5'8 and weighed 99 lbs....sickening!! My life was always functioning cuz of what someone else said. For me it was listening to the crap for so long I finally sat and ate boo koo junk and said to myself.."well you wanna call me fat..I'll show you FAT!"..then ate everything and anything ...... even now I find myself wanting to just EAT...Even at the weight I've strived for I'm still "thinking"I'm not attractive or as sexy as I think others would like me..it's sounds stupid....but to b able to be what eveyone says or does...sure make me binge when I don't accomplish what "I think" is right. I'm getting over that.....and hope you do to! It's hard and totally understandable about binging......no matter if u are 700lbs or 99lbs.....feelings still r the same...
Sorry for rambling...Best of luck to ya!! U can do it...Just always remember there is a reason "we" eat to combat issues....and YOU CAN OVER COME!!"