Hi everybody.
I feel like this is the first time I am successfully breaking away from binge-eating disorder, an illness that ruined my life in so many aspects for the past 3-4 years.
A little background, I would mainly binge at night (sometimes 7000+ calories). When it was really bad I would binge all day as well. Driving around to buy food until I was sick and hated myself. My binges were mostly emotionally-tied but my night time ones were more habitual.
I've noticed a few things though since I've gotten out of the worst part of BED:
- Eating late at night leads to so much internal conflict. If I'm hungry at night I am so scared I will binge. I have remnants of the disorder, I'll sometimes still get up past midnight to eat some cookies or something but nothing close to what I did before. This can be incredibly discouraging for me even though it is such an improvement.
- One of my greatest accomplishments is getting back in tune with my natural hunger cues. I totally lost them in the midst of my eating disorder and have worked incredibly hard to get back in line with them. I would say although I'm more in tune they are not reliable. Sometimes I'm super hungry and I will eat past fullness and other times I won't have an appetite at all. I'm working on this though and I know that this is a recovery journey that doesn't happen over night.
- I need to get out of the habit of fasting after I over eat. I find this is a pretty unhealthy intention mindset wise and can lead to night time binges.
I'm posting this in /loseit forum because I know binge-eating is pretty common among anyone with weight loss efforts. I really hope I can work on these things as they seem to be the 'next-level' in my journey. Anyone have experiences like this ?
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