I have tried absolutely everything. I have been praying for the past few years that God take this from me. I need prayer. I am so broken. I never ask for prayer for fear of being a burden but I simply can't anymore.

As per title, I’m curious to see if there is anyone out there who watches Chantal and also experiences BED. Or really anyone who is on a health or weight loss journey. How does watching foodie help or hinder you?

For the past 2 years I've been suffering with binge eating disorder. That + going from a physical job to a desk job has seen my weight go up by 30kg in the past 2 years and I want to get back to the old me!

I've been trying to stop for over a year and I have found I cant even make it a day without a binge. I'm on point with my nutrition during the day, but at night it all goes out the window

I know my trigger foods (usually cereal, bread, ice cream ect) but I also dont want to cut them out completely

I'm going away after Christmas so I'm hoping being around people and in a different environment might help me break the cycle - but any tips would be much appreciated! I'm so tired of being stuck in this cycle

Binge eating is not caused by weight, and therefore cannot be cured with weight-loss. There isn't a number on the scale that makes the cravings go away.

It took me 2 years into recovery to learn this lesson. There isn't a special nutrition plan or food hack. I wish there were. Recovery is more complicated than that. Keep in mind, that our goal is not to have a perfect diet, it is to stop abusing food. Here are just a few things that have helped me.

• I view my recovery as sobriety. When I am sober, I am in control of my food choices. I can eat cake, as long as I am the one making the choice (not the food addict pushing me to eat more than I want/intended to)
• Restriction vs Boundaries.
  • I have built temporary boundaries to help eliminate obsessive thinking and the temptation to abuse food. If I felt compulsive about eating cashews, I stopped eating them until I felt like I was in charge of how much I could eat. Sometimes it took a few weeks, some foods I still have boundaries with.
  • Restriction is rules for the sake of creating structure and eating less. You don't need to have a certain number of calories -- the goal is to stop abusing food.
• It isn't "all or nothing" Recovery means getting better at binging. Rarely do we wake up and never binge again. If you abuse food, just keep going. It takes time to learn this. Slowly, you can learn how to say no to food, but it does take practice
  • Celebrate the streaks between binges
  • Celebrate stopping in the middle
  • Celebrate not buying the snack at the gas station
• Learn your triggers. What makes you binge? It doesn't matter if it feel miniscual, it's about understanding that this isn't actually random. It's most often triggered by a physical or emotional event.
  • Journal after you binge and try to understand what triggered that feeling
  • Keep track of patterns in your binging, and prepare for urges.
  • Ex: I feel urges to binge if someone cancels plans with me. When this happens, I immediately resort to other coping/distraction.
• I take medication, but this isn't a solution, it's a tool. I started Vyvanse about a year ago. It's truly helped lower compulsions in a mind-blowing way. It doesn't cure us and it is most effective if used with other recovery strategies.

I am five years into recovery. I still struggle, but my fight today is easier, less often, and less severe. We never chose this, but we can get better. Much love and recovery to everyone here.

P.S.

TL;DR binge eat a lot high. Want to not binge eat when high.

Okay so … I’m a big girl. 250 ish. I’m working on being a smaller big girl. I love smoking but I can’t do the inevitable uncontrollable bingeing.

I vape delta 8 , I prefer a legal high. (My state is trying to decriminalize 9)

This is probably largely a manifestation of my binge eating disorder. Every single time I smoke I can’t stop myself from eating everything in sight. I will consciously know what I’m doing is not what I want , but can’t stop. Sometimes I’ll eat until I am in pain.

Is there a blend, breed or whatever that won’t make me the fucking Cookie Monster? Is there one that might help with weight loss?

The only reason I am on Keto is because of the “comfortable full” feeling I get after eating. I don’t feel a need to eat more or have any cravings - I’m just simply satisfied. It’s amazing.

I love Keto but it’s very restrictive and I would like to switch to low carb. However, I struggle with BED and Keto has cured me of that.

My question is whether low carb will allow me to keep this “comfortably full” feeling after eating (not craving more food)? I hope people are able to understand the feeling I’m talking about. Thank you in advance

Trigger warning: eating disorders.

At first I thought that I just had binge eating alone as a diagnosis, but then I realized and my doctor told me as well that it can be a symptom and coping for trauma. Anyone have similar or different experiences?

So, I don't know if this has been brought up before on here, but I've got an issue with binge eating. It's been going on long enough that I'm well past obese and about 10 points into the morbidly obese category.

I've been in denial for a long time. I just called it stress eating for the longest time but let's be clear: it is an addiction to food. Or at least, an addiction to the dopamine release from eating. Thankfully I've gotten in touch with a psychiatrist who is willing to listen with and work with me, and he's managed to convince me to try a different tack to my weight issue, which is to address it with medication.

I've been prescribed Vyvanse, and so far it seems to help me control the urge to eat. However, given that the medicine is primarily for ADHD treatment, I am experiencing the effects of an enhanced focus as well. Also, holy crap the energy.

However, I've been able to just... do things. Like take showers or clean. I literally could not work up the energy to do either of those things before without a serious amount of self-shaming. So, I'm now kind of wondering if I've maybe got ADHD as well as (list as long as my arm of mental disorders), because of just how normal I feel. Also (based on self-evaluation) I check more than five of the diagnosis criteria on the CDC website in both categories.

It's weird because it's like a massive weight's been lifted off my shoulders and I can't really come up with another answer for why I'd feel like that. It's like a mental fog that's been persistent for decades at this point is gone. No anti-depressant or anti-anxiety drug has EVER done this for me.

TL;DR: I'm wondering if anyone's ever taken ADHD management drugs without an ADHD diagnosis and felt like this before.

I’ve been on Adderall for a few months. It helps tremendously with my ADHD, but it’s not done anything to alleviate my Binge Eating Disorder — I suppose sometimes I’m so immersed in whatever else I’m working on that it might postpone a binge until the Adderall wears off but that’s it. For me, binge eating has nothing to do with appetite — I honestly can’t remember the last time I actually felt physical hunger. And yet I still binge alarmingly often and I’m not putt off by the physical discomfort it induces, if anything it makes the binge urge stronger. Earlier today, my psychiatrist prescribed me Vyvanse and I was too busy talking about psilocybin to ask any questions about how Vyvanse might work when Adderall did not. Aren’t they both stimulants that have appetite suppression as a side effect? I mean, by binges aren’t appetite driven so I don’t see how Vyvanse might work. Im starting it in a few days, and not feeling particularly hopeful about any positive change on the horizon. Thoughts?

I hear a lot of people talking about Tammy having a food addiction. I’m just curious, what’s the difference between that and binge eating disorder? Could she suffer from both? The sheer quantity of food she must consume is something I have a hard time wrapping my head around.

So am conducting a research and I want to write on the topic of eating disorders in Africa more so Kenya but does this country have people with disorders?

I’ve been on Wellbutrin for about 2 weeks now for binge eating disorder treatment.

I am definitely eating way less & feel no urge to eat what so ever, which is nice because I was a slave to food before I started this medicine.

I’ve noticed that I’ve lost a few pounds and was wondering if anyone else has had any weight loss success with Wellbutrin. If you’ve lost weight on Wellbutrin, how much weight did you lose within the first month of being on the medicine?

I really want my weight loss to progress, because I have gained a lot of weight since I developed BED. I was just wondering if any one had any success stories on it.

tw/ eating disorder duh ;-;

I can't leave the house except maybe once or twice a month and every day is a matter of passing time and waiting for the next day only to cycle over again. i don't have any friends and all i can really do is stay in my room. after many years of this, it has caused me this deep emptiness which i now understand is the reason i am constantly trying to fill it with food. I either don't eat at all or eat everything i can. I didn't understand these binges for a long time until now. Eating and making different meals for myself is really the only highlight to my day and is the only change i get. I think i subconsciously hold on to the need for control and part of that is choosing what i eat, when i eat, how i cook it, etc. It's something to look forward to in a life so depressing and empty. I know the best way to rid of this problem is to distract yourself and such but that's literally all my life is. It's just distracting myself everyday with the same things and thoughts over and over to the point where it's not even a distraction anymore. i just have to wait until i can leave (5 months !!)

First off, the good news. It’s been 22 days since my last binge. I recorded it on here, and I haven’t binged since. I also haven’t felt the compulsion. A lot of that is related to being removed from a very stressful situation that was pushing me towards binging as a coping mechanism. I’m not YAY CURED but I’m making good progress.

Now the bad news. This 6 month bout of binging has left me uncomfortably heavy. It’s exacerbating my chronic pain, and I can’t take it anymore. I need to lose weight. My pain management doctor also told me that I need to lose weight. She literally said “you gained it fast, so I’ll assume you’ll be able to lose it fast”. She doesn’t know about my eating disorder. PM doctors are weird about mental illness, so I’m hesitant to tell her.

My new dietitian takes a strong stance against purposefully losing weight (as do all of the dietitians I found when looking for ones that specialize in eating disorders). I understand why, but at the same time I feel there should be exceptions. This is a medical issue that’s affecting my quality of life. People with anorexia are force fed to gain weight if their health is at risk. How would this be any different? I’m miserable and in pain. I was never this miserable when I weighed less.

I know how to lose weight, but I don’t know how to lose weight without counting calories. I know my dietitian will kick me out on my ass if I start counting calories. I don’t know what to do. I’m starting to think I might need to suck it up and have my pain doctor write a note to my dietitian stating I really do need to lose weight for health reasons, and I need help doing it in a way that won’t trigger binging.

Okay. Just needed to rant. This is day 3 of excruciating pain and I don’t know what to do with myself.

My father was quite fit and healthy most of his life. He only became an alcoholic in his late 40s and his liver blew up in his mid 50s. I am in my mid 50s and I have just about become a binge eating addict. Does it mean I'll die soon?

For the record, I have it too. It just manifests in very different ways. I tend to binge on sweets, while she binges on savory (generally fast food). For a while it kind of worked out because she isn’t a sweets person and I hate fast food, so our respective food habits didn’t collide. Today, however, she sat me down and told me that my meals were triggering her because they were “too clean”. To further prove her point, she brought in our mutual friend to agree with her. They both said my tendency to eat salad and vegetables is disordered. My roommate then went on to say she had trauma associated with salad because her parents forced her to eat it to to lose weight.

I feel like shit, honestly. Yes, I eat healthy, satiating meals with a lot of vegetables. I have a dietitian and we plan those meals together. I’ve been able to stop binging, and for the first time in a long time I feel like I have an okay relationship with food.

How do I approach this respectfully? I feel like my roommate is being unreasonable, and I don’t know exactly what she wants from me. I won’t lie, I have a lot of urges to say mean things. She has a terrible diet outside of the binging aspect. She eats fast food at least twice a day, usually in very large amounts. She constantly talks about recovery from BED, but seems to sabotage herself every step of the way. And then she blames everyone except for herself. Right now, my vegetables are apparently a big part of why she can’t heal, and that’s just bullshit to me.

On the other hand, I usually do like her and I don’t want to be an asshole. Help : (

My relationship with food has been fucked for 5 or 6 years. I have worked with a therapist (actually two), but at the end of the day, I just haven’t found a way to convince myself to get back to normal.

Does anyone have experience with using 75 Hard to overcome an eating disorder? It’s only been getting worse. And I don’t know what to do anymore.

Be good to talk to some people who have similar experiences. Can we talk about my experiences in the comments so I can have some insight, because not many people understand I dont think. 3 years of grinding to get this under control. I'm better now, but some days I have an insatiable urge to eat and eat and eat. Would be awesome to talk in comments. THANKS IN ADVANCE. ❤ And happy new year.

Hello everyone my name is Brooke I am 19 year old female, 5’3 and I weigh 119 pounds. Roughly a year ago I weighed 148 pounds and HATED my body. I decided after yo-yo dieting to get serious and lost 29 pounds so far. I did/ do light strength tensing CARDIO and put my self in a 350-500 caloric deficit eating a total amount of 1400-1500 calories a day. I am trying to loose 10 more pounds since throughout the day I range from 119-123. I HATE the way my body looks and feel as if I haven’t lost a single pound when I look in the mirror since my thighs still touch and my arms appear larger. Here lately trying to loose these last 10 pounds has been a struggle I keep falling into the cycle of bingeing on a random day even if I’m totally full. Losing the 29 pounds I have lost was a breeze but now I’m stuck. I have also edited my deficit to what fits my new weight. I listen to my body and stay full but can’t stop the binging cycle (1,000 - 1,500 extra cals roughly each binge). It is becoming hard for me to loose these last 10 pounds. Does anyone have any advice for me I’m desperate to feel good in my body and stop BINGING.

https://psychedelicspotlight.com/binge-eating-disorder-psilocybin-study-tryp-therapeutics-fda-green-lights/

Tryp Therapeutics is ending the year with some welcome news: The Food and Drug Administration has given the company approval to proceed with its Phase 2a clinical trial evaluating the use of synthetic psilocybin for binge eating disorder.

“We are excited to move forward with our Phase 2a clinical trial in binge eating disorder through our partnership with the University of Florida. Our dialogue with the FDA has been productive and has meaningfully improved the design of this study,” said Chairman and CEO Greg McKee on Thursday.

Using psilocybin to treat eating disorders is one of several exciting avenues for promising psychedelic research outside of depression, anxiety, and PTSD — three mental health issues that tend to dominate the conversation as to how psychedelics can help humanity.

Tryp, a pharmaceutical company focused on developing psilocybin-based compounds for diseases with unmet medical needs, first submitted the investigational new drug (IND) application to the FDA back in September. The request to proceed with the Phase 2a clinical trial evaluating the company’s novel proprietary psilocybin formulation, TRP-8802, for binge eating disorder and hypothalamic obesity was placed on hold in October. In November, the FDA requested focusing the study specifically on patients with binge eating disorder, and submitting an IND for a separate Phase 2a study to evaluate the use of synthetic psilocybin for patients with hypothalamic obesity.

The study is to be run with Dr. Jennifer Miller at the University of Florida. TRP-8802 is an oral formulation of synthetic psilocybin and would be evaluated in combination with psychotherapy. Tryp is also researching how synthetic psilocybin can be used to treat fibromyalgia, phantom limb pain, and complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), in addition to hypothalamic obesity and binge eating disorder. All together, Tryp estimates potential market value of this synthetic psilocybin to be worth $12.5 billion, if proven to be safe and effective.

After documenting myself about how to proper water fast I've decided to start an hardcore program consisting of 3 days of water fast, 1 day of refeeding, 2 days of maintenance and 1 cheat day per week.

I do this to purposely challenge my food cravings and binge eating disorder.

I already got the right electrolytes and a slow cooker to make my own bone broth for refeeding day.

And starting a fasting journal where to record my moods and cravings.

I believe this first week is gonna be hell, but if I make it I'm gonna come out of it with a stronger willpower.

I now weight 108kg for 175cm of height, my goal for now is to reach 90kg

Wish me luck! 🙏

A little bit of history: I had all kinds of eating disorders since I was 13. Throwing food away when my parents weren't looking, vomiting, starving myself for days.

After teenage years, I developed binge eating disorder. Literally running to the store for bags of highly processed snacks, feeling guilty after and trying to stop myself from doing it again, but the thoughts of junk food were too strong, so I could never stay on a diet for more than two weeks. My thoughts just got stuck on anything that I looked at and they didn't leave until I bought that shit.

After I started microdosing, these thoughts are just floating away. I can look at snacks in the grocery store and walk away. For the first time in 20 years, I can actually start trying to have healthy relationship with food. Don't know if it's more of an autosugestion since I'm microdosing for such a short time, but nothing ever helped like this before. Does anyone had similar experiences?

To make it clear - I didn’t have all three at once. From a young age, I struggled with binge eating disorder for several years. I had a lot of insecurity, and ended up trying to find out how to lose weight. I became bulimic for a year, before it ultimately became two years of anorexia.

For all who finds this posts, I hope my story brings a bit of certainty in knowing you are not alone through any and all traumas you face on a day to day basis.

Preview Before Sexual Abuse Started: I was raised with both parents present. I grew up always knowing more than I should have. I remember being 3 yr-old asking my 6 yr-old "older sister" (Dads Marine Friends Daughter) if my mom and dad would get divorced due to my ex-marine father having an overbearing temper and narcissistic tendencies. Therefore, I grew up thinking my father and mothers relationship was normal and viewing love as dysfunctional. Growing up, my father would always have a military movie playing (Saving Private Ryan, etc.). So I also grew up exposed to violence, normalized killing, and grew up watching movies with guns/and having my dad own guns.

When Sexual Abuse Started: It was 2005 as my family of four moved into a beautiful neighborhood across from my soon to-be child predators. I was babysat on occasion by the neighbor lady, who happened to have two boys who were 7 yr-old and 9 yr-old. My sister (3 yr-old) and I (5 yr-old) would go to their house where they would always want to "build forts". After building the forts they would ask us to lay down next to them with a blanket and a pillow for our heads. They would ask us to promise not to tell anyone about what was to happen. The older boy would rub and grope my thighs and make-out with me... I can't remember much after besides he would go under the blanket and I would dissociate. This would happen multiple times a week for at least 3-4 years. They also went to my church, where I absolutely hated to be.

Due to my COCSA, it made me very sexual at a younger age. This is where things get trickier for my brain to comprehend. My step cousin and my family friends daughter who I mentioned earlier, we were all girls and would experiment during this time period as well. However, sometimes I feel as if it was my fault that we were experimenting when I know it wasn't my fault. My step cousin and family friend were older and they would always make me be the "boy", while they were the girls. They would tell me what to do, and being 5-8 I thought this was normal. Every time we got together, sexual actions would ALWAYS happen usually late at night when we shared the same bed to go to sleep at night. However, I remember one night being at my uncles house and having his step-wife waking me up asking to get in the shower with her. Obviously a

I have binged all my life. Im 18 now and recovering.

But 3 years ago my body gave up. And I got GERD and LPR

Due to hiatal hernia and a weak lower esophageal sphincter.

Now I have to take meds and have tons of lifestyle and dietary restrictions.

Its pretty severe for me.

Did anyone else experience this? Maybe I was just unlucky.

Hi there, was hoping you lovely folks could share some advice.

My partner of the past ~2 years has struggled with BED his entire life. He’ll go a whole day without eating anything, then secretly eat massive amounts of food and spend the next few hours deep in self loathing. He says when he’s out of control binging he feels like he loses control of the rest of his life.

It’s hard for me to watch him hate himself and his body when I love both so so much. I really want to get hyper involved and research recovery strategies, tell him that it’s ok to binge if I suspect he just did it, binge when he binges so he doesn’t feel gross, etc. I’d happily put in any amount of effort to help with this. However, he says he doesn’t want me to get involved—“This is a dark part of my life and you are a bright one so I don’t want to mix you two.” I’m also clearly not a medical professional so I might cause more harm than help. But it’s so hard to sit back and watch him hate himself.

Is there any way for me to help? Or is the kindest thing to just let him fight his own battle?

So I'm new to the world of ADHD medications and so far, I've found that Adderall and Vyvanse are close to the same thing, with Vyvanse being a bit less harsh (I think.)

But whenever I research, I find that Adderall is described as a medication that can treat ADHD and narcolepsy, and Vyvanse is a medication that can treat ADHD and Binge Eating Disorder.

If they're essentially the same thing, why is Vyvanse used by doctors to aid binge eating and Adderall isnt?

As an ADHD'er and binge eater I'm excited to try Vyvanse potentially but I'm wondering why Adderall isn't also used a binge eating aid.

Thanks guys

I find in addition to bingeing during stressful or lonely times, I also binge when good things occur or are about to occur sort of as a way to bring me back down to earth I suppose? It's the biggest thing standing in the way of my success. I exercise regularly, I've worked on what I can work on mentally (I'm in an environment that isn't ideal), I've figured our what I want to do professionally, I have a skincare routine, I have my haircare routine down - this is the one thing really really hampering me down.

I've gone to therapy. I've done the hiding foods. I've gone into intuitive eating (and still believe it might be the right path and my weight really stabilised). I've joined the online courses. I've read the books. I just need help.

I used to cry if I ate a any amount of calories. Then I recovered, truly, from my restrictive eating. And now I binge on thousands of calories every day. I can't stop gaining weight. I can't bring myself to exercise. What the hell is this?

I used to be able to restrict and now I have trouble eating less than 3500 calories a day... I KNOW extreme hunger is normal, but there's a point where it stops being extreme hunger. I physically cannot restrict anymore. I can't stop eating. It's been a lot more than a year since I stopped restricting. I'm so hopeless...

This shame is worse than the shame I felt when I was restricting. At least when I was restricting I had the societal approval of getting thinner, of feeling I was becoming more beautiful with every fast. Now not only are my biggest fears being realized with my incessant weight gain, I have to deal with society's fatphobia.

Sorry for this vent... And thank you for allowing me to have a space to talk about this

Ty 💜

I just found this super interesting. She is a big fan of this medication and was very pleased to hear I was taking it for my alcohol problem. She then casually mentioned that she has prescribed it for patients who binge on carbs/sweets, especially in the evenings.

I don’t have a huge problem with eating junk food or anything, but I did start to notice that if I take Nal and happen to snack, the snackies do start to lose their appeal quicker. Anyone else stumble upon this little trick?