binge eating and can't stop

[cleochatra]

Re: binge eating and can't stop

I wish that was neccesarily true, micki (people kicking problems due to low-carbing).

I know a lot of people who have fared extremely well low-carbing, who have never deviated but just lost it and started binging again. It's more than the diet. It also has to be the mindset.

People who are on Atkins who lose weight stiull have the same underlying problems if they don't rectify them. I thbink many hope the diet and the weight loss solves the problems, and when it doesn't it sends them further into the abyss!

I'm glad Atkins works for so many people! It is an awesome way of eating (I think we totally agree there), but it's sosososososo much more when we're dealing with people with problems due to other underlying psychological issues.

There are people who need to look to other resources (medical and support) where they can step up accountability to a new level and receive medical advice as well. I think it's why we sometimes have drop-off here. People think Atkins cures everything. It only solves part of the problem. The rest is up to the person with the weight loss.

Knowing there is help out there, like doctors, overeater's anonymous and greysheet.org has been what literally has saved the life of some folks.

I hope people will come here for advice and support. I also hope they'll receive what they need for their overall healing where people are qualified to give that help above and beyond the diet when their needs require this extra support.

{{micki}}

[DAWNIMMEL]

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I have a problem with binging too. I have been on atkins for over three years and I do binge, but on legal foods. You can still low carb and binge, but you will gain weight. My doctor is aware that I do this and she is very supportive. She says it is an eating disorder just like any other. So if you need help with it, get it. There is nothing to hold you back. Good luck to everyone........Dawn

[cleochatra]

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{{{Dawn}}}

[goin2Bgood]

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Crap. I need to go to OA or a DR.

I've been on Atkins over 2 years. I went off Atkins after losing a lot of weight the first time around, but got back on eventually after regaining my weight which I believe was around 40 pounds. So I started again at 280 and got down to 208 at one point, but my weight has actually held steady more between 212-215 these past 6 months.

There have been some big thyroid issues, etc but during this whole time, well over a year, I hadn't gone off until one night a couple weeks ago. I had tostito chips, salsa and some kind of bread. And then the next night some chocolate. And I quit working out a month ago. it was like a deliberate sabotage of what I had worked towards. I hadn't cheated in at least a year and a half, and I literally dove into junk food one night for no reason. Food I'd been faced with hundreds of times over the year+ and never been tempted.

Well I'm up 5 pounds (almost 218-219) and I am binging and throwing up every day for a little over a week now. I eat candy, sugared cereal, etc. and once that's out of the way the rest of the day I eat Atkins legal.

I was bulimic years ago and would throw up multiple times during the day, but I had actually stopped that even before starting Atkins the first time. it's scary how easily I've slipped back into it and I want to stop before I ruin my health for good. From what I'm reading in this thread, it's time to see a Dr. and get some outside help.. which I knew, I'm just not happy to have it verified. And I'm ashamed to even be in this position and scared because I feel like I have no control anymore.

[mickigirl]

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gosh how awful for you to be feeling like this. pleeease go to a doctor as soon as possible, as the constant vomiting will rot your teeth amongst other things. it also alters your whole system depriving you of for example potassium, which is necessary for a healthy heart. yesterday there was a tv programme about our thinnest celebrities, who all have an eating disorder IMO, and they were talking in great depth about buliemia and anorexia.
you really need medical help. i really feel for you and i wish you all the luck in the world to overcome your compulsion. i'm sure evryone on this board is behind you 100%
lots of love, micki

[2big4mysize]

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you have seen the enemy and are taking positive steps in seeing a doctor for it good for yuo!

you know we are hear if you want to post about it or your Atkins.

BTW when you stopped working out you stopped converting stress hormones to good for you chems and you stopped procusing some feel good brain chems too.
your brain files foods in many cross referrenced files by how the food tastes and if you like it 0or not but also by the body effects the food caused you.

So there you were jonesing for your exercise fix and your Dr Brain said hey I know of a wonderful food that will generate those brain chems too and it prescribed for you those foods that in the past had evoked similar neurotransmitters. you swallowed the "med" but then you vomited it back up so the effects even though they were temparary didn't happen and so Dr Brain "writes" you another and another script for what it knows in the past has cured those feelings. You have to send Dr Brain back to school and teach it new things that will give you the feelings you are searching for.
That is what seeing soembody for treatment of this will do for you they will helpo you figure out what feelings evoked the eatting pattern and steps you can take to reprogram your Dr Brain way for those high carb temporary fixes.

Kep us updated on your progress plase.

[DAWNIMMEL]

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You need to see a doctor, you can do a lot of damage to your esophagus and other parts of your digestive tract by vomitting. There are many professionals out there who can help you. I got help from my doctor, you can too. Best wishes Dawn

[goin2Bgood]

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thanks guys

I did see someone starting last Friday. I'll be seeing him weekly for awhile. I'm struggling to get back on induction.

Normally I wouldn't go back to induction (I'm on legumes rung) but I've been not on program for a long time, I was kidding myself I was still doing my Atkins. I wasn't cheating (until a couple weeks ago) by eating "bad" food but I was eating way more cantaloupe, berries, nuts and everything else than I should have been. I could eat almost a whole cantaloupe a day and looking back I know darn well how many carbs that is, I chose to ignore it. So I was cheating although I was telling msyelf I wasn't 'cause it was 'legal" argh!!

So, back to square one for a couple weeks if I can get my act together and we'll go from there. I know many triggers for me and will avoid them in the coming months. melon,nuts, too much splenda, spicy pork rinds are the big ones that pop to mind.

So thank you again. I don't like talking about my failures, I am ashamed and frustrated with myself. So I'll have my big whaaa and get on with it LOL

[lisadallasr]

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Hi everyone, im glad i saw this thread so i dont feel so alone in my battle with bingeing. I have noticed on some other atkins message boards there not understanding, its more like well if you really want to lose weight you would stick to it 100% and i believe that but sometimes that need to binge is stronger than my need to lose weight, i have been yo yo dieting now for three years and im trying my hardest to do it right this time around, and i know not to look at it like a diet but a way of life and i have done that, but sometimes its like my mind will start thinking of some kind of food that is not atkins friendly and i will get nervous because i feel overwhelmed when that happens, cant really explain it, almost like a battle in my own head trying to get me to just say this one time wont hurt you but in all reality it does. I also have a perfectionist personality to go along with it, i have an all or nothing attitude which is bad because i feel i have to do it perfect 100% of the time and if i fail once i failed all together. I know that food has been my drug of choice and have thought of seeking professional help but then i feel like something is wrong with me, why cant i just stick to my eating habits and be normal. My husband has told me that i need to talk to someone because i will cry on his shoulder about how i feel food overpowers me at times and my self esteem has really suffered, i hate what i see in the mirror and i want to change so bad.

I also have two daughters who are 5 and 6 and i do not want them to be like me with being so self concious of there body, because to me it could go a whole different route than what it went for me which could lead to anorexia or bulimia and that scares me, since society has put so much pressure on women to look perfect.

[2big4mysize]

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lisadallasr welocme to the forum glad you are going to get some couseling too.

Going 2bGood even though you don't like to talk about your failures we can't help and support you through them if we don't know about them and you know how much we love to celebrate any kind of a victory over those carbs please keep us informed on how you are doing.