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Anorexia and binge eating disorder

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I have BED and anorexia (diagnosed with OFSED but I lied a lot) and I just want anorexia. I have gained NINE KILOS with BED and I was just 0.1 KILOGRAMS AWAY FROM MY FIRST GW!!!! I HATE THIS!!!

I usually do mid restriction (500-900 calories) when I'm on track, but as soon as I eat more at lunch (500 calories already at 3pm) or I have one cookie or whatever I binge to 2000-4000. The days I start binging at breakfast usually are 5000-7000. What can I do?

Please don't say "stop restricting", restriction is the only thing that keeps me away from BED. Also I was binge free for 6 months when I went vegan (bc of animal love reasons) but when I had my first binge I couldn't stop again...
 
#2 ·
I have the same issue, however am not diagnosed anorexic for BMI reasons. What helps for me is:

-eating breakfast or regular meals in General: having to sit with "i have to wait until..."; "wait one more hour" makes things escalate when I do start eating and I can't stop

-Giving yourself a small time Frame and working up from there: saying you have to not binge for two days, should be possible, after that, another one, another two/three etc...

-scheduleing in common binge Foods: for me, when I don't eat bread or chocolate or crunchy Cookies for a while and tell myself I can't have it, it escalates when I break and eat a Little; instead, I can have a square of vegan chocolate after every lunch or whatever suits you

For me, not restricting did NOTHING, it's Always purely mental and a Coping mechanism or out of boredom for. i also fall into episodes of gaining 10 kg or so in like two months, and although it's usually the sheer self hatred that stops it around that Point, for me when I focus on "do not binge again, it doesn't matter if it's higher cals than you'd like, you're moving in the right direction" instead of "you have to restrict again you're a failiure and Need to Change instanty", being able to restrict usually follows.

Idk it's a lot of mental work, trying to be disciplined mixed with distracting yourself as well as analyzing exactly what times, Foods, emotional states, etc form a pattern when it Comes to triggering binges, so you can work with that.