idk I did that, after a while your jsut tired of binging and you want to feel less trapped by food

 

this is what i'm worried about my sister doing. its like "if I can't have everything i'll have nothing" (at least that'd be her attitude based on comments i've heard when she's called out for not eating right and is encouraged to practice proper meals and portion control) and it shuts out a bit of that food guilt for a while but its still a terrible way to deal with whatever is the underlying issue fuelling the binges.

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I was a binge eater as a kid. Then people made jokes at my expense, teased me, treated me like shit, fat shamed me and I decided fuck you all. I began restricting heavily and that was it.

 

I was normal then moved into an ana 'phase', then into a binge 'phase', now I'm back in an ana 'phase'. This is over the course of 10 years. It's like a switch was flicked each time.

 

In my experience it was the 10 pound weight gain

 

I was normal then moved into an ana 'phase', then into a binge 'phase', now I'm back in an ana 'phase'. This is over the course of 10 years. It's like a switch was flicked each time.

Haha my life too.
I gained 22kg when I was 15
Lost 18kg when I was 18
Totally surprised myself! Because I was binge eating and couldn't stop then something happened idk..

But now I'm binging a bit again and I wish I can restrict

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idk I did that, after a while your jsut tired of binging and you want to feel less trapped by food

im so tired of it . I was diagnosed with anorexia in Jan and gained so much since from recovery and I can't stop and I wish I could restrict and lsoe rapidly again but I don't understand how people just flick that mental switch

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Take a look at Elle Tayla now and I think you'll see that her behaviours can switch back to binging just as easily.

 

im so tired of it . I was diagnosed with anorexia in Jan and gained so much since from recovery and I can't stop and I wish I could restrict and lsoe rapidly again but I don't understand how people just flick that mental switch

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i binged almost every single day, my stomach was constantly bloated, i felt disgusting and out of control

it wasnt just a quick switch it happened over a while I started to slowly cut things out and it takes a lot of time ofconvincing yourslef that food is grooss

I binge every once in a while especially when I hang out with friends of course because I am human after all

lol

 

I did this. Went from an Ana phase to binge eating then bulimic. Now sort of in a starvation/ bp cycle I can't seem to break.

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When I was 12 I became anorexic and starved until I was like 83 pounds (I'm 5"4). A few years later everything changed and I binged like crazy and gained literally double my weight, so I was 187 pounds. A few months ago everything changed again and I just suddenly had so much willpower and hated myself so much so I started starving/restricting again. Something that strangely helped me a lot was going on vacation with my family (I'm almost 20 and I actually always travel all by myself) but this trip was very positive for me or let's say for losing weight cause I forced myself to eat "normal". Also I turned vegan about a year ago and even if I'm not one of those vegans who always mentions that they're vegan I have to admit: it helped so much. I don't think it can help everybody but just having your mind set to that thinking of "I can't eat this chocolate cause it's not vegan" prevented SO many binges especially cause where I live are not many unhealthy vegan options and I just started to get a better feeling for when to stop and listen to my body. I have to admit that I'm technically not a good example cause I currently restrict a lot and doing all this to your body is fucking terrible, but I'm so glad that i have the willpower again and i never thought I'd overcome the binge cycle. My GW is not under 90 pounds anymore, definitely around 110 cause I'm actually not one of those anorexics who just wants to get thinner and thinner anymore and I'm almost at my GW but yeah it's definitely possible to go from binging to anorexia. Though I don't know whether it makes a difference in my case since I knew what it was like to be anorexic and how all my methods worked before I was a binge eater.
(Also I'm not saying you should become vegan, I really don't believe it helps everyone and it can be dangerous for some too cause some people cut out literally everything of their diet)

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Mental illness

 

Just depends on how bad you begin to hate yourself.
I'm not as bad as I once was, I have a lot more self esteem. But I was able to lose up to 40lb in 3.5 months before or liquid fast for 3 weeks at one point. I don't know how, but something flipped the switch. I think I got to the point where I was constantly so triggered I couldn't stand the sight of food and my binges vanished. I was terrified of eating, food looked bad suddenly, disgusting even. Even something about my psychological reaction to the smell was different. Foods I absolutely love became detestable and nauseating during that time.

Honestly I wish I was that sick right now.

 

I was like that.

I was a fat kid and first lost weight via bulimia. Parents forced me to stop purging; i taught myself to quit bingeing and start restricting.
It's the mindset.

 

I don't know how I'm doing it, but lemme tell you, it's not easy. It I'm getting the hang of it

 

You're fat and want to change. You quit junk food (that leads to binges). You eat healthy food and exercise a bit. You count calories to make sure you don't eat too much. You cut your calories even if you're hungry. You want to be skinny. You don't see yourself skinny even if you are.

And because people with BED are super triggered to AN, being told they're too fat, to not eat, that they're gross... so no wonder.

PS. Own experience.

 

You're fat and want to change. You quit junk food (that leads to binges). You eat healthy food and exercise a bit. You count calories to make sure you don't eat too much. You cut your calories even if you're hungry. You want to be skinny. You don't see yourself skinny even if you are.

And because people with BED are super triggered to AN, being told they're too fat, to not eat, that they're gross... so no wonder.

PS. Own experience.

 

I think eating disorders are always evolving and changing as you as an individual change. For example I developed Anorexia with no binging, then I developed a binge eating disorder, then once again I developed Anorexia. Now I am Anorexic with Binge restrict tendancies. After my last binges I have just started purging So now I have bulimic tendancies.

 

Oddly enough, for me, it depends on the season. In the summer I always struggle with binge eating and anxiety/stress eating. It's so so weird it's happened to me for a good 3 summers now. But then, once fall hits, so does restriction. I can already feel it happening. All of a sudden my brain flips upside down and I can eat one meal a day and not feel a bit of hunger it's WEIRD. I go from one extreme to the other out of no where. By winter I'll probably be skinny again but as of now I'm a miserable fat bitch cause of summer binge LOL.

 

''Do they one day just click and decide to severely restrict and follow a diet again ?''

Basically, yes. That's what happened for me at least.

 

It's important to remember many anorexics end up binging because of severe restricting. The only difference is they're normally eating so little that there isn't a huge weight gain like in BED.

 

I used to binge eat in adolescence. Was like an emotional eating thing. After awhile I had a change in my brain, where the thought of eating made me sick. My body made me sick (still does). I went back and forth for years. Now I almost never binge and just stick to restricting.

 

While going through a Depression years ago, all I did was binge and gain a lot of weight, it was not till I wanted to lose it, that it got out of control, and I just stop eating all together, so it seems to me to be easy, to switch to overeating and then not eating, to me anyway.

 

Mental illness

Yup.

 

I don't really know if I was ever a "binge eater" but I definitely ate normally for an American child, which was a lot of processed junk food in addition to a normal healthy diet. I ate whatever I wanted whenever I wanted. And because of my height (or lack thereof because I'm short) eating "normally" meant I looked chubby even if I was at a "healthy weight".

Then one day, something just clicked in my brain. The clicking brain this has only happened twice to me. Once when I was 11 and once when I was 35. And it's extreme. Like, I just get so god damn sick of food controlling me, that I just snap and reverse the cycle.

It wasn't something that I could consciously try to instigate within myself though. Because I legitimately tried to trigger my anorexia after giving birth to my son and I was unsuccessful. About ten years after that, it (relapse) just happened on its own. I barely even saw it coming because I was a normal person for so long.