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Help ive developed a binge eating disorder from dieting

crunch1

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Ok heres the story:

I started eating clean about a year ago, by this i mean going a week, and then eating a little junk or drinking on the weekends.
This was normal and fine with me, i was not really bulking or cutting, just working out, and staying lean.

This last summer I started my first actual cutting attempt/diet. --my first real diet restrictions:

I would consume a diet of about 100-150C a day 200G protien, and 30G fat, i was doing cardio 4X a week, and lifting 3 or 4X a week.

I was able to go a week at a time, then every sunday i would binge on anything i could get my hands on, consuming copious amounts of junk all day, the calories easily were in the 10,000's, i would eat untill i felt sick.

Monday i would wake up and diet again all week, then do the same thing on the weekend - BINGE.

I did this from June untill September.--every single weekend, i gave myself the excuse that I was "REFEEDING" and it was ok.

I got results, i did get cut up.

1 month ago i broke up with my girlfriend (which was my motivation to cut up), and who would not witness theese massive binges over the summer...and i got depressed, my motivation to continue to work out dropped. I was planning on trying to cut up to 175 and have my bf @ 6-7% - then begin a reasonable bulking diet.
I binged almost every day for 2 weeks, mostly just at night, getting sick from it, -stopped doing my cardio and worked out only a few times.

I balloned up to 198 in 2 weeks...ALMOST 25 LBS. most of it is probably water and carbs, but it has to bee a good amount of fat as well.

Im now at 194-i ruined my attempt at a clean bulk, and now im flabbly, lost all my cuts, my abs have disappeared.

After my summer of cutting ive lost strenght, probably some muscle, and because of the binging ive been doing ive gained fat. Now i have to go backwards.....i want to be lean.

The problem is i just cannot control my urges to eat, last night i was at 1800 cals -my jperferred amount for the day in attempt to lose the weight i had gained over the past 3 weeks, was ready for bed, decided to have one more "myoplex" - that led to a binge consisting of:
3 more shakes
2 cups of oatmeal
1 can of tuna in a wrap

now at least it was clean food, but i felt sick from eating it, stomach all bloated.

Before I ever restricted anything from my diet i would not eat if i felt full, i had a hard time eating 3 arbys roast beef sandwhiches, now 5 of them are nothing and that was just a small part of one of my binges. People who witness me eating 4 pints of ben and jerrys are amazed that I am not fat, and that i can eat that much.....however this used to be a once a week thing, its spilling over to other days - I eat, feel full, sick, and eat some more, untill the point that breathing becomes heavy because my stomach is pushing up and blocking my airway or something -it is hard to even bend over im so stuffed, sometimes i wait and when i can eat a little more, i will in the next hour or so, however i do not throw up, nor try to throw up, i do feel guilt, that leads to more depression, which makes me more vuneralble to more binging, i also do not try to do mass cardio or anything to counter my binge.


i have to run to class now but does anyone have any advice? Ive tried writing everything down, cals and all, i didn't help. I cannot have just a little junk, i have to eat it all if its there. It used to just be junk, cereal or whatever, its starting to become lots of "clean" food too. Ive eaten just fruit once untill i was sick - 8 apples? I mean comon this is a serious disorder. Im driving to the store, buying 20 bucks worth of nothing put trash, and gorging on it, hardly enjoying it. - its like i like the pain from overeating or something, like a punishment?????

I waxed off a box of twinkies and a box of granola bars 2 nights ago, theres no way i can just eat 1 of them, its so wierd. I guess i think if its all gone then i wont eat more of it the next day. HELP!


later.
CRunch
 
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A eto diet may control those binges in my opinion. Ive always been addicted to chocolate and would binge out on nothing but chocolate. Im talking about 5000+ cals of just chocolate per binge. I started a keto diet and now I dont have any desire to pig-out. I recommend an atkins or a ckd. Good luck! :)
 
ARGGGHH...

Bro, I've been in your shoes. I got down to around 5-6% bf and actually did an amatuer BB'ing show when I was 21....

Then I just got so fed up with dieting that my story snowballed like yours too....quit doing cardio, was pigging out nightly, etc...

2 years later I still have struggles. I try to limit my junkfood binges to weekends now and for the most part I am successful.

However I have found that its only when I do ketosis that I start really having the strong cravings for simple carbohydrates like chips, pizza, etc

I was on ketosis for the past 2 weeks and broke down last night and had some nachos & cheese. I've decided to just say fuck that and go around 100-150 carbs a day with cardio 5x's a week.
 
binge eating

Hey -
I am not a pro bodybuilder or anything of the sort but have had my fair share of experience with eating disorders. In my quest to recover from anorexia, i too developed binge eating disorder. I have been binging for almost 2 years now and am just getting things under control. The past 2 weeks has been my best in 2 years. The best advice i can give you is not to diet. I know this sounds horrible becuase you just want all the excess weight gone tomorrow but it is the only way. First focus on not binging. Eat what you want, when you want, but try and get your sense of hunger and fullness back. Once you can eat regularly then you may try to diet but you will be surprised how you will drop the weight just from eating normally alone.
luck and love
-Lizzy
 
Sadly this is me too,
I diet hard During the work week, then eat like 5000 cals of Kids Cereal and Ice cream on Fri Sat and Sun Evenings, and then Ride my Bike too the Gym Sat and Sun morn and Workout like hell, then ride home and diet all day. It sux but Its soo hard to stop.
 
I'd say your a good candidate for Bromocriptine and or 5-htp

try 50mg 5-htp working up to 150mg a day. Helps keep serotoin up just like sugar does (binge eating) thus helping you keep a satiated feeling.

lots of posts on bromocriptine - do a search

good luck

sirwanksalot
 
I will agree with SUpergirl515. I binge too - and it's hard to stop. I had to stop trying to cut, and the binges are nowhere near as bad now. One idea might be to focus on strength ad powerlifting for a while, and once you are over the bingeing, going back to cutting/bulking?

Also, if you restrict your cals too much when dieting, it can trigger a binge - it's the biological reflex when doing without for a while, your body still thinks you've been prowling the countryside for food and just made a fresh kill, so it makes you eat up...
 
I totally understand.
I eat really clean during the week, and on sunday I allow myself a 'cheat' day. However, instead of just eating bad food in moderation like normal people do, I totally pig out.
I dont know why. I wont even really be hungry, but it looks and tastes good and I know I can't eat it again till next week so I just pig out. I've actually had to miss two Mondays and one Tuesday (when my cheat day rolled over into monday) because my stomach was so upset from eating so damn much.
It sucks because I am short (5 foot) and wiegh about 110 lbs....but I can eat like a big man! Last weekend I ate all but one slice of a medium pizza......in one sitting....... :(
I am in good shape, however I know that if I were to limit my free days to a moderate amount of crappy food then it wont set me back so far.
 
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