Want to meet binge eaters

I want to be understood in my disorder and meet other binge eaters who know it is not greediness but an overwhelming uncontrollable urge. I've never met anyone else with the disorder and am seen as a fat freak at school

Hi there

please don't be sad. I think I understand how you feel. I have binge eating disorder too and people in school make fun of me too.

hope you see you in the forums!

Rachel

You know ladies....I was in your shoes and still am...many think I am very greedy since I always help myself to so much food and then an hour later, I am "stuffing my face" and all people say "eating again"....duh.....I am always hungry and I can't help myself and since I am a depressed person, that does not help neither since eating only calms me down......

I am now getting fat again since my clothes are getting tight again...

I know none of this is really helping but just letting you know you are not alone....

I'm a guy with a binge eating problem. I'm lucky in that I don't put on a lot of weight, despite my bingeing. However, it has caused a host of other medical problems like hypertension, high cholesterol, and and other problems. I am sensitive about how my body looks, but not as much as I used to be. When I was younger, I was obsessed with being muscular.
My biggest problem now is over-eating when I'm depressed or bored. I tend to eat more than my body needs, and often make myself sick from gorging. Then comes the guilt and self-recrimination, followed by workouts and "sweat-outs".

All of this sounds very familiar....it is because I am going through it right now. Like right this very minute I am struggling to NOT go back into the godforsaken kitchen and eat more. Problem is 1) I am sitting here nauseous because I spent the last several hours bingeing and 2) it is 3:20 AM here and every other sane person is sleeping right now!

I am long out of school, but I know how horrible and in many ways worse it is to be struggling with this while at the same time coping with the constant pressures of peers and society.

I know I am new here and probably being more vocal than I should be just starting off. I just want you to know you are understood and supported. Even I am seeing there are more people out there going through this than I realized.

Hi Rosie and the rest of the members here. I'd like to meet other binge eaters too, to compare and contrast stories, and maybe get to the bottom of it. After 50 some odd years, it's high time.

So my eating MO is that I can do well for a few days, then get tempted by something sweet, like home made cheese cake my mother makes for everyones' birthdays. It tastes good at first, then I can't control myself, and eat all of whatever it is that is tempting me, then carry on to satellite foods, attempting to balance the salty and the sweet, the yen and the yang of it. I am not overweight by the scales, maybe a few pounds. But this life pattern is bothering me. I get migraines afterwards, debilitating migraines, but control them with Imitrex. I don't exactly feel depressed, but there's a hole I am trying to fill up, or anxiety to calm. Oddly enough, the whole binge episode kind of energizes me into calmer eating the following days, and there's the "new leaf" mentality. But it always comes back. I don't know what is causing these binges and hope to achieve more control. Is it possible?