News of Binge Eating Disorder Forum

I am so glad I found this forum as several other MH forums do not include a binge eating section in the eating disorders category. I have struggled with this eating disorder since I was 11 or 12 and am now 30 years old. I had it well under control after having gastric bypass surgery in 2007, but it has crept back into my life and has taken over the reigns once again. While I ...

It is such a relief to read everyone's posts on here and realise that I'm not alone in what I'm going through - not that I would wish this on anyone. This is my first opportunity to tell my story to anyone as I could never dream of talking to my friends or family. I feel like binge-eating is such a shameful embarrassing thing - does anyone else feel like that? I feel like if ...

And I mean in the sense that I have a degree in nutrition and am doing a program to become a dietitian (how did that happen??) I have also struggled in my relationship to food since I was about 15, so 9 years now. I was always tall and thin, but started to gain some womanly weight in highschool I wasn't used to. That could have been natural, but I do remember snacking an awful ...

Living with an eating disorder is harder than a lot of people know. It takes over your life. It will slowly start by pulling you in and once it has ahold of you it will do anything in it's power to destroy you. I have been living with compulsive overeating disorder for 6 years. I started in 6th grade when my brother who was in 8th grade became a real heroin/coccaine addict and an alcoholic. ...

I just want to be able to have a friend without having to scrutinize anything about them just because the views of myself are so screwed up.

I can't even have a conversation without thinking about what the other person eats everyday, how much they eat, how little or if anything at all.

I have hidden my dirty little secret since I was in my teens. Now I am 41, with grown kids of my own, yet I feel empty and ashamed. I am writing this to get it out. The weakness was become self aware after I spent a year in Iraq. After returning my employer noticed changes in my demeanor and approached me with the idea of getting help (counseling) for possible PTSD. Me, What! Hell ...

I experience great amounts of self-loathing after eating. I try my hardest to resist, because I'm not very hungry...but I always end up eating too much. Maybe it's not too much, but my mind keeps telling me it is. I'm not overweight, my BMI is about 21%, people tell me I'm very slender and attractive physically..but I just cannot seem to get over the immense guilt. It becomes so overwhelming that I have resorted to ...

Not sure if this is the right section of the forum, i'm 19
Pretty much all of my life i have never eaten normal food
i only eat scrap food like crisps pot noodle wheatabix
if i go to a restaurant i can't eat anything apart from ice cream or chips..
i used to have help for it, but theres not much anyone can really do because i just don't like food that i should ...

I know to most people that sounds strange "I can't stop eating" but I cant.

I don't know if there was a first moment for me when it started. But I know in the last 5 years how it started...

After high school my activity level went down and the eating stayed the same, so naturally I started to gain weight. Then three years after graduated I looked in the mirror and thought you need ...

I am new to the forum. Hello. I am having the hardest time right now with the overeating aspect of my eating disorder. I have a long history of anorexia and bulimia. I really am feeling so desperate to lose all this weight that I have gained and it's so hard. I feel like all I keep doing is eating. I started taking diet pills but its doing a whole lot of nothing because I ...