Try listening to the Brain Over Binge podcast, it's very interesting and motivating. It's really helped me!
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Okay, so I'm a binge eater. I've tried lots of different diets but I feel they always push me into binging more. I'm doing counselling at the moment & few sessions have focused on the eating so she has told me to just set myself small goals each week. So week one she wanted me to drink more water & every time I went to eat drink a glass of water first, she also wanted me to stop & think what I am feeling before I go to binge. This week, I decided myself that I was just going to try to move more & snack less. I haven't been counting calories & I haven't been perfect but I do feel I am starting to make better choices with food & have been stopping when I'm full (which I never thought I'd do). I still cant see a way out but I'm hoping I break free from this horrid cycle soon, I think small goals help me. I have realised that calorie counting & dieting a huge triggers for me so I'm really trying to avoid this.
I’m right here with you & have also got worse since lockdown. I’m home all day with 2 kids while my partner works & sometimes feel it’s the only thing keeping me sane 
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I know I’ve put on weight & I’m very unhappy about it, so I’m trying to do things gradually. I know if I restrict myself too much, I’ll crave what I shouldn’t have. I’m focussing on fizzy drinks (particularly Coke/Pepsi) & chocolate for now & just trying to be more mindful. Will of course be following this thread for any more advice!
.I know I’ve put on weight & I’m very unhappy about it, so I’m trying to do things gradually. I know if I restrict myself too much, I’ll crave what I shouldn’t have. I’m focussing on fizzy drinks (particularly Coke/Pepsi) & chocolate for now & just trying to be more mindful. Will of course be following this thread for any more advice!
hey! thought i’d comment as struggle with this too. i have MH issues and tend to get down and lonely, don’t have many friends. i tend to eat my favourite foods to “cheer myself up” order takeaways a few times a week. i’m a size 8/10 so i’m quite lucky about that, but i feel awful about it, i feel like i’m abusing my body and i feel guilty eating crap. don’t get me wrong i can make a decent healthy meal, today i’ve had fruit granola and a proper dinner but then i’ve just binge eaten crisps and sweets when i’m full up. i find it’s particularly bad when i’m stressed or bad things are happening in my life. i either go between barely eating from anxiety to over eating from depression
Evelyn Tribole has great advice, as does Laura Thomas PhD - you can find her on Instagram, she has a free podcast (Don't Salt My Game), and recently published "Just Eat It".
Both Evelyn and Laura are proponents of intuitive eating, which teaches you to learn to listen to your body for hunger cues and discourages dieting/banning any foods, as this just leads to a restrict-binge cycle.
Also... Don't be too hard on yourself. We're in the middle of a global pandemic. Emotional eating to comfort yourself is a coping mechanism, and there are a lot of coping mechanisms which are far more dangerous and destructive.
Both Evelyn and Laura are proponents of intuitive eating, which teaches you to learn to listen to your body for hunger cues and discourages dieting/banning any foods, as this just leads to a restrict-binge cycle.
Also... Don't be too hard on yourself. We're in the middle of a global pandemic. Emotional eating to comfort yourself is a coping mechanism, and there are a lot of coping mechanisms which are far more dangerous and destructive.
I’ve been binging so much this week, and because I refrained from having nice bread in the house which is my normal go to I ended up binging on my boyfriends cookies, biscuits and crisps. I don’t like any of these things normally but I was in such a binge head space I just kept going. I can feel how sluggish my body is today and it’s just a vicious circle and lockdown has brought it more to light. Any tips people are currently using are greatly welcomed! I’m going with tomorrow is a fresh start and all that but I’ll be honest I’ve been having a fresh start for weeks now!
”I can make you thin” by Paul Mackenna. Honestly, I was recommended it by someone who had lost weight and kept it off, but I was really sceptical and kind of started it thinking well it’s a way of putting off going back to Slimming World for a week or two while I read it!
It’s not brilliantly written (felt a bit patronising at times),: but honestly.....from someone who has no vested interest, and 100% laughing at myself even reading it (I was sat in bed reading it, laughing with my husband like ‘ducks sake, I’m educated, why am I reading this drivel.”), but do you know what I read the book, listened to the accompanying CD, and just did the work, used the techniques he gives you etc., and I lost 2.5 stone over 2 years ago and have never looked back.
It was emotional and difficult at times.One exercise just gets you to put a post it note on your most- visited kitchen cupboard that reads ‘What do you really need.?” and that got me for a while....made me tearful a few times.I realised that I genuinely used to eat because I was sad, or bored, or unfulfilled, or stressed, and what I needed was friendship, or a bleeping break from my kids, or a hug, you know? There ain’t enuf biscuits in the world to sort that tit out, and until you fix those root causes, you will always turn to food!
Read the Amazon reviews. Brill!
Good luck xxx
It’s not brilliantly written (felt a bit patronising at times),: but honestly.....from someone who has no vested interest, and 100% laughing at myself even reading it (I was sat in bed reading it, laughing with my husband like ‘ducks sake, I’m educated, why am I reading this drivel.”), but do you know what I read the book, listened to the accompanying CD, and just did the work, used the techniques he gives you etc., and I lost 2.5 stone over 2 years ago and have never looked back.
It was emotional and difficult at times.One exercise just gets you to put a post it note on your most- visited kitchen cupboard that reads ‘What do you really need.?” and that got me for a while....made me tearful a few times.I realised that I genuinely used to eat because I was sad, or bored, or unfulfilled, or stressed, and what I needed was friendship, or a bleeping break from my kids, or a hug, you know? There ain’t enuf biscuits in the world to sort that tit out, and until you fix those root causes, you will always turn to food!
Read the Amazon reviews. Brill!
Good luck xxx
Thank you! Xxxx
Can I make a suggestion cause I had this problem and it got to the point where I just couldn't drink anything else. Don't quit cold turkey cause your body is likely addicted to the sweeteners or the caffeine. Try having 1 glass a day and that's all you're allowed.
So I drank fruit juice in the morning with my breakfast, and then I was only allowed 1 glass so if I had it at lunch then sucks to be me cause i've had my allowence now. Gradually I did none in the week and only on weekend. Then none on weekends and only when i had meals out. Now I don't drink it all, don't have squash, I just drink water and fruit juice for breakfast. Try replacing it with things like tea or juice.
Hope that helps!!