How to cope with cravings for binge eating

[Sim882]

Hi everyone, when your trying to stick to a diet, do any of you occassionally have binge eating desires and how do you cope for them?

About once a fornight [sometimes even once a week], I have absurd binge eating desires (normally for something like cereal with fruit, or nuts) and often rack up 2000 calories in one hit. I do eat aim to eat 6 meals a day with 3,500 calories, so these binges pretty much blow my diet (but sometimes this 6 meals a day idea I think makes me think about food too much, actually causing more binge eating than when I was eating about less often).

Interestingly, this has not seen my bf rise above 10% (somtimes out of guilt, I force myself on a 12 km run immediately afterwards though but did not last night). It does however cause extreme flatulence and need to go to the toilet the following day.

Any practical advice to stop the binges? Before I would just drink a large serve of diet coke when I felt a binge coming on, but have now decided to quiet caffeine/artificial sweetner due to fears it is causing me headaches (I was drinking a couple of litres of diet coke a day, not healthy).

In addition, when I have these binges, should I skip the next couple of planned meals, or is that likely to just lead to more binge eating and muscle atrophy.

Thanks

 

[poysyn]

I don't know that skipping meals would be the best solution, and I'm not really sure what to tell you about binge eating.

The only thing that can cope with that kind of thing is to not deprive yourself of the things you binge eat in order to cope with the deprivation of food. I have had this happen to me a few times and it was literally impossible for me to stop..

 

[lookatme4001]

I tend to get these binges as well and to be honest you have to figure out what foods are causing them, and eliminate those foods.

Like w/ me, if I don't have a somewhat balanced meal, in other words if my fat/carb intake is too high at once, I tend to start thinking my diet is ruined for the day, so I start to justify the overeating by asking myself what the difference will be. (in all reality its a big difference)

I've also had to start realizing that just cause you want to treat your self (i.e. have a cookie for lunch), doesn't mean your diet is ruined for the day, it just means I had a cheat meal and I need to remain on my diet the rest of the day.