It caused plenty of health issues for me, physically and mentally. I would feel sick after eating it, and I would come back again and again. That’s when I realised I needed a plan and a recovery programm.
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day 5. no binging food. specially chocolate
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Hi all, i’m wanting to improve my eating as I’ve found after cutting out alcohol and vaping my addictive tendancies have just moved to food. I’ve always had issue with food, actually had anorexia when I was younger and after I recovered from that I went in the opposite direction a little bit later in life. But even with anorexia I always loved food I just wouldn’t let myself eat it. Now I let myself eat too much! I want to cut out take aways, cut out binges and cut out eating unhealthy snacks especially in the evenings! Failed massively today so tomorrow will be my day one! Need to focus on just eating 3 healthy meals and two healthy snacks. 
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That’s really interesting I hadn’t thought about it in terms of moderating sugar. But yes you’re right I cannot moderate sugar either. If I buy a pack of biscuits they will all be gone, I can’t just have one and leave the rest in the cupboard. I will try, very hard. And like alcohol, occasionally I succeed, but for the most part if I buy any nice food, with the best of intentions, it will be gone on the same day I bought it. Man why can I not control myself around anything!!?
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Day 1510 : No binge today. 
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Day 30 - low carb breakfast
Day 10/30 - walking
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@Pamela Welcome to this thread 
It’s not really you. It’s the substances. They change your brain chemistry. That’s why sugar is in almost everything nowadays. And if you find out more about UltraProcessedFoods you will see how they are specifically designed to override your satiety signals and make you crave for more.
436 sugar
300 UPF
174 gluten/dairy
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Second this! @Pamela Don’t be disappointed in yourself or put yourself down for being addicted to an addictive substance, even one as common as sugar. It will always make you want more. I don’t talk about it often as it opens HUGE cans of worms I can’t be bothered to debate anymore but I eat meat. Just meat and animal products. During the first 2 months of getting sober I followed advice to be graceful with myself and allow sugar etc to help with cravings. Well after 2 months my joints ached, my head hurt, and the list goes on. I didn’t really know if it was withdrawal or what was going on but once I stopped all that and got back to meat only, within a few days I am back to normal.
Being carnivore has 100% ended my sugar & carb cravings.
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Welcome here, @Pamela and well done for overcoming anorexia which had to be extremely hard! So was alcohol and vaping. You’ve done lot of work on yourself and for yourself 
I wish it was as easy as just having a willpower to eat in the way we think is “right”. The first issue is that most of us have unrealistic idea about “healthy eating” and in reality this “healthy eating habit” is only another trick coming from eating disorder.
The other issue is that we try to follow this unrealistic idea and eat accordingly to it which mostly resolves in not eating enough food and nutritionions and bringing uncontrollable urges and cravings as a result. You can’t fight this with willpower because the body’s sense for survival is going to be stronger.
I guess that the best first step is to educate yourself about what you need in every day which will differ depending on how active you are. I am being smart a*s here, but I’m failing this step over and over…
Just be careful not to restrict yourself too much in amounts of food. Read stuff from @acromouse or @Faugxh They’re pretty much clued on and gave many valuable advice in this thread already.
I know how much they wish for to be heard and to share with us their knowledge and to help 
All people here are simply amazing 
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Thank you! I have just downloaded the Allen carr bad sugar book so hoping that will help me! Although giving up sugar all together seems almost more daunting than alcohol!
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That’s super interesting! I did do keto for a while and that was good for weight loss, I still ate carbs after exercise as that didn’t kick me out of ketosis and was good for muscle building, but aside from that hardly ate any carbs or sugar (this was some years ago now), but I did find that I craved carbs/sugar still. Maybe cause I was still having some I don’t know! And then in the end it was too strict to stick to properly, partially cause I wanted to be able to drink alcohol which often broke it!
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Thank you! I will certainly start reading up!
I’ve done ok today, no take aways (almost got one but resisted), no binges, and no unhealthy snacks. So that’s day 1 down!
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Day 1511 : No binge today.
Welcome to the thread, @Pamela! I hope you find this thread helpful/inspiring in positive way. You got through day one, you can do this! 
A side note, if you feel that your eating disorder doesn’t lean into binge eating alone you can also visit the other eating disorder thread I made that was highly requested by people with other eating disorders. 
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Thank you what is the other eating disorder thread? I guess mine is impulsive eating, boredom eating, sometimes binges, feels more like a an addiction to unhealthy food and take aways - so I’m not sure what thread I should be in for this or if there is one?
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@Pamela The Allen Carr was helpful for me in the beginning aswell. Giving up sugar is not easy but you are not alone with that. There is even is a thread for that: No More Added Sugar.
The eating disorder thread is this one here: Eating disorder recovery check in thread (Trigger Warning). Read around. You’ll have to decide for yourself where your problems are more related to: an active eating disorder or binge eating. And obviously there is huge overlap there.
Start small, listen to your body, be nice to yourself, and share with us.
437 sugar
301 UPF
175 gluten/dairy
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Ah what a night!
I cleverly had a half of pizza for my dinner (because I was lazy to prepare anything better) and then a huge mug of chai tea with enormous amount of honey and milk just before bed. I fall asleep ok but woke up shortly after with a bad acid reflux which didn’t allow me to sleep. I also had fever to it, so my night was restless and I woke up with migraine. Poor me lol.
I feel much better now, had to take a painkiller for the headache, glad it worked.
Despite my poor dinner choices, I can successfully mark a day 1 without binging 
I dodged the bullet somehow yesterday, when being very tempted to go to a shop behind the corner for something sweet. But perhaps because I was already getting ill, I also felt like I don’t really want anything sweet. It was like my habit was telling me I do want it, but when I then imagined eating it, I did not feel like it at all. In the end I just ended this dilema by making the decision that I shouldn’t go there, I changed to my pyjama to underline it, and just like that I made a big fat dot behind the neverending discussion in my head.
Today morning, when I finally got out of bed, I wrote my diary and re-thought my whole lifestyle. Eating 
, not getting enough sleep, working too much and not spending enough quality time with my boyfriend and with myself. One would think that I’m trying to avoid life 
What’s happened to me and when?? I’m fed up and I need better for myself. I need to throw away all the excuses and comfort and start putting some effort and work into my recovery, otherwise nothing will ever change. I’m doing everything in the same way every day, expecting different results.
I’m resisting to write this down, because it makes me accountable in some ways, but here we go: I decided to eat this weekend mindfully. No distractions like TV, book, phone, etc. I was on this path a couple of times but never lasted too long, as I find eating like this boring. But it’s going to do me only good, because with all honesty, I don’t even know what I just ate most of the time…! How am I supposed to feel satisfied and full when except for empty plate in front of me, I don’t even know that I just ate?
That’s one thing. Other thing is that I texted to my boyfriend not to bring me anything sweet at all, and why. He replied that ok, and that it’s going to be better for him too. He’s not only on board but doing this with me! So lucky to have him. Together we can do anything
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Yep, same here. Sometimes it’s a struggle to not buy them, but I’ve done this pattern too many times for it to end differently.
That’s great that you have a teammate! Making healthy choices together
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Day 1512 : No binge today.
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@Jana1988 Get well soon!
438 sugar
302 UPF
176 gluten/dairy
I had one of those “using” dreams. It was actually about something completely different. But then I ate a pastry, and then I thought: “Well, I already had one. No I’m doomed. It does not matter how many else I eat now. But I will have to reset my counter. Why did I do it in the first place!?”
Woke up quite relieved to find out it was only a dream. Used to have them much more frequently in the past.
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Day 1513 : No binge today.
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