Posted by Racer on September 19, 2005, at 20:17:45
In reply to I'm so desperate. Trigger, posted by TexasChic on September 19, 2005, at 20:08:41
Unfortunately, I can empathize with your feelings completely.
Best advice I can give you is what my nutritionist keeps telling me: if you eat appropriately during the day, you will not have the same urge to binge. If you eat when you are hungry, and don't allow yourself to get too hungry, and eat what you want to eat, you shouldn't have the same urges to binge.
I don't know if it works, since I go back to restricting pretty easily, but I think it probably does. When I am meeting my meal plan goals, I find that I don't have the same craving for sweets, etc. When I'm not, though, I get to certain phases of the day and just want to eat and eat.
Both my T and my N have 'assigned' me the book "Intuitive Eating" which seems pretty darned good. It's more focussed on 'normal' dieters, but most of the information is good for EDs, too. Do you have a therapist or pdoc to discuss this with? Mostly, insurance companies are kinda starting to deal with EDs better -- putting them into the "Substance Abuse" column, rather than "Mental Health," for instance, so there's more coverage -- so your doctor can probably refer you for some nutritional counseling. I know it helps.
Hope something here helped. I know how much it sucks that we hear people say that we look great when we're sick, and stop saying it as we get well again. Certainly doesn't give much incentive to recover, does it?
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