have you sought medical help, specifically, have you seen an
endocrinologist. you are pretty sick if you binge like this.

i

Try running away from your problems.

Hey. You know what?  Stress happens.  We all have different ways of dealing
with it.  Eating is an unhealthy way of dealing with it that provides
temporary relief but in the long term just adds to more stress.  You know
this.  Please, the next time you are that stressed out, try something else.  
You know yourself better than I do, but here are some suggestions based on
what works for me in dealing with urges to overeat, urges to smoke, or when
I'm about to lose my temper:

First, when you feel that urge to binge, stand up if you're sitting, stop
moving if you're walking, and close your eyes.  Breathe in through your
nose, and out through your mouth, slowly.  Count to 10 with each inhale and
exhale.  Or say some sort of mantra like "I'm not hungry" on the inhale,
and "I don't need to eat" on the exhale. Sometimes I up it a notch by
slowly tensing up all muscles on the inhale and slowly relaxing them on the
exhale.  If you do not feel relaxed and in control after a few minutes of
this, try getting out of the house, away from the food, and go for a walk.  
Or a jog if you're in the shape for that.  Or, (this is what I do when I
want a cigarette) do some pushups.  I can't actually do many on the floor
yet, so I do them against a wall.  This may or may not work for you, but
for me it releases endorphins which chemically make me feel better, and
it's good for me which psychologically makes me feel better.

How long have you been on this WOE?  How long do you go between
binges?  Just wondering whether you even go long enough so you get
to the point where you have more control.

I woke up to the realization this morning that I can continue with my WOE
and wrap my head around what that means, or I can become just another of
those millions who made a new year's resolution and deserted it sometime
within the first 90 days of the year.  I have lost close to 30 pounds and
have no intention of going back.  When you feel like crap, remember where
you were and look ahead again to where you want to be. In a year, you will
be one of the success stories of this newsgroup, even as I damn well intend
to be.

Keep at it!  Back on the wagon.

Well some people are overweight, not because they have some genetic
predispostion to being obese but because it is a psychological reflex
to other issues. Sometimes it is that other issue must be tackled too
to make a permanent change. I live with a lot of family stresses and
have seen myself eating shortly after a phone call from family.
Sometimes you have to ask yourself what have you really done to reduce
stress in the future. We often do sh.t that is of no consequence,
doesn't help or makes things worse meanwhile telling ourselves there
is nothing we can do. And then we eat for no good reason.

You should consider creating a more binge-friendly atmosphere. Get rid
of anything that isn't low carb by its very nature (out goes cans of
beans, corn, sugar, flour, frozen meals, potatoes, all sweetened
drinks.) Stock up on low-carb binge food, pork rinds, dill pickles,
cheese, deli meats, stuff that is ready to eat. If you suffer a binge
again, you'll be able to eat LC things and hopefully get past it. I
know in my first two weeks I had six 3000+ calorie days. I let myself
eat, just kept it to low/zero carb fare. I ran through cravings for
more and more but stuck to LC. I overate, but it got me past bad days
and didn't cripple my weight loss. Once i got past those bad days my
cravings went away and those hungry-for-anything days have only occur
2-3 times in the last 7 weeks. Again, I overate for the day but stuff
to more low/zero carb fare. I hope my body learns it isn't going to
get whatever the hell it wanted eventually.

Good Luck

DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email)
350/316/Mar-315/200
Atkins since Jan 12, 2004

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:30:48 -0500, Paper
<papergrrl8112CARBS@hotmail.com> announced in front of God and
everybody:

It may take awhile, and practice, and patience, to overcome that
reaction to stress. But it can be done.

For a very, very long time, binging was my reaction to both stress and
depression. I went through periods of bulemia and compulsive
overeating when I was younger.Therapy helped -- but what really tdid
the trick was my systematically training myself to just *not* do that
when I was stressed.

Whether it involved reading a book or taking a hot bath or shutting
myself in my bedroom and screaming into a pillow or just rocking back
and forth and breathing deeply (in the nose ... out the mouth ... in
the nose ... out the mouth ...) I made myself do anything BUT eat a
half a cake or a bag of chips or a dozen cookies to make myself feel
better. It was hard but, eventually, it worked.

Today, I rarely think about binging in response to stress. Almost
never. I conditioned myself to go in other directions to ease my
stress. But it took some dedication and hard work -- it is, however,
work well worth doing for your own health and self-esteem.

Good luck.

Dawn

i know what you mean i did the same this weekend too. i ate so much at one
point that i felt like i was going to be sick to my stomach but i still ate.
why do we do that to ourselfs. I know exactly what you mean about how u feel
after wards and it still doen't make u want to stop. hope things look up for
you im back on track yet again. does this ever get any easier

ange