Will the binges ever stop?

[@Natalia_85]

I feel like I've reached it!!! I mean I don't feel like feasting anymore and I eat anything I want when I want. Sometimes my body asks for salty, sometimes for sweet and I definetely get my hunger cues. It's been only a short time but I feel like I'm on my way to fully recovered!!!! WWWIIIIIIII YOU ARE THE BESTEST!!!

[@eggandplant3682]

I really hope I get to this point also :( my rapid, intense weight gain is holding me back tho, it's only been a month of unrestricted eating for me. How long did it take for you?

[@Natalia_85]

@@eggandplant3682 I'm about to hit the one year mark now. It's a bit blurry but I'd say maybe 3 months into it... maybe 4. Sometimes I'd buy a couple of things at the bakery and I'D COMPLETELY FORGET I HAD THEM. In the past, food was always the central thought in my head and I knew everything I had in my pantry. And even more so if it was a "forbidden" thing. It would bother me until I ate it. And I'd be relieved because it's not there anymore. Now I have like 4 chocolate tablets at home and alfajores and all sorts of things, cookies, cereal. And they last so long... I feel no compulsion to eat them. I eat them when I desire to do so. Just be patient with yourself. Each one of us is different, just keep going I promise you'll get there. I never thought I would be here. Not in my wildest dreams. So if I could do it, you can do it as well.

[@ripps999p]

How are things going now?

[@eggandplant3682]

@@Natalia_85 thank you for the reply! May I ask how you dealt with overshoot weight (if you had any)?

[@Natalia_85]

@@ripps999p I'm living a life I never thought I could live (foodwise). Funny story: I use the same pair of jeans most of the time (and leggings) and the other day I put on the jeans to go to the supermarket and they were less tight than some other times. I did nothing to lose weight and it puzzled me but I didn't care. I just found it so curious how I can lose weight without even knowing. I honestly didn't do anything, literally. I'm completely free in a way I never thought I would be. I literally thought there was no way out and that I was going to diet -some way or another- until I died. I'm just so grateful to Tabitha and all the other people that are talking about this. I don't think I would have recovered otherwise.

[@maura6335]

Yes, please introduce us to your chickens! I love animals. Your dogs are absolutely beautiful!

[@lauranatasha9934]

The dogs are beautiful and made my day

[@erynmcentee7993]

Oh my gosh I totally feel you about the chickens being intimidating!! I feel the same thing. They honestly scare me to some degree. I once had to pet sit for chickens and realized how intimidating they truly are.

[@snacktivist]

This is a great question, thank-you!

[@Mimivo-cm5zr]

That day: I fully commit!!! Thanks Tabitha for Motivate me ... After over 20years with this AN-crap 🙏🏻 Love u

[@chrissy_south75]

Absolutely adorable animals 😍

[@lilbsbluvr07]

Omgosh I love your dogs!!!!!!!! Seeing veil without the cone 😍

[@ruruuuu1306]

Hi! I've been in recovery for about a month now, eating well with no restriction listening to my hunger. The first week my mental hunger was a lot stronger than my physical hunger and I just ate and ate and ate. 1 month in and I no longer have any mental hunger. I don't think about food anymore which is great. I think I still have physical hunger but I'm not too sure? I wake up, hungry but not ravenous, I could spend some time doing my own activities without having to eat immediately. I do eat large portions and snack immediately after every meal. But what confuses me is that my mental hunger is almost non-existent, I don't feel like eating because mentally I'm satisfied. Ate a huge breakfast today, 4 hours later I still wasn't hungry mentally and physically but its already lunchtime. I have no idea whether or not I should still eat huge portions when that happens, I get kind of sick of eating, it's like I don't crave for anything and would much rather spend my time sleeping. Do you think I should continue to eat large portions? Also, why do I constantly want to sleep? It's like my body would rather sleep than eat and I don't know which to do? I'm really close to my set point weight and a lot of my weight has already redistributed but I'm still bloated. I really love your videos and they have really made me feel less alone in my eating disorder. :)

[@nightandday7704]

Mochimochi Jiminie hey so can u update us on what happened? 🤗

[@j.e.g.170]

Would also love to know 😊

[@ruruuuu1306]

@@nightandday7704 Sorry i didnt see your comment! I think i continued to eat large portions for a while but eventually stopped n only ate when i rlly wanted to eat / when im hungry my weight still remained the same n only fluctuates a bit I now do crave for certain foods but i still lack appetite occassionally unfortunately idk if its cus im not a big eater in general but only certain days i have appetite n im not sure why? i still dont crave as much as i used to though it might be because i actually eat when i want to now haha i do feel that my hunger cues have gone back to normal? Exhaustion wise im still insanely exhausted everyday, i also suffer from OCD( not related to anorexia) and depression n anxiety in general so that might be why but yea i hope this helps!! :)

[@ruruuuu1306]

@@j.e.g.170 ^ replied to someone else's reply so do read if u want to find out! :)

[@hannahavery5160]

Adorable dogs, by the way lol

[@hannahavery5160]

I'm so confused and frustrated because I'm being told that 1500 calories a day isn't restriction, which is about what I'd been eating for months prior to recently. But according to recovery resources, this isn't enough. However I'm 90% sedentary, I don't work or anything because of chronic illness, so I'm not really burning as many calories as a normal person because I sit around essentially all day long. I've been told I have EDNOS but that my "restriction" to 1500 calories a day wouldn't warrant extreme hunger, but I'm hungry ALL the time. Now I think I'm just a binge eater because 1500 calories should be enough for me, but I think about food a lot. I don't have access to better care (this therapist supposedly deals with EDs, and my medical doctor is great for everything else and prescribes one of my treatments which is highly controversial so no one else would prescribe it) so I'm stuck with the providers I have, switching to others isn't an option. I'm lost.

[@anastasiawhyatt9443]

Hannah Avery Literally I could have wrote this. The same rules still apply, trust me! Restriction of your body weight is still restriction!!! You deserve to eat and recover, and get better. Hope this helps. It’s much better on the other side ♥️

[@hannahavery5160]

@@anastasiawhyatt9443 Thank you so much, it's reassuring that I'm not alone in this particular scenario.

[@erynmcentee7993]

Hannah Avery I don’t know who told you 1500 isn’t restriction and that you shouldn’t have extreme hunger but how do they know what is best for your body? Tell that person to fuck off. Eat what your body wants. Trust it. Your body is in energy deficit. The amount of calories is irrelevant. If you feel hungry physically or mentally eat.

[@snacktivist]

OMFG 1500 calories is restriction!

[@ritavanherk3928]

I've never been annoraxic as a matter of fact I'm fat and as a result I've been trying to lose weight for years. I have no success and feel always hungry and worried. If I stop all dieting, will I gain a ton of weight? I'm 51 years old and I'm so so tried of restricting, bringing, quitting my diet, starting over. What do you think I should do. Please help me find an answer.

[@ruruuuu1306]

Hi! Tabitha has tons of videos as to why people are "fat". It's often because of yo-yo dieting and lots of restriction that causes weight gain. The cycle is usually Restrict>Binge>Restrict this causes your set point weight to end up higher than it originally is if I'm not wrong ( I could be misinformed). I would highly suggest that you stop all restriction and just eat, being "fat" doesn't mean that you're not malnourished! Even if you do gain weight, it's perfectly okay, just get your health back together first. Once you're weight restored and all symptoms of a recovering body are gone, exercise to lose weight but don't restrict, don't compulsively exercise as well. Also, only exercise if you're obese not "fat" if you have difficulty moving around because of your weight then incorporate exercise, if you're not then there's absolutely no need to lose weight. Get a therapist so you learn how to love your body. Also, being anorexic doesn't=skinny, you can be "fat" and still be anorexic, anorexia is a mental illness and it's the thoughts and behaviours that makes one anorexic and not someone's weight! Please just eat freely, I promise that you will get to a point where you can't care about food anymore and no longer have the desire to eat 24/7, but that will only happen if you stop all restriction. I don't know how accurate the information I'm giving you is and it's just a suggestion after watching countless recovery videos and better understanding how the human body works. I wish you the best of luck, you can do this!

[@jessica-qu4cq]

I was wondering how you doing now?

[@ritavanherk3928]

@@jessica-qu4cq Thank you for asking! I'm 54 now and weigh 212 pounds and do not diet because I just can not do it. I don't like my weight but am trying to be forgiving of myself no matter my size. I am pretty active living on a farm with a large garden, and six children and 4 grandbabies. So, I worry about my weight, but eat what I want!

[@jessica-qu4cq]

@@ritavanherk3928 thank you for replying! i just have one question do you advice me to go all in , I'm in larger body too and I'm afraid if i ate a lot i wouldn't stop gaining ever

[@snacktivist]

If you are hungry, your body is telling you to eat and that's all you need to know. Stop the diet bullshit and listen to your body and it will do what it needs to do to get to the size it is supposed to be and you will be able to respond appropriately to your hunger cues. Stop "trying" to manage your weight and shape. Stress, hunger, fatigue, binging, restricting ... doesn't sound very healthy. Let go. Listen to your body

[@iamsomeone8266]

I am exactly at the same problem as her THIS HELPED ME SO MUCH today as I ate a bowl of porridge didn't finished had as snack Orange for snack Entire box chips with ketchup for lunch Snack:2 bananas ,salted caramel mousse (2 pots) and the rest of my breakfast porridge Dinner :maybe eggs with veggies bc y not 3rd day of eating more This is so useful and I look at larger women to give me motivation to eat more

[@ababy6074]

I'm confused - surely not in every single case of a person who has had an ED do they just need to keep eating and that's the cure-all. How do we know that the person isn't just developing an obsession with eating instead of restricting? Plenty of people do go from one eating disorder to another, but you always say just eating is the cure for almost every problem in every video. I mean no disrespect at all, I'm just curious as to why this is 100% always the answer when I have seen people turn from one ED to another.

[@sarahbartlett9870]

I quite agree. For some it could be dangerous advice to ‘just keep eating’. Although binge eating develops as a result of restriction, it becomes a habit and binge urges continue even after person is no longer restricting. In these cases, they need to work on dismissing the binge urges. If you keep eating in response to binge urges 1. You will gain an awful lot of weight and 2. It just keeps strengthening the binge eating neural pathways. Why do these coaches not address this issue. Anyone can be a coach and just tell someone to eat.

[@thebabyhater]

@Matilda Gmail how did your recovery process work? I hope you are doing well :)

[@thebabyhater]

@Matilda Gmail That's great to hear:) I'm actually going all in right now, recovering from anorexia. I guess I was searching for reassurance that this method is working....but I'm working on just trusting my body and respecting my hunger and not needing reassurance for everything:DD

[@snacktivist]

@@thebabyhater you found the answer

[@snacktivist]

@@sarahbartlett9870 the answer is listen to your body, which in most cases, of you are under-weight, restricting, or have a history of dieting of starving, means "just keep eating." Binging isn't wrong if you're starving, it's called re-feeding. If you listen to your body, the "binging" will stop once your body is fully weight restored AND nutritionally rehabilitated. The problem is when people continue with the binge/restrict cycle. You fully have to surrender to hunger or you will continue to have disordered eating. Rewiring the neural pathways requires going all-in. It's more dangerous to continue starving yourself than to listen to a starved body. No matter what your size.

[@lenajazuk4231]

I wanted to ask your opinion on channel “Rachel’s road to recovery “? I think it’s a scam to make $ of KZbin or perhaps disability she is receiving and also presenting anorexia in a wrong way like she has no control over how her “ recovery” is going ... I find it’s a biggest BS I have never seen so far