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Preventing Binges - no previous eating disorder

Greetings, I'm new on the site and though I found some older posts about binges, those were more specific to people who had serious eating disorders in the past, which I haven't.

My problem is thus: the past couple nights I've binged on chocolate chips, toffees, and such. I haven't had bad cravings before then, although I've only been eating mostly raw for a month. I wonder if I'm not eating enough food during the day. Sometimes after I finish a big bowl of raw soup or salad and feel quite full I still want something sweet like a piece of pineapple, or a banana, or even an entire green smoothie. But I hesitate to give myself this "extra" food right away because I'm

1. uncertain about food combining, and if those fruits interfere with what I just ate

2. can't believe I should want more food so soon after a meal

***Can anyone tell me if they've experienced the same nightly-cravings, or if eating sweet fruits or green smoothies after meals is okay? ***

I was really pleased with my progress until this week and the binges, but I'm going to forgive myself and start afresh tomorrow.

Thanks to anyone willing to help this beginner out.

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  • WinonaWinona Raw Newbie

    This has happened to me:

    -when I don't eat enough food throughout the day

    -when I don't eat a green smoothie as SOON as i get up

    -when i don't each 1.5+ lbs of greens a day

    -when i'm too tired (lack of sleep)

    i've eaten fruit/smoothies after meals. my only rule is - melon should be eaten on an empty stomach.

  • joannabananajoannabanana Raw Newbie

    formose, i know EXACTLY what you're talking about. i eat much more food at night because that's when i'm usually hungry. i can go the whole day with a few glasses of juice in the morning and maybe some fruit and nuts in the afternoon and be just fine.

    i usually eat A LOT of greens at night. it's the same combo every time- kale, cabbage, grapes, tomatoes, braggs, and mustard. it's a weird combo of stuff, but it satisfies my sweet and salty craving if i can't decide what to eat. i'll usually pick sweets over anything but i like eating this because it also fills me up.

    i see a therapist for my eating habits (used to have an eating disorder) and she said to wait 30 minutes after you've eaten something before you eat again because your body takes time to signal the brain that it's full. instead of eating again after your meal, have some tea or a cup of water. also, do something instead of thinking about eating like brushing your teeth, laundry, wash the dishes, do your nails, or brush your hair- just something to take your mind off of food.

    hope this helps!!

  • Thanks, ladies. I will try upping the greens and amount of food during the day in general. Joannabanana, thanks for the tips 'n' tricks, and I even do some of them already, such a brushing my teeth. I'll see how today goes:-)

  • This has happened to me too, a couple of weeks ago I would in the evening or afternoon get the urge to eat loads and loads of nuts or dried fruit, even when I wasn't that hungry...I've never binge eaten before. I'm not sure if it was partly out of boredom though. Anyway yesterday I was feeling a bit low and really had the urge to comfort eat but ate loads of fruit instead...I still didn't feel like its a healthy thing to do but I felt a lot better than after eating loads of nuts and I felt more aware of what I was doing too...I read somewhere that mono eating is a good way to stop binge eating because you carry on eating that thing until you're full.

  • CarnapCarnap Raw Newbie

    I do it, too. But I eat emotionally. I noticed the other day that each time I had an unpleasant thought about my current situation, or each time I wanted to avoid studying, I went to the cupboard to make a snack. My stomach was distended a little, but I felt famished. I don't have a solution for this yet.

    Another problem is that I , and maybe this applies to you, have an extremely high metabolism. I need fuel. If this is the case for you, I would consider more fats and proteins with your greens.

  • sv3sv3 Raw Newbie

    I am having problems with this too at the moment. I am mostly raw but often have a partly cooked meal for dinner. Later on in the evening I find myself drawn back to the kitchen and usually end up with a couple of handfuls of dried fruit to get a sweet fix. I think it's hard at the moment because I did eat a lot of SAD food over Xmas and it's taking a huge amount of will power not to keep eating the left over chocolate that's in our fridge at the moment.

    I try to remind myself that eating a handful of dried fruit really isnt that bad compared to SAD chocolate and crisps.

  • I'm not sure if it's the cold weather, or just a step to going more raw in general, or that my body is missing something. I have been eating more in general, and that helped yesterday but today I'm so hungry and can't seem to be satisfied. I just ate a big bowl of spicy raw soup with avocado to try to warm up and fill up---but I'm STILL hungry. I could eat three more bowls it seems like. Frustrating. Carnap, I don't think I have that high of a metabolism, so I'm always hesitant to eat a lot. However, I'm doing an experiment and just going to eat lots of mono-fruit meals and if I feel like another three bowl of soup by God I'm gonna eat them! I hope this stops the sugar cravings...I don't even like chocolate chips that much but I keep digging into the mammoth bag in the cupboard at night.

  • WinonaWinona Raw Newbie

    formosa- when i first went raw, i ate a LOT LOT LOT of raw food. After about 3 months raw, i didn't need to eat every 2 hours. after 6 months raw, i didn't need to eat tons every 3 hours. now i'm 11 months raw, and i can eat moderate size meals every 3 to 4 hours and i'm okay. I'm consistently very high raw (meaning i eat a cooked meal a max of once a week, if at all). that helps with tapering off the food cravings. one thing that has helped me a LOT is greens. green smoothies for breakfast, 15 cup salads at lunch, 10 cup salads at dinner - all with a small amount of raw oily dressing. sweet fruit never helped satisfy my intense cravings - a combo of veggie+sm amt nuts would do it (raw gourmet entrees for dinner are good).

    do you have more questions?

  • Hi, formosa,

    Personally, I don't worry about food combining, and I'd say just see how your body reacts, and if certain combinations bother you, avoid them. For me, it helps to eat fruit BEFORE a meal, so some of that glucose gets a chance to get absorbed before the other food hits the system. Then I am less hungry after the meal. Hope that helps!

  • i'm quite surprised (and pleased) that i got a pretty god handle on my binging, but i still do it from time to time, and it's not because i'm hungry. it's ALWAYS when i've been drinking. last night i went to a show, and i didn't touch a drop the whole show, but afterwards we went to a bar, and i had 2 bloody marys. when i got home i ate like 5 spoonfuls of peanut butter and a bunch of chocolate!! :P but, the next day i started my period...that might have had something to do with it, but every time i've gone out drinking, it weakens my will such that when i get home, i ALWAYS end up binging!! so my advice is, don't drink :P well, at least not very often....

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