I am a emotional binge eater/restricter (as I have said I do both back over and over again in a cycle week after week..my metabolism must be *****ed) and my problem is that food is my life. Whether I am emotionally eating, or restricting...I am thinking of food constantly. My life revolves around it. I thought to myself one day, if I didn't emotionally eat, and I didn't diet either.....my life would be nothing. Like, food is so much of my focus 24/7 that I couldn't possible think of what my life would be like if food weren't an issue for me. I don't think of anything else, or care abiout anything else but trying to lose weight. Do any of you feel like you can't stand to be in your body for like one more second? Thats a lot of the time what causes me to eat. Times passes so slow when I am restricting and I find myself literally looking in the mirror to see if I lost weight 50 times a day. And constantly weighing myself as if I was going to drop 10 pounds within a day. But when I binge eat my mind is taken off of that. I say to myself "I will diet tomorrow, but as for today I will enjoy what I eat and not worry about it". THATS why I binge eat, because when I diet I am so anxious to lose weight as fast as possible that I need something to distract me from constantly checking if I lost any weight! God what the hell do I do! Sorry just venting.

Hi:
I can totally relate to you. I think of nothing except losing weight and I most definitely feel like I cannot stand one more minute in my own skin. I just look at myself in the mirror and hate myself so much and all I want to do is lose MORE weight. You are not alone in feeling the way you do. Hang in there.
Tiffany

Boy do I know how you feel! what can we do to stop this obsession!!! I am clueless and sick of this binge eating!!!!! I just want to screammmm!!

i get exactly what your talking bout, i think of food, dieting and eating 24/7. always when i see a thin/slim person i always think, 'oh, i hate her so much' even tho i don't necessarily know them. I wish i could float out of my body and find a new one, one free of food issues and one that isnt so f***ed up.. i'm glad im not the only one

trust me, just because someone is thin doesn't mean they dont have just as bad of problems as you, maybe even worse.

ya i'm pretty thin.. 5'2 113 lbs.. and i'm constantly thinking about calories and how much i need to eat. how much i've eaten. too much or too little!! it never stops! if i go up a lb i like freak out! and sometimes i'll pig out and then eat practically nothing the next day.. it sucks.