i can honestly say i had a good time at my prom. i ate more than i usually would. but i still was pissed at myself for doing it even though how many 18th birthdays and proms do you have? well today i COMPLETELY took it out on myself, i ate birthday cake and purged, i cut which ive been able to resist for a good couple weeks now. i dont know how did i manage to fall apart? i was doing decently well last week and it seems just one day i took a huge fall.. i dont know what i should do at this point. whether i should tell my therapist that things are going poorly and arent going as they should and im not on the right track? or just keep trying to make things better on my own and hope for the best? im just at loss of the best way...

Don't worry Tex b-day cake is a major trigger...when I was young I would go weeks without binging but if I my mom made a cake or something, I would give in and b/p....it is hard to avoid these foods...it the beginning you have to avoid them at all cost and then you learn how to stop yourself from binging through therapy and a lot of hard work! If you are not making progress with your therapist I suggest you find a new one...I know we have been through this before, but you need one who will challenge you and make you see things differently, not just a nice women to listen to you.

yes cake, ice cream, etc is a major trigger for me! and my parents dont understand not to let me be around that food! i am making progress with my therapist. i love her she pushes me but not TOO much... i know i dont need to find a new one i just dont know if i need more than just a therapist and nutritionist... but i just dont get how i could fall so hard so fast just from a day?

Welll, if we think as food as being our "drug" then it is not wonder that cake or ice cream would set us off. Put a recovering crack addict in front of a pile of crack and he/she would probably give in, too. It is very hard to avoid our trigger foods-on one hand, we can't expect the world to change for us, can we? But if you would tell your mom not to bake then maybe she would. Last year, I told my mom not to get me a B-day cake...she understood why...I knew I would b/p on it. There are certain situations you have to avoid in the beginning of your recovery. Hang in there!

ya it is our drug and i get that.i should have told my mom to not get a cake but i didnt. i went to therapy today and we talked alot about that and about recovering. she said in a few weeks after being on a meal plan we will see how im doing and god from there... if i need higher treatment or if i will be ok with just this..