I'm just wondering if this site is mostly for anorexics and bulimics? I compulsively overeat. I suffer from depression and eating to exhaustion and then sleeping is how I cope. THe depression is somewhat better but the eating is out of control. I just get bigger and bigger. I'm about 245lbs. MY highest is 250. WHen I was sixteen, I was about 150 and hated myself. I would have killed myself - but I ate myself into oblivion and managed to live through my teens with a desperate hope that someday things would get better.
If I'd known that at 26 I'd be 245lbs, STILL single and alone, and still struggling every single day to make it through, hanging on by my fingernails- I would have killed myself.
I guess there must be a spot of hope in me somewhere cause I'm still hanging on. I'm just so tired of it though. I feel so alone. noone understands. I guess I came here because I'm hoping to meet other people who understand ...so if anyone has a similar story.. I'd really like to meet you.
Thanks for listening/reading:0)
Jilly
Welcome to the board. Compulsive Overeating is an eating disorder too, so of course you are welcome here. There are other COE people on this board, so I hope you find some of them to talk to. There IS hope for you, as there is hope for us all. Take care.
I can relate to you...I do tend to over eat and find I can't stop. My weight usually rises 7lbs or over. U can only stop the over-eating when you are ready and feel u have the will power to stop.
I was ill the other day and couldn't face food at all...I am still not well...I am kinda thankful coz I'm back on track now.
I'm 21 and also from Canada. Over the past six years, I've struggled with everything from anorexia to compulsive overeating. I've also been bulimic for a long time. My greatest problem, though, is constantly overeating, having no control over food and never being able to stop. Sometimes I panic and feel the need to purge or exercise, while at other times I'm so numb that I don't care and I just want to sleep. You're definitely not alone. Have you seen anyone for help? I've been reading a lot of books on the subject and sometimes it's inspiring to know that people have overcome this problem. I don't even care about my weight anymore; I'm just sick of being a slave to food.
I was totally COE for many many years, like age 8 to 16. then I went on a diet, went form 250 to 180, but then I aquired another problem, ana Damn obsessive compulsive personality!
Hi - Is anyone out there a compulsive overeater? 
Damn obsessive compulsive personality!
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