Your favorite binge food
September 29, 2008 by angelique
Filed under Women's Health
I’m noticing that the poll at the sidebar is showing that plenty of readers are currently engaged in bulimic behavior.
Obviously, that’s not healthy. But it’s not surprising, either; this is an eating disorder recovery community, after all!
Consequently, far be it from me to judge. However, I do have a question for those who binge and purge (or simply binge):
- What’s your binge food of choice?
If you feel that’s too sensitive an area to talk about, I understand. But as a recovering/former anorexic, I have always been curious about bulimia. Do you eat whatever you can? Or do you tend to eat “forbidden” foods, like ice cream, pizza and chips?
chocolate…
Cereal…strange right?
Also, I’ve never been a binger per se. I just recently looked into something called purging disorder which is similar to bulimia but lacks the binge part. In other words, any foods, even small amounts, are purged after eating.
It’s so new that it isn’t even considered a disagnosable ed yet. If this sounds familiar to anyone they should def. look into it.
I no longer binge or purge, but when I did, it was always for the simple carbohydrates - ice cream, cereal, cake….if it had tons of sugar, I was all about it.
Ice cream used to lead to a binge every time. And actually, cereal sometimes did too. High-fat or high-sugar foods are common triggers.
Why cereal?
Gross and embarrassing but…if I knew(know) I was going to purge, cereal was an easy thing to get out. Eating alone gave me anxiety…eating and then not being able to get rid of it: well that was anxiety times 10.
peanut butter and anything containing or tasting like peanut butter.
and the occasional big mac or eight.
Some of my favorite binge foods are:
ice cream
pizza
cookies
fried foods
pastries
cake
I don’t know but i’m sure there are more. I don’t know if i’d call them my binge foods though. Because over the past two years I’ve worked on integrating those foods into my regular meals so that I no longer binge out of control on them after the first bite.
It’s been very tricky however it paid off. I noticed that when I did binge, my binge eating episodes were much shorter since I allowed myself to have those foods anyways.
When I used to waitress I would have a waffle sundae (1/4 a big restaraunt waffle, ice cream, another 4th and more ice cream on top) from the one place I worked or a hot fudge cake sundae (a disgustingly chocolately hunk of a fudge cake heated with lotsa ice cream and fudge) and that was probably daily. Ice cream was just so simple.
And about the strictly purging thing…I think that was me. It’s been pretty well managed for the past year or so but I used to have to purge everything if I could. A single cookie…or a few tater tots at lunch at school. I was never a big binger but I got the flu once and I started letting things slide after I started getting better since I hadn’t kept anything down in 4 days and then I couldn’t stop eating like a normal teenager and purging took over…
Ice cream, cause it’s easy to get rid of.
Cereal, Cake, Cookies, EVERY snack cake imaginable, Raw cinnamon Rolls, and believe it or not Extra Extra Buttery Cheese Grits!
I didn’t think there were so many of us cereal bingers. I usually binge on carbs and dairy: 5 bowls of cold cereal with milk, yogurt, cake, cookies, pastries and chocolate.
No, cereal is me too, but only usually after other things. Special K or something fatty and sugary like oat clusters, and then I make it worse by having it with cream…
Otherwise: cookies (chewy or buttery)
english muffins and TONS of butter
onion rings (with salt and vinegar)
simply fried batter…
a whole block of raw, store bought pastry, microwaved till it goes gooey and greasy
trifles
whole cakes
rice pudding
bread and butter pudding
whole jar of nutella (in varying sizes)
whole jar of peanut butter
peanut butter and jam/jelly sandwiches
God, if that’s not enough (and some days it isn’t) then I don’t know what else to add. Except to say that that list is not definitive. I sometimes just kix up a raw pastry dough because I had a thing about it when I was little. It really is just bland pap though, as is all the stuff on which I gorge, but I never learn of course…
Sorry for this being so long xxx
pizza
stuff from frozen food aisle
quesadilla
CEREAL
i go through phases, like for a week i’ll really like cereal and the next i’ll need eggos.
other than pizza, my favorite binge food is oreos mixed with cool whip and cream cheese (sounds gross, but it is delicious) if you freeze it, it tastes like super thick oreo ice cream
i usually purge several times through a bigne to make sure my body isn’t absorbing anything
PIZZA
CHINESE FOOD
ice cream
cerel cold and hot
CHIPS
FAST FOOD with lots and lots of sauces
bagels
…(btw i always eat an apple or orange before i start)….(this way i knew when everything is out and i mdont mind digesting)
pasteries….(they tend to clump though)
pasta…!!
a whole bag of jelly beans
fried eggplant- seriously an obsession i have
cake/frosting
icecream
banana or pumpkin bread
basically anything sweet or any kind of dessert….
chocolate
cake
cookies
muffins
ice cream
chips
peanut butter
white bread and butter
english muffins and cream cheese
pizza
fried foods
Oh God I love eating cheese and meat and pasta. Pasta is so easy to get rid of and I can make a whole pot of it at home and put a whole bag of cheese and butter. Also, quesadillas, cheeseburgers, anything from outback…CHINESE FOOD!!! ause it’s abunch of carbs and it was so easy. chinese food as the worst.
Didn’t see any healthy food bingers….
I binge on Hummus + lettuce +tofu pups.
YOGURT, oatmeal, muffins, turkey and hummus sandwiches (I sometimes will eat literally like four of them in a row), almond butter and banana’s, almond butter and pears, almond butter in general, anything with a ton of cheese…… the list goes on.
I try to stick with just the yogurt, soft fruit and oatmeal if I can, these are easiest to get back up. When I say oatmeal, I mean OATMEAL, like an entire massive pot full with brown sugar or honey and nuts and dried fruit or chocolate chips and almond slivers or peanut butter……… it’s bad hahahah