The thought of eating, of putting something with calories into me...

[SassyMummy]

I'm a binge eater. I eat a big hit of food. Sometimes it's healthy, sometimes it rubbish, sometimes it's a combination of both... but there's always a lot of it entering my mouth per day.

Until the past Thursday.... and now I am barely eating anything.

Saturday, I didn't even eat anything at all. Even thinking about food... about putting something with calories in it into my body... it just makes me feel repulsed, and I just find it so hard to do.

Yesterday, Sunday, I ate. I went to Mums, and so I had a little bit of garden salad, a sausage, a bread roll, and a little nibble on the ear of an Easter Bunny.

I felt gross eating it. Like, I couldn't believe I was putting that garbage into my body... I just knew I had to, or my mother would have a go at me... and also because she cooked lunch (BBQ) for us, I felt it was a better idea to actually eat it than to not. It wouldn't have been nice... but it was an effort.

It's so strange though... because normally, I would have SO MUCH FOOD and then want more (but stop because I'd not want to seem like a pig).

I would have eaten my choccie eggs by now too... but tehy're sitting in the fridge, doing nothing. I've even had a Mars Bar Light in there since Thursday... normally it would have been gone straight away, but I think I'd eaten about a whole 1/2 inch off of it in the past few days...

Today I don't want to eat either. Just water. Anything more than water makes me feel gross.

I'm hte one that TURNS to food when in search of comfort, not refuses to eat... and I'm not even stressed out anymore... since agreeing to break up with DP on Saturday night, I've been really good emotionally.

I don't really know what is wrong... but it's getting annoying because I'm feeling like I'm going to faint all the time...

Has this happened to anyone else?

Mind you, I'm not a skinny girl, I'm a size 18, so losing a bit of weight from this is not going to do me too much in the way of damage...lol.

It's jsut so weird for this to happen to ME... someone who OVER and BINGE eats...

[Cupcake]

Stacey you are going through changes....your tummy is in knots....stress & change can do funny things to our bodies.

[susmamma]

sometimes we eat, or overeat or binge eat or just plain eat the wrong foods to supress our emotions.

perhaps this is a cleansing time for you emotionally, you've made some big decisions in the last few days and leading up to it you've had to work through a lot of your feelings and confront things head on, perhaps for the first time in years.

maybe this is your body syncing in with your new emotional calmness... it isnt requiring you to stuff it with food to supress your emotions because you're not suffocating your feelings anymore.

i'd anticipate you're hunger levels etc will settle down once you've established a new routine at your mums place.

my girlfriend was overweight for years and years.
after her dp left her she lost weight for the first time, with very little effort.
finally she didnt need to feed herself to suppress her feelings or to make herself happy.

[RedPanda]

I agree with the previous posters. Even though you feel at ease with your decisions, it's going to be a big change for you and your body is probably just reacting. Make sure you drink plenty of fluids, and try to eat something throughout the day, even if it is just something small. You don't want to starve your immune system and your body when you're about to undergo such a change in your life.

[*babygirl*]

i dont think its anything major... have u looked at it from the other side? like maybe the LACK of negative feelings towards you and DP are causing you to STOP emotionally eating? i know that in the end when DP wouldnt touch me i used to eat more than normal as if to get back at him.... and when we took a break and i had a HUGE weight lifted off my shoulders i ate heaps less.... not because i was sad but i wasnt eating because i wanted to make a point iykwim.