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It is only natural that you feel terrible after a binge. Why wouldn’t you? It’s like you lost control and your cravings took over and just ruined everything you worked hard for. You feel like the efforts you have been exerted all those days or weeks have been for nothing. But don’t worry it’s not a hopeless situation. It will be if you continue feeling sorry for yourself. If you want to, you still can get back to where you want to be. You just need to realign your focus and accept that it happened. With your acceptance, you can be better equipped of preventing it so that it doesn’t happen again.
The upshot of binge eating is always the worst. It’s like devastating your body and mind at the same time. For people who binge, it’s a very spur-of-the-moment thing. It’s like looking for drugs. There’s emotional conflict and it’ll ultimately make you exhausted. So, once the binge is done, all the emotional turbulence will begin piling.
But the first thing you can do after a binge is to accept that it happened. You also have to be realistic about it. At some point, you know you’ll binge. Experts on eating disorders agree that recovery isn’t about not binging ever again. It’s about doing it less often and less severely. Simply put, don’t beat yourself up after it happens because it’s bound to in the first place.
As soon as you get over the guilt of your binge, find out what triggered it. Was it hunger? Was it loneliness? Or was it a not-so-positive interaction with someone? You have to figure out what set it off, so you can know how to avoid it next time. This is vital in order to get back on track immediately.