Binge eating

I see a lot of information out there about binge eating disorder. I see very little about binge eating separate from that. I don't even see much about the disorder aside from "See a professional". If you are reading this, believing you have a disorder and you can see a professional, then follow the professional advice. Don't read my blog instead.

I felt lost when I started binge eating and recognized that I was. I had done it in the past without recognizing that it was anything other than undesirable eating. When I started binge eating again after around of year of eating well, I didn't even know a name for what I was doing. Then I worked out what it was called. Then I started on the net looking for what to do. I could NOT find out. This is important.

At that time I didn't fit the criteria being used to describe someone with a binge eating disorder. I'd already previously contacted a psychologist about my eating and at that time it turned out to be an expensive waste of money. I'd also contacted a dietitian and found I had to sift her advice for what I needed from her (ie take what applied to me and helped, and ignore what would have made things worse for me). So I did not feel inclined to go back to a professional.

I guess when I write this, I have in mind that maybe there are other people who are like me in that they are seeking free internet based information and contact to help with binge eating, and that, like me, they may have found it hard to get that. I think that this blog might head in the direction of meeting that search.

I am still working out how I will use this blog. I have made no attempt at all to have anyone else look at it, and I doubt they have. I still wonder about exactly what I will do with the whole thing though. It helps me. I see that abundantly - but to what extent should I even try to direct it outwards?