Lately I've been overeating a lot and I want to stop. I want to try to lose weight and I'm getting back into exercising but I want to stop binge eating. I'll eat a lot then immediately feel bad about it and sometimes try to skip meals because I ate so much. I just need some help with this, it would really help a lot.
You sound just like me. That's exactly what I do. Binge eat and then try and skip meals or diet to make up for it. For me I've come to accept that I first need to resolve binge eating. Losing weight can come later. As urgent as it sounds and as quick as I need to lose weight, there's no way I can conquer binge eating and losing weight at the same time. If it had worked, I'd be binge free and thin! Try looking at the 2 issues separately.
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I agree with saedah, dealing with the binging separately to weight is advised in a self help book I'm reading. The thing is I'm really struggling to do that. I have started introducing an eating schedule, over the last few days, it's not too strick as then I risk "failing" and things getting worse. I'm doing ok at this and the binging has reduced over the last few days.... but I have also started weighing myself as I usually avoid this and avoid looking in the mirror and admitting what I'm doing. The problem is now that I can see how much weight I've gained over the last 6 months since my depression and eating difficulties intensified, and it's still going up. This is risking me giving up on gaining control of my eating because if I'm still gaining weight then what's the point in trying at all. Have you got any advice on how to come to terms with separating the two issues and accepting that weight loss isn't going to happen yet? I have wondered about not weighing myself but it's recommended in the book I'm reading and tackles one of my unhelpful behaviours which is avoidance. Any advice is welcome.
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@Hlc84 it helped me for a little while to curb a craving by picturing myself fit and happy and saying the word “stop!” In my head… it works sometimes, but the worst thing is when I do good and don’t binge for a couple days I end up doing it eventually… then I want to do it EVERY NIGHT… so I think the best thing for me is to never let myself slip into a binge… also I try to avoid putting foods in the “never” Group because that makes me want them more…
Have you got any tips about how to separate the 2 issues? I'm in the same place and have just started trying to eat regularly to help with the pattern of binging and skipping. It's helping a bit, for a few days I have followed a regular eating pattern. The problem is I'm still gaining weight and this is making me wonder what is the point in even trying to get this under control. Need some help to keep going!
I exercise a lot, and I have the worst food cravings at night... that's why I joined this site. I never lose weight despite my workouts because in the evening I binge..
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@kbby23 this sounds like me! You’re not alone. I’m trying to schedule my workouts at night so I workout and not binge. We’ll see. 
@saedah the book is http://www.amazon.co.uk/Overcoming-Binge-Eating-Proven-Program/dp/1572305614/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1433179929&sr=1-1&keywords=overcoming+binge+eating
Hope that takes you to the link on Amazon.
Thank you all for the helpful advice. I think what I'll try to do is not think about binging and not worry about whether I eat something "bad" or not. For example, I ate a piece of cake today and rather than thinking about how bad it would make me feel or anything like that I just enjoyed it. For me personally working out helps because I'd usually binge around 4-5pm and thats when I workout. What I'd do is take that time to workout so I don't think about eating a bunch of stuff. I don't know if it will help for any of you but it helps me.