How many calories do you consider a binge?

[Kazeriu]

I don't know if there's a thread like this already but for me its around 400 to 500 or even if I feel bloated before bed. What about everyone else? Or are there any foods that make you feel really guilty even if that's all you've eaten that day?

[silentxrainxdrops]

i usually consider it a binge when it gets to around 600-800 but sometimes also around 400-500 or if i just eat alot even if its only about 100 calories, but whatever it is binging still sucks because its more about the lose of control and the feeling that you've let yourself down

[DontCareIfItHurts]

For some people, even going a little over their calories is a binge to them - it makes them feel guilty and weak, like they've lost their control. But I think the truest definition of a binge is when you eat compulsively, desperately, shovelling food into yourself without caring what it is or what it tastes like, without even enjoying it, just needing it, needing to feel it filling you, like filling a void. I think that element of compulsion is what makes a binge different from just a slip. For me it could be anywhere between a big bowl of sugary cereal at 400cals to the full-on catastrophic kind of binge that goes on for hours; whole packets of cookies, bowls of icecream, pasta, buttered toast, pizza, fries, bottles of coke... Those megabinges can finish up somewhere around 2500-3000 calories and make my stomach cramp so hard I wanna scream, til the pain on it's own is enough to force me to purge. Binges like that were what first made me realise I had an eating disorder. I really hope I just NEVER have one again.

[ShowingBones.]

I consider a binge for me to be around 600-800. If its over, I'm pissed.

[bananamochi]

400 to 500 is a binge for me... But if I'm having a bad day and doubling my restriction, going over 100cals can make me go absolutely crazy and I feel like I've ruined my life. It really depends on the day and how I'm handling everything at that moment.
<3.

[i.hate.my.life.45]

Any amout really. My binges have gone from less than 300 calories to over 2000. Either way, I feel like a whale afterwards though. it sucks. Big time.

[Veganelf]

Anything over 1000 cal is a binge for me.

[blah]

a binge to me doesn't really have to do with the calories..its when im in a binge mind set, out of control and frantically eating without the ability to stop..could be 300 calories could be 3000 shame shame

[lalalalaah]

for me a bing is anything over 1000cals in one day, anything over gets purged unless i can force myself not to.

[sarah]

mine really varies day to day.
some days a binge is 600 calories.
other days, it's just when i don't burn off every calorie i eat.
other days, it's just eating a biscuit, because even though a sandwich has more calories, a biscuit is junk food.
other days are like today, when i've probably eaten 1500-2000 calories.
ew.
i refuse to purge though.

[skinnydip]

a binge for me isnt the cals, but more the physical amount of food.

[Ashes]

Anything that I did not plan to eat is a binge

[zci]

Yeah, for me its also a mind set...i kind of plan it...e.g. today I was in the gym, didn't eat for a day, worked out over an hour, binged afterward bc feeling sooo out of my mind....and purged on like chicken, cucumber, peach, vodka and coke, but sometimes it is less or more :-( As far as I know there is not a calorie bottom line or max... (please correct me...) I read that mia people eat more than average within a 2h period...

[xdollfacex]

for me it would be around 500 xo

[ViolentPornography]

Any!

No. I kid.

Eating like 700cal and it not a meal, I consider to be a binge.

[nikita_x]

Medically, a binge is over 3,000 calories but, obviously people feel different amounts are binges. Typically, I'd count over 1,000 calories as a binge. It all depends on the person, how much they're used to eating and such I guess.

[EvieVenom]

A BINGE 2 ME IS SOMETHING THAT I DIDNT PLAN TO EAT AND FOR SOME MORE THAN WHAT YOU USUALLY EAT, BUT OVERALL; A BINGE IS TECHNICALLY WHEN YOU CONSUME AN EXESSIVE AMOUNT OF CALORIES THAN A PERSON SHOULD IN A DAY. THE HEALTHY AMOUNT FOR A FEMALE TO CONSUME IN A DAY IS 2,500 CAL SO GOING OVER THAT TURNS INTO FAT. FOR FAT TO BE MADE A PERSON (FEMALE WHO DEOSNT DO EXTREME WORKOUT) MUST CONSUME 3,500 CAL. THAT'S 1LB. I DONT PERSONALLY DONT CONSUME 2,500 CAL BUT I FIGURED I'D LET YOU GUYS KNOW ABOUT GAINING AND LOOSING. TO LOOSE, JUST TAKE IN LESS THAN 2,000 CAL. THAT SIMPLE.:cool: JUST TRY TO TAKE IN HEALTHY FAT AND NOT SATURED, GREASY STUFF. :o

[nathrakh]

A binge for me is something i did not plan to eat. And is atleast over 1k. Most of the time the binges average 3000-5000 for me.

[blah]

like i said, a binge can be anything for me..as long as im in the binge mind set while i'm doing it. frantic, anxious, eating quickly and not enjoying it whatsoever. that could be a bunch of lettuce until i get myself to stop (100 calories worth) which btw is A LOT of lettuce..or a lot more calories of random anything i can find. it can last for an hour or even two days. basically it's when i'm not in control.

i have never really counted the calories in a bigger binge. i think i would die. how do you do it? same with weighing myself all the time. when i first started my ED i weighed myself when i could cuz i loved seeing the weight loss. after a while i stopped and only weighed every now and then when i knew i was at a real low weight, but otherwise i'd be too scared that i would discourage myself. only now do i weigh myself a lot..but even so it terrifies me to step on the scale if i have put anything in my mouth the past couple days. aka why i haven't been weighing lately.

[huckleberryfriend]

I usually consider something a binge if it puts me over a "normal" person's daily calorie needs (about 2,000). If I stay under I still feel bad, but if I go over I feel like complete shit.

[Sofy88]

i dont really know, it depends...but surely more that 1000 because when i feel the need to do it i just start eating anything i can till im full so i cant calculate how many calories i ate

[anaxmyxpassion]

I consider anything over 500 calories a binge

[Dandy]

To me, a binge is when I feel like I'm way out of control. Even if it's like 100 or something. If I feel like I've lost control, I consider a binge.
But that's just me. Haha.

[blah]

today i binged..it was prob 1000 calories
a little binge could be 200
and a big one could be 3000
it just all depends on how i feel when im doing it
(out of control/frantic/anxious)

[tinkerbell18587]

A binge for me is 100 cals!

[Chew]

Well I can binge on between 200 - 3000 (only 3000 when ice cream is involved), anything I eat that I eat without intention or not as a treat in any way that I cant stop myself from eating I consider a binge although when I completely lose control and cannot stop eating like crazy then I guess that really is the true definition bingeing, I log and know what I eat all the time before I eat anything and if I eat something that is not heathy or is not on my plan then it is a binge to me, this can range from a bowl of bran flakes or a chocolate bar to two pints of ice cream at 1300 calories a tub (Ben & Jerry's, it truly is evil), although I have kind of gotten out of bingeing recently so I am doing well and following my strict eating plan successfully & positively.

Also if I go over my daily intake by even 10 calories I usually feel as though I have broken my limit & the enormous guilt usually spurts a huge binge, I do not know why.

[Lilibuth]

i just call losing control of what im eating and eating things i shouldent (esp sweets) a binge... a realy binge for me is eating something large and calorie full :'(

[Maria527]

For some people, even going a little over their calories is a binge to them - it makes them feel guilty and weak, like they've lost their control. But I think the truest definition of a binge is when you eat compulsively, desperately, shovelling food into yourself without caring what it is or what it tastes like, without even enjoying it, just needing it, needing to feel it filling you, like filling a void. I think that element of compulsion is what makes a binge different from just a slip. For me it could be anywhere between a big bowl of sugary cereal at 400cals to the full-on catastrophic kind of binge that goes on for hours; whole packets of cookies, bowls of icecream, pasta, buttered toast, pizza, fries, bottles of coke... Those megabinges can finish up somewhere around 2500-3000 calories and make my stomach cramp so hard I wanna scream, til the pain on it's own is enough to force me to purge. Binges like that were what first made me realise I had an eating disorder. I really hope I just NEVER have one again.

Wow.... that was well said. You just described me.

[Priscilla]

I admire you so much for not purging.