Posted by nolegirl323 on July 5, 2006, at 19:29:09
In reply to Nightmares of binging, posted by Racer on March 8, 2006, at 14:01:20
> Last night, I had such nightmares, of binging on potato chips, and I woke up upset by them. In the dream, I wasn't even aware of eating them -- just kinda looked around and noticed that I'd eaten about a dozen bags -- the big bags -- of potato chips. And, since I wasn't aware of eating them, I was still hungry, and still wanted potato chips. It really was awful.
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> I'm in an awfully anxious phase, and having a terrible case of the fats lately. And then on Monday, with my mother, I did buy potato chips -- second to last thing I needed -- and Easter candy -- the very last thing I needed. I guess that could have triggered it, along with having eaten some of the little Hershey's eggs yesterday. (Somehow, having the chocolate eggs melt in my mouth is more satisfying than letting sugar free hard candy do the same...) And I find I'm *still* upset about it all. The dream, the eating, the buying.
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> Doesn't help that I can't seem to lose any weight. I have been trying to, but nothing. If anything, I keep gaining. HATE this.
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> I don't know why I'm posting this here. Maybe just because it upset me, maybe to try to inject some life here, maybe in hopes someone else has experienced this. Keeping in mind that I don't regularly binge eat, of course, and don't purge...
I too have nightmares of bingeing on large amounts of food, particularly during times when I am severely restricting (I'm an "in-betweeny" - in the middle of bulimia and anorexia...)
Sometimes, I wake in the middle of the night, stil l in that half asleep mode convinced that my dream was real and that I did in fact eat all of the food that I dreamed about.. Often times it sends me running to the bathroom to purge the calories from my body that I dreamed that I consumed.
I guess I don't really have any advice, just support I guess. You aren't alone..
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