is it bad that i’ve been forcing myself to eat rice cakes instead of binging that now sometimes i binge on rice cakes? ( the ones i have are only 35 caps each and they’re v big so it’s ok lol )

alienform:

Binging is always bad, usually in two ways-

1) bad for your body cause of either the content or the volume of the food you consume

2) bad for you psychologically cause of all the negative feelings associated

So the behaviour of binging is detrimental to your wellbeing regardless of what or how much you eat!

That being said it is healthier to eat 10 rice cakes than 10 packets of doritos and when I was in recovery from BED I worked with my therapist to make a list of binge foods that had less of a negative effect on my body. But by no means is either behaviour healthy!

Ps. This is exactly what I do and have been doing all day, I must have had ¾ of the packet of rice cakes just since 2pm today 😥