I am having trouble losing weight because I am a binge eater. I will do really well for 3 or 4 days...I eat 5 small healthy meals, between 1300-1500 calories a day and workout on the treadmill for 40 minutes and go rock climbing.
My trouble is that I get the idea in my head to binge and I can't get it out of my head. Most often I give into the urge and binge on unhealthy foods like donuts, whole bags of cookies, chocolate. ANd if I start, I binge for the rest of the day. SOme days I start early in the morning and binge all day. I feel terrible, my stomach gets so full, I get depressed and moody, all I want is for the day to be over...but for some reason I cannot stop eating. It's all or nothing for me...either I eat super healthy and work out or I binge on junk and do nothing.
I am athletic and have done sports all my life. I enjoy working out. I know what foods are healthy and what I should be eating. I just can't get over this bingeing. Does anybody have any suggestions on how to get the bingeing out of my life. I have tried cognitive work, which works while I am in healthy mode...but once I decide to binge, I don't do the work.
Do make matters more complicated, I used to be anorexic. I'm 5'5" and weighed at one point about 90 pounds. I ate one meal a day...usually about 800 calories. I think that is where the bingeing stems from.
I know I should go get counseling, but I am actually a master's student pursuing a degree in counseling, so I know everybody at my school center. And I can't afford to pay for therapy outside of school (I am a poor college student).
I would really like to lose about 30 pounds (I am about 170 right now), but I can't seem to stop the bingeing. I need some suggestions...anything will help. Thank you for reading for so long. I hope I can help you in some way in return.

Sorry to hear about your binging. This is something we all go through. You need to look at the binging as an addiction. You need to learn to say no. This is what I try to do. Doesn't always work though and I would like to lose 30 myself. If you can't stop the binging, you just need to exercise more to even it out.