Binge eating—need advice
Really struggling to stop my binges. I go a few days in a deficit and then binge thousands of calories by day 4-5. I’m 5’9 female weighing in the low 140s. I’m skinny fat after regaining my original weight after I reached a temporary low of 125 this fall (which I know now is very unsustainable and a borderine unhealthy BMI). My goal is/was to maintain at 135, but I am exhausted. For what’s its worth my body does seem to always return to low 140s. Despite binges my body seem to regulate itself back here. But I did really like how my body looked in the 130s.
I have been cycling between trying 1600 calories, then 1800, then adding workouts, then cutting workouts, and I am honestly desperate at this point. Do I stop trying to eat in a deficit? Do I increase calories but also increase my exercise and lose the weight slowly? I’m so freaking exhausted of this cycle which has gone on for months now. I want to eat normally again and I need this horrible cycle to stop so I can be healthy and feel normal again.
**also, with the cycle of bingeing and water weight it’s hard for me to tell what my baseline true weight is right now, and what my calorie maintenance is. I’m guessing with moderate activity I’m around 2100 and without any exercise closer to 1900 but who knows.