Advice on the matter?!
Answers: Trying to go vegan and am already except for the fact that I binge(sometimes on non-vegan things *tears*) when I get depressed. I'm on anti-depressants and a mood stabilizer, but am still sad a lot of the time. Any advice...Being vegan is really important to me.
You will simply have to break the habit. I know what you're going through and there is just no easy way. I wrote more about this in another answer to another question of yours in Diet&Fitness, so you might want to go check that out.
You simply use food as an emotional crutch, and you need to kick that crutch out from under you and just LET yourself feel your feelings. Human beings aren't perfect - even people without E.D.'s, normal every day women and men you walk by on the street - they ALL have crummy days where they are depressed, where they feel horrible, where they feel feelings that they'd prefer not to. The difference is that they don't run to food for solace and just let themselves feel it and weather the storm.
I think the best thing to do is just stop binging and let yourself feel the feelings and find out where exactly they are coming from, and let yourself find creative outlets for them - sometimes you will even have to remove yourself from the situation. Just leave the house, go for a walk. I used to have a REALLY bad problem with this (this is a worst case scenario) I have actually cut school during lunch time because I felt I would lose control (my binging got bad during an ED recovery).
As I said in another post, I recommend this book:
http://www.amazon.ca/Was-Food-Vs-Me-Won/...
You should look into a flexitarian diet, it allows for you to eat a small amount of meat.
http://www.fitnessandfreebies.com/health...
I think the best thing you can do is use this as a test and stand up to yourself. Breaking your ideals probably makes you more upset than you started out at anyway. Stay vegan, stay busy, and stick to you guns just one time and it will feel really good!
by the way... eating heathy amounts of any food is better than binging
Do you have a counselor? I'm assuming you do, since you got a prescription for anti-depressants. Talk to him/her about your binging. It's not a good sign, whether you're binging on meat or vegetarian foods.
Being a vegetarian is...
BODY-SOUL-MIND balance.
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BODY : Desires, 7 deadly sins
SOUL : Emotion, mood, love, care, feelings, empathy
MIND : Intellectual (Mind over Emotion & Physical)
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And the advancement in vegetarianism works in this order.