My Binge Eating Story - How to Stop Binge Eating

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Binge eating is when you overeat, or eat too much in short periods of times. Binge eating is characterized by eating in private, hiding your foods. Many binge eaters consume normal portions of food in public, however in private they often overeat.

Binge eating is often a result of dieting. When one diets to lose weight they often restrict their junk food consumption. This leads them to experiencing out of control cravings for those junk foods. So they’ll start eating a junk food but feel like they can’t stop eating it. For example they’ll plan on having one cookie, yet wont be able to stop at one, and will eat 10 cookies.

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If you cant stop eating junk foods it’s often because you have kept them out of your diet in the first place. Of if you eat too much junk foods it’s because at some point you didn’t allow yourself to have any.

Another form of binge eating is emotional eating. Emotional eating is when you eat comfort foods to soothe tough or negative emotions. Notice how you eat too much on days you are stressed out? To stop binge eating sometimes you need to first stop emotional eating.

Binge eating is a form of compulsive overeating. To overcome overeating one needs to first become aware of why they are eating in the first place. Do you eat because you are physically hungry or are you engaging in emotional eating? Are you trying to use food to comfort yourself?

Overcoming binging or overcoming binge eating disorder isn’t easy. It’s a challenge. Often binge eating ends up becoming a nasty habit, and just like any bad habit, it takes time to correct it.

Some argue that binge eating disorder isn’t really a disorder since it’s not any different from drinking too much alcohol or say even a bad gambling habit. It’s just a food addiction.

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October 6, 2008 | Filed Under Stop Binge Eating

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7 Responses to “My Binge Eating Story - How to Stop Binge Eating”

  1. EmotionalEating on October 7th, 2008 12:46 pm

    stuff, you are way …
    stuff, you are way too kind ;)

  2. StuffParkingOnly on October 7th, 2008 12:46 pm

    thank you so much:) …
    thank you so much:)
    im a dancer, and because of all the pressure i have been binging a lot for a few months and i hate it..=/
    i feel like i lost control of my life but ima try to stop it..:)
    thanks again and p.s u look very handsome:) well done:)

  3. EmotionalEating on October 7th, 2008 12:46 pm

    My bad, andrew784 …
    My bad, andrew784 is my other youtube screen name, thanks for checking out my video everyone.

  4. andrew784 on October 7th, 2008 12:46 pm

    laconan thanks for …
    laconan thanks for the encouraging words ;)

  5. andrew784 on October 7th, 2008 12:46 pm

    MrMeditation, You …
    MrMeditation, You are exactly right, I wanted to loose weight too quickly. That was partially why I started extreme diet.

    The other part of it is because I just hated how I looked even though I was in okay shape. I had self image issues that I need to work on.

  6. MrMeditation on October 7th, 2008 12:46 pm

    Did you switch to …
    Did you switch to the extreme diets because you thought you weren’t losing weight fast enough? Was there a trigger that made you start extreme diets at that time?

  7. laconan on October 7th, 2008 12:46 pm

    Thanks for making …
    Thanks for making this video man, I’m happy for you , happy that you overcame your addictions. It takes a brave person to open up with these issues and I for one am very proud of you.

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