Binge Eating: The most common eating disorder in the US. It’s characterized by episodes of compulsive overeating.
The following tips may help to overcome binge eating.
1. Exercise — this will boost your levels of serotonin and endorphins helping increase your happiness as well as enabling the body to burn off more calories.
2. Keep limited amounts of food in the house — don’t keep foods that are triggers for binge eating in the home.
3. Make sure you eat breakfast and regular meals through the day. This is especially helpful if you’re a night time binge eater because you go all day at work, school, etc. not eating then over do it in the evening once home.
4. Keep healthy foods in the house, that way should you get the uncontrollable urge to binge, it’ll at least be on healthy foods rather than processed junk.
5. Take time for yourself — do something that you enjoy on a daily basis so you don’t feel deprived.
6. Journal — write down what you eat, when you eat and the emotions you were feeling prior, during and after. This will help you gain some insight to why you’re binge eating.
7. Get support — enlist the aid of a friend or a coach to help you on the road to overcoming compulsive eating.
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Dieting triggers bulimia’s destructive cycle of binging and purging. The irony is that the more strict and rigid the diet, the more likely it is that you’ll become preoccupied, even obsessed, with food. When you starve yourself, your body responds with powerful cravings — its way of asking for needed nutrition.
