EndBingeEating.com provides resources & information for eating disorders
Title
- End Binge Eating: Overcome Your Binge Eating Disorder
Description
Excerpted from the website description:
- You can stop Binge Eating and compulsive overeating. Learn how to overcome your binge eating disorder once and for all! Find out how I was able to finaly stop over eating and get in control of my life. Free newsletter!
Binge Eating Disorder Article
5 Steps to Stop Yourself From Binge Eating
When you have a negative feeling, the thought of comforting and drowning yourself in food sounds like a wonderful idea. Your mind will be taken off of dealing with your emotions and food will heal all. This is the truth for about the first five minutes while you binge eat. After that, you will continue to binge eat, but not because you are hungry. You will start to notice that your original feelings of sadness or other reasons will come back, along with new feelings of guilt because you just consumed so much food. Is there a way out of this crazy cycle? Of course there is!
Here are five steps that you can start implementing into your daily life so that you do not binge eat. The first step is to feel deserving of yourself. You need to feel that you are worthy enough to change your binge eating habits. Only after you do this and improve your self-esteem can you win the war over Binge Eating Disorder.
The second step is to throw out all foods in your house that you like to binge on. Remember, if the food is not readily available to you, it will be harder to binge eat. This also applies to going grocery shopping - When you don’t purchase items that you might binge eat, it will be easier to conquer a binge while you are at home. You want to make it as hard as you can.
The third step is to buy a journal. In your journal, you are going to record all binges and what feelings were present during the binge. Record all details including the time, day, what you ate, how much you ate, and how you felt before and after the binge. Journaling is a great tool because this will provide insight to you as to why you turn to food like you do. This will help to narrow down your binges so that you will be able to see any similarities that happen when you binge eat.
The fourth step is to find a way to relax yourself. This is most important to do when you feel a binge coming on. Relaxation is very important in clearing your mind and turning away from the binge. Listen to nice, classical music, take a warm bubble bath, pamper yourself, go for a walk on a nice day, mediate, or picture yourself somewhere else where binge eating isn’t a part of your life. Another thing that you can do for relaxation is to go for a nice drive. Perhaps you live by the ocean or a lake. Maybe you have some great scenic roads. Just remember not to take any money with you and try not to drive by anywhere that has food. You want to make the binge go away and you don’t want to be tempted to give in.
The fifth and final step to stopping yourself from binge eating is to talk about it. Talk to a friend or anyone else that you can trust about how you are feeling. If you are upset, vent your frustrations out to them. Just having someone listen will be very helpful to you. You will feel that a weight has been lifted from you after you get everything off of your chest.
By: Kristin Gerstley http://www.endbingeeating.com
Food Addiction Article
When you suffer from Binge Eating Disorder, you are in constant need of different ideas to help you overcome your food addiction. Times get tough and sometimes doing the same thing over and over doesn’t work like it used to. I struggled with Binge Eating Disorder for over eight years. Eight years of my life that was spent thinking about my next binge. Eight years of my life that took away from the person that I really was. Eight years that stole my personality away from me. Eight years of being absolutely miserable and hating myself. Eight years too long to deal with Binge Eating Disorder and not having overcome my food addiction.
Throughout my battle with trying to overcome my food addiction, I discovered some tricks that really helped me stay on track. I truly believe that practicing these tricks will help you to curb an upcoming binge and bring you that much closer to living your life binge-free by overcoming food addiction! Say goodbye to Binge Eating Disorder and get ready to overcome your food addiction!
First of all, do not focus on any sort of dieting. I believe that the cycle of dieting, which includes depriving yourself of certain foods will only cause you to binge on those foods, thus perpetuating the binge cycle over and over. Focus on healing yourself and forming a healthy relationship with food.
While I had Binge Eating Disorder, I tried to think about how certain foods would nourish me. I knew that healthier foods would benefit me more than eating junk (binge food). I started to implement thinking about the balance of eating whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and protein in every meal.
When I go out to dinner or if I eat at home, I make sure to eat a dinner salad before my meal. I would much rather get full on spinach lettuce and vegetables, if it meant that it would help curb any hunger that could lead me to binge.
When I suffered from Binge Eating Disorder, I hardly exercised. Eventually I started to put into practice small things that would provide some kind of exercise for me like parking far away from where I was going instead of trying to find an upfront spot. At least a further walk in a parking lot will count for something!
I learned this next trick from a forum that I regularly visit online. One of the things that I binged on very regularly was chips. It was almost like I had a food addiction to chips. I learned to visualize the ingredients that make up the food that you want. Whenever I wanted chips, I would think about the ingredients that went in to making chips: partially hydrogenated soybean oil, a ton of salt, and potatoes that were probably covered in dirt. Suddenly, not so appealing.
I never kept the foods that I binged on in the house. It’s impossible to eat a binge food when it’s not there.
When Binge Eating Disorder was part of my life, I did not eat breakfast on a regular basis. When I started eating breakfast every single day, no matter what the day’s activities were, it helped jumpstart my day and curb my binges so that I wasn’t ravenous by lunchtime.
I always kept healthy snacks in my purse when I wasn’t at home. This helped me to continue my regular snacking without having to find food while I was out.
If I had a craving for an unhealthy binge type of food, I would make a healthier version of it at home.
I learned to never buy a binge food in a big quantity.
Finally, something that really helped me curb binges was to create a routine of eating that I could stick. This meant that I ate breakfast, sometimes a mid-morning snack, lunch, a mid-afternoon snack, dinner, and sometimes a snack after that. When I ate every few hours instead of just when I felt hungry, my body felt full and I didn’t binge as much.
I hope that some of these tricks prove to be helpful to help you overcome your food addiction and end Binge Eating Disorder.
By: Kristin Gerstley c 2007. All Rights Reserved.
Overcoming Overeating and Food Addiction Article
Change is vital to overcoming overeating. How so? Well...
Well, you are at the point where you realize that you have Binge Eating Disorder and you want to make a change in your life for the better… But what do you do next? If you are like how I was, a mixture of emotions used to begin to fill my head about what my new self would be like. I was excited about getting on with my life and making overeating a thing of the past. But I was also a little nervous about letting overeating go. Why? Not because I wanted to overeat myself to death, but because I didn’t know any other way. I had turned to food for about nine years of my life and that was all I knew. I didn’t know how to deal with anything that was going on in my life. I didn’t know what I would do without bingeing to make myself feel better. What would I now do when I was happy, sad, bored, excited, or scared? It was definitely a scary time for me to wonder what my new life would be like.
The most important thing that I did was to first transform my feelings toward change. When most people think of change, they are scared because they are chartering along unknown territory. They are not sure of what the future has in store for them. They start questioning whether or not they are truly ready to take on this risk.
I knew that I had to erase everything negative in my mind about change and focus on what good would come from it. There were so many things that I was able to think of. For example, I would be a healthier person. I would feel better about myself. I would start to like myself. I wouldn’t feel like I was leading a double or secret life. I would not worry about when or how I would overeat next. I would finally have a normal relationship with food. Most importantly, I would finally be happy.
When your negative thoughts of change start to turn into good thoughts, change doesn’t seem like such a bad thing. It certainly doesn’t seem like something to be scared of. I found myself starting to get excited about changing my life. I couldn’t wait to see what was going to unravel and become my life.
After the decision has been made to make changes in your life, next will come motivation. Motivation is the driving force inside us all that push us to better ourselves. Motivation is what keeps on refueling us and reminding us what it is that we truly desire. Positive change is what produces positive motivation within each and every one of us. When you feel inspired to change the bingeing in your life, motivation will kick it up a notch to push you in the right direction. You will begin to do whatever it takes to achieve your desire result: no more overeating!
Once positive changes in your life start to happen, you will want more. You will feel motivated to keep on pushing forward, no matter how hard the obstacle may seem. It is motivation, along with hard work and dedication, that is going to create the new path for your new life of no more overeating.
By: Kristin Gerstley c 2007 All Rights Reserved.
Contact
- Kristin Gerstley
Please use the form found on: http://www.endbingeeating.com
Additional Information
Kristin Gerstley used to be a binge eater. She suffered for many years while trying to find a way out of this ongoing nightmare. As she learned more about Binge Eating Disorder and that it is possible to overcome, she made a commitment to find new ways to overcome her eating disorder herself as nothing she tried was working.
After several months of endless research, Kristin successfully developed her own plan and has been binge-free ever since. She knows first-hand what it’s like to struggle with Binge Eating Disorder for years. And she also knows the pain, suffering, loneliness, and the feelings and emotions associated with binge eating.
Because of her passion to help others and because she understands how difficult it is to overcome Binge Eating Disorder following much of the information found out there today, Kristin now teaches and coaches others on how they can overcome Binge Eating Disorder themselves.She has helped thousands of people through her ebook, “End Binge Eating: How To Stop Binge Eating And Take Conrtol Of Your Life!” and her website, http://www.endbingeeating.com and is the owner and founder of the http://www.bingeeatingdisorderhelp.com website and Membership.
Binge Eating Disorder Information
Binge eating disorder (BED) is the newest clinically recognized eating disorder. BED is primarily identified by repeated episodes of uncontrolled eating. The overeating or bingeing does not typically stop until the person is uncomfortably full. Unlike anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, however, BED is not associated with inappropriate behaviors such as vomiting or excessive exercise to rid the body of extra food. The illness usually begins in late adolescence or in the early 20s, often coming soon after significant weight loss from dieting. Some researchers believe that BED is the most common eating disorder, affecting 15% - 50% of participants in weight control programs. In these programs, women are more likely to have BED than males. Current findings suggest that BED affects 0.7% - 4% of the general population.
To the lay person, BED can be difficult to distinguish from other causes of obesity. However, the overeating in individuals with BED is often accompanied by feeling out of control and followed by feelings of depression, guilt, or disgust.
Complications - People with BED are often overweight because they maintain a high calorie diet without expending a similar amount of energy. Medical problems for this disorder are similar to those found with obesity such as increased cholesterol levels, high blood pressure, and diabetes, as well as increased risk for gallbladder disease, heart disease, and some types of cancer. Researchers have shown that individuals with BED also have high rates of depression.
Related Domains
Binge Eating Support Forum, Blog, and Message Board: http://www.bingeeatingdisorderhelp.com
