Stop Binge Eating - Stop Overeating

Food addiction is simply out of control eating.  It’s characterized by eating beyond the satisfaction of physical hunger.  As a matter of fact a big part of food addiction treatment is learning to differentiate between real hunger and emotional hunger (which leads to emotional eating).  Click HERE for a free report to overcoming food addiction.

Are you always hungry?  Are there certain foods that you can’t stop eating after you consume the first serving?  Are you sick of tired of overeating?  Do you keep gaining weight because of your food addiction?  Have you worked on overcoming food addiction in the past yet always failed?

Food addiction in many ways is very similar to binge eating where one eats large amounts of food in a very short period of time.  There are several food addiction treatments however most of them revolve around very similar concepts which I will discuss in this article.

One important step to overcoming food addiction is differentiating between real hunger and fake hunger.  Here is an article which discusses this concept in depth: Can’t Stop Eating Too Much Food?

Another important step to any food addiction treatment is understanding the rewards or payoffs of overeating, here is an article which discusses this concept in depth: Can’t Stop Binge Eating if it’s a Reward

Lastly, a very important step to overcoming food addiction is increasing your awareness.  One way to do that is through journaling.  Journal about your day, your feelings, your thoughts and your eating.  As you journal you’ll be able to reflect on your own life, your choices, and your eating.  You’ll start seeing the cause and effect relationships between your emotions or thoughts and overeating.  You’ll start seeing how feeling a lot of stress really can encourage you to engage in overeating.  You’ll start seeing how thinking negative thoughts and being tough on yourself will keep you stuck in your food addiction recovery efforts without making any progress.

Recovery from food addiction is a very worthy goal.  While the journey might seem tough in the beginning it will get easier.  As you build healthier eating habits, work on managing your thoughts and emotions, your food addiction recovery will take care of itself.

You might also be wondering what about fast food addiction or junk food addiction?  Well they aren’t any different than any other kind of food addiction.  You see it’s not really about the food you are addicted to rather why you are addicted to it.  Often the reasons behind different food addictions are the same and therefore food addiction treatment works well in all cases.

Overeating, binge eating or eating too much is the most common cause of weight gain.  Since I write a newsletter focused mainly on overeating and emotional eating I hear it all the time from many of my readers “but I just can’t stop eating” or they ask me “how can I stop eating too much?”  Click HERE for a FREE Report filled with tips to quickly Stop Overeating.

If you can’t stop eating it’s actually a sign that you might be dealing with food addiction.  Overcoming food addiction is easy if you know where to start.  Now there are basically two types of issues you need to deal with when undergoing food addiction treatment.

The first category of issues usually revolves around the question of why you eat in the first place.  You might automatically answer “I eat because I’m hungry”.  Well you’re right but there are two types of hunger.  There is real physical hunger and then there is a fake hunger.  Most food addicts confuse fake hunger with real hunger and as a result overeat.

A major step in overcoming food addiction is recognizing the fake hunger.  The fake hunger is often a form of emotional eating.  Here are some posts that will help you learn more about emotional eating: Stop Emotional Eating Articles

As you learn more about emotional eating you’ll be able to differentiate between real hunger and emotional hunger.  You might already know about emotional eating and be thinking “but I still can’t stop eating”.  Well that’s because you need to deal with the 2nd type of issues of food addiction treatment: Eating Awareness.

Eating awareness simply means becoming more aware of what you are eating.  It means slowing down your eating, and engaging in mindful eating.  A quick technique to increase your eating awareness is to maintain a food journal.

A food journal is a journal where you list when and what you eat during the day, and how it makes you feel.  This will help you stay accountable to your eating choice.  Let’s say you eat junk food and write it down in your eating journal, and you write how it made you feel nasty and disgusted afterwords.  Next time you are tempted to eat junk food you’ll remember how it made you feel last time and it will be much easier to say no.

You can visit the binge eating forum and start your own eating accountability journal like many of the other members on there.  You’ll find a lot of encouragement and advice to stay on track from other forum members also.  I hope you enjoy this Can’t Stop Eating Too Much Food article