Stop Binge Eating - Stop Overeating

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

Do you engage in overeating? Overeating is eating too much.  We all do it to some degree, however it can lead to overeating disorder which is just another name for binge eating disorder.

So how do you know when overeating is normal and when overeating is an eating disorder?  Well it’s simply if you occasionally overeat every once in a great while then you are probably just normal.

However I’m guessing if you are reading this article and are curios how to overcome overeating then it might be a serious issue for you.  Maybe you have realized that overeating has always sabotaged your weight loss efforts.

Overcoming overeating will probably help you maintain a healthy weight.  It will help you lose weight and keep it off for life.

Dieting is one of the most common causes of overeating.  When you diet you often deprive yourself from junk foods and fast foods.

I bet you can probably keep this up for a few days, however one day you crash and end up eating too much of those junk foods.   That day your cravings probably just got out of control and you couldn’t help it.

Dieting often leads to binge eating or eating too much foods is small periods of time.  This is your body’s natural response to depriving it from certain junk foods and fast foods.  It’s a physical and a psychological response.

The first step to overcoming binge eating or to overcome overeating is to ditch your diet.  Yes stop dieting.  It doesn’t work.  Rather try to slowly and gradually build healthier eating habits.

Your overeating might also be a form of emotional eating.  Emotional eating is when you eat foods to comfort yourself.  It’s common at the end of a stressful day.

Overcoming emotional eating is no different than overcoming overeating.  Here are tips to stop emotional eating if you think it might be an issue for you.