In this article I will share with you 3 tips to quickly stop overeating and start losing weight…

Tip 1 - Stop focusing so much on what you eat or how much you overeat, rather focus on why you eat.  Do you eat because you’re hungry?  Really hungry?  Pause before answering this question.  Really think about it.  Do you ever find yourself eating due to stress?  Do you ever dig into that tub of ice-cream because you’re depressed?  Do you ever reach out for those chips to escape reality in front of your tv set?

Tip 2 - Get and stay out of your comfort zone.  Wait, huh, what does comfort zone has anything to do with how to stop overeating? EVERYTHING.  You see growth and improvement in any aspect of your life requires getting out of your comfy same day in same day out lifestyle.

If you keep living your life the same way you are now you’ll keep getting the same results.  In order to make changes in your life, you have to take different actions.  Often those actions seem scary or a bit uncomfortable at first.  here is a quick example…

To get in shape I decided to join a group exercise class at my last gym.  It was very scary showing up for the class because I knew how hard it will be, I was totally out of shape but I knew I needed others to motivate me.  So I forced myself to just show up.  And believe me it was uncomfortable, and I was sore for a week afterword.  But I can’t describe to you how amazing I felt at the end of that class because I stepped out of my comfort zone.

Tip 3 - Avoid Isolation.  During times in my life I was a slave to food I often was isolated.  I hated seeing people.  I felt fat and disgusted and stayed home.  And this was a destructive cycle.  Why?  Because being isolated and lonely left me feeling sad and depressed.  And my only friend was the tub of ice cream or that box of chocolate chip cookies.  Eating was my only source of pleasure.  So I stayed isolated and kept binge eating.

You have to get out of isolation.  Go out, make new friends if you have to even if it feels uncomfortable.  Go see your grandma.  Visit some of your distant cousins.  Catch up with your junior high friends.  Do whatever you gotta do to get out of isolation.  Isolation will always lead to overeating.

I hope that reading this article has helped you answer the question of how to stop overeating.  Click here for more tip to stop overeating.

Well I’m going to share with you 3 tips to quickly stop binge eating and start losing weight beginning today.

Tip 1 - Learn all you can about emotional eating.  Emotional eating is the most common cause of weight gain.  It’s characterized by eating to cope with emotions including boredom, stress, fear or sadness.  You see it in the movies all the time.  A girl’s boyfriend breaks up with her, and she’s so sad, she goes home and binges on that ice cream tub.

While it’s obvious in the movies it might not be so obvious in your life.  To stop emotional eating you must first become aware of your emotional eating triggers.

Tip 2 - Start Journaling Constantly.  I don’t mean writing “dear diary, today Mike said I was a hottie and he was checking out my butt…”, I mean journaling about your feelings, your emotions, what’s behind them, what you worry about, the real stuff.

Here is how you can start.  At the end of a stressful day sit down and think about the 3 top things on your mind, the things you worry about the most and are stressed about the most.  After listing them down start making more notes under each topic.  Decide whether it’s something you can control or not.  If you can control it come up with actions steps you can take to correct the situation.  If you can’t then decide to let it go.

Tip 3 - Exercise.  I gotta admit exercise is a pain in the butt.  Come on, I would rather sleep on my hammock all day like Fred Flinstone than go the the gym.  Or lay down on my couch in front of a TV.  However exercise has many benefits like the following…

• Stress Relief - Exercising is a great way to relief stress, if you don’t exercise you might resort to emotional eating to cope with stress
• More Productivity - Exercising will boost your productivity.  You’ll find you can do so much more during the day when you exercise
• Weight Loss - Exercise will help you lose weight and keep it off.

I hope reading this article helped you answer the question of how to stop binge eating.  Here are some more tips to stop binge eating.

Becoming aware of stress eating or eating due to stress is
important.  One way to deal with stress eating is to deal
with the stressful events or circumstances in your life…

Here is a question from a reader about how to deal with a
stressful job.  The advice in the answer I will share with
you can be applied to most stressful circumstances
in your own life…

—————- Question ——————

Andrew,

Your site and the content is really great, thanks a lot.
do you have any content/experience on eating when fatigued?

after work I just eat and eat, even though I workout in the
morning.

the food I eat isn’t good for me, either - pbj’s, ‘energy
bars’, etc.

any help surely appreciated.  thank you.

- Dave

—————- My Response —————–

Dave,

I’ve had the same experience for years.

As a matter of fact my job was a big source of stress
eating.  I discuss this more in my book which you can learn
more about here:

http://howtostopeating.com/stop-binge-eating-book/

To give you the short version I hated what I was doing at
my job but deep down suppressed it because I feared how
tough it would be to transition careers.

So if you don’t like your job my advice would be for you to
start looking for another one.

If you just feel stressed during that part of the day in
general then schedule another activity after work,
preferably one that reliefs your stress.

Maybe exercise after work instead of the morning.

Go for a walk after work.

Call a friend or a family member and tell them about your
day and what’s on your mind once you get home from work.

- Andrew

—————— Reply from Reader ——————–

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for your comments - they’re very practical.

In fact I went for a 90-minute walk last night after
watching a movie with my wife, just feeling cabin fever and
I sure needed it.

The first resource is your family and friends.  Sharing about your binge eating, what your learning about it, and your struggles with it is a great first step.  This way your family can help you stay on track and you can always go to them whenever you feel tempted to binge.

Another resource for binge eating help is learning all you can about the topic.  Reading books on the topic of binge eating, and how others have recovered is also a great way to stay on track.

Another binge eating help resource that you can access right now is the binge eating support forum.  The forum is open 24/7 and usually you’ll get a reply for your questions or comments within a few hours from posting.  The forum is also a great place to meet others who are trying to stop binge eating.

The last binge eating support resource is eating disorder group meetings.  You should be able to find group meetings in your local area or city/town, just search for eating disorder group meetings online.  Overeater’s anonymous and ANAD are two popular groups.  You’ll find those group meetings very encouraging and you’ll also meet others who have.

I wish you the best of luck in your binge eating recovery.  I did it and so can you.

Binge eating recovery is very simple.  It first involves understanding your overeating triggers or the causes of your binge eating.  Often this can be a stressful day, an annoying boss, or negative thoughts.  After figuring out such triggers the next step is to deal with them.  If it’s an annoying boss you need to ask yourself why they annoy you?  Whether it’s worth it working with someone annoying or if it would be better to find a new job and so on.

The next step in binge eating recovery is replacing overeating habits with healthier coping habits.  Overeating is generally a coping mechanism.  Food can be a great source of comfort and can be abused for such a purpose.  Instead of using food for comfort a binge eater is taught other stress relief techniques such as exercise, meditation and sharing stressful events with friends and family.

If you’ve been dealing with eating issues for a while then binge eating recovery might sound very tough and threatening.  You might even be wondering if you can ever really stop binge eating.  Well I got great news of you: you can do it.  I did it and so can you.

In overcoming binge eating a common question is should you consume those “forbidden foods” or completely avoid them?  Is it realistic to have those foods in moderation or is it just safer to avoid them all together?

There are different schools of thoughts on this topic.  Some experts recommend abstaining from such trigger foods (foods that trigger your binge eating).  Other experts recommend consuming such foods in moderation since it’s a more realistic approach to overcoming binge eating.

If you don’t know which advice to go with I recommend you try both.  Try to first abstain from those foods completely.  If you can do it great.  If you can’t and end up bingeing on those foods still then you need to try the other approach:  have those foods in moderation.

In overcoming binge eating you might be really scared to have such “forbidden foods” however it might be an essential part or your recovery and building normal eating habits.

I hope this article helps you in going through binge eating treatment.  I hope you recover from binge eating.  You’ll find many helpful articles on this website on the topics of binge eating, overeating, emotional eating, and food addiction.  I really hope that you get your eating under control, lose weight, and get this area of your life handled.

Binge eating treatment can be very tricky since it involves many aspects including psychological and emotional therapy.  Therapy includes becoming more aware of one’s thoughts and emotions which usually trigger their overeating.

There are many forms of binge eating treatment including books on the topic, seeing a therapist or checking into an eating disorder recovery facility.  A major part of binge eating treatment is learning to manage emotional eating.

Emotional eating is consuming food to deal with emotional stress.  Comforts foods are a great example of emotional eating.  Often overeating is a form of emotional eating.

Binge eating treatment can be very costly.  Seeing a therapist can be very expensive and worst of all therapists don’t guarantee any recovery results.  Therapy works for some but can be a waste of time and money for others.

Some health insurance providers are willing to pay for binge eating treatment therapy sessions while others aren’t.  It’s best to check with your own health insurance company to verify your coverage if you are thinking about trying binge eating recovery.

If you are wondering whether you are dealing with binge eating or not then read these very common binge eating symptoms and decide for your self.  If you have any experience with binge eating treatment please consider leaving a comment at the bottom of your post, I’d really love to get your feedback and learn more about the type of treatment that worked for you.

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.

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