Stop Binge Eating - Stop Overeating

While the cause of binge eating is unknown there are many common guesses.  A part of binge eating recovery is understanding what causes the disorder in the first place.  Some believe that binge eating is caused through genes and is hereditary.  Others believe that depression is a cause of binge eating.  Some argue that excessive dieting and deprivation can also be a factor.  Here are some free tips to stop binge eating.

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.

Ever feel like you can’t stop eating a certain food after you start?  Maybe it’s cookies, pizza, or potato chips.  What’s your “forbidden food”?  You know the one food that you often end up binge eating on?  Here is a FREE report to help you quickly stop binge eating.

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 is the most common eating disorder and is mainly characterized by out of control eating episodes where one eats until their stomach hurts.  Click HERE for a free binge eating recovery report.

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.

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