How To Stop Binge Eating

First we need to identify what binge eating is - so you can see if you have a problem with binge eating.

Ask yourself these binge eating questions:

Do you eat food for comfort rather than for nourishment?

Do you regularly eat way past the point of being comfortable or way past fullness?

Do you eat alone where no can see just how much food you are eating?

Do you chew your food thoroughly or do you wolf down large quantities of food and barely taste it?

Do you feel compulsive about eating? Like you are driven to eat ALL of something - like an entire box of chocolates or a whole container of ice cream or a whole pizza - even when you are very full?

If so, there is a good chance you are suffering from binge eating disorder or at least a habit of binge eating episodes.

And it very important that you learn how to stop binge eating.

Now what?

First slow down. You did not become a binge eater over night and you are not going to change into a healthy eater overnight. At least most people don't.

So relax and realize this is a process.

But it is a worthwhile one.

Focus on how good it will feel when you are not obsessing about food all the time.

Imagine how much time you will have to do what you really love to do rather than burying your face in food that you really don't want and that makes you feel worse.

You know how at the beginning of a binge...things seem really great...you are surrounded by your favorite binge foods -- maybe chocolate, or candy, or pizza, or bread....and then you begin to eat and after a while you don't even realize what you have done. You almost go into a stupor and when you finally finish off all the food you feel awful....

Well when you learn how to stop binge eating - I can promise you that your life will open up and you will have so many other things in life that will fill that void that you were trying to fill with food.

There is hope and you can stop binge eating .

As you learn how to stop binge eating remember to be kind and gentle with yourself.

You may have been struggling for a long time with what feels like an all-consuming desire to go crazy with food and binge. It may be your fall back option whenever you feel stress.

You need to give yourself or allow yourself time to change your habits that may be deeply ingrained.

When you get the desire to binge learn to see it as an opportunity to really investigate what may be causing the pain in you that makes you want to turn to food to deal with your life in that moment.

You can be free of binge eating. I was a binge eater for many years and I am no longer! The freedom I feel with food while maintaining a healthy slim body is wonderful. And you can do it too.