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Disorders Binge Eating

Saturday, July 18th, 2009

The Characteristic of Binge Eating Disorders

Have you ever heard about disorders binge eating?  People categorized having disorders binge eating when they frequently eat large amounts of food than normally people do. However, someone who eats large amounts of food does not always mean that a person has binge eating disorders. Most people with disorders binge eating are obese, and commonly happen in women. Usually obese people having disorders binge eating and often become overweight at a younger age than those without disorder.  So, if you have children be aware about their weight.

Symptoms of disorders binge eating

Most people with serious disorders binge eating can be recognised from several factors they have. First symptom of disorders binge eating is consuming the abnormally large amount of food. Second is the feeling of being unable to control how much is being eaten. When a person eats much more rapidly than usual, eats until uncomfortably full, keep eating even though not physically hungry, having disgust, depression, or guilt feeling after overeating also show that a person has binge eating disorders.  So, be sure to recognize all of these factors.

People with binge eating disorders are different with bulimia sufferer. Disorders binge eating does not engage in compensatory behaviours like vomiting, exercising, etc. Thus, people with disorders binge eating often gain weight because of accumulation of high-calorie and high-fat food. Besides, they also have a higher possibility in suffering from health complication due to being overweight. High blood pressure and high cholesterol are the most frequent effects.  Controlling eating behaviour is the good effort to avoid disorders binge eating.

 

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How To Stop Binge Eating

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

How to Stop Binge Eating in 4 Easy Steps

 By Luke Johnstone - Executive Summary

 Binge eating is a major reason why so many people fail to lose weight. The problem is, the diets we follow to lose weight, actually encourage us to binge eat even more.

4 Tips That Will Show You How To Stop Binge Eating

1. Eat What Ever You Want

Forget the notion that a certain food makes you fat, because it doesn’t. You will lose weight as long as you eat less food then you burn off a day.
The good news is, it actually doesn’t matter what food you eat, as long as you eat less total calories then you need a day. So stop depriving yourself of foods that you enjoy, this only increase our cravings, and in turn increases our chances of bingeing.

2. Eat More

Low calorie diets cause our metabolism to slow right down, so we burn less calories. At the same time, these low calorie diets seem to increase our appetite. So we end up eating more and burning off less!
In actual fact, you don’t need to cut calories so far to lose weight. To safely burn off fat simply eat 12-14 calories per pound of bodyweight spread out over 4-6 meals. This should also be more than enough food to avoid ever feeling hungry or deprived.

3. Overeat but Don’t Binge

Giving it an abundance of calories occasionally gives our metabolism a much needed kick in the pants. This convinces the body that there definitely isn’t a shortage of food. It will then realise that it is pointless to hang onto our fat stores, and continue to burn it up at a faster rate. So what I did, was every 4th or 5th day I would eat my calorie limit (see point 2) times 2-2.5. So if I was eating 2400 calories to lose weight, every 4th or 5th day I would try to keep my intake under 6000 calories. This was more than enough calories to satisfy my cravings, allowed me to enjoy myself socially and it still allowed me to burn fat.
I figured that if I didn’t do this, my cravings would soon become too strong and I would binge eat well over 10,000 calories.

4. Control Emotional Eating

I know many binge eaters do so when they are stressed. I don’t blame them. However, try to find other non-food ways to relieve stress. Get outside and go for a walk, play with your children or your pets, go to the park or the beach.