hogwld5 asked:


I need any suggestions please,last year i was 130 lbs with no fat at all, my husband and i own a store and i’m around food all the time,so its very convienant to grab junk when i want to sometimes i’m not even hungry,i just eat b/c i’m bored or b/c it’s there how can i stop this and get healthy again and lose the weight i put on? Thanks Alot!!
Also i work 85 hrs a week so i don’t have time to go to the gym or i would and i’m always very tired.has anyone tried the alli diet?

Does thinking about food so much ultimately turn into a binge eating session for you?  Does this sound like you?

You are sitting at home and you can’t stop thinking about food.  You get up look in the pantry, close the door, and look in the refrigerator.  You don’t know what you are looking for, but you feel obsessed with food, like you need to eat it because you are at home.  You try not to eat it, because you know what will happen.  It’s the same cycle as always:  A little bite of something will turn into a binge eating session. 

This happens to many people.  Harmless snacking initially turns into a massive binge eating moment and they feel like they just cannot stop.  It’s true that most of the time people do turn to food for comfort and because of  some kind of emotional issue that happened to them in the past, but what about the people that can’t relate to that?  The people who really can’t trace their binge eating to anything in their past?  These kinds of people just know that they really enjoy food and feel like they can’t stop eating, which always turns into a binge for them.

So when you want to learn how to stop binge eating and curb any cravings, what do you do?  

Here are some tips that used to help me stay away from the pantry and focus on things other than food and binge eating:

1.  Chew gum.  

Many times we are bored and eating sounds like just the thing to do to pass time.  Instead of leading to a potential binge with a trigger food, try chewing gum.  The constant chewing of gum will trick your mind and you won’t find that you are drifting off to snacking.  You will find satisfaction with picking a gum that has a long-lasting flavor. 

2.  Do something.

Working from home I find myself in the kitchen just because it’s convenient.  It’s the same thing with people who work at an office.  The community candy bowl or the kitchen seem to just be convenient, and before you know it, you’ve consumed food that you weren’t even hungry for.  Instead of falling victim to convenience, why not remove yourself from the situation.  If you are at home and the kitchen keeps calling your name, leave the house.  Making the kitchen invisible to you will really help you to not snack as much and will definitely curb future binges.  

3.  Find motivation.  

What motivates you to stay on track?  Is there a blog that you visit regularly or a  website?  Do you have a friend that will keep you on track?  Think about your motivation towards not bingeing and do it.  Not only will you become motivated to not binge and snack, but it (hopefully) won’t even be on your mind anymore.

4.  Find the alternative.  

This tip really worked well for me.  If you start to crave a food, don’t deprive yourself of it necessarily; just find a healthier version of it.  If you are craving tacos, make them at home because they will be healthier.  If you can’t get sweets out of your mind, instead of reaching for the bag of chocolate, try an apple or another sweet fruit.  Many times you will feel satisfaction because you are still fulfilling your sweet tooth… just in another way.

The next time you can’t seem to stop obsessing over food, or if a craving just seems like it is too much, try some of the tips.  They worked for me when I was thinking how to stop binge eating for myself and hopefully you will have success with them as well.

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By: Kristin Gerstley

About the Author:

I was a binge eater for over 20 years.

For me binge eating meant that I ate WAY PAST the comfortable place of feeling full – eating to the point of pain sometimes after eating so much food.

Binge eating was a frenzied hectic behavior for me – where food became the primary focus and everything else was ignored. A binge might last from 1 – 4 hours and during that time everything – even the food would become a blur. The only thing on my mind was eating another bite of something I considered a “forbidden” food such as chocolate, or caramel, or high calorie full fat haagen dazs ice cream, or deep dish pizza, or potato chips, or nachos with loads of cheese.

If you are wondering if you might be a binge eater answer the following questions:

Do you choose to eat when you are not hungry?

Do you overeat or binge on food when you feel stressed out?

Do you binge on food when you are bored?

Do you eat food as a form of comfort?

Do you eat way past the point of comfortable fullness?

Do you hide food wrappers so no one will see what you have eaten?

Do you eat alone so that no one can see the food you consume?

Do you feel bad or guilty after bingeing?

Do you eat when you are not hungry?

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?

Do you feel like you are always thinking about food?

Do you plan for and look forward to times when you can eat all by yourself?

Do you hide food?

Do you eat like a normal person when you are with others and then binge in private?

Do you plan binges and go on special shopping trips to the grocery store with the sole purpose of getting special forbidden “binge” foods?

Are you concerned that you are out of control with food?

Do you eat to escape from your daily pressures?

Do you find that dieting never really works for you and that it causes you to binge even more?

Are you miserable about your relationship with food?

Do you feel like your food problems control your life?

Does your weight have an overall negative effect on your life?

If you answered yes to three or more of these statements there is a good chance that you either have trouble with binge eating or you are well on your way to creating a binge eating or emotional overeating problem in your life.

There is a natural way to be free of binge eating. I suffered from Binge Eating for over 20 years and I have recovered from it. It was a dark lonely place and I am so glad to be healed and healthy and happy and free from the food issues that seemed to control so much of my life. You can be free too.



By: Jana Sue

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peaches & love asked:


I have recently developed this horrible eating habit. I will eat until I’m full during the day (regular meals) but at night I get super hungry around 1-2am (every night) and I binge eat until I feel sick. It’s not even just because I’m bored – I literally feel like I haven’t eaten for hours. this habit is so strange and it developed recently. Afterward, I am unable to throw up (I’ve tried before). What can I do to stop this?