Archive for the "Binge Eating" category

 

Binge Eating Survey is Closed

 

At the end of April I began a binge eating survey to collect the type of people’s favorite or preferred binge food.
The survey’s purpose was to help binge eaters see the similarities between the participants’ preferred binge foods (through the upcoming results), and to learn if food addiction is driving their binges.
I may have been [...]

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5 Tips to Avoid Night Eating and Sabotaging Your Diet

 

Can you go all day, sticking to your diet and exercise plan, but when the sun goes down you head for the frig?
Do you find that your attitude towards your weight loss plan “suddenly” changes at night? Are you continually telling yourself “I’ll start over tomorrow morning”?
I’ve found that the time that I am most [...]

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What is Your Preferred Binge Food?

 

Do you have a “top choice” in binge foods?
Is there a specific food that you tend to binge on, or do you go for any form of sweets? Do you tend to binge only on Doritos (or only Oreos, or Honeycomb cereal, or Edy’s Ice Cream, etc.) and nothing else?
If you currently binge eat, or [...]

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Proof that Diverting Yourself Works (when you want to eat and you aren’t hungry)

 

Recently I wrote an article, “5 Actions to Take to Avoid Eating when Not Hungry“, regarding how to use diversions to sidetrack yourself when you want to eat and you’re not hungry. Heather at MiddleAgeShed wrote a follow-up post based on my original article that she and Anna (her diet support buddy) included in their [...]

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Is it Trivial to Focus on Weight Loss?

 

Do you think it is trivial to focus on weight loss and fitness when there is so much tragedy occurring in the world today?
I’ve been thinking about this since the senseless shooting at Virginia Tech on Monday. Even though I don’t have a direct connection to this tragedy, I am still affected by it, just [...]

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How to Lose Weight by Feeling Good about You

 

One of the most helpful things that you can do for yourself immediately is to stop feeling bad about yourself because you overeat and/or are overweight.
While I firmly believe in taking personal responsibility for your own actions and the circumstances of your life, it does you absolutely no good at all to put yourself down [...]

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What is the Difference between Emotional and Binge Eating?

 

I have been focusing on writing about emotional eating lately without including the distinction of the binge eating disorder. I have done both, and in my opinion, binging is more destructive.
When I have been writing about emotional eating, in my mind I have been remembering my experiences of what are technically both emotional and [...]

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If You aren’t Aware of the Problem, How can You Change It?

 

A couple of days ago, Patrick from New Stasis commented on one of my earlier posts regarding food abuse and emotional eating, titled Is Food Going to Solve It?. I was responding to his comment and while I was writing, I saw the comment window shrinking with the addition of my text. I realized that [...]

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