Slippery Slope Of Binge Eating

Binge Eating Needs To Stop

If you are reading my articles this is the 2nd step to change your diet and turn your life around. Today's article falls on binge eating, meaning eating a lot after you have severe depression. Why is this important to learn? Many people don't realize it, but they tend to gorge down a lot of food when they feel depressed.

What you need to do here is substitute the binge eating with some other activity when you get depressed. Understand that when a depressive event happens, binge eating is not healthy and only helps temporarily. Instead bring back joy to your life, watch a show on Netflix instead, go out and walk/jog outside to clear your mind. Many people get depressed, go home and eat a whole jug of ice cream. Imagine if you get depressed everyday, this is what I am talking about as the slippery slope of binge eating. 

You continue to do this habit so much you get used to it. Think about having a depressive mood each day, and going to go eat a super size big mac at a fast food burger joint each day. You can gain 5 to 10 pounds each week just on binge eating. Cutting this out is your next step to starting to lose weight. Go ahead and try it! It will be tough at first but if you replace binge eating with a tv show or movie to cheer you up, you will see a change in no time. Heck try any hobby that will help you!!

Avoiding binge eating is important because it leads to the term stretched stomach. You binge eat a lot at one time and it causes your stomach to grow bigger. So now every time you try to eat regular meals you have to eat more just so you can feel full. This slippery slope continues and it makes it harder for you to lose weight. Take this lesson to heart, and next time I will talk about the 3rd step to losing weight. 

P.S. If you have made it this far and have done the first 2 steps, you can now see that losing weight is possible because you are in control.