Q. I've been binge eating for about a week now. I feel really sick and uncomfortable, yet I still do it everyday. Can anyone with experience in this matter please give me some guidance? I want to fix this before I get a really serious problem and become obese.
Thanks
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A. Manage stress, if you have any.
*Much like exercising, relaxation in the body tends to relieve stress and anxiety. Forms of body relaxation include yoga, bodywork (massage therapy), breathing exercises, tai chi and aroma therapy.
Get medication.
*Antidepressants can help reduce the sad feelings and anxiety that often trigger a binge and appetite suppressants may help in reducing the frequency of binges.
Self-help.
*This can be done through buying a self-help video or book, by calling a hotline for those with eating disorders or by joining a program in which anyone with binge eating disorder can come to support and encourage others.
Exercising.
*Exercise is beneficial to almost any treatment plan as it relieves stress. For those with binge eating disorder, regular fitness can reduce binge eating episodes because stress is a common trigger for binge eating.
Hope this helps!! :))
*Much like exercising, relaxation in the body tends to relieve stress and anxiety. Forms of body relaxation include yoga, bodywork (massage therapy), breathing exercises, tai chi and aroma therapy.
Get medication.
*Antidepressants can help reduce the sad feelings and anxiety that often trigger a binge and appetite suppressants may help in reducing the frequency of binges.
Self-help.
*This can be done through buying a self-help video or book, by calling a hotline for those with eating disorders or by joining a program in which anyone with binge eating disorder can come to support and encourage others.
Exercising.
*Exercise is beneficial to almost any treatment plan as it relieves stress. For those with binge eating disorder, regular fitness can reduce binge eating episodes because stress is a common trigger for binge eating.
Hope this helps!! :))
How does binge eating hurt my body?
Q. Aside from weight gain, what other physiological disadvantages are there to binge eating? Perhaps knowledge of these will deter me from binge eating.
I can imagine that it's not so good for the heart, metabolism, etc.
Thanks very much
I can imagine that it's not so good for the heart, metabolism, etc.
Thanks very much
A. Binge eating can throw your entire metabolism out of whack with as few as one or two episodes.
Human metabolism isn't based on the quality of the food we digest, but the quantity; how MUCH we eat. Binge eating any kind of food will send a rush of comestibles for your body to process and break down into nutrition. Your metabolism will change AFTER changing your eating habits.
If you, for example, were eating a normal diet and then consumed a large amount of food, your metabolism would attempt to compensate by speeding up, expecting that your next meal will be as large. If it isn't, the new metabolic potential you've taught yourself is basically wasted and you feel hungry the next day, and it will all slow back down if you don't binge again within a few days.
The best answer to counteracting that sort of thing is to watch what you eat if you can't control the binging. Large amounts of nuts, fruit, or other healthy foods will speed up your metabolism as quickly as any other food. Foods rich in capsaicin, like jalapeños or hot sauce (capsaicin is what makes things spicy) are currently being researched as possible substances to quickening metabolism by themselves.
Heart problems, again, are dependent on what you eat. If you're binging McDonalds, your heart is going to suffer, but if you binge with healthy foods as I mentioned above, your heart may actually benefit from an increase in present nutrition if your diet isn't normally comprised of so many healthy foods.
Exercise too, of course, increases metabolic rate significantly; exercise expands the actin and myosin fibers in your muscles, which means that your caloric burn for the day will increase, even if you don't participate in strenuous activity.
I hope this helped. Good luck!
Human metabolism isn't based on the quality of the food we digest, but the quantity; how MUCH we eat. Binge eating any kind of food will send a rush of comestibles for your body to process and break down into nutrition. Your metabolism will change AFTER changing your eating habits.
If you, for example, were eating a normal diet and then consumed a large amount of food, your metabolism would attempt to compensate by speeding up, expecting that your next meal will be as large. If it isn't, the new metabolic potential you've taught yourself is basically wasted and you feel hungry the next day, and it will all slow back down if you don't binge again within a few days.
The best answer to counteracting that sort of thing is to watch what you eat if you can't control the binging. Large amounts of nuts, fruit, or other healthy foods will speed up your metabolism as quickly as any other food. Foods rich in capsaicin, like jalapeños or hot sauce (capsaicin is what makes things spicy) are currently being researched as possible substances to quickening metabolism by themselves.
Heart problems, again, are dependent on what you eat. If you're binging McDonalds, your heart is going to suffer, but if you binge with healthy foods as I mentioned above, your heart may actually benefit from an increase in present nutrition if your diet isn't normally comprised of so many healthy foods.
Exercise too, of course, increases metabolic rate significantly; exercise expands the actin and myosin fibers in your muscles, which means that your caloric burn for the day will increase, even if you don't participate in strenuous activity.
I hope this helped. Good luck!
Does recovering from anorexia predispose you to binge eating disorder?
Q. Since your brain was thrown into starvation mode for so long, and the primal instinct in the brain is to eat more when you can in case of famine, wouldn't someone who was anorexic (in a state of starvation and "famine") be more likely to binge eat when/if they overcame the anorexia since the body would be afraid of starving again? And if so,would it be a long-term or a short-term episode of binging?
A. Hrm... as a severely underweight individual, I can say I probably would happily binge to be a healthy weight if I thought it would actually work, though I am uncertain if I was ever actually anorexic, or if it was pickiness + fast metabolism... I suppose the true question is if they are likely to stop before they become obese. A bmi of 25 could be daunting to such a person, and they may stop, suffer a relapse, or would they become a gainer, deciding anything is better than being a stick, and would therefore happily munch their way from one extreme to the other... Hrm.
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