How To Control Binging

If you get a recurrent uncontrollable urge to gorge on large quantities of food and are filled with guilt and helplessness thereafter, don’t fail to recognize it as an eating disorder. Compulsive overeating while feeling powerless to stop despite a sense of concomitant guilt is the hallmark of binging. A newly recognized condition, it is an eating disorder affecting millions across the world. Some people, irrespective of their hunger quotient, tend to binge on and off all day long while some usually binge for hours together. For binge-eaters, food is a mood elevator making it difficult for them to resist it. It becomes an addiction they can’t refuse. However, simply eating big does not mean binging. You are binging if: you are afraid of bursting at the seams after a bout, or you are eating when you are not hungry, and you feel mortified and guilty while or after overeating. Because binging is linked to emotional and psychological factors like stress, depression, anger, anxiety, boredom or loneliness, you need to know just how to control it. If uncontrolled, binging can only get you further embroiled in a vicious cycle of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, cholesterol, osteoarthritis, depression and other emotional problems. Learning to control binging will get you out of the downward spiral of overeating, guilt and depression. So instead of reaching out for more food to alleviate negative thoughts, the following tips might actually help you in your fight against binging.