How to stop binge eating?

Just learn to cook shit that tastes good and is also healthy. Literally look up something like 'healthy meals', pick one that looks good and isn't to hard to cook and cook it. Get some recipes that you really enjoy eating and making, 5 or 6, and eat those rather than eating out. Just eat 3 meals a day and maybe have one day a week were you can go out and get a cheeseburger. If you excercise too you won't have to restrict how much you eat.

 

Start binging on fruit and vegetables?

 

Hey man I can totally fucking relate to what you are ging through. Over the course of almost 4 years I went from 168 on average to 200lbs on average. Like you said, I ain't fat but I am definitely over weight. I think 207/8 was my top. It shocked me, if I keep eating more, I'm gonna get worse. My face gets fat and I fucking hate my belly already. So I started going to my community gym. I am now 195lbs, no where near my target but I am getting there.

Here are the things that helped:
-> Start walking everyday or 4 days a week for 20-40 mins.
-> Consume green tea at least twice or thrice a day
-> DONOT fucking buy any Sugary items like cup cake or fucking donuts even if its like 6 donuts for 1$. Fuck that sugar shit. FUCK cheese cakes. FUCK pizza. May be have a cheat day once every week IF you ate healthy and did cardio on 4-5 days.
-> FUCK SUGARY drinks, DONOT keep them in the house. Its simple, DONT KEEP THEM IN YOUR HOUSE. IF you do have them, give them away to the maintenance workers or sth, they would really appreciate. They work their assess off, it wouldn't hurt them to have a can every day.
-> Try to make vegetable soups at home....countless videos on Youtube on that.
-> Donot eat heavy at night.


These are all common sense, man! IF you feel so strongly about loosing weight, you will take whatever advice you need from this post. BTW some awesome advises are already in this post, I just felt like sharing from my experience.

Godspeed! Feel free to message me if you wanna talk about it.

 

This is so hard. I've struggled with binge eating for like 4 years. It's so hard to overcome and often there is something psychological behind it. For me I always found pleasure in food and it was my go to pleasure when I was seeking it, especially when experiencing negative emotions. I was also obsessed with my weight and body image and wanting to diet and lose weight which fueled and all or nothing mentality and a cycle of binges and then trying to restrict.

What helped me is staying busy and away from home or other places of temptation. Working, going out more helped me to limit food intake to at least a reasonable amount. Then skipping meals when I could helped me lose weight over time as well as less binging. Find things to do other than eating. Watch TV, talk to people, read, cultivate a hobby or interest etc. . Then try to start listening to your body when you eat. You are allowed to eat some of your favorite foods and snacks in moderation, but you must balance them out with healthy amounts of proteins and vegetables. Try to stop eating when you are full. It's hard but worth it. Stop thinking so much about food, even if it's thinking about a diet or how you should eat. Educate yourself and then stop focusing on it because it can lead to binges.

You can do this! You were able to lock PMO out which just shows what a strong person you are. I know you can kick this bad habit/behavior out. Let me know if you want any help with it

 

1. Start walking 30 min 5 to 6 days a week. Add +10 min every week until you hit an hour or more if you like
2. Start drinking 2-3L of fresh water a day (you can squeeze lemon in it). You can also drink sugar free tea, coffee or mineral water if you like, but nothing else
3. Start cooking your own meals if possible. It's fun to learn and women love men who can cook better then them
4. Add 2 fruit snacks between meals. This is great way to make you feel full. I have a rule to eat at least 3 different fruits a day and usually end eating more than that
5. Avoid fast food restaurants like a plague

 

Move to the third world. We all are thin here, except criminals.

 

If you're only a bit overweight, you can keep eating junk food you only need to exercise harder. So you can still eat the burger or pizza or whatever, it doesn't matter. You'll lose the extra weight via working out harder.

I think the easiest way is to replace a meal with a tasty healthy meal. For example, I eat Quaker's musli 1x a day. It's tasty, it does not piss me off. It's a bit for pussies, but I don't care, for it's tasty and quite healthy (although I think real musli is more healthy).

So, I eat one portion of this. It means I've replaced a, I dunno, 2x whoppers from Burger King with this ^. That's good.

Mostly the idea is. If you eat junk food for taste, you need to find more tasty healthy meals to replace it. You're not cut to eat plain staple, that's too difficult for you. So easiest way is find tasty healthy meals. What do you fancy? Strawberries. Cool, buy 1kg of strawberries, for example.

The 2nd idea is. You eat junk food because you hate cooking (it takes too long, you have to clean up). If your balance allows it, order healthy food. For example instead of ordering pizza, I order WOK with beef (spicy), 2 portions. Is it super healthy? For me it, is! Compare it to burgers and pizza, for example.

Also on Coca Cola. Coca Cola regular is a killer. So much sugar. Swap it with Coca Cola zero. Yes, zero tastes a bit more like crap but it's slight change and sugar intake really improves so it's worth it.

 

This is good news, believe it or not! As you recognise that your attitude towards food is lazy - use this laziness against yourself to trick yourself into eating healthy!

Write a meal plan and stick to it. Make no choices what to eat when you are tired and hungry after a long day at work etc. but once a week when you are feeling motivated. Plan to eat heartily and well, no starvation or diet food, but plan everything you eat and have nothing else in the house. No snacks, no junk. If you want a snack you'll have to travel out and get one. or you can eat what is on your meal plan which is waiting for you in your fridge. Which is the lazy option?

Do a meal prep once a week or so, a massive batch of your favourite curry or stew or whatever, freeze it in batches. That is your now your go-to option when you are too lazy, tired or busy to cook properly.

When you have cheat days - which you definitely will, especially at first - do a bit of research and choose the 'least bad' of your vices. And go for smaller portions - don't make it your 'main meal' of the day. For example, a Chinese take-out might be a better option that a pizza. or choose a single burger rather than a double, hold the fries and have it with salad instead. or have fruit and yogurt instead of a milkshake for dessert.

Good luck!

 

The main issue behind almost all of binge-eating (that is known to mankind at least) is elevated insulin and blood-sugar production, the cause of which is food that drives your insulin levels (and hence blood-sugar levels) up. A clear sign of elevated blood-sugar levels is this recurring hunger every other hour followed by those blood-sugar drops where you almost feel like fainting if not ingesting any food ASAP.
It is these elevated and fluctuating blood-sugar levels that makes you feel hungry all the time since the secretion of a hormone called leptin is blocked/hindered by insulin. Leptin is the appetite-regulating hormone that signals you're hungry, thus less secreted leptin equals more frequent and recurring hunger and cravings.

I don't know if you're familiar with the GI-tables (Glycemic index) but reading these will help you greatly in determining what to eat since the GI-values signify how fast the food you're eating is turned into blood-sugar. Higher GI-values equals food that is quickly turned into blood sugar and vice versa.
Hence, fast carbohydrates, especially those containing lots of sugar and flour (i.e. wheat) raises your blood sugars much faster than nutrient-dense foods containing lots of protein/fibre/fat.
If you just eat the right kind of foods (combined with intermittent fasting), your kilos will drop fast since you won't feel hungry throughout the day and feel fine with just eating one big meal a day. That's what I am doing now five days/week (20-24 hour fast and one bigger meal within that 2-4 hour window) and I have never been in better shape or more ripped, plus my cravings for sugar, wheat and bread are almost gone by now.

 

What if it's some deficiency that's making us eat a lot or parasitic infection. I mean i am kinda in same situation with bottomless hunger.

 

One very simple thing to try is to get on a schedule. Intermittent fasting is a simple place to start, don't start with 8 hours but you can gradually reduce the window of time when you eat, so not what you eat so much.

Personally I don't think that's enough if you just eat whenever even if it is only 8 hours, I stick with 3 meals within that period and stay around the same time for each meal. (and I started with a much longer period like ~12 hours)

People will do IF or try to have sleep hygiene but don't seem to put the two together - obviously BOTH involves TIMING. After a while you may find even if you're a little hungry after that time it doesn't bother you, but of course don't just eat something made out of flour - have some protein and fats especially for the last meal of the day.