Binge Eating Is Not A Form Of Dieting
Jeff Foster..

For the most part, discussion dieting and one’s diet is centered around what to and, of course, what not to eat. This type of discussing is worthy, but many times it only circles around the root point of diet and dieting. There needs to be discussion about eating habits along with any strategy concerning diet and dieting.

Knowing when you should eat and when you should not eat is an important topic and strategy of a successful diet. The reason it is important is because when you are dieting, you don’t want to run the risk of binge eating. In other words, pushing yourself to the point of acute hunger then overeating all at one time.

Let me ask you this… does this ring a bell at all? For breakfast you have very little to eat or perhaps nothing at all. Around lunch time, you are either too busy or you just don’t want to consume any unhealthy restaurant or fast foods. So by this point maybe you’ve had something to drink and a cracker or two. Now, by the time you get back home, your body is screaming for something to eat. In fact, you’re so hungry you could eat a proverbial horse. You rationalize eating way more than you should because you essentially have had nothing all day long. You end up closing out your day by watching some television… in fact, you fall asleep while doing so.

So, eating all three of your daily meals in one sitting isn’t the same for you as eating three separate meals during the day? Nope… not hardly. Your body isn’t prepared to handle that type of all at once digesting and it is not healthy.

In this type of eating scenario, all you are accomplishing is overloading your body’s digestive system. In a sense, you have just binge ate. This is a eating habit that you must avoid when you are trying to lose or get your weight under control.

Binge eating is many times the result of someone trying to lose weight by implementing the above eating habits. The problem is that (other than being unhealthy) when you skip meals and drive your body to such a hungry state, you’ll will then eat about anything to stop the shakes. And this is generally some type of food that isn’t healthy; particularly if you are away from home and have limited choices.

You can snack in between those meals too. You want to make sure though that your snacks are healthy ones. Did you know that most doctors say that snacking is good for you? It gives you some energy when you are feeling like you are running on empty.

Eat snacks that are going to energize you not those that are loaded with fat. Foods that are high in fat actually make you feel even more lethargic and trigger your appetite to eat more.

Changing your eating habits to having three smaller meals per day is the goal. Even if you seem to struggle to do this, be patient and persistent… do not allow the binge eating cycle to get started.

Starving your body is not healthy and it certainly isn’t an effective approach to weight loss. The more you starve your body the more your body goes into a defensive mode against the starvation by trying to conserve all the energy it can… thus making it even tougher to lose the weight.