How to Stop Binge Eating At Restaurants

One of the hardest challenges that face a binge eater or an emotional eater is how to control their eating when they are outside their home. When you're at home you can control what kind of food is available to you and cut down on the items you know you're vulnerable to and love to overeat. When you're out of your home, you're surrounded by temptation.

No where is the temptation to overeat is more powerful than when you're sitting at a restaurant. You have a lot of tasty food around you and the atmosphere is of eating. The problem is that bingeing at restaurants and parties often means embarrassing yourself in front of your friends or colleagues. It's making your problem public.

The good news is that it's entirely possible to avoid bingeing at restaurants. All you need to do is to follow these few simple tips that I'm about to present before you:

1. How hungry are you - Most people tend to go out to restaurants or parties hungry. After all, what's the point of eating something at home if you're going to eat soon anyway, right?

Wrong!!!

If you go to a restaurant hungry, the chances of you bingeing are much higher than if you eat a little something an hour before. You don't have to arrive to dinner totally without appetite, but if your hunger is moderate, you will feel the need to eat much less.

2. The sort of restaurant - Buffets and all you can eat places are the worst places you can have dinner at. You need to avoid these sorts of places because they're tempting you to eat way more than you need to. If you don't want to binge at restaurants, don't go to places where food is limitless.

3. Eat salad as a starter - When you start to have dinner, you need to plan your entire meal. The more hungry you are when the main dish or the desert arrive, the more you need to worry. A good idea is to start with a salad. Veggies can make you feel fuller and they're usually lower on calories so even if you overeat them they won't make you fat.

4. Use affirmations - Affirmations are a method by which you plant a positive thought into your mind by repeting it to yourself many times. For instance, if before going out to dinner, you look at yourself in the mirror and say something like "Tonight, I am not going to binge" 10 times loudly, you will plant this command into your mind and will have a much easier time not bingeing.

5. Be accountable - A good way to stop bingeing at restaurants is to find a person who will be eating with you and make yourself accountable to that person. You don't have to say you're trying to overcome an overeating issue. Say that you're trying to lose weight so if that person feels that you're eating too much or the wrong things, they should tell you something about it.

Naturally, you won't be able to have such a person at every dinner, but whenever you can, it may really help you.

So, there you go, use these tips and you should do very well. No more bingeing at restaurants.

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