Tips to Stop Binge Eating

By John Davenport, Weight loss researcher and Author

www.EmotionalEatingSolution.com

Nothing kills a weight loss process faster than a binge. We all have them to a certain degree. Whether we're stressed, bored, feel a bit sad, or just too starved and tired after a long day at work, we come home and find ourselves opening the fridge door again and again and munch away without even noticing it.

Before you know it you've downed half a jar of ice cream, a complete bag of chips, or anything within reach. You have just ruined the progress you've made in an entire week of healthy eating and workouts.

Whether you call it binge eating, emotional eating, or night time eating, it all amounts to the same thing, an uncontrolled sequence of eating. To put an end to binge eating, follow the following simple tips:

1. Buy your comfort foods in small quantities - Each of us has a different food which he or she overeats. With you it may be pizza, ice cream, chocolate, cheese cake, or anything at all. If it wasn't there, you wouldn't eat it, so make sure to have it around in small quantities.

2. Never eat out of the jar or a bag, but always serve food into a small bowl. finishing off the entire box is easy, but getting up from the couch, going to the fridge, and reserving is often too much of a hassle. In this way, you eat in moderation.

3. Binge eating is often the result of boredom. To avoid it, make sure to have something to do. The healthy choice is having small dumbbells around the house. Whenever you feel the crave coming up, do a short workout until it goes away.

4. Have healthy snacks to take away the cravings - You can either eat fruit or pizza, granola bars or chocolate bars, which do you think will serve you better? If you have healthy food in your house, eating a bit more won't be as bad as eating too much empty calories or fatty food. You have a choice so make the right one.

Follow these tips and you will have a far better control of your binge eating problem.

About the Author

John Davenport struggled with weight loss problems and emotional eating since early childhood. Through rigorous research, trial and error, and a firm belief in himself, he managed to find the solution to emotional eating, lost over 30 pounds of fat, and became a long distance runner. He now devotes much of his time to help other people follow in his footsteps: lose weight, get lean, and become free from emotional eating. His articles have been features in many websites and publications.

To read more about John's unique method, the Emotional Eating Solution program, visit: www.EmotionalEatingSolution.com