Binge eating after competition, restore metabolic rate and find a happy balance

[Anja Nel]

It is great that you are getting counseling for your disorder. It is important to realize the problem and address it. For binge eaters, overeating is regular and uncontrollable. With the right help and support, you can learn to control your eating and develop a healthy relationship with food. Plan your shows so that you get diet breaks and don’t deprive yourself for so long that you binge every time after a competition diet. You must realize that you can’t just diet for a show, but that you must change your whole lifestyle and live healthy so that you maintain your condition and don’t have to go to such severe dieting that deprives you and result in cravings and binge.
It becomes a vicious cycle: eating to feel better, feeling even worse and then turning back to food for relief. Try to find something else besides food for comfort, don’t get bored and turn to food and don’t eat alone.
Realize that it is bad for your health and can cause numerous medical complications such as type 2 diabetes, gallbladder disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, certain types of cancer, osteoarthritis, and the list goes on!
10 strategies for overcoming binge eating:
1. Manage stress
2. Get support
3. Eat 3 meals a day plus healthy snacks
4. Avoid temptation – remove desserts and snacks from your home
5. Stop dieting for a while
6. Exercise – do weight training as well as cardio
7. Fight boredom
8. Keep a food diary
9. Listen to your body
10. GET ENOUGH SLEEP
Medications for binge eating disorder is available, but never self medicate. Go to a doctor ask for an appetite suppressant, topamax or antidepressants and ask his opinion.
Increase your metabolic rate (the rate at which your body burns calories) by doing the following:
1. Eat small frequent meals
2. Drink 3 liters or more of cold water a day
3. Do aerobic exercise for 30min a day.
4. Do weight training
5. Sleep enough to avoid build up cortisol.
Do a mind switch and start living healthy rather that to diet and binge, diet and binge… It’s not a competition, it’s a lifestyle!!!

[georgeman22]

Wow anja nel your post will definitely help me and all others as well. Thanks.