Change your behavior to help end binge eating disorder
I can’t stress enough how important it is to modify certain behaviors so that you can ultimately end binge eating disorder. You see, you will have to figure out the emotional reasons behind why you binge eat, and this won’t be completely easy to tackle. In the meantime, you will need to change your behavior so that you can grow stronger to beating binge eating disorder in the future.
Things you can do to change your behavior and help end binge eating disorder are:
1. Get ride of the binge foods from your house. Seriously, don’t buy cakes, cookies, ice cream, or anything else that might be a trigger for you. If you have it in your house, you will find any excuse to binge on it. That being said, it’s clearly impossible to binge on foods that is not there, so make it hard for you. The next time you want to binge and you find yourself looking in the pantry for a good binge food, but it’s not there, what will you do? You can either do something else to pass the time and wait for the urge to binge to pass, or you can go out and buy some food. For me, it was always a pain in the butt to have to get dressed, get in my car, drive to the store, buy food… you get the idea. This really helped me to stop bingeing so much.
2. Find a hobby! There are many things you can do or teach yourself to do when it comes to finding a hobby. Take up scrapbooking, organize your photos, read a book, clean your house, play a sport, play an instrument, etc. Keeping yourself occupied provides a great distraction for binge eating!
3. Motivation. If you typically binge on foods in the pantry, decorate the pantry door with pictures or sayings that motivate you. When I used to binge, I never really saw myself as overweight as I was when I looked in the mirror. Sure I felt chubby, but I didn’t see myself as the true size 14/16 that I was. My eyes lied to me. It wasn’t until I saw pictures of myself that I realized, “Wow, where did all this weight come from?” It was a huge eye-opening, but also providing great motivation for me. I wanted to be healthy. I wanted to wear cute clothes. I wanted to like shopping again. I wanted to feel good about myself. I knew that being overweight was not going to get me all of the things… So, I put pictures of myself up so that I would think twice about bingeing. I mean, it was difficult, but I knew that stuffing my face was going to pack the pounds back on instead of taking them off. Find your motivation against binge eating too.
4. Pick up the phone! If you are like me in this technology world, it seems like I hardly ever talk on the phone. I would much rather text, instant message, or email than to talk on the phone. But, there is one thing that can really help you prevent a binge and that is to pick up the phone, call a friend, and talk about what is going on. This is something that texting and emailing just can’t do.
Changing your behavior can really help to end binge eating disorder. It takes some time to be able to fully screw up the bingeing process, but you will see good results when you put in the time to change. Just allow yourself to have patience and try not to rush anything. Take each day and focus on getting through that day without bingeing. There is no need to focus on the future and how you can’t imagine to not binge for the next 2,298 days… That’s too overwhelming and will take you to a place that you don’t want to be.