Compulsive Overeating Disorder – Six Tips On How To Overcome Compulsive Overeating Disorder
Are you wondering if you simply like to eat, or have compulsive overeating disorder? Here are some symptoms of compulsive overeating disorder:
- Do you keep thinking about food all day long?
- Do you turn to food when you are sad, happy, stressed, or bored?
- Do you feel that food has taken control of your life?
- Do you buy a large amount of food and eat it in one setting uncontrollably?
- Do you feel embarrassed to eat with your friends or coworkers because you do not want them to know how much you eat?
- Do you eat very quickly, not even tasting the food anymore?
- Do you feel that you do not know if you are hungry anymore? You just eat until you are sick and feel extremely uncomfortable?
- Do you feel guilty due to your eating habits?
- Do you like to indulge on junk food, high fat food, and sugary food?
If any of the above symptoms sounds like you, you might have compulsive overeating disorder.
If you have compulsive overeating disorder, probably you feel alone and helpless. When you tell your friends about your problem, probably they just simply tell you to stop eating. Unfortunately, it is not that easy. Your mind and body just cannot control your craving.
Do not feel discouraged! There are more people who suffer from compulsive overeating disorder than you think. There is hope!
Here are some ways you can overcome compulsive overeating disorder.
1. Share your problems with other people.
Talking to your love ones and asking them to support you emotionally is extremely important for compulsive overeater. Explain to them it is important that they understand your problem and give you emotional support. When you go shopping with them and pass by an ice cream shop, they need to tell you “you don’t want that” when you start to walk over there.
If you live with your family and your house is full of cookies and candies for your brothers and sisters, explain to them that you do not want any junk food in the house. With someone who loves you to support you, you can stop compulsive overeating disorder a lot easier.
2. Find professional help.
Talk to your doctor about your problem. Many people who have compulsive overeating disorder also suffer from depression. Talk to you doctor about your problems, they can refer you to the right health care professional who can truly help you.
3. Get support from other compulsive overeater.
Like other addiction support group, you can find Overeaters Anonymous support groups in your area. You can find meetings in your neighborhood by going to oa.org. People who attend the meetings have the same problems as you. You can relate to them and they understand you. Getting support from them can make your recovery a lot easier.
4. Make a food journal.
Food journal is an effective tool to help you stop compulsive overeating. In the journal, write down everything you eat and drink, the amount you eat, what time you eat, how you feel before and after you eat. This will help you find out what triggers you to overeat. If you turn to food when you are stressed (which is very common), learn more about stress reducing methods such as listen to music, take a bubble bath, go out for a walk, or practice yoga. Once you find out why you overeat, then you are more likely to overcome it.
5. Change your food arrangement in your kitchen.
Throw away all the junk food you have in the house, do not go to the junk food isle in the supermarket, and rearrange your refrigerator so you can rich fruit and vegetables easily. These little changes will make it harder to overeat.
6. Do something you enjoy when you crave for food.
What else do you like to do besides eating? Watch scary movie? Read a novel? Find something you like to do instead of eating. When you are doing something you like, you will be completely distracted and not think about food anymore.
Don’t feel helpless and alone if you are suffering from compulsive overeating disorder. With your commitment and support from people who care about you, you can fight this disease and regain control of your life.
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Fat Loss Interval Training For Beginners
Do want run but don’t feel that you can?
Do you enjoy walking but are looking for the added fat burning benefit of running?
Well if so, then the workout I’m about to take you through will make your day a happier one.
When most people start running (at whatever stage of their life) they usually cannot run for a very long period of time. That’s to be expected since the body hasn’t been trained to accommodate the greater demands imposed by running faster or longer. However, the desire to run is present for many people because of its fat burning and overall cardiovascular benefits.
One way to build up your running endurance is to simply run a little bit longer each time you run. A good rule of thumb is to increase either your distance or speed (not both) by no more than 10% per week. This progression allows your body to adapt to new running demands while minimizing your risk for injury.
This method of running at the same pace for a given distance or duration is known as steady-state cardio or running. Initially, this is a great place to start for most beginners but there comes a point when it becomes rather boring and its fat burning potential lessened.
Instead, you may want to consider interval training. Interval training, also known as HIT, is by far the most superior training method to improve your running speed and endurance while maximizing your fat burning potential.
HIT refers to a method of cardio training whereby you combine bouts of high and low intensity. So for our purposes, and since you are a beginner, you would be combining bouts of walking and jogging. Each bout would last a certain amount of time and would be executed at a certain speed.
For most people who have never run before (and who want to start) I usually get them to start with intervals that consist of 90 seconds of walking followed by 30 seconds of jogging. They would then repeat this sequence for a given amount of time – usually 10-15 minutes depending on their initial fitness level.
The wonderful thing about interval training is that there are thousands of possible interval combinations that you can use. And as you become fitter the amount of time at the low and high intensities would vary to give you more of a challenge.
Start with this interval training workout:
Assuming that you’re a complete beginner I’m going to suggest that you begin by following the workout I mentioned above. That is to walk for 90 seconds and then jog for 30 seconds. Repeat this sequence for a total of at least 10 minutes. If you feel you can go longer, then go for it.
The true value of interval training is that it allows you to exercise at a higher overall intensity because it is broken up. Starting off, it might be tough to run (without stopping) for a full 10 minutes but with HIT you can actually spend more time running at a faster speed because you have those lower intensity recovery bouts.
Working at higher intensities also means that you burn more calories and while maximizing your body’s ability to burn fat. Over time, your metabolic rate will increase and you will be burning fat even while your resting. When it comes to fat loss the key is intensity.
So start off with this walk and jog HIT workout and progress from there. For more great interval training workouts check out my Treadmill Trainer
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