With the rising tide of stress that plagues us daily, we find ourselves tired, powerless to cope with our day-to-day activities, but can we avoid this rush without neglecting our health?
We have already got up in the morning with a thousand activities to be done, and how boring and tiring it is, as we get into the routine, where we do many things automatically, leaving little time to think about ourselves.
This is due to the growing evolution that we are going through, where everything that at the same time is easier to obtain, on the other hand wears us out a lot. Adulthood demands us assertive behaviors, as well as competence and absurd elasticity, sucking us to the last drop of energy.
In the process we realize that what we most want is to come home and rest, eat something that relaxes us and makes us feel better. It is at this time that large numbers of people complain about overeating, which we may call compulsion.
The compulsion are behaviors in which the individual feels coerced to perform, feels unable to control the desire to eat. This behavior is usually followed by much anguish feeling powerless to control the urge to eat the food.
Also called Binge Eating Disorder, according to the DSM IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association), it is characterized by a true food spree, where there is no control of what is eaten, where afterwards there is the presence of feelings of sharp blame and self-reproach.
This syndrome is characterized by recurrent episodes of binge eating, without any action being taken to compensate for weight gain. It is characterized by compulsion when these episodes occur at least twice a week for a period of six months.
After 16:00 we noticed an increase in binge episodes, which can be generated by the low serotonin in the body. Many episodes also happen the night after returning from work, when tired people resort to food as a way of feeling rewarded by tiredness. In this way they end up overeating, without choosing the food to be eaten, they want everything fast and tasty, then enter fast foods, ready meals, bread, sweets, pizzas, etc. Some symptoms are characteristic of compulsion:
- Eat until you feel full, even causing discomfort.
- They do not feel satisfied with the amount of food that would be appropriate for each meal, always exceeding their intake.
- Body dissatisfaction, low self-esteem, negative self-image, excessive self-criticism, and propensity for impulsive behavior, difficulty believing in a realistic treatment, and failure to assess what you ate.
In the treatment of compulsion, it is important to accompany a team of professionals, which includes psychology, nutrition and often psychiatry, as a way to strengthen the individual in search of appropriate behaviors, learning to eat only to satisfy their hunger and maintain themselves. nourished.
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