Who has not had an inexplicable urge to eat something just by gluttony, to throw the first stone. Used to reduce our anxiety, take care of our PMS, boyfriend's fight or pressure at work, the food It is a quick and unhealthy solution to deal with problems.
First of all, we need to understand what is compulsion and how it works. Usually it appears when something is wrong (difficulty in relationship with parents, loss, separation, etc.) and a huge void settles inside us. Because this feeling of emptiness is so bad, our unconscious ends up finding a way to relieve our pain, whether through food, drink, sex, shopping, drugs and so on.
The problem is that emptiness persists and demands more and more, that is, the person becomes compulsive in an attempt to? Cover? this "emotional hole".
Unfortunately, as it is an emotional issue, the only solution is to find the cause and address it, which can often be very difficult and painful, which makes eating a box of chocolates for breakfast a more enjoyable task.
But why the choice of food? Our first caring experience is during breastfeeding. In addition to the maternal bed satisfying our hunger, in the breast we have the feeling of comfort and safety. That is, from birth we learn to associate food with warmth.
So what to do to combat the binge eating?
Usually the compulsive is a little anxious and wants quick fixes, after all there is that "painful emptiness", which makes him look for miracle diets, medicine and even stomach reduction surgery.
I'm not a nutritionist and I don't mean to intrude? in another area, but we all know that miracles do not exist. Even stomach reduction surgery without nutritional and psychological monitoring can be a disaster.
I attended a few years ago an obese woman who after the surgery had failed to lose the desired weight, because as her hunger was uncontrollable she ate two dozen bananas mashed with condensed milk per day. The pasty cream that formed facilitated ingestion, since the stomach was reduced and it was more difficult to eat.
The stories not numerous. So there's no point in trying fast obesity solutions without abinge eating treatmentFor as long as there is emptiness there will be compulsion. A good example is people who quit smoking and put on weight, that is, they exchange the compulsion of cigarettes for food. Whatever the compulsion (food, alcohol, games, etc.) it deserves attention and treatment.
As hard as your problem is and as painful as it may be face binge eatingNothing is more rewarding than caring for and healing the wounds of the past so that you can move on, without emptiness, without sadness and without guilt.
Think about it, the choice to be happy is up to you.
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