How To Stop Binge Eating - What To Do If You Feel a Binge Coming On

Are you about to lose yourself in an eating binge? Do you want to Stop Binge Eating?

I struggled with binge eating for many years.

I was able to stop binge eating and my life has totally changed for the better.

I am about to share some ideas with you of alternative things you can do instead of bingeing.

Choosing to do healthy behaviors and make healthier choices instead of bingeing is very important in recovery from binge eating.

However, I must tell you that for most people, another essential part of recovery and healing from binge eating is to do some personal internal work on what is causing you to turn to food as coping strategy in your life.

So, yes, these alternative healthy choices are very helpful and important to gaining freedom from bingeing – but you need to also know that working with a group or a trained compassionate counselor will also help you tremendously and is just as important as the following list of alternatives. Okay? Great!

Remember to be kind and gentle to yourself when you are dealing with that all-consuming desire to go crazy with food and binge. See the desire to binge as an opportunity to really delve into what might be causing the pain in you that makes you want to turn to food to deal with your life in that moment.

Here are just a few of the things I choose to do avoid a binge:

-Take a relaxing bath

- Go for a long walk

- Do yoga – I love this for taking my mind off food. I get to breathe deeply, stretch my body, and enjoy the break from stress and pressure.

- Go out to my garage and beat on my punching bag – it relieves my stress and helps get any frustration out of me that I might be holding inside.

- Listen to my favorite music and dance around if I feel like it!

- Get away from temptation. Since recovering from binge eating, I no longer bring foods into my home that trigger my binge eating tendencies. But if you can’t control the foods that are allowed into your home and your roommate or your spouse has stashes of foods in your home that you like to binge on then you need to prepared with a strategy that will get you away from the food that is calling out to you. If you have tempting food in your home, get out of your house and take a break. Go to a friend’s home and visit, or meet a friend at a park and walk together. Go to church. Pray.

These are just a few of my healthy coping strategies. I will share more with you in upcoming entries to this site.

I wish you the very best of health, happiness and healing as your recover from binge eating. You can do it!

-Jana S.