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What is binge eating disorder?

Binge eating disorder is a syndrome of eating behavior disorders. When people have binge eating disorder, they will eat large portions and have no control over when to stop.

Almost everyone may like to overeat and cannot control their food consumption, but this only happens for a short period of time. People who have binge eating disorder do this often and it eventually becomes a routine habit. If you have binge eating disorder, you may feel embarrassed by the uncontrolled large-scale eating habits and intend to break the habit. However, you feel depressed and cannot resist the urge to eat large portions of food.

Binge eating is not like bulimia, which after eating a large portion of food then channels her guilt by vomiting her food or taking laxatives to get what she has eaten. Even though there is guilt and shame as a result of this habit, people who binge eat instead by eating again, thinking that by eating they will feel comfortable and calm. This then becomes a cycle, consuming large portions of food because you feel depressed, then feeling stressed because you have done it, and in the end go back to eating food as an escape.

Who usually has this syndrome?

Anyone can get binge eating disorder. However, this is more common in women than men, and women who experience this are more likely than women who experience other eating behavior disorders, such as anorexia nervosa. This deviation often occurs in adolescents or young adults.

Do I have binge eating disorder?

Try to answer the following questions:

Do you feel out of control when you eat something?
Are you always thinking about food or what you are going to eat?
Do you often eat quietly, to avoid being seen by others?
Do you eat until you feel pain?
Do you eat food when you are sad, depressed, and stressed?
Do you feel embarrassed after eating something?
Don't you have the power to stop eating when you want to stop eating?

If the answers to these questions are, on average, yes, then you probably have a binge eating disorder

Symptoms and signs of binge eating disorder

Signs of behavior

Can't stop myself from eating
Quickly eat large portions of food
Keep eating even though you feel full
Hiding while eating
Eat normally in front of people but when eating alone, eat greedily
Always eat most of the day and have no time to eat

Signs on emotions

Feeling stressed and depressed then thinking can only return to calm if you eat
Feeling very embarrassed because of the portion that has been eaten
Never satisfied no matter how much food you eat
Desperate to control weight and eating habits

How to deal with binge eating disorder

If you feel you are experiencing the symptoms and signs that have been previously mentioned, then try to do the following ways:

1. Change your mindset about food

Food is what is consumed when the body needs it, not because of the remedy for your emotional feelings. Listen to your body, because then you can determine when you feel hungry, feel full, or even feel sick because of a food. Focus on what you eat, by enjoying the taste and texture of your food. Then determine your meal times, don't just eat when you feel hungry. Because this will cause you to overeat.

2. Find other ways to treat your feelings

One of the biggest problems with this digression is eating because you want to get rid of stress and feeling depressed. Therefore, find reasons why and when you feel like you can't control yourself over food. Write down what makes you depressed or stressed, then how you feel before and after eating, and do any time you feel depressed. By doing this, you can look for the causes and what happens when you are depressed. After knowing this, try to find other things that can treat your feelings, such as writing, reading books, or even exercising. These activities will slowly remove you from food and relieve stress.