What is Bingeing?

Written by Sky Taylor, Diet Bites


If you are currently on a weight loss plan and it ends in failure, it will most likely end with a binge.

A binge occurs when the dieter loses control of their diet plan - when they simply are too tempted, too weary and too overwhelmed to resist a particular food.

It may be a food that they miss in their new weight loss plan, but more likely than not - it is a food that they will either see or smell, or even read about which sends them off on the binge.

Amid the binge, they will gorge on a particular food or perhaps several foods until they are over-stuffed.

Once they reach this point, they will generally decide that they have been too bad to consider going back onto their weight loss plan.

They may feel like it is a useless effort; after all the succumbed to bingeing once and they found their willpower greatly lacking - so what's to prevent them from doing such again? Wouldn't they just be better off sticking to their former daily diet? While it was mined with too many calories and dietary fat grams, at least they weren't gorging on foods.

It would  be very rare for a dieter to experience binge and return to their weight loss plan, but those that do can still see successful results - meeting all of their fitness goals - from their recommended healthy weight to feeling great and looking their best.

Let's see how Dieter Nancy approached bingeing.

She was in need of losing 76 pounds and had been on her weight loss plan for almost two weeks. She had only lost six pounds, which she felt was a paltry amount to lose given how dedicated that she was to her diet plan.

Enter one heavily iced carrot cake which was purchased by the company that she works for in honor of a co-worker's birthday. Nancy practically drooled when she saw the cake but after wishing her co-worker a happy day, she wisely trotted back to her cubical and started working at a furious pace.


When she finally glanced up, it was two hours past her regular lunch time. And she was famished and felt weak because she had also skipped breakfast. Hum....what about a slice of carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, she suddenly considered.

Two minutes later she was standing in front of what was left of the cake - about 1/4th was all that remained. It would feed ten generously, she considered as she whacked off a big wedge.

Too quickly it was through her lips and into her stomach and she was still hungry.

Maybe a second slice, she decided. After she had polished off the rest of the cake, she felt a sense of satisfaction - no guilt about basically sabotaging her diet plan. She felt happy; happier than she'd felt in quite some time. Wasn't happiness what life was all about?

Enough of this diet thing she decided - still, without guilt or any sense of failure.

She was going to enjoy herself because she did enjoy eating and it was a big part of her life. It added happiness.

One year later she stepped onto the bathroom scales to find that she was now 143 pounds overweight and she felt totally overwhelmed.

Now she had almost two times the amount of weight to lose and it was all due to that stupid binge she had experience about last year at this time. If she had stayed on her weight loss plan, she would be at her normal weight right now.

Oh, the horrors of bingeing. Don't do it. You may not regret in amid the moment - but when that old feeling of wanting to shed unhealthy pounds rolls back around, you'll be overwhelmed with regrets.

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