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| | | | | | Pick a few pictures out of when you felt the best about yourself. Make a rule that each time you want to binge, you have to look through the whole album, picture-by-picture. Surely looking at yourself at your best might help prevent food from going into your mouth. It helped a few people realize that giving into the binge would just put them one step further from looking their best again and it also would make them feel awful for giving in. Personally, I think that beating a binge this way will help you to feel stronger than you have previously. It shows you that you can beat a binge and that is powerful!
Many people feel like when 3pm rolls around, they are ready for a binge. It's called a "time trigger". Again, a handful of you have said that coffee has really helped with preventing a binge. If you feel like you binge around a certain time, try grabbing a cup of coffee (or tea) and see if it works for you!
Hold your breath just smelling a fresh-baked cupcake in the break room can induce the insulin secretion that makes you think you're hungry. Sight activates the appetite snowball too, so avert your eyes.
Trade your corkscrew for a bottle opener Participants in one study ate more food while drinking wine than while drinking beer.
Eat 5 to 6 meals a day, spaced evenly out. Constant small Meals prevent hunger and decreases carbohydrate and sugar Cravings. Smaller, more frequent meals will keep you full, and convince your body that it is not starving. Constant feeding will prevent binges.
Increase good fat intake such as nuts, natural peanut butter, olive oil, flaxseed oil, etc. The added natural fat will help blunt binges because it provides the body essential elements to keep things in balance.
Plan active days off and vacations. "I love days of intense physical activity -- hiking, horseback riding, skiing, and wonderful celebratory meals at the end of the day," says Katz. "Don't assume you have to gain weight if you're indulging. Compensate with physical activity."
Make yourself wait 20 minutes before you succumb. Most food cravings that aren't due to hunger will subside in that time. If not--if you're still hungry after 20 minutes--then you probably do need food.
Vigorous exercise may break a cycle of stress-induced bingeing. Lots of people report a sense of physical well-being after 20 minutes of aerobic exercise that offsets the urge to binge.
Loss of calcium. If you don't eat enough calcium, or if you purge it before your body can absorb it, you're at risk for early onset of osteoporosis. The brittle bone disease, which usually attacks after menopause, weakens bones and leads to frequent bone fractures.
Cosmetic problems. These include hair loss, broken nails, dry skin and rashes around the mouth. Women with bulimia sometimes develop ulcers on the backs of their hands caused by stomach bile that touches them when they force themselves to vomit.
Emaciation-and even death. Statistics show that as many as 10 percent of people with anorexia literally starve themselves to death.
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