Seven Ways to Redefine Overeating So You Will Stop

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  • mmwatford24
    mmwatford24 Posts: 5 Member
    Thanks for the post! I enjoyed the blog!
  • Jenniferslast10
    Jenniferslast10 Posts: 36 Member
    Thank you for this! I love #6 - 'overeating is a public confession that you lack self control'.
  • KathleenMurry
    KathleenMurry Posts: 448 Member
    Some people will find this extremely harsh - but it is brutally honest. No sugar coating here. I tend to agree with it except on one level. Some people suffer a legit mental illness that controls the way they eat, so we need to be a little more sensitive to this. He said there are loads of qualified therapists for this, but I tend to disagree. Most therapists are useless, in my experience. Regardless of therapy, a lot of these people are on medication that controls the appetite and there is no escaping it. I was one of them. I quickly shed the weight when I was able to kick the meds.

    Anyway, decent article.
  • naturallyme36
    naturallyme36 Posts: 155 Member
    eye opening :):wink:
  • eryquem
    eryquem Posts: 66 Member
    Um, no.

    Our bodies have an energy storage mechanism because it is virtually impossible to feed it the exact about of energy it needs at any given moment. "Over-eating" simply builds up that reserve for when the body needs energy and there is no immediately available food source.

    Over-eating is not evil. We are actually designed to do it. However, consistently over-eating will build up an excessive amount of reserve, which can have negative repercussions on health and well-being.

    For a lot of people, eating becomes linked to deeper emotional issues, and they end up developing an unhealthy relationship with food. The problem I have with this article is that if anything, it pushes that relationship to an even unhealthier level.

    "Eating any junk food at any time may be called overeating by definition."

    So basically, eating even a small treat constitutes a violent, self-centered, immature act of punishment and self-sabotage.

    Yeah, that sounds healthy.
  • AmandaAnne307
    AmandaAnne307 Posts: 113 Member
    VERY interesting - thank you for sharing!
  • stumblinthrulife
    stumblinthrulife Posts: 2,558 Member
    Stopped reading at
    Eating any junk food at any time may be called overeating by definition.
    Look, having a bad relationship with food is a called an eating disorder. Why would you want to program yourself into an eating disorder?
  • LiftAllThePizzas
    LiftAllThePizzas Posts: 17,857 Member
    What's wrong with just being rational and just defining overeating as exceeding the amount of calories your body needs to maintain good health?
  • stumblinthrulife
    stumblinthrulife Posts: 2,558 Member
    What's wrong with just being rational and just defining overeating as exceeding the amount of calories your body needs to maintain good health?

    Preposterous. Where's the self-loathing? Where's the suffering? Where's the guilt? Everyone knows they are essential to weight loss.
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    What's wrong with just being rational and just defining overeating as exceeding the amount of calories your body needs to maintain good health?

    Because then your blog wouldn't get any traffic?
  • LiftAllThePizzas
    LiftAllThePizzas Posts: 17,857 Member
    What's wrong with just being rational and just defining overeating as exceeding the amount of calories your body needs to maintain good health?

    Preposterous. Where's the self-loathing? Where's the suffering? Where's the guilt? Everyone knows they are essential to weight loss.
    And raspberry keytones. Don't forget those.
  • TheSlorax
    TheSlorax Posts: 2,401 Member
    I ****ing hate this article. sorry. I am so glad I read this AFTER I got control of my eating disorder (and the guilt, self loathing, and negative mentality associated with it), because otherwise I would be having a miserable day. such bs.


    eta: overeating is violence? are you ****ing kidding me?
  • kirkor
    kirkor Posts: 2,530 Member
    For those that disagree with the points of the article, keep in mind the NLP context of it. The idea is to "reframe" how one sees a given action they want to change. Kind of like how some people reframe that feeling of "being hungry" as "that is the feeling of my body burning fat". The list is provided for a person to pick and choose a new definition that ultimately could lead them closer to their goals.
  • stumblinthrulife
    stumblinthrulife Posts: 2,558 Member
    For those that disagree with the points of the article, keep in mind the NLP context of it. The idea is to "reframe" how one sees a given action they want to change. Kind of like how some people reframe that feeling of "being hungry" as "that is the feeling of my body burning fat". The list is provided for a person to pick and choose a new definition that ultimately could lead them closer to their goals.

    Is their goal to have an eating disorder? :huh:
  • TheSlorax
    TheSlorax Posts: 2,401 Member
    For those that disagree with the points of the article, keep in mind the NLP context of it. The idea is to "reframe" how one sees a given action they want to change. Kind of like how some people reframe that feeling of "being hungry" as "that is the feeling of my body burning fat". The list is provided for a person to pick and choose a new definition that ultimately could lead them closer to their goals.

    Is their goal to have an eating disorder? :huh:

    with a side of some serious self loathing?
  • kirkor
    kirkor Posts: 2,530 Member
    For me it helps to think of quitting smoking as an analogy. I haven't been a smoker, but I can imagine that if I wanted to quit smoking, it would be helpful to reframe how I think of cigarettes, and it may very well take a dramatic reframe like those in the article: "the minutes spent smoking a cigarette steal minutes spent with my future grandchildren", that kind of thing.
    So for someone with a real binge eating problem, they may need such a line in the sand, "snickers bars, never again".
  • stumblinthrulife
    stumblinthrulife Posts: 2,558 Member
    For me it helps to think of quitting smoking as an analogy. I haven't been a smoker, but I can imagine that if I wanted to quit smoking, it would be helpful to reframe how I think of cigarettes, and it may very well take a dramatic reframe like those in the article: "the minutes spent smoking a cigarette steal minutes spent with my future grandchildren", that kind of thing.
    So for someone with a real binge eating problem, they may need such a line in the sand, "snickers bars, never again".

    But you don't need to have a healthy relationship with cigarettes. It's fine to view them as completely negative, because they effectively are. You do not need them at all.

    A healthy relationship with food is essential. It shouldn't be associated with negative thoughts because it is essential to life. I believe this article is simply taking one unhealthy food attitude and replacing it with another equally unhealthy attitude.
  • TheSlorax
    TheSlorax Posts: 2,401 Member
    For me it helps to think of quitting smoking as an analogy. I haven't been a smoker, but I can imagine that if I wanted to quit smoking, it would be helpful to reframe how I think of cigarettes, and it may very well take a dramatic reframe like those in the article: "the minutes spent smoking a cigarette steal minutes spent with my future grandchildren", that kind of thing.
    So for someone with a real binge eating problem, they may need such a line in the sand, "snickers bars, never again".

    I do have a real binge eating problem. I do not draw the line in the sand and have snickers regularly. depriving myself creates a vicious cycle of binging and deprivation. you cannot quit food like you can quit cigarettes and alcohol.
  • MzManiak
    MzManiak Posts: 1,361 Member
    Kind of like how some people reframe that feeling of "being hungry" as "that is the feeling of my body burning fat".

    That's called Anorexia...

    The hunger feeling encourages them to not eat because they take it as a sign that what they are doing is working. Ooh, hear that tummy rumble? I got this!

    Absolutely nothing healthy about "reframing" your mind to have an unhealthy relationship with food.
  • kirkor
    kirkor Posts: 2,530 Member
    I think we'll just have to agree to disagree.
    re: this article and other stuff we get exposed to on the road to health and fitness, I think Bruce Lee's quote is fitting, "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own."
  • Akimajuktuq
    Akimajuktuq Posts: 3,037 Member
    I can't relate to the article either. My obesity, binge eating disorder, lack of willpower, inability to feel full/satisfied, chronic illnesses etc was entirely due to malnutrition caused by a Standard American Diet based on processed foods. When I decided to eat healthy foods the need to over-eat vanished entirely. It was not a mind over matter thing in any way at all, and further berating myself would have had no effect either; except to possibly make me eat more.
  • 40mpw
    40mpw Posts: 75 Member
    Wow, thank you. This has certainly given me some perspective.
  • Mistizoom
    Mistizoom Posts: 578 Member
    I don't find the article useful, sorry. My overeating was cured by cutting down on the carbs. Cutting out carbs came first, then ketosis, then appetite suppression. Overeating magically cured. I have lost 78 lbs. and have not done any major introspection as to why, other than to stop eating so many damn carbs. If you read the low carb literature, you will see that insulin production is what drives us to eat, it's a viscous cycle. A biological cycle. Stop the carbs and stop the madness.
  • TheBitSlinger
    TheBitSlinger Posts: 621 Member
    Some people will find this extremely harsh - but it is brutally honest. No sugar coating here. I tend to agree with it except on one level. Some people suffer a legit mental illness that controls the way they eat, so we need to be a little more sensitive to this. He said there are loads of qualified therapists for this, but I tend to disagree. Most therapists are useless, in my experience. Regardless of therapy, a lot of these people are on medication that controls the appetite and there is no escaping it. I was one of them. I quickly shed the weight when I was able to kick the meds.

    Anyway, decent article.

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  • xxghost
    xxghost Posts: 4,697 Member
    Stopped reading at
    Eating any junk food at any time may be called overeating by definition.
    Look, having a bad relationship with food is a called an eating disorder. Why would you want to program yourself into an eating disorder?

    Same.
  • happycauseIride
    happycauseIride Posts: 536 Member
    Bumping so I can read this when I have more time. Thanks for sharing.
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    #6 is a little disturbing. Overeating is a lack of self control and people are seeing it? Funny, because under eating and anorexia are caused by a desire for control. Even the tone of it seems like it was pulled from a thinspo "thinspiration" image.
  • NavyKnightAh13
    NavyKnightAh13 Posts: 1,394 Member
    Bumping to read for later.
  • LumpySpacePrincess1
    LumpySpacePrincess1 Posts: 388 Member
    I disagree completely with junk food being something to avoid.
    Diets based on avoiding foods are the most likely to fail.
    Calories are calories. If you eat a 200 calorie Kit Kat are you done with eating for the day since according to this article you've overdone it?
    I think Logic just packed its bags and committed suicide.
  • garber6th
    garber6th Posts: 1,890 Member
    So much BS to be called I don't know where to start.

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