Overeating

cloe31

I am just curious to see if people tend to stop overeating once their activities goes up. I am recovering from binge eating disorder and I am pretty much over it. I still overeat all the time. I'm thinking it's because I am not active enough.
What do you guys find? Does your overeating stop once you boost yours activity.

Thanks

BigT555

yes i feel the two often correlate. i think its a combination of the exercise taking your mind off eating, a bit of hormone changes, motivation from the exercise driving you away from a binge, and i've even heard that exercising takes some blood flow away from your stomach so you dont feel hungry/digest food a little slower (though this could be total broscience, i've never really looked into it)

Chaskavitch

I can't say that just being active will make you stop overeating, BUT I feel like I eat more healthily when I'm exercising regularly. I usually feel good about myself and my life choices after I've worked out, lol, and I don't want to "ruin" it by eating enough to be completely stuffed, or by eating a bunch of ice cream or something.

Also, if you exercise instead of eating when you're bored, that helps too Go to the gym, for a bike ride, or for a walk. Do pushups during commercials instead of opening the fridge or cupboard for the millionth time even though you know nothing delicious magically appeared in the last 10 minutes of your show. It is hard to eat something when you're using your hands to lift weights.

freemystery

Hey there! I can only give my personal experience but for me, changes in activity level don't automatically lead to a change in eating, if anything if I exercise it's like my body thinks I earned more food so I had a horrible tendency to do an hour at the gym and cancel it out by eating junk food on the way home!

The biggest change for me? Asking myself why I'm reaching for the food. Like really really asking, stalling, hesitating, second guessing. I sit right by the snack table at work and it's always somebody's birthday or maternity leave or whatever excuse to bring in treats. So right now I'm sitting three feet away from 2 dozen krispy kremes, a tray of rocky road, salted pretzels and chips. I don't need to tell you that I piled on a few pounds when I joined this office!

So now I sit here and think about whether I'm hungry. And if I am hungry, would I be just as hungry if all I had was say... some carrots? I have plenty of water at my desk but I don't snack in the day so I'm not constantly moving food into my face! It's almost like once I start I can't control it so better to not start. I think about how much I'd have to do in order to burn off whatver it was I ate. I think about what I had for breakfast and what I'm having for dinner. It's less like one thing like exercise just fixed it, more like it's actively, constantly trying to adjust your mindset to a new default setting.

Maybe it might be an idea to address the roots of why you overeat? Is it just habit (don't leave the table till you clear your plate) or mindless eating, is it triggered by something? It's taken me years to get to this place where I'm not preoccupied with food in an unhealthy way... just a suggestion. Hope it helps!

homemadehippy

Being more active has helped stop my evening binging. With our work/dinner/housework schedules, I usually start my exercising around 8:00 pm. By the time I'm done, I don't have TIME to eat if I want to get enough sleep to be able to do it all over again tomorrow. Sometimes I start to miss the slow, lazy evenings I used to have but when I remember that I spent them traveling from recliner to fridge, I no longer miss them.

mommadearest3

I'm a binger/over eater, but once I get the mind set that I NEED to lose weight and get into shape, I find it easier to resist the binging. When I feel like grabbing one of my "binge foods" I drink a bottle of water instead. I also don't feel hungry after a workout. So I would say that it has helped for me, but you also have to have the right mind set.

Kita328

Personally I dont think they relate. I feel like I was more hungry when I first started working out. I had to be mindful with food, and I stopped binging after a consistent calorie intake. I couldnt do the eat back calories thing because I was always allowing myself to overeat **BECAUSE I WORKED OUT**. Now I do TDEE method with the calorie deficit worked out for the week and you dont eat back calories. This allowed me to eat more than the MFP low and it allowed me not to have to worrry about how much exercise calories I should eat that day.

Every body is diffrent. This was just my experience.

deksgrl

I tend to eat more when I'm more active. If I'm having a lazy day at home just sitting around I don't get that hungry. Once I start moving around, doing chores, getting ready for work, then I get hungry. If I'm just sitting I can easily go to 11 a.m. or noon before I really need to eat something.

cloe31

Thanks everyone. I'm starting to think with me I eat because I am bored. I know in the past replacing it with exercise helped. I like the idea of not eating back the calories you've burned. I will try that.

Jess__I__Can

I've started not eating until noon or 1pm, which helps me feel fuller longer when I do eat. I only eat between noon and 8pm and I don't tend to over eat because I am too full to.

mayfrayy

I love to eat, and I can't control it [easily], unless I go lower carb.
I dont overeat, get cravings, crash, just lots of protein (and fat, relatively).

I also eat every ~3 hours

dbmata

Hm, when I workout more, at a high rate of intensity, it leaves me feeling hungry as hell for hours.

If I were prone to being a binge eater, it probably wouldn't be good for me. The swimming is the real killer.