Overeating

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)

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!

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.

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.

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.