I couldn’t believe this headline when I read it, but then again, people have become so used to using food as their security blanket and comfort tool these hard days, that it does sort of make sense.
Researchers are now saying the the eating disorder of bingeing may be way more common than the big two, anorexia and bulimia, the latter of which often includes bingeing but then includes a purging of the food via vomiting or diarrhea inducing medications.
One thing is definitely known, and in fact is a generally accepted notion, that women suffer from these eating disorders a lot more than men, although it is not 100% clear whether this is due to genetics or due to the high importance society places on woman’s bodies today.
Binge eating, this more common form of an eating disorder, is defined as eating way beyond the point of fullness at least twice a week, and of course can far exceed twice a week. Binge eaters can suffer a multitude of related health problems directly related to consistently over eating, ranging from obesity and heart disease and even some types of cancer reportedly.
February 4th, 2007
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You’ve heard the expression - it’s always the last 5-10 pounds you want to lose that happen to be the most difficult to shed, but why is that? We’ve also heard that we reach a typical “ceiling” and we plateu several times, needing a little more severe diet and exercise regimen to kick us in to the next level of weight loss and propel us closer to our weight and fitness goals.
It’s kind of like your body needs a kick start once in a while, it kind of forgets why it lost weight on a certain diet, and becomes accustomed to the food intake and the exercise routine. It needs to be pushed progressively further to see real, lasting, and progressive results.
Some studies suggest that it takes less calories to satisfy your food requirements when you are thinner, so you should probably cut calories a little more when you have already been on the same diet. In other words, you lost weight to begin with because in relation to how much weight you retained before, your body burned more. It almost works like sort of a sliding scale, if you catch my drift…..
February 1st, 2007
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