Why do you overeat?

I eat a lot of food

I eat a lot of food because I usually burn many calories during my workouts, and I always wear my Polar Heart Rate Monitor.
 
Because it tastes good!! I like to bake......then I eat it. Luckily I'm not a boredom eater. I just bake stuff or buy bakery items. It's the devil!
 
Because it's there. Because I have a chocolate addiction. Because I'm bored, angry, frustrated, tired. Because I am trying to forget or put off some unpleasant task that I need to do.

I am definitely a person who needs to keep trigger foods out of the house. If they are there, one of the things above will hit and I will be all over that food! If it isn't there I'm usually OK and I remember to use other coping mechanisms. :)

Stebby
 
Because I'm hungry. I'm always hungry so keeping my weight off is very, very difficult, and my weight constantly fluctuates.
 
I overeat because I like the way food tastes. I also enjoy the act of eating. It is quite pleasurable. I so enjoy watching a good movie with a yummy plate of food! Such pleasure!

Sometimes I overeat because I just get too busy and then by the time I can eat, I am absolutely starving and wolf down my food with such velocity and voracious pleasure, before I know it I am past full!
 
Overheating

I enjoy cooking and eating. Food was comfort and reward when I was growing up. Hard to change that wiring. When I get really frustrated, I tend to not be as careful, too. I am a chocoholic, so I have found low carb ways of adding it in.
 
Boredom will do it and just flat out coz I love to! Especially when it's something that's not good for me! :rolleyes:
 
Mainly boredom. If I am sitting around with nothing to do, I eat. I really need to work on my mindless boredom snacking.

I do enjoy the taste of food but I wouldn't say that is why I overeat. Boredom is why I overeat.
 
Stress!!!

Using food to drown out negative emotions. Not sure if that makes sense, but that's the only way I know how to describe it.
 
Not enough sleep! When I don't get enough sleep I tend to eat more, especially the bad (vs. good) carbs. What helps me eat better on a daily basis is to have a high protein snack mid-morning and afternoon.
 
When I finally relax at the end of the day, sit and enjoy a glass of red wine and watch a fave TV program. It's the fatal moment: out comes the cheese, peanuts and if it's PMS time: Lays chips, oh dear...

Lesson: never watch TV! Never sit down!!

Clare
 
Since raising my caloric consumption, I rarely "overeat" anymore. I feel satisfied with all the calories that I don't ever feel deprived. From what I've read/researched/experienced, is that sometimes "overeating" is just your bodies what of saying it needs MORE FOOD. I would really take a close look at your calorie consumption. If you are eating well below/at your BMR AND you exercise/weight train/have a high caloric expenditure (TDEE) during the day, you might just need more calories TBH. Here is a link of a good calculator that Amber from Go Kaleo recommends: Health-calc - Energy expenditure adv.. Just another thing to consider. It worked for me!

HTH :)
 
mini-natty said:
Since raising my caloric consumption, I rarely "overeat" anymore. I feel satisfied with all the calories that I don't ever feel deprived. From what I've read/researched/experienced, is that sometimes "overeating" is just your bodies what of saying it needs MORE FOOD. I would really take a close look at your calorie consumption. If you are eating well below/at your BMR AND you exercise/weight train/have a high caloric expenditure (TDEE) during the day, you might just need more calories TBH. Here is a link of a good calculator that Amber from Go Kaleo recommends: Health-calc - Energy expenditure adv.. Just another thing to consider. It worked for me! HTH :)
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This! I have a long history of binge eating. Endless years of over exercising, under eating, binging, repeat. I finally of fed up and I started to eat more and now take two days off from working out. I haven't binged in 4 months since doing this and I feel so much better. Those binge cravings/episodes were just my body trying to tell me it needed more food.
 
kariev said:
This! I have a long history of binge eating. Endless years of over exercising, under eating, binging, repeat. I finally of fed up and I started to eat more and now take two days off from working out. I haven't binged in 4 months since doing this and I feel so much better. Those binge cravings/episodes were just my body trying to tell me it needed more food.
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I'm so happy you were able to stop that cycle. I wish you the best :).
 
mini-natty said:
Since raising my caloric consumption, I rarely "overeat" anymore. I feel satisfied with all the calories that I don't ever feel deprived. From what I've read/researched/experienced, is that sometimes "overeating" is just your bodies what of saying it needs MORE FOOD. I would really take a close look at your calorie consumption. If you are eating well below/at your BMR AND you exercise/weight train/have a high caloric expenditure (TDEE) during the day, you might just need more calories TBH. Here is a link of a good calculator that Amber from Go Kaleo recommends: Health-calc - Energy expenditure adv.. Just another thing to consider. It worked for me!

HTH :)
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Using this calculator, my numbers are 1,375 basal metabolic rate and 2,319 total energy expenditure. So what is this telling me?
 
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