Binge Eating Disorder

Binge eating behaviour can make you feel intense feelings of shame and self-loathing for the way you eat. You may experience secretly bingeing on vast amounts of food, even when you are not hungry, to the point of feeling uncomfortably full.

A difficult day at work, a bust-up with a loved one or just a feeling that your life is dull and boring can all be triggers that cause you to binge eat. At some point you have learnt that eating certain treat foods give you an instant surge of pleasure and a release from the difficult, painful and uncertain emotions you feel. However, this is quickly followed by feelings of guilt and shame, and being disgusted by your binge eating behaviour.

You may follow a binge eating episode with extreme dieting for several days to make up for it. This may create intense cravings for sugar and a physiological drive to eat, making you susceptible for another binge episode.

Behavioral Symptoms of Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating

  • Inability to stop eating or control what you are eating

  • Rapidly eating large amounts of food

  • Eating even when you are full

  • Hiding or stockpiling food to eat later in secret

  • Eating normally around others, but gorging when you are alone

  • Eating continuously throughout the day, with no planned mealtimes


Emotional Symptoms of Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating

  • Feeling tension that is only relieved by eating

  • Embarrassment over how much you are eating

  • Feeling numb while bingeing, like you are not really there or you are on auto-pilot.

  • Never feeling satisfied, no matter how much you eat

  • Feeling guilty, disgusted, or depressed after overeating

  • Desperation to control weight and eating habits

Call us today on 020 7622 7727, or email info@weightmatters.co.uk, to arrange a FREE 30 MINUTE SESSION to discuss how the WeightMatters Binge Eating Treatment programme can work for you.

Binge Eating Treatment

The focus of binge eating treatment is to unearth what triggers cause you to binge eat, to help you build new ways of coping with the emotions these events bring, and to help you develop new thinking styles to deal with life in a positive and empowering way.

  1. We will work on nutritional interventions to help balance your blood and brain chemistry

  2. I will show you how to break habits and create new behaviours in your life around food

  3. I will help you to name, feel and manage emotions without the need to use food to cut them off

  4. We will unearth thoughts, beliefs and assumptions that are keeping you stuck in your binge eating cycle, and I will help you create new ways of interpreting situations and feelings

  5. You will build greater levels of self-esteem and self-worth as you start to change the deep beliefs that shape your self-concept of who you are

  6. I will help you create a new relationship with your body image and help you update how you think other people see you

  7. I will help you balance the many areas of your life so that you reduce day-to-day stress, and are able to enjoy regular activity to help you manage your weight

  8. When you feel you have recovered from your binge eating, I will keep in touch, so you know that help is always nearby

Common Physical Effects of Binge Eating & Obesity

  • Type 2 diabetes

  • Gallbladder disease

  • High cholesterol

  • High blood pressure

  • Heart disease

  • Certain types of cancer

  • Osteoarthritis

  • Joint and muscle pain

  • Gastrointestinal problems

  • Sleep apnea