Binge Eating Disorder
A friend of mine came over last week, and as we talked, she mentioned how facing her life’s challenges made her emotional and became a binge eater. Unresolved emotional conflicts can prompt us into binging.
Binge eating is an out of control, compulsive overeating when people eat huge amounts of food. Some binge eaters have their periods when they consume unhealthy amounts of food, this time frame could last anywhere between 30 minutes to two hours. Others over eat all day long.
Unfortunately, people are binging to cover some kind of emotional emptiness with food. But people with binge eating disorder struggle with feelings of guilt, disgust, and depression. It’s a circle of unhealthy behavior. It may be comforting for a brief moment, but then reality sets back in, along with regret and self-loathing.
As we talked, I realized that this summer, regardless of exercising, I still didn’t loose weight. I realized I was binge eating too. Suddenly, it became clear that my emotional overeating was the result of the fact that this summer nothing worked as the years before.
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Extreme Makeover
You know the shows: the home makeover, the body makeover, financial makeover and the list goes on. We watch them and like them. If we want to be honest, we wish to be the recipients of some makeovers.
‘How to look ten years younger’? – All you need is a body makeover. It’s either a smaller makeover, when a professional hair stylist will change your look with a more fit hair style or a ‘what not to wear’ team will throw out your wardrobe and teach you how to dress well for your body type – or you can have a liposuction session to eliminate your excess fat, or cosmetic procedure to eliminate your wrinkles and the list could go on.
The truth is sometimes you can have an extreme makeover, but it might not be as easy it seems. With perseverance you can reach your goals. Successful people keep going when is hard to reach their goals. This is absolutely true for any weight loss and dieting goal too. Starting well is not enough. You need to be persistent to get results.
What I learned over the years watching these extreme makeover programs, that every time someone receives an extreme makeover of any kind they loose something. The saying is “there is no gain without pain” and that’s the way it is. You loose your old look for a new fresh style. You loose your fat, for a flat tummy. You loose your old sweater, for a more contemporary look. The fact is, in every kind of makeover those who decide to go through, they have to give up something, they have to loose something to be able to receive the desired result.
As you can see my website is going through an extreme makeover as well. Please be patient with me. I moved from blogger to wordpress template. I know for some of my readers this isn’t an interesting notification. I wasn’t happy with the options blogger templates have so I made a decision to switch.
I know the page looks little different, but it will help in the long run. WordPress templates are easier to work with and their SEO possibilities are much better.
Unfortunately, as with every extreme makeover, I have my lost too. I lost all my comments from my dear friends and followers. This is sad because we build a relationship through comments and I get to know some of you throughout this blog.
So I would like to hear your feedback. What do you thing about the website’s extreme makeover? Do you like this new site? What do you like better? What is what you really dislike?
How Are You?
Do you realize that when someone asks you how are you all that they really want to hear is just one word: Fine?
When I decided to take charge over my life and make some important changes to become positive, happier and more successful in everything I do, first I had this tendency to try to share my goals with others. But you know what? I realized there is no need to say anything to anybody about it. People don’t like when you make changes.
Loosing weight and telling your friends about is brings kind of jealousy because they feel that you want to look better than them.
Do you remember when one of your friends realized a healthier way of living and all you hear is them converting all of your friends? (Oh my I can go on and share with you story after story how they tried to convert me into all those healthy eating habits) So when you start your diet and exercise journey and you tell them, they’ll shy away. Just because you are ready for change they might not. And quite rightly so – we all hate being preached out and reminded about our deficiency.
As a good advice when you start to incorporate a new change into your life keep it quite, don’t preach, propagate, try to convert, shout from the rooftops or even mention it.
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Ten Key Elements to Help You Feel Better
Most of us have those days when nothing goes as planned. You wake up in the morning and look forward to your morning coffee, but hubby just didn’t make it.
In the second the kids open their eyes start screaming at each other for some add reason. The dog pees in the house just before you open the door. Your client calls that he’ll be there twenty minutes earlier and you realize your hair isn’t down yet. Panic sets in and everybody start to run. Does it sound familiar? If you have kids and live a normal life more likely you can relate to this picture.
I had one of those days today. Just as described above. Once the client left I felt terrible. I am trying to loose my weight, do my daily workout to feel and look better. I’m gonna be honest: I didn’t feel better today at all. As I was working the numbers with my client who is a good looking business man I just felt big, fat and overall heavy.
So I thought what would be the ten key elements that help me feel better?
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BMR – How Much Calories You Need?
Whereas yesterday I decided to watch my calories intake, first thing today I have to calculate how much calories I need to survive. Here you can read all about how much calories needs to be burned to loose a pound of fat. But I have to calculate how much calories I need to function and a basic level.
How to calculate your BMR – Basic Metabolic Rate?
BMR – Basic Metabolic Rate is the number of calories that your body needs to function at the most basic level – this is what you’d burn if you sat on the couch all day and didn’t move a muscle.
Using this simple formula, you will be able to calculate your BMR and identify the amount of calories you should be eating a day.
Now if you want to loose weight faster then you just have to reduce your calories intake. You can do that by exercising and diet.
Women
BMR = 655 + (4.35 X weight in pounds) + (4.7 X height in inches) – (4.7 X age in years)
Men
BMR = 66 + (6.23 X weight in pounds) + (12.7 X height in inches) – (6.8 X age in years)
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Are You On Diet and Gaining Weight?
Help! I been following the 30 Day Shred and finally being able to walk the stairs again without feeling a cripple and now I weight myself and the scale is showing 185 pounds! Help! What’s going on? I am exercising shouldn’t I loose weight?
Does any of you been on diet and gaining weight? This is not funny at all.
Some of you might say – you’re gaining muscle, but this is just too early for that. I took an inventory of what I ate in the last couple of weeks and I recognized the problem.
Whereas I started exercising and pushing the 30 Day Shred I started eating comfortably without watching my food intake because I just got that “idea” that I can eat because I exercise. Too bad, just because I exercise that doesn’t mean that if I eat without self-control I will loose weight.
To loose weight my calorie burn has to exceed my calories intake.
There is a saying that you are what you eat! Consequently you are what you don’t eat? So I made some drastic decisions today. To loose weight I need to stop eating and start exercising more intensely. Sounds great, cool or crazy? You might think: what do you mean you don’t want to eat?
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Press Through Pain
When I started Jillian Michael: 30 day Shred I read the Warning Notes and it says that before you start the program you should consult your physician. What I didn’t saw is that you should consult your real estate agent and move into a bungalow because you will not be able to use the second level of your home for a couple of days.
I know this sound really funny, but no kidding, I feel like rolling down the stairs and when I have to go on the second level, I have a feeling that the stairs are double high. My kids and hubby are rolling from laughter as I try to move my feet. Oh and by the way, no high heals for couple of days either.
I would be interested if anyone else had this experience or is it only me? That would mean that I better keep following the program to get back in shape fast.
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