what is binge eating?

Question

is it where you dont eat for a few days then spend the next days eating all day,??

Answer 1

Understanding Binge Eating

If you gorged yourself on chocolate during Halloween or ate so much of your grandma's pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving that you had to wear elastic-waist pants afterwards, you know what it feels like to overeat. It's perfectly normal to overeat from time to time — most people do.

Teens are notorious for being hungry a lot. That's because the body demands extra nutrients to support the major growth of muscle and bone that's happening. So if you go through phases where you feel like eating more sometimes, that's usually why and it's absolutely natural.

But binge eating is different from normal appetite increases or overeating from time to time. People with a binge eating problem consume unusually large amounts of food on a regular basis. They often eat quickly, and they don't stop eating when they become full.

Binge eating involves more than just eating a lot. With binge eating, a person feels out of control and powerless to stop eating while he or she is doing it. That's why binge eating is also called compulsive overeating.

People with a binge eating problem may overeat when they feel stressed, upset, hurt, or angry. Many find it comforting and soothing to eat, but after a binge they are likely to feel guilty and sad about the out-of-control eating. Binge eating is often a mixed-up way of dealing with or avoiding difficult emotions.

How Is Binge Eating Different From Other Eating Disorders?

Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating are all considered eating disorders because they involve unhealthy patterns of eating.

Both binge eating and bulimia involve eating excessive amounts of food, feeling out of control while eating, and feeling guilty or ashamed afterward. But bulimia nervosa (sometimes called binge-purge syndrome) is different from binge eating disorder because people with bulimia vomit or use laxatives to try to keep themselves from gaining weight after eating. They may also try to burn off the extra calories by exercising compulsively as a way of making up for overeating. People with binge eating disorder do not have these "purge" characteristics.

Unlike bulimia and binge eating, which involve out-of-control overeating, people with anorexia are preoccupied with thinness and starve themselves to feel more in control. People with anorexia have a distorted body image and believe they're fat — even though they actually may be dangerously thin. Like people with bulimia, some people with anorexia may also exercise compulsively to lose weight.

All three of these eating disorders involve unhealthy eating patterns that begin gradually and build to the point where a person feels unable to control them. All eating disorders can lead to serious health consequences, and all involve emotional distress.

Answer 2

Binge eating is a pattern of disordered eating which consists of episodes of uncontrollable overeating. It is sometimes as a symptom of binge eating disorder. During such binges, a person rapidly consumes an excessive amount of food. Most people who have eating binges try to hide this behaviour from others, and often feel ashamed or depressed about their overeating. Eating binges can be followed by so-called compensatory behaviour, acts by which the person tries to compensate for the effects of overeating. Examples of such acts are purging (induced vomiting or laxative abuse), fasting, and heavy exercising.

Although people who do not have any mental disorder may occasionally experience episodes of overeating, frequent binge eating is often a symptom of an eating disorder. Binge eating is a central feature of bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. It is also practiced by some people with an eating disorder not otherwise specified or anorexia nervosa.

Answer 3

I'm 16 yrs old 6'1" and 145, I am veryy active and I just sometimes cant feel content or full so I binge(when you eat a ton in a sitting). I will have a pb'j, oatmeal, 3 bowls of cereal, bannana, apple, orange maybe some more ALL AT ONCE!!! It doesn't become an obession for me, I binge when I just never feel full. I try not to binge on fatty foods.

Answer 4

Binge eating?

Answer 5

binge eating is when you obsessively and compulsively eat an exorbitant amount of food, usually by yourself when no one is around to see what you are doing. It is an illness and not a healthy one at that either. Usually when people binge eat they do it because they are trying to cope with some kind of grief or traumatic experience tha has just happened to them. They feel like they can't control what happens to them but they can control what they eat.It's their safety net.

Answer 6

It's where you go overboard, such as eating an entire bag of chips, or a half gallon of ice cream, or the entire bag of cookies at ONE TIME. You eat way more than is reasonable, and may concentrate on one item. Many people who binge eat then feel guilty or ill and make themselves vomit - thus becoming a victim of eating disorder.

Answer 7

Yes, you dont eat and then eat alot. This is associated with a bulimic eating disorder. They bing eat and then they throw everything up.

Answer 8

Well basically when a person is bulimic (or anorexic but they can't not eat so they kinda become bulimic) and they eat a lot in a short period of time (binge) then they barf (purge).

Answer 9

binge eating is just over eating.

it is binge when one pukes and overeats

it is binge when one doesn't eat for days then overeats

it is binge any time someone obsesses over eating and can't stop themselves when they are full

Answer 10

im pretty sure binge eating is like where you eat a large amount of food then i think it leads to throwing it up, well thats what i got told from my mum but who relly knows