Overeating on Healthy Food?
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- čas přidán 31. 03. 2017
- Many guys find it harder to not to overboard with healthy, nutritious foods, more so, interestingly, than eliminating junk foods. In this short video I'll go over the possible reasons, and will suggest some simple solutions. Insta: @ssdabel
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Finally! Everyone talks about binging on junk food. I see it just like you - it's not food for me. I can't even eat nut butters. But I stuff myself with anything else. Apples? Rice? Millet? Potatoes? Carrots? Watermelon? Check! Anything to stuff myself to the point I can't move for an hour or two. With all 3 meals a day. It started when I was vegan. "it's healthy" "It's low calorie so I should eat a lot". Now I'm terrified how much I need to stuff into my mouth to feel slightly satisfied. Actually I never am. I eat until I can't anymore. I started intermittent dlfasting over a year ago to have any restriction. If I can't restrict the portions - I restrict the time. Otherwise I would eat all day. I know it's emotional and when I eat I don't think about suicide and other shit. I can't stop.
Hi Merlin. Fixed your overeating issue by now? I m confronting the same.
Grapes, or raisins. Anything that is sweet! I have to be really careful what stuff I buy at the grocery store!
I used to binge on all kinds of food: cookies, chocolate, croissants, etc. The fatter/saltier/sweeter the better.
Then I got into that "healthy eating" and completely changed my diet. BUT the binging stayed: binging on peanut butter, fruits, homemade granola, soja yogurts, nuts, rye bread (plain or with some butter), broccoli, carrots...
I came to manage the peanut butter binging: instead of a real peanut butter, I started buying the PB2 and somehow it helped : I stopped feeling guilty about eating it as it contains less fat, plus my stomach pains stopped (I still can't eat a lot of nuts - I get pretty bad stomach pains. After everything which is a bit fat actually: nuts, cheese, fat fish. Thank god the avocados is not making me sick...). Plus, it's much easier to binge when the jar is already opened, though when it's just a powder, you have to make it first... Anyway, somehow I stopped seeing it as a "dangerous healthy food".
After 4 years of binging I'm finally getting better, though I have to control myself all the time.
But your video came right on time: it's been 2 weeks since I started binging on organic apple chips and I couldn't understand why I feel bad about it: it's just apples and some cinnamon. I guess that the guilt comes especially with binging, no matter what you binge on.
Thank you for the video :)
Hi Yana, thanks for your honesty and sharing your story. It's good that you got rid of the peanut buter jar..:) the apple chips actually make sense...there are specific textures of food that tend to trigger over eating, and crunchy foods are definitely amongst those..(hence why nuts tend to be problematic.) I'll upload a video soon that addresses this problem, but the long story short is that you can often replace your desire to have these textures with foods that will be less problematic in the long term. (such as veggies) And of course, just know that if this problem persists you can always choose to seek help, even professional if needed!
Really? I had no idea that the crunchy texture could trigger... But there are quite a lot of veggies that are crunchy too (and they are my favorite btw : carrots, cucumbers, pepper...).
Hhhmmm I'm gonna try to avoid them, we'll see what it does!
Can't wait for the video!
Yana S yep, but crunchy veggies are rarely a problem...calorie density and palatability is too low in them:)
True. Well, it's worth a try :) Plus I DO love them.
Thank you for your help :)
Great video.
thank u so much for this video. i’m 16 y/o and i’m overeating on ‘healthy’ food. i eat too much hej bars (agave sweetened nut bars). they’re honestly the most delicious thing on earth for me but this is not healthy.. i will cut them out of my life for now, thanks again for this clear, short and honest explanation❗️
for me it"s PB and thahina ...i just love thise "fats" also fruits,dark chocolate and dated sometimes
So much truth! I think for me it also has something to do with "respecting" food. I respect the "forbidden(during cutting)"/unhealthy food more (because they can cause more damage), that's why I'm less likely to overeat and have a higher portion control. When a food becomes normal or staple food, I lose respect and I am more likely to overeat, because of the absent danger component. I hope it makes sense.
Makes sense! Like letting your guard down in a sense, haha.
I recovered from binge eating disorder (wrote about it in Stop Eating Your Heart Out) and I agree, we can overeat on healthy food. During my BED days, I once made a 2 quart pot of cabbage soup...and then sat down and consumed the whole pot. I still have some instances of needing to curb my eating of food that tastes good - last week it was homemade ratatouille, which I way overate. Thanks for sending out this message, Abel!
Thank you Meryl, I'm honored to have you commenting here! Yes, it's important to realize that BE is about behavior and attitude/mindset, not so much about substance.
I agree with your comments on nut butter (peanut butter and hazelnut butter) .... F*** nut butters!
Id to get rid of jar of peanut butter. It ruined my ripped figure. I cant keep it in the house.
Walnuts, pecans, cashews, nut butter, dark chocolate, raisins, dates, bananas, cheese, yogurt, oats, rice, whole wheat bread, soy milk, even roasted veggies or chickpeas, cold soups and curry stews,... those are the ones I overeat on the most. I'm definitely not addicted to "food", I'm addicted to eating!
Sweet potato. Just plain, baked, and cold. I could eat pounds of them in one sitting if I didn’t exercise major restraint
‘Healthy’ cereal , fruits and sweet potato
Trail mix used to be one of them too
I can eat 2 whole large papayas in one sitting with extra of other things i mindlessly munch on
Great topic and good advise! I was a peanut butter addict but with time I've managed to feel calm about it and eat it like 1 time per 3 months without binging. And funny thing during my time of hardcore dieting I had a few episodes of binging on oatmeal. It supposed to be satisfying and very filling food but now I know that it's not that true while you're hangry :)
Oatmeal is a trigger food also for me when I was sad
Yeeeesss
i legit binged on ezekiel bread and EVOO and salt i shit you not. you are so right that when you start eating healthy you do see junk food as non foods, but the binging does remain :( thanks for the video. I'm glad I'm not alone with this
Nicely explained, definitely the moment you said "it's because you see it as a healthy food, a part of your diet." OK to eat if you compare it to other high in calories foods. It's just you playing/tricking yourself with the your brain. I commonly experience this with peanut butter with bread and oatmeal with dark chocolate.
Thank you for this post 😊
For some reason I find that it helps me to eat a ripe sweet bannana or a choc ice. Certain foods satisfy me enough to stop my binging quicker. I would say honey is sort of one of these. Porridge is very filling for me! But dates and peanut butter are a terrible trigger..
This video is exactly me!!! On low carb
I overeat on every food that I eat. Shrimp, chicken, beef, eggs, salads, greek yogurt, milk, fruit, nut butter, kimchi, milk, berries, potatoes, soup, bread, cheese, honey, rice, oatmeal etc. As long as I try it and I like it, I'll just want more and more and more of it. What do you suggest me to do? I can't just cut out everything I eat 😭 😭
Peanut butter and cereal or anything I bake. They never satisfy and cooking is irritating for me. Trying to save money. I had to buy two sets of new clothes as they got too small. I doubled my body fat and lost all my definition. I got rid of a jar today. Im also never going to do home baking again either.
in terms of rice , nut butters , nuts, oat meal being trigger foods for you , hypothetically speaking, when you were on the restrictive diet you mentioned , and had zero cravings for traditional junk food, what do you think would have happened if you back then you would have viewed oat meal , rice, nuts and nut butters as trigger foods which were not healthy for you ?
I think it would have helped with those foods per se, but on that specific diet I probaby would've gone insane because then I would've been left with no treats :D Now I voluntarily restrict my foods to ones that I know from experience will satiate and satisfy me, which are meats, eggs, dairy, veggies, fruits, occasionally some nuts and dark chocolate, and - for the most part - I stay away from things that just induce cravings in me more so than satisfaction!
Quark and greek style/turkish yoghurt turned into a problem after being on the carnivore diet for a while, since they were animal products that were nutrient dense and high protein they were okay and I tolerate dairy very well. But now I can eat 3 kgs of low fat quark in a day and I know it's not healthy for me. I have quit tobacco and coffee and done a 28 day fast the last 6 months, but I can't seem to shake this obsession with this food. Don't know what to do really.
Funny you mentioned oatmeal because that is a 'trigger' for me too, although I have a better relationship with it now than I did previously (I now take in about 200g per day). Fun fact: iron/hb levels were normal back when I was doing ~500g of oats per day (pretty much a can), which oatmeal is supposed to inhibit due to antinutrients/phytic acid or whatever it was. This was tested multiple times per year because I was a blood donor and they'd check it every donation.
I used to have problems with ice tea (the Lipton one, with fizz) and drank 1.5-2L a day. I was eventually 'forced' to quit because my stomach got too fucked up from it. Interestingly it doesn't taste as good anymore, maybe because I associated it with all the GI-problems I've had because of it. I can now have a .33L can of it without needing to drink the whole 6pack. In my childhood, chocolate was problematic (surprise surprise).
Another weird 'problematic' food for me right now is broccoli, although I've gotten better at handling it. You may wonder how eating too much broccoli can be a problem, but it's because of the effect it has on my stomach - once again it messes with my GI-tract when consumed in excess. It's not even the taste really, it's more the texture that does it for me, it's quite weird, I have similar problems with cauliflower but broccoli is definitely worse. I found that I can do about 500g a day as long as I have a few 'off' days.
Great vid by the way and sound quality is great.
thanks Lorenzo! Great points. Broccoli is interesting, and definitely not unheard of: the crunchiness is a strong appetite stimulator for many. I notice the same thing with mushrooms, for example: obviously, I won't get fat from eating too many mushrooms, but I kinda just keep eating them until the whole thing is gone. With soda though, you could've just switched to diet, eh?:) Thank's for the comment, long time no see!
I recently moved countries to work abroad, hence the absence
Rice cake for me. I eat 100gr of rice cakes and than think "damn it" (since i shouldnt eat over 50gr) and than eat,oat meals with stevia,pasta with vegetables and all other healthy foods.
whole bread with coconut oil and nuts (fuck its so good D:)
chocolate with stevia
chicken
if i binge on fruits would that get me fat? i been binging on bananas but i'm terrified of weight gain
I don't really have a trigger food, i just always eat almost as much as i can at dinner, so i don't know how to fix that...
Finally something that I resonate to
Funny enough I binge on pb2 but not peanut butter, also dates, any dairy free milk, nuts, almond butter, hummus and nakd bars
I binged on a whole tub of PB2…twice
Oatmeal is elixir for obsessive eating
Hi Abel,
Thank you very much. I have two problems that are a little different from these. Rather than "trigger" foods, I have trigger days. I can't sync them up to a particular moment, emotion, or sleepless night. They just exist. I wake up and feel ravenous and there we go. I binge on all the food I normally eat, never feeling satisfied. But I do notice a trend of avocados and nut butter -- but mainly bc those are the yummy things in my house.
Another time I binge on healthy food, or non-healthy food (I'm on a program with my dietitian that intergrates two days a week I eat something a little less healthy than normally -- and even this is normally okay.) -- anyway the other time I binge is if I am thrown off my schedule. For example, I don't have an avocado for my breakfast or I have a random dinner at a restaurant pop up.
Do you or does anyone else have this problem? How do you combat it
Thank you.
Hi Megan, I know what you mean. I'll upload a video shortly that addresses this! I'll link to it once it's out!
I just made a video where I answer your question, hope it helps!:)
czcams.com/video/pK7dgsrgSL4/video.html
Oatmeal is mine too 🙈
Hey Abel! Being following you since some weeks. It seems that you talk a lot about overeating but what about undereating? Not tracking macros can lead to this sort of situation for example... so, what are your thoughts about this topic of undereating?
good question! I'll probably be addressing this soon in a video, but first just making sure to include some more calorie dense foods with 1 or more meals. If that still doesnt help, then you could try to make sure that you finish those off+all your protein of your plate before you would get to all your green veggies and less kcal dense foods. Or you could just try to systematically reduce the amount of low kcal items that you serve for yourself and include more dense foods at 1 or more meals every day. Does that help?:)
Sure! gonna give it a try!
I binge on sriracha on whole grain bread w spinach, nut butter by itself, yogurt w protein powder :( ī̈d̄̈k̄̈ i dint r̊̈llȳ̈ crave any junk food :( i stopped calorie counting so hv no idea how much calories im eating :(
cereal is my biggest trigger food
But bro peanut butter, rice and oatmeal is not nutritious or healthy.
It’s way easy to over eat peanut butter!
eggs are my trigger food. like wtf kill me
Holly shmokes this topic needs revision!!!! Please! This is such an issue