Overeating: Are You Aware of This As the Cause As to Why You Are Overweight?

Most people who are overeaters don't even realize they are overeaters! And if they do, they wouldn't possibly admit to it. And perhaps that is why, like a drug addict or alcoholic, the healing process is never begun, and the overeater remains fat and unhappy for the rest of their life. Because someone who suffers from an eating disorder has to first admit that they have a problem. Just like the drug addict or alcoholic.An overeater just never seems to feel full! Sometimes, you may eat and eat and eat, and still not feel satisfied. Does this sound remotely like you?

Symptoms that indicate you have an overeating disorder include the following:
You hardly ever feel hungry because you never allow yourself to become hungry before eatingYou spend a lot of time thinking about foodYou fantasize, and sometimes even obsess, about foodYou may eat in secretYou plan bingesYou often find yourself not wanting to socialize, preferring to spend your time with your greatest friend, foodYou eat more than othersYou eat more often than othersWhen you crave something, you fulfill the cravingWhen you get emotional, you turn to foodYou eat when not hungryYou eat when bored, or for entertainment
If you are someone who overeats, you are addicted to food. If you are addicted to food, you crave fulfillment from something that only satisfies temporarily. It's exactly the same for any person who uses a substance as a form of fulfillment. The difference is that someone who is addicted to a drug, or alcohol, will learn that if they want to have permanent victory from their addiction, they need to sacrifice all use of it forevermore. With someone who is addicted to food, this is of course, impossible - if of course, they want to remain alive!
The start of your overeating habit may have been for emotional reasons, but eventually it became habitual and if you carefully consider, it may even have become your master, your idol. If you think of food as anything other than the sustenance your body needs for peak health, you may have a problem.
If you want to lose weight permanently, you need to admit your problem, and the habit of overeating needs to be broken. And not by dieting, which is impossible for the obese overeater.
The answer is in changing the way you relate to food. Food has to stop being used as a source of fulfillment. Instead, food has to be seen as a source of nourishment for your body to stay in peak health.
If you need help to stop overeating, http://www.get-thin-for-good.com/ offers a free "Get Thin for Good" program which coaches you through the steps of how to stop overeating, and aims to help you change the way you relate to food. It does not focus on dieting, pills or deprivation, and it won't be a quick-fix, but if you follow it, you will lose weight - for good.

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