Weight Loss for Binge Eaters Step Two (Part Two)

The previous post dealt mostly with binge eating. This post will deal with the weight loss steps.

Do Not Change What You Eat… Just Add More Vegetables!

Even if you don’t like vegetables, you still need to them to your diet. Vegetables can taste really good, if they cooked and seasoned right. Need help with this? See my sister blog: How To Eat More Vegetables and How To Eat More Vegetables Part Two. These two posts are about ways to introduce more vegetables into your diet.

If you are someone who eats out a lot, you still need to add more veggies to your diet. Ordering Chinese food, ask for extra veggies. Ordering a sub from Subway or Quiznos? Ask them to add more veggies. If you don’t like vegetables, too damn bad. You HAVE to eat them.

Adding more vegetables to your diet will fill you more. You will feel less hungry and you will get more of the nutrients your body needs.

Stop Drinking Soda… Drink water or fruit water instead

Soda, pop, sodapop, soft drinks or however you say it is nothing but empty calories with tons of sugar. Your body needs water in order to function. It doesn’t need soda. This includes diet sodas and caffeine-free sodas. 

If you don’t like the taste of water tough. Drink it. No one said losing weight was going to be easy. Don’t replace soda with juice either. Drink water. An adult woman needs about 2.2 liters of water a day. That’s about 9 cups or 4.5 16.9 oz water bottles. Men need about 3 liters a day or 6 16.9 bottles of water a day.

If you hate the taste water, then make a pitcher of fruit water. See the following link for the recipe: Fruit Water Recipe

Get Moving!

If you are not active at all, don’t go out and get a gym membership, yet. Let’s start with 10 minutes of exercise every day. We will increase the duration and intensity of exercising with time. Right now at this stage we are forming habits. When the time comes, it will be easier to increase the duration and intensity of our workouts because we’ve already established a good habit.

Remember this particular program isn’t about losing weight fast. How many of us can say that that has actually worked for us, consistently?

We should be more concerned about binge eating and stopping that before we focus exclusively on weight loss. Now is the time that we add or subtract small things that won’t send us over the edge into bingeing.

When To Move On To Step Three

Step Two will take several weeks before we can get it right. I won’t despair if I back slide or go into a binge and you shouldn’t either.

In order to move on you need to have 6 good days a week. Meaning, you had to have had days where you completed all of the objectives for the day. If you happened to binged between a meal or snack, you can count that day still as a good day.

Binges do not count as bad days. We don’t want to stress ourselves out.