How to Stop Overeating When You Feel Too Full

By Glenn Livingston Ph.D. on May 27, 2019 in Never Binge Again

If you often find yourself having the urge to eat more when you get too full this article may have a critical answer for you.



The idea that being too full could be a binge eating trigger seems counter-intuitive, yet for so very many people it definitely is the case!


It doesn’t make sense until you place it in context.

See, most binge eaters aren’t only addicted to overeating, they’re addicted to over-dieting too. By alternately binge eating and then desperately trying to make up for it with various forms of restriction, they keep their bodies in a “feast or famine” emergency mode at virtually all times.

When your brain thinks it lives in an environment where it may have to go for long periods of time without access to vital food and nutrients, it only makes sense that it would say “we’d better hoard food now” the moment it was available.


Being too full is one such signal. How could you get too full if food weren’t available?


Therefore, the best solution is not some magic mantra you repeat at the moment you feel the urge to binge because you ate a little too much.


Rather, in my experience with hundreds of clients, taking yourself out of feast and famine mode entirely by supplying your body a regular, reliable course of calories and nutrients is much more effective. This way your brain no longer feels the urgent need to hoard food when its available.


https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/never-binge-again/201905/how-stop-overeating-when-you-feel-too-full