The Binge Code: 7 Unconventional Keys to End Binge Eating and Lose Excess Weight

by Alison C. Kerr

FALSE FRIEND BINGE EXAMPLES The “I’m alone/bored/sad” binge When you’re feeling a really uncomfortable emotion and you just want to escape into a food-coma to avoid thinking or feeling right now. The 4hr slow binge When you’re are on the sofa, vegging out, in a comatose state, slowly devouring numerous boxes of chocolates, crisps and sweets over a 4 hour period. Binge grazing When you’re just picking at foods all day long without any really clear indication of when one meals starts and one meal ends. The whole day is just one big meal. The planned binge When you start planning your binge episode hours or even days beforehand. What foods you are going to buy, where you are going to do it, how you’re going to sneak away from everyone, etc. As though you are preparing to have a binge as a special treat for yourself.