Dealing With Stress Effectively
Can Help Reduce Binge Eating 

Dealing with stress is an important skill to learn when we are trying to stop Binge Eating.

When discussing eating disorders, we often talk about our eating ‘triggers’, or food cravings, and our emotional eating problems. And stress is often a major issue involved with all these symptoms.

We could write a whole website on this subject, but in these next few pages, we have tried to put together what we feel are the most useful pieces of information to help you in successfully dealing with stress in your everyday life.

By working through these pages, and applying what you learn, you will hopefully find that you are better able to cope with your binge eating problems as well.

To put it simply, feelings of stress occur when we believe that our ability to cope does not match up to the potential problems that we face.

These pages will help you to readdress that balance by managing stress from all sides:

• By managing and reducing your symptoms of stress
• By improving your ability to tackle any problems that you face
• By making lifestyle improvements that will reduce your levels of stress

You will learn stress-relief techniques enabling you to cope better, such as:

• Relaxation Techniques
• Breathing Exercises
• Mindfulness
• Positive Self Talk

We will also help you in dealing with stress by learning:

• Problem solving skills - to help you cope more effectively every day
• Stress and nutrition – the real connections between food and mood
• Exercise and stress – why regular activity helps control your stress levels

Lastly, we will look at when stress becomes chronic and severe, and what you can do if you are suffering from:

• Anxiety Attacks and Panic Attacks – learning how to cope with these distressing feelings

Binge Eating and other eating disorders are about so much more than problems with food. They are about our self esteem, our body image, how we deal with difficult feeling and emotions, and stress is involved in all these aspects. By managing stress effectively, we can gain more strength and confidence to work on the issues that we need to.
 (and if after reading our pages, you want to find out more about stress, we can highly recommend http://www.stress-relief-workshop.com)