Eating Mania

Caught in the loop of emotional binge eating? Identify if you are genuinely hungry

- Dr Mickey Mehta

All human emotions elicit binging or starving. Love and hatred—they both can put you in a spin or a binge. Love and hatred can also make you starve. But starving may work sometimes as fasting cleanses but binge eating, certainly won’t work, whether in love or in hate.

Extreme hunger also increases your irritability. We can get agitated when the hunger has grown more than an hour plus and when food hasn’t been made available or ingested.

Binge eating is an out of control eating pattern because the strong emotions, whether positive or negative, govern you in a way that they control your mind and there is no stopping because mindless eating will certainly make you keep eating without realizing that you have crossed limits of your capacity to digest or you make wrong choices of food.

In both cases, damage to health, damage to healing processes and damage to wholeness happens. Wellness goes for a toss. We lose the equilibrium of our body. We lose the state of homeostasis and thus, biological loss, physiological deterrence and most importantly, biochemistry going haywire.

Binges typically throw your digestive system out of gear. Not only that, the capacity to absorb, the capacity to assimilate, process food and eliminate toxins get compromised big time. This big-time compromise can ruin your health and could be the cause of your degeneration, dis-ease, dis-integration, decay and eventually death of energy, death of life force.