love food. I really do. What I hate though is that awful feeling I get when I eat too much, and lately that has been happening too often. Being petite does not exclude me from the uncomfortable side effects of overeating. Overeating can most certainly lead to weight gain or even obesity, but it can also lead to feeling sluggish, keep you from feeling motivated to be active, and even cause depression. I always feel terrible when I eat too much, and that just ruins the whole eating experience for me, which is supposed to be so enjoyable. Overeating is disrespecting your body and your food. When you eat too much your body is consuming more food than it needs to create energy and it ends up being turned into fat. Plus, you are eating food that could be saved for a time when you are actually hungry. So stop overeating and start appreciating your body!

Stop Eating in Front of the Television and Focus on What You Are Eating

Eating while watching TV, playing video games, or surfing the internet is a recipe for disaster and is a total death-trap. It is almost a guarantee that you will overeat. Instead, make mealtime family time, or a quiet time to reflect on yourself. Eat at the kitchen table. Turn on some nice soft background music if you need some noise.

I know the food is tasty, trust me, I know! Sometimes though you eat so fast that you lose your chance to really taste your food and appreciate the glorious flavors that are entering your mouth. Plus, it takes about twenty minutes for your stomach to tell your brain that it’s full and in twenty minutes you can eat a lot! Slowing down your eating gives your stomach the chance to let you know that it’s full before you eat too much. It also gives you the chance to really appreciate the hard work that went into making this delicious meal.

This tip goes along with slowing down your eating. When you chew your food more, you will automatically slow down your eating, and you already know from tip number three why slowing down is so good. Chewing your food more also gets you more nutrients from what you are eating. And of course it gives you the chance to really taste your food, you didn’t do all that cooking (or waiting if you’re at a restaurant) just to scarf it down, appreciate that flavor! I’d say shoot for fifteen chews per bite.

From the time I was around ten years old and my aunt invited me to try my first diet (eating only grapes - we lasted around six hours!), until just a few years ago, I was obsessed with food and the way I looked. Even though most of that time I actually looked pretty darn good, I would never have believed you if you'd told me so.

I've heard people of all shapes complain about their looks, weight, and their love-hate relationship with food. It doesn't seem to matter how 'perfect' someone looks on the outside - the way we feel about our bodies and ourselves often has nothing to do with reality.

Many of us yo-yo between healthy eating and out-of-control eating. We'll try some new weight loss fad, or promise ourselves that we're going to stick to a new food regime, but our enthusiasm disappears after a few days and we find ourselves right back in old habits.

Humans have an instinctual (even good) fear of hunger. Take the book Into the Wild—when the main character can't find food, his hunger drives him to a screaming, shake-his-fist-at-the-heavens rage, a stark example of the primal nature of our need for nourishment. Today, most of us know where our next meal is coming from, yet our reaction to hunger has not evolved with our convenience-centered world.

This is why even the thought of being hungry may send you running to the mini-mart for sustenance. If you want to lose weight , however, you must tune in to your body's signal to eat. 'Hunger is a physical cue that you need energy,' says Dawn Jackson Blatner, RD, author of The Flexitarian Diet. It can be your best diet ally and if you listen to your body, you'll instinctively feed it the right amount. Fall out of touch, though, and hunger becomes diet enemy number one: You may eat more than you need or get too hungry and stoke out-of-control cravings.

These 6 tips will teach you how to eat less and spot hunger so that you eat to stay satisfied. You'll be able to control calories and shed pounds without “dieting.”

I love food. I really do. What I hate though is that awful feeling I get when I eat too much, and lately that has been happening too often. Being petite does not exclude me from the uncomfortable side effects of overeating. Overeating can most certainly lead to weight gain or even obesity, but it can also lead to feeling sluggish, keep you from feeling motivated to be active, and even cause depression. I always feel terrible when I eat too much, and that just ruins the whole eating experience for me, which is supposed to be so enjoyable. Overeating is disrespecting your body and your food. When you eat too much your body is consuming more food than it needs to create energy and it ends up being turned into fat. Plus, you are eating food that could be saved for a time when you are actually hungry. So stop overeating and start appreciating your body!