{"id":597,"date":"2010-06-02T08:15:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T08:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2010\/06\/signs-of-compulsive-overeating.html"},"modified":"2010-06-02T08:15:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T08:15:07","slug":"signs-of-compulsive-overeating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2010\/06\/signs-of-compulsive-overeating.html","title":{"rendered":"Signs of Compulsive Overeating"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>We&#8217;ve had a guest in our house over the Memorial Day weekend who is obese, who has also left signs behind in the kitchen. &nbsp;It&#8217;s amazing to me to see how much someone needs to eat to maintain a massive body. &nbsp;It shocks me to see so much food consumed &#8211; because I used to eat that much when I weighed 400+ pounds.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I found a whole empty box of cereal in the trash, after just 2 days. &nbsp;They had eaten the entire box, late at night, in hiding.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I went to get the bar of cheese in the refrigerator I bought just a couple of days ago, but it was also missing. &nbsp;Almost a pound of cheese was eaten in two days.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There were empty boxes of frozen foods; also consumed in hiding in the middle of the night. &nbsp;Bottles of juice guzzled down. &nbsp;All the leftovers &#8211; the fattening ones, not the vegetables &#8211; gone.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is a really painful reminder of how I want to maintain my healthy eating: not just in types of food (no sugar, less fat, fewer carbohydrates, more vegetables and fruit) but mainly in amounts. &nbsp;I could no longer handle so much food, but our guest eats this much all the time. &nbsp;I watch what I eat, never having very much at one time, never having seconds, eating little snacks, and praying to never again return to compulsive overeating.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2010\/06\/how-to-give-care-and-love-to-a.html\">P.S. &nbsp;I have since written more about this post. &nbsp;Please take a look by clicking here.<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had a guest in our house over the Memorial Day weekend who is obese, who has also left signs behind in the kitchen. &nbsp;It&#8217;s amazing to me to see how much someone needs to eat to maintain a massive body. &nbsp;It shocks me to see so much food consumed &#8211; because I used to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18,3,10,21,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet","category-food","category-health","category-lifestyles","category-spiritual-weight-loss","category-weight-loss","category-wellness"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Signs of Compulsive Overeating - Dr. Norris J. 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