Due to the rise of obesity in today's society everyone is trying to achieve quick weight loss. This is a bad idea, and often will lead to developing binge eating disorder. Eating disorders are psychiatric abnormalities in one's eating habits. Tabloids display the secret eating disorders of celebrities and music artists. Yet the news never discuss how serious these eating disorders really are, and how common they are.

Most quick weigh loss techniques require extreme unrealistic diets. Obviously these diets never keep the weight off. Even when a diet works, often the pounds lost are gained back slowly simply because no one can diet forever. The problem with quick weight loss attempts is that they often require you to stay away from junk foods and fast foods. This often leads to binge eating.

Binge eating is consuming very large quantities of food in a small period of time. Binge eating isn't related to hunger most of the time. Often it's eating beyond the point of satisfying one's physical hunger. Binge eaters often eat huge amounts of food even when they aren't really hungry. Binge eating often leads to feelings of guilt or sadness because of the future weight gain it will lead to.

Following the popular advice of diets that recommend avoiding junk foods and fast foods is a bad idea. When one avoids such foods, one starts craving them more and more. These carvings get out of control and often lead to binge eating. For example, if a person has been avoiding cookies, and then decides to eat one, he'll often end up eating several more and lose control.

It's important to note that binge eating is different from bulimia. Bulimia often involves overeating which is followed by self-induced vomiting, use of laxatives, over-exercising, or fasting. Binge eating is also one of the leading causes of obesity today. Obesity is very dangerous for one's health, yet often it's very tough to treat.

Often obese individuals eat for comfort, and develop food addictions. These addictions can also be a form of emotional eating. Emotional eating is basically when one eats not to satisfy physical hunger but rather to deal with tough or negative emotions. Stress eating is a good example where one will consume more food on a stressful day.

Binge eating is often kept a secret. A food addict will overeat in private to avoid others finding out about their disorderly eating habits. This is why binge eating is very tough to treat because sufferers often keep it a secret. Many will overeat until becoming obese and then will finally become desperate and seek help.

Therapy is the most common treatment for binge eating. There are also recovery clinics that a binge eater can check into. Also there are many books on the topic where the authors share their own recovery efforts, what worked and what didn't. There are also different support groups such as overeaters anonymous.

Next time you are thinking about quick weight loss, think again. Trying to lose weight quickly is unrealistic and dangerous. Also being obsessed with your body weight can lead to developing eating disorders. It's best to lose weight naturally through exercise, and slowly taking on healthier eating habits.
Andrew is the creator of a binge eating blog where he shares tips to recovery from binge eating disorder.