This was a guest post by Lara Zibarras on Brainz Magazine

For years, I felt like I was over-eating. Stuck in the diet-and-then-binge cycle, either restricting my food or full-on bingeing.

I often left the table feeling overly stuffed, with a distended tummy.

I found it hard to control myself around food – especially at buffets or parties where food was in abundance. I’d find myself gorging on the very foods that I’d sworn I must give up.

Thankfully, my eating is more “normal” these days, but the journey was long and bumpy to get here. These 6 tips have been instrumental in helping me stop overeating.

Tip #1 ‒ Don’t skip meals

I used to skip a lot of meals. Sometimes my diet plan demanded it, or sometimes I was saving up calories for a night out. I rarely ate breakfast, and sometimes skipped lunch. I had a very disordered approach when it came to food.

Then, when I eventually sat down to eat, I was so hungry that it was virtually impossible to not overeat.

If I went to a restaurant or someone’s house for dinner, I would gorge on the bread basket or bowls of snacks. Saving calories backfired because I would lose control around the food.

Things got so much better when I started eating more regularly, sometimes snacking between meals to ensure that I never got overly hungry.

Read the full article here for all 6 tips…