Many people are not aware that obesity and being overweight are enormous problems in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 67% of Americans who are 20 years of age and older are either overweight or obese. What this means is that more than two out of every three Americans are either obese or overweight.

Most of us eat too much at one time or another. However, if overeating is something that you do habitually and uncontrollably, you may be afflicted with an eating disorder that is known as compulsive overeating disorder.

Compulsive overeating disorder is very similar to binge eating disorder. Binge eating disorder involves compulsive overeating. During these periods of compulsive overeating, you consume enormous amounts of food. As you do so, you are powerless to stop eating, and you feel like you are out of control.

These episodes of binge eating may go on for a couple of hours, or they make take place off and on throughout the day. You may go on eating for a long time, even though you are full. You may eat even though you are not hungry. You may eat as fast as you can and not pay much attention to what it is that you are eating.

Compulsive overeating disorder is characterized by binge eating. However, compulsive overeating disorder also has the added aspect of what is known as grazing behavior. Grazing behavior is when you go back to pick at food all throughout the day.

Bulimia is an eating disorder that involves binge eating. However, those with bulimia try to get rid of the calories they have consumed during their binge eating by using diuretics, excessive exercise, vomiting (purging) and/or a laxative. If you have compulsive overeating disorder, you do not try to compensate for your binge eating with any form of purging behavior.

Compulsive overeating disorder is marked by an obsession with food. This is demonstrated by the excessive amounts of time and thought that you spend on food and fantasizing or secretly planning about eating by yourself.

Compulsive overeating disorder usually results in gaining weight and obesity. However, people who are of average or normal weight can also be affected by compulsive overeating disorder.

Compulsive overeating disorder affects women more than it does men. There are three women for every two men with compulsive overeating disorder. It occurs most often between the ages of 46 and 55.

There are several signs and symptoms, which may indicate that you have compulsive overeating disorder. Some of these include:

Ÿ  Going on diets frequently, but without losing weight

Ÿ  Continuing to eat food even though you feel like you are full

Ÿ  Eating huge amounts of food

Ÿ  Storing up food

Ÿ  Anxiety

Ÿ  Feeling upset, depressed or disgusted with yourself about your eating

Ÿ  Feeling like your eating is out of your control

Ÿ  Anxiety

Ÿ  Repeatedly eating by yourself because you are embarrassed by the amount of food that you eat

Ÿ  Eating rapidly during your episodes of binge eating

Ÿ  Not being able to stop eating.

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