Jim KatsoulisJim AI — Your Personal Guide to Living at Your Goal Weight

2 main causes of binge eating #programyourselfthin

19 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief instructional video, Jim Katsoulis explains that binge eating is primarily driven by two factors: (1) excessive calorie restriction, which creates intense hunger and undermines self‑control, and (2) poor emotional regulation, where individuals use food to mask negative feelings. He advises viewers to avoid starving themselves and to develop genuine coping mechanisms for negative emotions, asserting that doing so will reduce the urge to binge.

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The 2 main causes of binge eating. Number one is restricting calories too much. If you get yourself really hungry, you're not gonna be able to control your eating for long. It's important that you don't starve yourself to lose weight. You have to manage your hunger in order to lose weight. The second thing is emotional. If you don't have genuine ways to deal with negative emotions in your life, it's very common to use food in the cycle of binging and then feeling really bad about it to not feel those other unpleasant emotions. So the answer to that one is to find ways to genuinely deal with the negative emotions that you're experiencing in life. And you'll find the desire to use the binging begins to decrease.