Over-eating vs. Binge-eating

Where do you draw the line?

I don't consider it a line per se. If I'm hungry and I'm eating dinner and I continue to eat after I'm full because the food is delicious or w/e I call that overeating. If I stay up late watching tv and start munching on stuff even though I'm not hungry and I can't stop myself I call that binging.

when I binge, its almost like Im not there. I tell myself if no one sees me eat it and i eat it really quickly the calories dont count. Binging doesnt make me happy but its something I feel a compulsion to do. All I can focus on is the food.

Overeating is when I enjoy the food, so much that I eat more than I probabaly should but I dont feel a compulsion

As pokemewithpolaris said,overeating is more of an idulgence and a enjoyment and binge eating is more of a uncontrolled feeling of not being able to stop even when full.

 Enjoying a few homemade cookies isnt binging,Eating the whole tray and still eating more is binging.

overeating: you know you are overeating, your mind is there, you can stop yourself but the food tastes good so you keep going 


binge: you have no control, you are thinking about your problems, guilt, etc. NOT THE FOOD.

So last night after dinner I was hungry and so tired of dieting so I ate a small bowl of grapes with fiber one.  But no, that wasn't enough.  Even though i was no longer hungry I had ignited my sweet tooth... I poured some dark chocolate chips into the bowl and heated it with chex cereal and ate it with half a frozen banana.  Then I proceded to pour some cheerios into the bowl and eat it with soy milk... followed my two more small bowls.  Then when my brother ate an ice cream bar... I told him to bring me one too.  I know that when I was eating the cereal I wasn't really thinking about it and I couldnt stop myself.  Would this be considered binge eating?

P.S. Before the munchies began I had already eaten my days worth of allotted calories... And that day I didn't excercise which probably contributed to the "episode"

Original Post by yeedy:

So last night after dinner I was hungry and so tired of dieting so I ate a small bowl of grapes with fiber one.  But no, that wasn't enough.  Even though i was no longer hungry I had ignited my sweet tooth... I poured some dark chocolate chips into the bowl and heated it with chex cereal and ate it with half a frozen banana.  Then I proceded to pour some cheerios into the bowl and eat it with soy milk... followed my two more small bowls.  Then when my brother ate an ice cream bar... I told him to bring me one too.  I know that when I was eating the cereal I wasn't really thinking about it and I couldnt stop myself.  Would this be considered binge eating?

P.S. Before the munchies began I had already eaten my days worth of allotted calories... And that day I didn't excercise which probably contributed to the "episode"

I agree with all of the above posts from other people. I should know too, because I've recently admitted to myself that I have a binge eating disorder. Trust me, binge eating is so not enjoyable. It's not really about food either. It's miserable really.

And I would say that yeedy's description sounds like binge eating to me.