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You’re trying to eat healthier and exercise, but somehow you still can’t seem to keep the weight off. You may have been trying to achieve a healthy weight for years and wondered, “Why am I still fat?”

Symptoms of Binge Eating Disorder

If you can’t control your eating, or if you eat to relieve stress or comfort yourself, binge eating or emotional overeating may be at the core of your struggles with weight.

The most common symptoms of binge eating disorder include:

After losing almost 170 pounds, Lynn Haraldson-Bering found herself faced with a challenge that often overwhelms even the most successful "losers": keeping the weight off. Today, having recently celebrated her one-year weight-maintenance anniversary, she credits her ability to remain at her target weight to two expected behaviors (healthy eating and regular exercise) and one not-so-obvious one: writing.

"I journal everything I put in my mouth," Haraldson-Bering said during a phone interview. "It makes [maintenance] less of a mystery."