{"id":1079,"date":"2013-12-15T22:22:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T06:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bingeeatingtherapy.com\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2024-02-08T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T06:22:00","slug":"binge-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bingeeatingtherapy.com\/binge-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Avoid a Binge at the Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bingeeatingtherapy.com\/2012\/12\/20\/binge-airport\/binge-eating-at-the-airport\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1080\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1080\" src=\"https:\/\/bingeeatingtherapy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Binge-Eating-at-the-Airport-300x243.jpeg\" alt=\"Binge Eating at the Airport\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bingeeatingtherapy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Binge-Eating-at-the-Airport-300x243.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/bingeeatingtherapy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Binge-Eating-at-the-Airport.jpeg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0Binge eating and binge drinking at the airport is extremely\u00a0common. Long airport layovers are recipes for compulsive behavior because:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Traveling is stressful and binge eating is a stress relief<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You are bored and it&#8217;s a way to fight boredom<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Although you are traveling among several thousands of people, if you are traveling\u00a0 alone, you are in a city where nobody knows you and this can feel very isolated and anonymous and secretive.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There is a bounty of fast foods and &#8220;forbidden foods&#8221; in relatively small radius.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You can secretly slip away from your travel companion and have a quick and secret binge.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Long, multi-hour layovers are rough, \u00a0but there are many other things that you can do besides binge eat before a\u00a0long flight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1.)Make sure that you have a plan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2.)Figure out how to get your three meals in that day without restricting or bingeing. Know that because you have a long day of flying ahead of you that you need to prepare with snacks. Have a full meal before you get on the plane (breakfast), or if it&#8217;s too early, make sure that you bring snacks on the plane. I like to bring nuts and<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.larabar.com\/\">\u00a0Lara bars<\/a>. There is also often an option to buy food on the plane.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">3.)When you get to the airport, actually have a meal there. You will need to eat lunch anyway, so find a place that you feel comfortable getting a meal at, and have a sit down meal. Eat something that feels safe. Being in a challenging situation is probably not the right time to be challenging yourself with trigger foods.\u00a0 Eat it slowly and mindfully.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">4.)Let some people know that you will have a long layover and that it&#8217;s a good time to chat and catch up. You might have some safe people who you call who know that you are afraid of bingeing at the airport, so you might want to &#8220;bookend&#8221; your arrival and departure with them.\u00a0 &#8220;Bookending&#8221; is calling someone at the beginning of a challenging situation where you think you might binge, and then calling them at the end of the situation. Knowing that someone is there supporting you can help keep you safe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">5.)Find out of this airport has any fun amenities before you go, such as a place to get your nails done or to get a massage and plan on that for your layover.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">6.)Bring (or buy!) an awesome book to read. Camp out and read somewhere away from the food court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">7.)Make sure that you&#8217;re drinking enough water throughout your layover. It&#8217;s important to stay hydrated and it will keep you doing something with your mouth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">8.)Bring something to do with your hands like knitting or beading or sketching.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">9.)Bring some movies to watch on your computer or ipad or portable dvd player.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">10.)Decide that you&#8217;re going to explore all the different terminals. O&#8217;Hare is huge. And you&#8217;ll even get a little exercise in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">11.)Remember that\u00a0 cinnabon, pizzeria uno, starbucks, taco bell, tcby, chili&#8217;s, et al. will always exist and aren&#8217;t going anywhere anytime soon, and just because you are in the airport, it&#8217;s not your last opportunity to eat at them. You can always make that choice when you are empowered to, not when they are seducing you by keeping you a captive audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">12.)Peruse the bookstore, thumb through magazines, be a window shopper. There are lots of different and fun stores in the airport where you can just look and not have to buy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">13.)Do some personal grooming so that you feel more comfortable after your long flight and before going on another long flight. Brush your teeth, wash your face, brush your hair, try to freshen up a bit. It will generally pull you out of the binge trance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">14.) Remind yourself that sitting through a flight after a binge is no fun and arriving at your destination feeling bloated and uncomfortable will be a\u00a0hard start to your vacation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Take good care of yourself and Happy Holidays!!!!!!!!!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Binge eating and binge drinking at the airport is extremely\u00a0common. Long airport layovers are recipes for compulsive behavior because: Traveling is stressful and binge eating is a stress relief You are bored and it&#8217;s a way to fight boredom Although you are traveling among several thousands of people, if you are traveling\u00a0 alone, you are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1003,1004,1005,1006,1007,1008,1009,1010],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Binge Eating Therapy - Help for binge eating, bulimia, obsessive dieting and body image issues<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"People binge eat and binge drink at airports all the time. 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