Before you go to dinner, before you go to breakfast, before you do whatever, if you feel like bingeing, sit down and write down what you are thinking and what you are feeling.

Basically, what I'm trying to do is help them link what is going on in their mind with what is going on in their belly.

We do one of two things with our feelings. Either we talk them out or we act them out. Sometimes acting them out involves taking in food.

Sit down -- you'll get your dinner quicker,

So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, / Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!

One consequential change is that people used to get most of their calories at breakfast and midday, with only the evening top-up at suppertime. Now those intakes are almost exactly reversed. Most of us consume the bulk--a sadly appropriate word here--of our calories in the evening and take them to bed with us, a practice that doesn't do any good at all.