Breaking Up With Binge Eating

The podcast discusses the challenges of binge eating and offers guidance on finding lessons in these moments. It explores the importance of recognizing factors impacting eating habits and developing personal policies. Writing down lessons learned and creating an anti-forgetting strategy is highlighted. Utilizing reminders, making gradual changes, and learning from experiences are emphasized.

This is a free preview of subscribers-only content! To unlock ALL the subscribers-only episodes with real clients and conversations, join us at georgiefear.com/podcast.Today you'll hear Georgie and real life client Rachel in a conversation about what Rachel can do to escape the "hamster wheel" of swearing she will not binge, but then doing it one more time. What can she think about differently? What can she tell herself? As it turns out, there are many opportunities for Rachel to try something new and helpful, even though her environment and history have created numerous challenges which she cannot eliminate. Have you ever thought, "I know what to do, I just need to consistently do it"? Who hasn't? Sometimes we need accountability. Sometimes we need specific strategies, new tools, or a bit of help. If you want help to become a confident, sensible eater with 1:1 personalized attention, sign up at ConfidentEaters.com. 

"I'll get started... after a snack." "This is so overwhelming... I need candy." Life contains onerous tasks, and they can cause dread and anxiety even when we haven't begun them. Because avoiding a chore presents its own drawn out emotional torture, binge eating or procrastineating entices us to escape BOTH the task and the heavy guilt we feel for stalling. But as we know, binge eating or emotional eating are not perfect solutions, because they come at steep costs to our self-esteem and wellness. Let's explore real life tools you can use to save yourself from procrastination hell while breaking up with binge eating. Website recommended in this episode: https://www.raptitude.com/ 

"Now's my chance." "I'll be better tomorrow." "One last time." Thoughts like these can make you feel just a little more reactive, a little more tense, a little less settled. And frankly, they also make you more prone overeating or binging. In this episode, you'll learn to recognize when you slip into a scarcity mindset. More importantly, you'll learn how to prevent it and how to gently help yourself out of it. 

The sinking feeling of realizing you made a mistake can be awful. It can lead to panic, fear, embarrassment, and often, binge eating. Presumably you are already trying hard to not make mistakes, so what else can be done? A lot. Here are five precise things to do after you make a mistake to help you get back to your feet emotionally without bingeing. Ideally, try to do them right away. However, if you forget initially and do them later, they still work!

The following sequence of events may be all too familiar: You want to push yourself to do something different with food - maybe order a carb, eat the dressing, or enjoy dessert out in the open instead of in secret. So you gather your strength, recite a mantra or two, take the leap... and then feel mega guilty afterwards. What gives? This is what you wanted to do, and now instead of glowing with pride, you're feeling like hell over it. In this episode, we'll talk about this phenomenon, why it happens, and how to manage it so it never gets in your way again. Full steam ahead, you can smash that guilt and keep stepping forwards in your journey of breaking up with binge eating. 

"It's frustrating," says Kaitlyn. Who wouldn't be frustrated? Watching your mind circle around the next opportunity to eat like a moth doing laps around a garden light...is hardly the fully-lived life most of us want to be experiencing. Let's look at how we can help Kaitlyn. Kaitlyn has already made some progress, including a recent win with handling a stressful day without a binge. She's worried that it will be a single outlier experience, though, and wants more strategies to help her feel in control of her eating, as opposed to the sense that eating is in control of her.  Grab a pen because there are a lot of tips and strategies in this one hour conversation! To benefit from all of the real life recorded sessions, subscribe at georgiefear.com/podcast. For less than the cost of a pumpkin spice latte you can help yourself to expert direction and real world strategies that improve your life.  

Enrolment for the Breaking Up With Binge Eating coaching program starts this week for 7 days only! Learn more at https://www.nutritionloft.com/store (Sign ups for the group begin 10/5/22, the program starts 10/12/22).When it comes to problems in our lives (such as disordered eating or excess weight), we can create full-time jobs for ourselves just thinking about them. We can spend endless hours considering how this problem has worsened or changed over time, what contributed to it, whom can be blamed, and how fiercely we want things to be different. To make progress, we know that dwelling on it has to give way to action... but which action is the right one to take? We spell it out in this bite-sized episode. Here's a hint: Trying harder and beating ourselves up are not the helpful actions we are going for. 

Making a list of alternatives to turn to instead of food is an important step. (Don't count on yourself to be creative when you are in a moment of distress.) But what if you have a list and keep ignoring it? Let's ensure that your list is done right, and look for the stories or thoughts you might be telling yourself that are keeping you from changing. 

Does any type of food guideline, rule, or limit "set you off?" You're not alone. As a person's relationship with food heals, this type of food limit reactivity goes down. In other words, it becomes tolerable, then comfortable to experiment with waiting to eat for a short time, or choosing some foods more often than others... without alarms going off and causing binges. This process takes several months of gentle practice in a consistent, kind, and trusting atmosphere. Learn more in this episode. Subscribe to the premium channel for Bonus Episodes and Recorded Client SessionsHear the real conversations which move people past binge eating and emotional eating.Wouldn't you love to listen in on people's private nutrition counselling sessions? You can't anywhere else. But with a premium subscription to the Breaking Up With Binge Eating Podcast, that's exactly what you get. In addition to bonus episodes, subscribers receive recorded full length coaching sessions from Georgie and Maryclaire helping people just like you. You can hear the conversations, the questions and answers, and homework given.  It's the next best thing to sitting down with a private coach of your own. And it costs less than a pint of ice cream per month. Check it out. Visit GeorgieFear.com/podcast