Breaking Up With Binge Eating

The road to a regrettable eating experience has some signs. One of them reads, "MIGHT AS WELL!" with a big arrow pointing to food and drink. But you don't need to follow those signs. You've got a steering wheel, and this is anything but a one way street! 

In this episode, Georgie tells a story of how her inner quitter got the upper hand - but was proven to be a liar. And since then, it's never held the same power over her. "You can't make it. You are sunk. Just quit." Everyone has heard that defeatist voice at times, including the people who succeed! Here's how to handle those thoughts. 

Healthy relationships make us feel alive and nurtured. Dysfunctional or tumultuous relationships, on the other hand are zero fun! If the dynamic between you and food vacillates between love and hate, friendship and enmity, here's how to iron it out so you can enjoy a stable, healthy alliance which allows your mind and body to thrive. 

You've tried to improve your health by eating less. Sitting less. Getting less upset, and being less emotional. You wonder if you can make fewer excuses or be less lazy. Or if a new workout you hate would help get rid of more calories. But if it hasn't worked - I'd like you to try MORE. The pervasive problem is not overindulgence but that we are too skimpy with meeting our own needs!  Millions of women's food problems are manifestations of not having enough in other areas of our lives. And those eating problems quiet when we refill our shortages to abundance. In this episode, I'll reveal 6 areas that I'd like you to consider. If your needs are being less than 100% met in any or all of the areas - let's do something about it! You deserve MORE. Sink your teeth into my exciting new book, Give Yourself MORE: https://www.otpbooks.com/product/give-yourself-more/

We know how it is. You're trying to stop certain behaviors. Trying hard."No more nibbling crackers," you tell yourself. Or "I have to stop going for second bowls of ice cream." Or, "I shouldn't be eating the kid's cookies."But life gets nutty. We get stressed, become angry or tired and head over to the pantry... here we go again. The secret to changing this behavior is to give yourself a better tool than just "trying". Because, you might try and try forever without actually changing - if all you do is try. In this episode, we'll talk about what exactly you need to do THIS WEEK and NEXT WEEK, if you want to see a real change. 

Sometimes it's shocking to see just how different the world has become in a relatively short period of time. There are some important considerations in today's episode, about how the world you live in today is fundamentally different from one that you lived in when you first began binge eating - and we'll talk about why your chances for recovery have never been better.

It seems paradoxical that having a very full stomach would cause a sudden urge to ... eat even more. Yet it's one of the most common triggers for people who struggle with binge eating! Most people trying to stop binge eating approach this problem the wrong way, but in this episode we'll clear up how to break the chain effectively, for good. 

"I can't seem to stick with something.""I keep trying to stop reading the phone at night." "I should be getting our for more walks." These all ways we express our desires to form new habits. We would love healthy behaviours to be automatic and easy, the sort of thing we do without straining. We aspire to extinguish pesky old habits that keep us from our goals. Does it take a miracle to make these wishes into actual lasting changes? No. It takes the 6 action steps we outline in this episode. (And none of them are "trying harder", so you can cross out that idea!) 

The pressure to maintain a perfect binge-free streak can be our undoing. When we start stringing together binge-free days, instead of feeling relaxed, we can become the opposite: edgy, uneasy, waiting for the whole thing to unravel (again). The desire to escape that mounting pressure can be the factor which drives us to binge again, if only to get relief. In this episode, we'll talk about how to deflate that pressure without turning to food. Phew! 

Body acceptance: it sounds positive, but also like it might conflict with having goals of changing our bodies. Here's how the two concepts fit together - and why there are actually TWO completely different meanings of body acceptance. Which one is right for you?