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.  

New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-herePick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now.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. 

New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-herePick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now.What should Suzanne do? She listed out alternative behaviors to turn to when she is triggered to binge. But she's not turning to them. 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. 

New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-hereDoes 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

New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Food limit reactivity is an issue that I often see in my clients. If you feel like the mere thought of eating less drives you into a panic, sparking an immediate desire to eat compulsively, you may be experiencing it. This state makes it all but impossible to lose weight, or follow food guidelines for the sake of your health. Let's explore it together 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. Sign up at Georgiefear.com/podcastWouldn'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 at georgiefear.com/podcast

New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-hereIs recovering from binge eating a matter of willpower? Are we wasting our time looking for answers in books, podcasts, therapists, when what we really need is to buck up and try harder? Find out why I say no. (And why the implication that "all it takes" is willpower makes me bristle). 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.

New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-hereIt's human to want. Feeling a desire for a particular food (as in a craving), or simply a strong desire to EAT is a normal challenge to work through on our road to healing from disordered eating. In this episode, we cover some of the pitfalls you can avoid, and how to help yourself reach a place where you connect with and notice your desires, without being bossed around by them. Some of the topics we discuss in this episode include: Why ignoring your wants causes problems Why you can feel like you really want a particular food, but then be unsatisfied once you have itWhy wanting something doesn't mean it's a good idea to eat it (or that it will make you happy) Why we are poor at predicting how it will feel to have (or not have) something we wantWhat to do when you want conflicting things at the same time

New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-hereAfter 30 years of battling food and her body, Julie doesn't want to hide and eat cookies in the pantry. She wants to feel like her healthy eating during the day extends through the evening hours too. Above all, she wants to just eat in peace. It's interesting how even if we hide to eat in total secrecy, we don't really have peace. Not when the voices in our minds tell us that we're pathetic, weak, being "bad," or that no one would love us if they only knew. In this episode we map out a plan for Julie to finally end the hiding and break out of the shame that has plagued her since her childhood. It's a juicy one! Book mentioned: "It wasn't your fault" by Beverly Engel. 

New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-hereIn the last podcast episode we talked about building up skill with sensing hunger, fullness, and emotions, while still continuing to count calories if you aren't ready to let go of that part. Now, what comes next.  If you've counted calories for ages and have become afraid to stop, here's a guide. You don't have to do it all at once, you can do it in several gradual phases, laid out for you in this episode. 

New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here"I want to learn how to eat by body signals... but I'm scared to stop counting calories, because I'm sure I'll gain weight." This is not the exception, it's the rule. In this episode, I'll help you navigate the fear of this dilemma.What a conundrum: Nobody likes counting calories. But people are also afraid to stop. So they continue. The idea of being able to eat an appropriate amount for our bodies *by feel* seems like nirvana. But how can a person get to this promised land, if counting calories feels absolutely necessary?  Let me draw you a map.