Breaking Up With Binge Eating

New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. This week, we are excited to share an insider review of our Breaking up with Binge Eating Group program. Join Georgie and Berenice, as they discuss her journey from being a listener of the podcast, to joining the group program 6 month...

New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Have you ever wondered if you are addicted to food? Can someone be addicted to food like they can be to alcohol and other substances? Many of our clients feel out of control around certain foods, and may feel as though they are food a...

New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. This week, we are excited to share a Client interview from our 1:1 coaching program. Join Coach Christina and her former client, Maddie, as they discuss her journey of overcoming the binge and restrict cycle and developing food freedo...

New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Join coach Georgie and the Confident Eaters team in today's episode, as we discuss recent updates to Emotional Eating and Binge Eating Disorder in one our monthly coaches education meeting. One of the papers we discuss in this convers...

New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Everybody is "stressed", but we don't always understand exactly what that means. We believe that not all stress is bad. It is a protective mechanism that helps us survive situations in life. It also allows us to be challenged and have...

New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. If you've listened to our podcast before, then you've heard us talk extensively about the fact that being kind to yourself can lead to remarkable personal growth and improved well-being. In this episode, Coach Georgie explores the rea...

New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. 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 . Join Georgie with her real life client Brian, who has had a real...

New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Pick the path that fits what you’re dealing with right now. Right after an overeating incident or binge, once of the most helpful things to do is look back and consider what lessons we want to take from the experience. Maybe you discovered a situation you don't want to put yourself in again, o...

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

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

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

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

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 pr...

"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...

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

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

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

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 guidel...

New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Is 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). Subscrib...

New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here It'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 pla...

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

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

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...

New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here It sounds straightforward: if we always stopped eating once we reach the point of satisfaction, we would consume the right amount for our body, feel positive and proud, and live happily ever after. But... stuff tends to get in the way, doesn't it?  In this episode, we discuss the most common r...

New to the show? Start Here + Listening Paths: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-here Martina could use a hand with eating less sugar. She keeps trying to avoid sugar during the week, and permit it on the weekend, but consistently finds she doesn't actually make it to the weekend. On top of that issue she's feeling "like a loser" for not having solved this problem already. In t...