The Body Love Binge - Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast

What do you think will be different once you “lose the weight”? Will you be more loved? More liked? More popular? Take a second and actually answer this for yourself… Now, how would you feel if you lost weight and those things didn’t happen? What if you lost weight and your life didn’t get better — instead, it got worse? I think it’s really important to prepare yourself for the negative emotions t...

Ever wondered why you can't stop yourself from inhaling your favourite food the second you taste it? Desperately wish you could just quit sugar like Nancy from Instagram?  Then listen to this podcast! Get your free-5 day course to food and body freedom at www.victoriakleinsman.com 

“Overeating is always an attempt to care for yourself.” -Geneen Roth These words hit home during a global pandemic. When everything is interrupted and replaced by anxiety (and way too much time indoors), emotional eating is practically guaranteed to occur. But we can weather the storm together. Each time you want to eat when you’re not hungry, first recognize that you’re trying to care for yoursel...

If you’re reeeally bored right now or feeling more edgy than normal, you’re not alone. And if you want to eat when you’re not hungry more often, then oh baby, you’re DEFINITELY not alone. A pandemic + quarantine lock-down would do that to pretty much anyone. And last week my inbox was flooded with questions about eating when you’re bored and what to do about it. To help you out, I have 3 tools you...

Are You An Emotional Eater? Do you eat to feel better or relieve stress? Do you eat because eating that bowl of ice cream is the highlight of your day? Do you eat when you are happy to exaggerate that happy feeling? Do you eat when you are sad or pissed off to comfort yourself? Do you eat when you're not hungry? If you answered yes to any of the above then you’re most likely an emotional eater, we...

Coronavirus... It's real.  But what can we actually DO to stay positive during these uncertain times? I will share with you 6 tips to help you feel better... If this helps you please share as it will help others.

Immediately after a binge, you’re probably pretty hard on yourself. You might say mean things to yourself like, “Why do I always do this?! I’m so weak! I never do anything right.” This is the opposite of ideal recovery behaviour after a binge. Further shaming yourself only pushes you deeper in the hole. So, what if, instead of beating down on yourself, see if you can — just for a second — have som...

A follower once sent me a message that went something like this: "Victoria, I love the idea of what you teach and I think that you're really onto something with the whole needing to make peace with your body before you can lose weight. But seriously, let's be real. I am overweight, I feel uncomfortable in my body and it's absolutely ridiculous to completely let go of the desire to lose weight. I w...

I want to start off by telling you a little story about a woman who struggled with orthorexia. For those that don’t know, orthorexia refers to anxious-obsessive behaviour over “clean eating.” It’s another form of food-obsession, but it’s masked by a fixation on healthy clean foods. During her darkest hour, she was doing two workouts per day which included strenuous activities like long-distance ru...

Let's rewind 3 years and go back to a day where I was trying on clothes in a changing room with unforgiving florescent lighting. The mirrors had a clever (or horrible) positioning so that you could see every angle of your body including the back and sides. I could see every ripple of cellulite and every bulge of fat from the pressure of my bra and pants as I stood there. I loathed what I saw....

Now that you know how to give up dieting, it’s time to prepare for what happens after you make the decision. Here’s the honest truth from personal experience: When you first stop dieting, things get really dark for a bit, and then they get really freaking awesome. First, life completely falls apart — to be completely honest — but if you stay committed, you emerge like a phoenix: mostly free from f...

The most important step to healing your relationship with food is to stop dieting! This is the least popular part but unfortunately you can't skip it no matter how advanced you feel, don't make the mistake of thinking you can apply all the other advice I give about intuitive eating and making food choices from a place of love instead of restriction but skip the not dieting part because it won't wo...

I get it – ‘Quitting sugar’ is simpler than ‘eat everything in moderation’. (ok, next joke!) You follow rules. You have a list of foods to avoid. You don’t have to think. And it makes you feel trendy. But that’s a diet. And diets don’t work. Do you know how I became the healthiest I have ever been mentally, physically and spiritually?? Not by quitting sugar or ‘eating clean’. But by: Completely sh...

Unlike diets, which are full of rigid rules that prevent you from listening to your body, these guidelines promote the opposite: They help you honour your body so that you can get over the exhausting struggle with weight loss and food obsession.  Dieting doesn’t work, plain and simple.  The restriction always leads to binges, and food rules only push you further into your head. In order...

Chloe Cordero has blown me away with what she has been through and how she has come out the other side strong, full of faith and supreme wisdom. She has devoted her life to serving others so that they can heal past trauma, remove blocks and truly step into the powerful infinite beings that they are. . We have a complete intuitive conversation that leads us to talk about, childhood trauma, sexual,...

Do you feel constantly hopeless and weak, like you wonder why all those years ago you nailed dieting but now you can't even diet for a couple of days without face planting ice cream...? Are you sick and tired and starting again on Monday? We all know diets aren't the answer, but what is? How can we feel free around food and not hold all our self worth in our body image? In this video, I talk about...

Halfway through a kg bag of Peanut m&ms, I’m pissed at myself… because I just know that I’ll eat the whole bag. I feel out of control. I literally can’t stop eating. Binge eating like this was practically my norm during my Dieting Days. I would be a “good” little calorie-counter all day, only to find myself in the kitchen at night compulsively shovelling food into my face. At the time, I thoug...

Have you ever overeaten because you didn’t want to waste food or money? Perhaps you spent €20 on a meal and felt like you’d be a sucker if you didn’t finish your plate… (as if taking it to-go wasn’t an option). Or maybe you can’t take it to-go (for whatever reason) and you feel like it’s disrespectful to waste food (for whatever reason). I get it — these are HARD psychological blocks to overe...

Self-love can help you develop the courage and compassion necessary for ultimate health and wellness. The big problem is that self-love can feel inaccessible for those in the grips of binge eating, body dysmorphia, self-loathing, and self-sabotage. So today I want to talk about how self-love can help you achieve your natural weight. I’ll explain how it works, then provide practices for you to begi...

What is motivation? Motivation is a reason for acting or behaving a certain way. How do we stay motivated toward our goals when it's the last thing we feel like doing? Listen to find out where you're going wrong with motivation and how to become so motivated that the only option left is to achieve your goals and desires!

What is the difference between dieting and healthy behaviours? (And why does it matter so much?) How many diets have you done? How many times have you restricted food groups in order to lose weight? How many times have you declined a cookie with, No thanks, I'm trying to be good? If your anything like me, your answer will be too many times to remember! What I have come to learn on my journey to fo...

The truth about self-sabotage (and how to stop!) “I exercised this morning, so I’ve earned this pizza.” "I’m stressed out after a rough day, and chocolate helps me relax.” "I can treat myself. It’s the weekend, and I ate healthy all week.” Sound familiar? In the time I've coached people to stop binge eating and find their healthiest weight, I’ve heard countless clients say, “I’d be able to reach m...

What do you wish you could change in your life right now?  Why haven't you been able to make these wanted changes into reality yet?  What do you think you need to do in order to make the changes you desire?  What is in your way of change? The answer to this question is very simple: nothing!  Change is possible for everyone, even you! You know that binge eating that you just wis...

Elena Kunicki - the Intuitive Eating Queen! I chat with this amazing inspirational young lady about her struggles with food and body image as a young adult and how she overcame it to become who she is today. She is an expert in intuitive eating and showing you how to break up with binge eating! I Loved speaking to her and I just know your going to love listening to our conversation ❤️! Enjoy ... F...

Ever noticed that you find it easier to be compassionate and gentle towards someone else other than towards yourself? What is it with that...? Well, you know that little voice that lives in there with you... Ya know, the one that always has a lot to say... The one that is a bitch to you most of the time...? Well, this is the main reason why you find it so difficult to show yourself compassion. Bec...