The Stop Binge Eating Podcast

What do you imagine your life without binge eating to look like? Do you get excited when you think about it or a bit apprehensive? There's lots of unknowns about that life so it would make sense if there was some fear and concern about it. But if you allow yourself to continually be in fear, then you will resist the change. You will stay in what's familiar.   In this episode, I'm talking about why...

Your belief is the most important thing. If you don't believe you can stop binge eating, you won't be able to. The problem most people fall into is they want proof that they'll be able to do it before they believe it. But this isn't how life works, you must believe first.   In this milestone episode, I'm talking about why it's so important to believe in your capabilities and how you can find that...

It's not fun to feel discouraged. A mistake, fail, or misstep happens and discouragement stops you in your tracks and prevents you from taking action to move forward.   If you want to keep going, you have to overcome your discouragement. You have to understand why you're feeling it and what you need to do to not let it stop you. When you work toward a big goal, it's going to come up. Listen to thi...

Restricting is a bad thing to do when you binge eat, right? Well, sometimes, sometimes not. Not all restricting is the same and your intention behind it is everything.   In this episode, I'm breaking down the two types of restriction – beneficial and detrimental. I'm sure you're familiar with the detrimental one and now it's time to gain a little perspective for how restriction can actually be a g...

It can be easier to achieve goals if someone is holding you accountable. But what if no one is there to help you? Then what? It's all on you.   In this episode, I'm talking about how you can hold yourself accountable and why it's important to do it even when you do have someone helping you. This may just open your eyes to the truth about being held accountable and what it really means.   Intereste...

When it comes time for a vacation, does your concern about eating during it take away from some of the excitement and joy you're supposed to be feeling? So many questions come up about what's going to happen and you freak out because you always end up binge eating, overeating, or gaining weight every time you go on a vacation.   This time can be different. With some understanding of what's happene...

It probably makes sense to you to label yourself as a binge eater. You do binge eat, right? But here's the question to consider: does it serve you to label yourself that way? Whether it's true or not that you binge eat, how you label yourself is a choice and it's one that will cause you to feel a certain way about yourself. What you think about what you do matters. In this episode, I'm showing you...

How many times have you binged or even overate because you were tired? You stop caring, stop trying, want to feel better, or are looking for energy. Eating ends up being the go-to action in those moments. In this episode, I'm talking about using food as a solution for tiredness and what to do instead of eating. Sleeping isn't always an option, so what are you supposed to do? Listen in to find out....

When you're consistently binge eating, weight gain tends to happen. Maybe it's continual gain, or maybe it's fluctuations up and down. Either way, along with the weight comes shame, embarrassment, and disappointment. In this episode, I'm not only talking about how to handle these times when you gain weight, but also how to handle what other think or say about it too. There is so much concern about...

Do you ever eating while your procrastinate? What is it that you're trying to avoid doing when you do that? It's most likely something you don't feel like doing or have some kind of feeling attached to it when you think about doing it or when you think about the possibility of it bringing a negative outcome. Procrastination is all about delaying and avoiding and if you're eating to procrastinate t...

Throughout our lives we are taught to believe many things. Sometimes it's done directly and sometimes indirectly. You're taught what to think about eating, food, your body, and yourself and if you're not careful, you're going to instill some negative beliefs about these things and beliefs that will not serve you well in your life. In this episode, I'm talking about the importance of purposefully c...

How strong is your relationship with yourself? Is it good? Great? Terrible? Does it even matter? Yes! Yes it does. In this episode, I'm showing you why it matters if you have a good relationship with yourself and what happens if you don't. I'll also give you some questions to ask so you can determine how good it really is. Having a good relationship is an important foundation to have when trying t...

Do you ever stop to consider what your future self would want you to do when you're making an eating decision? Most people who binge eat don't and they end up just doing whatever feels good in the moment. In this episode, I'm talking about the concept of your future self, why it's important to consider them, and how to access your own inner wisdom so you end up doing what you really want to do. Yo...

Why do you keep giving up on yourself even though you want to stop binge eating so badly? It can be quite a mystery and I'm going to solve it for you in this episode! I'm sharing with you the top 5 reasons why people give up and also what you need to do in order to overcome these reasons. You have it in you to keep going, you just need to know what you have to do and what you have to go through to...

You know what you should and shouldn't do, but are you following that? It's so common for people, my former self included, to be in midst of a binge and thinking, "I shouldn't be doing this" yet they still keep eating. In this episode, I'm talking about "shoulding," why it's not an effective think to think about, and what to think about instead so you'll actually do what you want to be doing.

Are you waiting to feel confident that you can stop binge eating before you start trying what you've been learning on this podcast? Well stop waiting. It's not going to happen if you don't.   In this episode, I'm showing you why you don't feel confident yet and how you can build it. There's a process to it and it's not a super fun one, but going through it is what will give you that confidence you...

Any time you feel the discomfort of urges or negative emotions, it's really easy to eat and make it go away. But this is a very short term solution and will most likely put you right back in discomfort after you're done whether it be the same thing you tried to avoid in the first place or a whole new slew of post-binge discomfort.   Your search for constant comfort is keeping you stuck in binge ea...

Too many people spend too much time hating their body, or at least disliking them. There's a lot of encouragement for people to love their body but for some people, that just isn't a realistic goal right now. They can't see how they can think about it any differently.   What I'm offering in this episode is a middle ground. A place between hating and loving that will allow you to feel better and th...

Stopping binge eating can be easier if you have support from people around you. But what if you don't have that support? What are you supposed to do when you feel like people are sabotaging you left and right?   In this episode, I'm talking about the ways that people show up as being unsupportive and how you can stop binge eating even when they do. Outside support it awesome, but not necessary if...

You ate off your eating plan, you went over your calorie goal, or you ate more than you said you would. You blew it. You ruined everything.   But did you really?   This way of thinking is an example of being "all or nothing." Either you were good or bad with no in between. It's extremely important to find the gray area in your black or white thinking and in this episode I'm talking about why and h...

Mindlessly eating may seem like a fun, enjoyable, relaxing, or comforting thing to do, but is it really? Yes you get to shut off your mind and eat, but what really happens when you do that? In this episode, I'm showing you what happens.   You don't have to completely focus on your food and nothing else in order to gain the benefits of mindful eating but there are some things you can do to make sur...

How scary is hunger to you? It's uncomfortable and you might think that too much hunger leads to overeating and binge eating. So you avoid it as much as possible so you don't have to feel it.   But it's time you start. In this episode, I'm talking about why it's important to allow yourself to feel hungry and how to do it. I also add in some tips for how you can make your hunger feel less intense....

Imagine what it would be like if you just didn't desire to binge. Or if you didn't desire the foods you binge on. It would be so much easier to not do it. Lucky for us, there is a way to make that happen.   In this episode, I'm breaking down the two ways we create desire and how to lessen the amount we feel. You'll learn exactly what you can do in order to start feeling less desire to binge and le...

There's a lot of talk out there saying that if you want to stop binge eating then you have to stop eating sugar and flour. There's definitely some good reasons why doing this is beneficial, but also some reasons why it's not, and this is episode I'm talking about all of them.   Whether you eliminate sugar and flour from your life is a personal choice and if it's something you want to do, it's a de...

A lot of people blame their lack of willpower when they can't stick with the actions they know they need to take in order to reach a goal. But the lack of willpower isn't the reason why. Willpower actually has nothing to do with long-term goals.   In this episode, I'm teaching why willpower is only a temporary solution and will not get to you stop binge eating for good. I'm also going to show you...