Binge Eating Therapy

Intermittent Fasting and Binge Eating

Intermittent Fasting and Binge Eating

Intermittent Fasting:  The newest  old thing with a fancy name.  I have been getting lots of emails recently asking me if Intermittent Fasting is helpful for people with Binge Eating Issues. I have lots of thoughts, but I want to start by telling you about my early experiences with IF.  The very first time I learned about intermittent fasting was in 1985. I was in 5th grade and my best friend’s upstairs neighbor, who was in 6th grade had lost 13 pounds

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December Without Bingeing Day 17

Get Through December Without Bingeing Day 17

We are getting closer and closer to the big holidays and people are drinking more and more, eating more and more and partying a lot. Todays Tip Don’t shame yourself. If you “mess up” if you eat too much, drink too much, stay out too late, don’t sleep enough… whatever it is, remember that you feel bad enough already and the last thing that you need is guilt and shame. What you need is self love, self care and the

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Cookie Exchanges

Get Through December Day Four- All Those Cookie Exchanges

  I hope you had a fantastic weekend and a great Monday yesterday. My weekend was great. We have an annual Latke party. I’ve been doing this for 17 years! Since before I got married and had children even. It’s evolved over the years– it used to be a nighttime event with just adults on a weekend, but now we rent a bounce house every year, have a bunch of neighborhood teens in the backyard to watch the children, it’s

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Get Through December Without Bingeing – Day Three

you may not know your tolerance yet and things could easily go wrong. Don’t drink on an empty stomach make sure to eat food first because as you likely know, when you drink on an empty stomach you start metabolizing it very quickly and you get drunk fast. Eat first.

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Get Through December Without Bingeing – Day Two

Let’s STOP this scenario before it starts. First thing first. You wandered into the kitchen out of habit and unsureness about what you needed. Maybe you were hungry, maybe you were bored, you were certainly in need of a break. But you automatically gravitated to the kitchen.

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Get Through December Without Binge Eating – Day One

Thanksgiving is over and Winter is here! Hopefully you enjoyed your holiday and it went well. The Fall is very difficult for people with disordered eating issues. Halloween brings candy with it all over the place, Thanksgiving brings family drama, mashed potatoes and phantom urges, and then there is December. December is the worst! There are constant parties, constant drinking, there are cookie swaps, latke feasts, gift baskets full of peppermint brownies sent to the office every minute, baked goods

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Stop Hating Your Body

How to Stop Hating Your Body

My mother was a skinny woman, with a tiny body ribs and shoulder bones that stuck out everywhere, a 23 inch waist and big ass Kardashian thighs and booty. But this was not 2018 when tiny waists and giant booties are all the rage.

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5 Ways to Change Your Environment for Binge Eating Recovery

5 Ways to Change Your Environment for Binge Eating Recovery

I really love bugs. I don’t know what it is about them. I just find them fascinating. When I was a little girl, I used to collect them. I know. Gross. But I was a big nerd — so there you go. Anyway, one dusk in late spring, my Mom and I went to a park down the street from our building so that I could watch the fireflies. I caught several, brought them home in a mason jar with leaves

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Thunder Thighs and Other “Problem Areas”

Thunder Thighs and Other “Problem Areas”

Many years ago, when my cousin had her first baby, her husband, as he held this gorgeous nine month old baby, squeezed on of her plump little thighs and said, “I can already see that this is going to be a problem area for her, we’re going to have to watch that…” (don’t worry,  my cousin divorced him). Problem area. I asked him what he meant by “problem area,” he said, “her thighs are fat, and they’re going to be a

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Vegan Helpful For Binge Eating Disorder

Is Going Vegan Helpful For Binge Eating Disorder?

It’s not Friday! But I’m doing my Q & A today anyway because this was an important one.  This is a topic that I’ve been avoiding since I’ve been blogging (10+ years on this site). Why have I been avoiding it? Because it’s so emotionally charged and so controversial and I didn’t want to isolate anyone. However, I’ve been getting many, many emails and comments about this topic lately so I realized that it was time for me to tell

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Eating Disorder Help

How to Use Mindful Self Compassion to Help Binge Eating Disorder

Being human is one of the most difficult ways to be born. Really, it sucks. Each day we are presented with a myriad of feelings that vary from elation to downright painful. And really difficult things happen. Houses get set on fire, mass shootings happens, people get attacked, violated… and to a less degree, our feelings get hurt, we embarrass ourselves, we fart  in public, we get drunk and act stupid, we start fights with our wives and husbands for

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Gastric Bypass Surgery

My Best Friend is Getting Gastric Bypass Surgery

​ I have noticed a lot of talk in the Facebook groups about WLS (weight loss surgery). Some have had it, some regret it, some are considering it, and some are vehemently against it. I have been asked to weigh in on my feelings about WLS, so rather than answer you all individually, I thought it was important to tell you about one of my closest friends in the world… Eloise. Her real name is not Eloise, but in my head

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Eating Disorders Protect You from Thinking Too Much

Eating Disorders Protect You from Thinking Too Much

I have this brilliant client. Let’s call her Megan. Megan is brilliant. She comes in and waxes poetic about politics, philosophy, relationships, ethics, medicine… Really anything. She has a lot on her mind and needs to talk through it. I love to listen to her and I love to hear her thoughts and her ideas on life and the world around her.  But Megan’s big brain tortures her. It keeps her awake at night. It keeps her stuck and paralyzed and

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How Did I Gain 7 Pounds Overnight?

How Did I Gain 7 Pounds Overnight?

I Gained Seven Pounds. Oh Sh*t At the gym the other morning, I saw a  young woman hop on the scale, move the weights to a place that apparently she did not like and immediately burst out crying. I was heading toward her to see if she was okay but another woman ran over to her and said, “what’s the matter? are you okay?”  “NO!!!!” She screamed! “I gained seven pounds! SEVEN pounds! Overnight! How did that happen? I’ve been so

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Creme Eggs

Bingeing on Creme Eggs

It was one of my mother’s ex-boyfriends who introduced me to Cadbury Creme eggs. I was seven years old and I was quickly hooked. Never had my mother let me eat anything that was so…. “junky!” as she would say. Nevertheless, he persisted — he kept talking to my Mom about “how can a child possibly get through childhood without eating creme eggs in the Spring?  You can’t just keep giving her carob covered rice cakes and let her think

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The Most Important Piece of Nutritional Advice You Need

The Most Important Piece of Nutritional Advice You Need

There are a lot of “nutrition experts” out there. Everyone fancies themselves a nutrition guru. I see these folks all over the Internet, amateur nutritionologists- they give weight loss advice, they tell people what to include in their diets and what they should absolutely NEVER eat. But here’s the thing. They’re not really nutrition experts. I’m sure that many of them have read everything they possibly can on the Internet about nutrition, I’m sure that they are avid readers and

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Stop My Urge To Binge Eat?

Q & A Friday- How Do I Stop My Urge To Binge Eat?

The Urge To Binge Is Making Me Crazy Dear Leora,  I’m so overwhelmed by my urges to binge. How can I stop them? *The urge to binge eat doesn’t have to dictate your behaviors.  Hi Jessica, That’s a really good question. In recovery, we don’t really “stop” urges, learn how to react differently to them. In addiction, when you have an urge or a craving, you believe that you have to act on that urge or craving. However, when you learn

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