Food is consistent, right? You have a bad day, you reach for a cookie, you just got dumped, you reach for ice cream, you’re grumpy and have a headache, you soothe yourself with some chips and salsa, you’re lonely, you order a pizza. Food can be soothing and comforting and help you find peace quickly. […]
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This question comes from a reader in North Carolina. Question: Please help me, every night I binge. It’s not that I want to, I just can’t sleep unless I do. I sit there in bed, tossing and turning, and I can resist for hours, but I still won’t sleep. I can usually make it till
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Question: Submitted via email by Diane from New Mexico Hello, I am 26, female, 5’7″ and weigh 180lbs. I would like to be between 150-160. I am very active but struggle with Binge Eating at night. Sometimes I throw it up when I’ve really lost control. I am so distraught at the thought of living
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In the last post, I talked about the holidays, but here I want to focus specifically on the office Holiday Party. This can be particularly triggering for many people. And for many people who suffer from binge eating and social anxiety, the holiday party is an anxiety provoking nightmare. And when you suffer from binge
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Question: Submitted via email by Isa in Loma Linda, CA I’m leaving for Vermont to visit my parents for Thanksgiving. Unfortunately I have a four hour layover in O’Hare and I’m really scared. Layovers are usually a time when I go from Cinnabon to Pizza Hut to McDonalds to Chilis to Starbucks and eat several
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Question: Submitted via email from Rachel in Wilmington, NC Sometimes I’m not sure if I’m actually bingeing. How do I know if a binge is really a binge? Last night I thought that I had binged. I ate two apples and two slices of toast after dinner. I was furious with myself, but my husband
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There are times when you will be about to binge or trying to convince yourself that you won’t binge if you just let yourself have this one thing that has historically been a trigger food. Stop. Before you do anything, ask yourself, “am I hungry?” If you are, let yourself eat a protein dense food.
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Fritz Perls, who developed Gestalt Therapy, encouraged us to understand the way we eat as a metaphor for the way we live. At your next meal, watch yourself eat. Do it without judgment and without trying to change anything, just watch. It can be enlightening to draw some parallels around how you eat and how
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As I mentioned in my last post, stress eating is a result of one of two things. 1.) You have no control over the outcome of something, such as getting laid off or dealing with someone else’s reaction to something you said or did. 2.)You do have control over something, such as paying your bills
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If you give a normal person a list of five things to do, they will get started with the first thing on their list. If you give a stress eater a list with five things to do, they will get started by running to the refrigerator. Eating becomes a way to deal with procrastination, fatigue,
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