Thanksgiving can be a nightmare for anyone dealing with binge eating, bulimia or other compulsive eating issues. For many people, being around the stress of family coupled with giant amounts of food can be a recipe for acting out excessively with food. Be prepared before you go to Thanksgiving Dinner. 1.)Have an intention around food […]
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This one comes to us from a reader in Vermont. Question: I am a junior in college and struggled with bulimia last semester. It got pretty bad but over the holidays I was able to recover and am now doing much better. However, now that I am back at school, I am finding it difficult
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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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Sometimes, a binge can be a way to hold tightly onto very uncomfortable emotions; like fear, like depression, like pain, like sadness, like anxiety… Sometimes, when a feeling begins to show through, the instinct would be to push it down tightly by eating and making the feeling go away. Unfortunately, this is temporary. Very temporary.
Month after month, my clients come in after suffering miserably for the whole week before their periods, wishing they could take back the previous week, having binged the whole week before. What is it about PMS that makes us so bingey? I can’t tell you that I know what makes us get to the point
I can’t tell you that I fully understand anxiety. I’m not sure why some people are controlled by their anxiety and some people are fully able integrate life into their day-to-day without being ruled by anxiety. Anxiety is fear on caffeine pills. Often times, binges come out of anxiety. The flood of seratonin that you