In today's episode I'm talking about emotions and binging. Usually when people focus on wanting to end binging and overeating - they just focus on the food. There are thoughts, feelings and emotions that can drive binging, and today we are diving into the 3 most common ones together. This will help you recognize when these emotions strike and how to focus o ... Show More
Jul 7
When Everything's Going Right and You Binge Anyway
Ever hit a good stretch, everything's finally clicking, and then out of nowhere you binge for no reason at all? You're not broken. Your brain might just be waiting for the other shoe to drop.I'm back after a few weeks off (school's out, life got loud, more on that in the episode) ... Show More
14m 55s
Aug 2022
5 Ways Towards Understanding and Interrupting your Binge Eating
<p>This episode is about binge eating - a behaviour that can be seen across all the eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and OSFED). I see a binge as an end point coping strategy, following a series of cumulative triggers, which are often out ... Show More
44m 19s
Jul 2023
Ep #259: Describing Urges and Emotions
<p>Being willing to feel urges and emotions is an important part of stoping binge eating. Most people don't want to do it though because they seem too scary, painful, intolerable, or unbearable. If that's you too, then this episode is for you.</p> <p> </p> <p>I'm going to help yo ... Show More
11m 22s
Jan 2016
Episode 1: The Difference Between Emotional Eating, Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating
Welcome to the first episode of the Weight Loss Made Real Podcast!
Today we're talking about the difference between emotional eating, binge eating and compulsive overeating.
Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode:
Get clear on the difference between emotional eating, binge eati ... Show More
21m 46s
Jan 2023
Emotional Eating: How to Stop Using Food to Numb Out
When you experience negative emotions, is your first reaction to reach for food? What about positive emotions? In this week's episode, we cover emotional eating, why it's working against you to demonize it, discuss some techniques and different coping skills that you can begin to ... Show More
27m 30s
Sep 2024
Ep #320: How to Build Emotional Endurance
<p>Do you eat as soon as you feel an uncomfortable emotion? Or do you feel it for awhile, but then decide you're done with feeling and you eat to distract from it, numb it, or avoid it?</p> <p> </p> <p>Now imagine that you were able to just feel the emotion, for as long as it was ... Show More
8m 29s
May 2022
Ep #197: Why You Still Feel Urges to Binge Eat
<p>If you've been working on stopping binge eating for a long time and are still feeling urges, it's time to figure out why you are. If you're going to decrease the amount you feel, you gotta know why you're feeling them before you come up with a solution. In this episode, I'm sh ... Show More
10m 3s
Apr 2025
5 Emotions that Drive Binge Eating
<p>Binge eating is not simply scoffing an extra biscuit, with your morning coffee break. Instead, it involves eating fast, an extremely large amount of food (more than you would eat for lunch or dinner), and usually in secret. It can feel like a dissociative or ‘out of body’ expe ... Show More
19m 37s