How To Overcome Your Urges in 3 Steps

In this episode, we’re talking about exhaustion urges: urges to binge, graze, order food, snack compulsively, or keep eating when your system is depleted and food starts to look like the fastest available relief.Instead of focusing mostly on what to do once you’re already too exh ... Show More

In this episode, we’re looking at restriction urges: the urges that say, “Get it while you can.” These urges are often not just about hunger or cravings. They are scarcity alarms. Sometimes the scarcity is physical, like not eating enough or going too long without food. Sometimes ... Show More

Bingeing can be painful and costly, but it often persists because it is doing a job.Not working because it is harmless or because you want to keep doing it, but because it may have been doing something important for you. Bingeing may provide relief, comfort, rest, numbness, pleas ... Show More

<p>Do you ever feel an urge to binge and try to talk yourself out of bingeing? Sometimes it might work but, sometimes it might not. This episode is about the times it doesn't.</p> <p> </p> <p>I'm going to give you a couple tips for what you can do to stop yourself from giving in ... Show More

<p>When you feel an urge to binge eat, you might give in it to right away, or you try to resist it for awhile but, at some point the binge happens. It might seem like these are your only options. But, they're not.</p> <p> </p> <p>In this episode, I'll be showing how you can get t ... Show More

<p>When you're working on stopping binge eating, binges will likely happen. You're probably not going to stop right away because you need to create new habits and practice new things. So when those binges happen, how you respond to them matters.</p> <p> </p> <p>In today's episode ... Show More

<p>In this last part about eating urges and shenpa, I share this age-old technique for dealing with urges that cause overeating. The next time you have urge to overeat, try these 3 steps to help you eating urges and stop overeating: Acknowledge you're hooked (or have an urge.) Pa ... Show More

<p>Once you're feeling an urge to binge, you have a choice to make. In this episode, I'm showing you what they are and which ones will reliably make your urge go away. If you haven't guessed, one of them will be feeling the urge. So I'll also be talking about why you'll want to c ... Show More

In this episode, I’m going to talk about some of the subtleties that can keep binge eating going. You might have already made some substantial progress in addressing binge eating but you feel frustrated that you have moments of slipping back and wondering how on earth it happened ... Show More

<p>It can be frustrating to try and stop yourself from binge eating but then not do it. You may think you're doing it wrong and not making progress. But, you may be wrong.</p> <p> </p> <p>In this episode, I'm talking about what progress usually looks like when you're going throug ... Show More

In this episode, you’ll learn to avoid acting on urges to binge, by using what you’ve learned so far in the previous 3 Components of Dismissing Urges (which were taught in the previous 3 episodes). Kathryn and Cookie will discuss how you can manage any discomfort you have when yo ... Show More

<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