Ever feel like food is your best friend and worst enemy? No matter how hard you try, you end up wondering: Why can’t I stop eating? In reality, it’s not really about the food—it’s about why you’re eating, not what you’re eating. In this blog, we’ll explore how deprivation fuels binge eating, why being kinder to yourself matters, and what …
Do you ever plow through an entire family sized bag of chips or order an extra-large pizza and wonder why you can’t control your eating? You likely feel frustrated, blaming yourself for the food choices. It’s easy to think the problem is binge eating. But what if binge eating isn’t the problem at all? What if it’s actually the solution …
As a psychoanalyst specializing in eating disorders, I’ve heard countless stories about the misguided and often harmful advice people receive about binge eating solutions. The impact of this advice can be profound, leaving people feeling misunderstood and unsupported. To shed light on this issue, I asked my Facebook group to share the worst advice they’ve been given. The responses were …
If you’re struggling with emotional eating or binge eating, you’ve probably experienced this: You start a new diet or healthy eating plan with the best of intentions, only to find yourself elbow-deep in a bag of chips a few days later. Or maybe you make progress for a while, but then you stop being healthy and start turning to food …
Binge eating can leave you feeling overwhelmed, guilty, and out of control. After a binge, it’s easy to fall into self-criticism and despair, which is all too often followed by more binge eating. It is possible to break that vicious cycle. Whether you’re dealing with this for the first time or it’s an ongoing struggle, knowing what to do after …
Have you ever had thoughts like this? “I’ll be happy when I lose weight.” “When I stop binging, I’ll be happy.” As an emotional eating therapist, I have heard that many times. Actually, the opposite is true: when we’re happy, we tend to lose weight and/or stop binge eating. So, consider what’s stopping you from feeling happy. Are you yearning …
Gina’s day started off strong. She had a healthy breakfast, worked out during lunch, and felt good about sticking to her wellness goals. But as the work piled up and her inbox overflowed, she felt the stress mounting. By mid-afternoon she felt overwhelmed and upset, and found herself standing in front of the fridge eating leftover banana bread. She felt …
Uncovering the “signs of emotional eating” can be a journey of self-discovery. It’s like peeling back the layers of an onion, each one revealing something new about our relationship with food and emotions. Many of us have had moments of diving into a pint of ice cream after a stressful day. But when this becomes a habitual response, rather than …
Does this sound familiar to you? You get into a huge argument with your partner or are rushing to complete a very important deadline… Before you know it, you’re grabbing that pint of ice cream or box of leftover pizza in the fridge. And before you know it, that pint of ice cream is gone. Every slice of pizza is …
Do you strive to be flawless, set extremely high standards for yourself, and often criticize yourself? If the answer is yes, maybe you’re a perfectionist. Perfectionism is that constant drive to be flawless and avoid failure at all costs. It creates impossibly high standards which leads to harsh self-criticism when we inevitably fall short (as all humans do). For those …
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