Has binge eating become such a huge part of your life that it feels like it’s who you are?

Have you forgotten what your life was like before the endless cycles of restriction and binges?

Have you been dieting and bingeing for so long that you can’t imagine a future without it?

Are you ready to shed the “old” you, and embrace a newer, happier, healthier version of yourself?

When we’re stuck in long-term habits, we often equate these habits with who we are. We say things like, “I’m a yo-yo dieter” or “I’m a binge eater” or “I’m a food addict.” Maybe you’ve also said, “I’m weak,” or “I’m hopeless” or “I’m fat.” We attach labels to ourselves based on what we do, how we think, and how we feel about ourselves.

A problem arises: when you keep attaching negative labels to yourself that are ultimately the opposite of what you want, it’s a slippery slope into a self-fulling prophecy. For example, the more you tell yourself you’re disgusting, the more disgusting you feel. The more you tell yourself you’re hopeless, the more hopeless you feel.

At the same time, it can feel ridiculous to state empty affirmations like “I’m strong and powerful” when we don’t feel that way. In fact, it can make us feel even worse, because the more we say we’re strong, the more our egos respond with, “No you’re not, you’re weak!”

This episode of the podcast is all about how to start changing your inner dialogue so you can finally release the old habits that don’t serve you, and embrace ones that do. Shahar, our mindset expert, will show you how by changing your habits, you can change your identity.

If binge eating and dieting was truly who you are inside, you would be happy. But it’s not. In reality, it’s holding you back from who you really are. This talk will guide and inspire you to embrace who you really are, without the shadow of disordered eating holding you back from living your life to the fullest.

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You may think your love for food is causing you to binge more, but very few people know you can actually use your love for food to help the binges go away!

In this talk I’ll be sharing how you can use your “big weakness” as a powerful strength!

This talk is for the food lovers who say:

- “I want to stop binge eating … but I’m such a foodie!”

- “I want a healthy relationship with food, but eating is such a big part of my culture!”

- “I want to have control, but I don’t want to give up my favorite foods.”

- “I know I should stop, but it just tastes so good!”

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If you’ve been dieting and following food rules for years and you’re STILL binge eating and feeling out of control around food, this episode of the podcast will help you discover WHY the cycle is still happening, and how to end it for good.

Which of these sound most like you?

- “If I eat whatever I want, I’ll be totally out of control.”

- “I need to have restrictions because of reasons X, Y, and Z, but I STILL binge on foods I shouldn’t eat, even though it’s bad for me.”

- “I want to have a normal relationship with food, but I’m afraid that if I take away restrictions I’ll never stop eating and gain tons of weight.”

- “I don’t trust myself to NOT be on a diet because I need the structure to keep me in control.”

- “Everytime I lose weight, I self-sabotage and undo all my hard work.”

- “I can be good all day, but then I always ruin it with a binge.”

We’ll take time to go through each of these fears, so you can understand how to overcome them long-term and heal your relationship with food without these worries.

If you’re afraid to let go of restrictions for any of these reasons, it’s understandable why these fears exist. But if you want freedom from food rules, then it’s important to understand how to overcome these fears so you can move out of your food prison and into a peaceful relationship with food for good.

In this episode, I’ll also cover WHY you’ve stayed stuck this long, and how to end the cycle so the binges don’t continue. We’ll be sure to look at elements that will affect your relationship with food long-term, so you can make sure you end the binge/restrict cycle permanently.

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This week’s podcast was all about trigger foods! Here’s how to know if it’s for you:

- Do you feel like you can’t be trusted around certain foods?

- Do you avoid certain aisles of the supermarket, social events, or even bringing certain foods into the house to avoid temptation?

- Are you constantly thinking about food (especially specific “forbidden” foods), and worrying about what you will or won't eat? Does food consume a major portion of your brain space?

- Do certain foods "call" to you? If you know they're in the house, do you find yourself constantly thinking about them?

- Do you lock your cabinets … or recruit friends and family to help hide food from you so you won’t eat it?

In this talk, we’ll help you understand WHY all of this is happening, so you understand how certain foods become triggering, and how to stop reinforcing that pattern. We’ll also share a safe, non-restrictive way to handle trigger foods and why it works. Finally, we’ll share how to make yourself “un-triggerable” so you can feel safe and peaceful in any food environment.

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Are you your own worst critic? Are you harder on yourself than anyone else is?

When you’re healing your relationship with food, on a deeper level you’re healing your relationship with yourself. This can be hugely challenging when you’ve spent most of your life beating yourself up for never being or doing quite good enough.

Behavioral science shows us that effective and lasting change occurs when the changes feel good. When we beat ourselves up as we’re trying to make important life changes, it only slows us down and reverses progress.

That’s why this week’s podcast topic is all about building up your self-worth, and releasing your deep-seated negative beliefs about yourself that block you from true healing, and keep you in the cycle of self-sabotage.

We’ve invited Bethany Dotson, trauma-informed yoga therapist and relationship coach to help us with her perspective on self-worth and releasing self-destructive patterns. Bethany is a domestic violence and childhood trauma survivor herself, with over a decade of experience helping professional, high-achieving women heal anxiety, C/PTSD, find their power and skyrocket their confidence after divorce or toxic relationships, communicate better, navigate conflict and most importantly, co-create healthy relationships.

We’ll be drawing from Bethany’s expertise, as well as our food freedom principles to help you better understand how to build up your self-worth, while releasing the negative belief patterns that block you from healing.

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“Screw it. I might as well eat whatever I want now, and start fresh tomorrow.”

Every person who struggles with binge eating knows about this moment … it’s the moment right before the binge where all willpower breaks. No matter how much we care about our goals and try to convince ourselves to walk away and be strong … we give in, and it all falls apart.

Not only that, but after all the dust has settled and we’ve eaten ourselves sick, we wonder WHY we keep doing this to ourselves. We reinforce that feeling of hopelessness. We beat ourselves for having no willpower.

Finally, while we set the intention to start again tomorrow, we know deep down this won’t be the last time we break a promise to ourselves.

We want to use this opportunity to go in depth into that “screw it” moment. In this episode of the podcast, we’re planning to help you gain a deeper understanding of why you keep sabotaging yourself. We’ll also discuss how this can be prevented, and how you can even bounce back and come back stronger than ever.

In this episode of the podcast we’ll cover:

- Why the “screw it” moment happens

- How to prevent the “screw it” moment from happening (without depleting your willpower)

- What you can do when it does happen, so “screw it” moments happen less and less in the future

- What continued healing looks like, as you keep progressing in your food freedom

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This week’s edition of the podcast is all about control … a new type of control.

In the past, you’ve tried to control your food, whether it was portion size, calories, macros, or simply the types of food you allow in the house. In this podcast, we’re going to talk about a different type of personal control that’s far more effective in ending disordered eating.

During our past 4 weeks of podcasts, we’ve covered the most common “invisible” blockages that have kept our clients binge eating for literal decades before they found the path to food freedom.

In Part 1, we talked about the “all or nothing” mentality and self-criticism, and how to overcome them.

In Part 2, Shahar gave a beautiful talk on overcoming hopelessness.

In Part 3, we discussed how to rewire negative thinking.

In Part 4, we talked about weight obsession and the scarcity mentality that causes us to mentally or physically restrict, causing urges to binge.

Now in our final part, Part 5, we’ll talk about the road from victim to victor, and a different type of personal control that we’ve seen to be highly effective in ending disordered eating. (If you’re still struggling with disordered eating, you likely need to overcome this blockage!)

Substituting this one type of control for another has helped our clients make tremendous strides in their path to food freedom, and this practice happens to be one of my (and Shahar’s) biggest natural strengths. We’re looking forward to sharing this mental shift with you, to show you how it can help you on your own journey.

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If you’re trying to change your binge eating behavior without success, chances are, there’s some kind of mental pattern that’s looping you back into the binge cycle.

This week, on the podcast, we’re going to cover two invisible mental patterns that contribute to binge eating more than ANY other patterns we’ve seen: weight obsession and scarcity mentality.

We’ve grouped these two patterns together, because oftentimes, one feeds the other. They’re also BY FAR the most seductive. When I was healing my relationship with food, these two forces pulled me back into my old habits many times. But now that I understand how to handle them, I no longer worry about binge eating … ever!

I’ll share with you how to handle these forces too. I invite you to join me this week to go over these two phenomena, and how you can use your current “stuckness” to your advantage … to get to the next level of your healing!

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Do you find yourself beating yourself up? Telling yourself you’re not good enough? That you’ll always fail? That you’ll always struggle with food? Then this episode of the podcast is for you.

Your brain, your thoughts, and your speech are some of your most valuable tools to shape your reality. But when negative thinking takes the stage, this invisible force can sabotage your progress.

When used properly, your brain and your thoughts are some of your biggest assets to end disordered eating permanently. But if you use your thinking to beat yourself up, you’re setting yourself up for a long journey of pain and frustration.

If disordered eating has been a longtime struggle of yours, your negative thinking may be one of the invisible reasons you keep getting stuck. This talk will cover how to rewire your brain out of negative thinking, into a mindset that can make your journey to food freedom a whole lot faster.

Last week we talked specifically about overcoming hopelessness, and this week we want to zoom out to explore other kinds of negative thinking, and how to rewire your brain out of negative thinking and into productive thinking …  so your journey out of binge eating and into food freedom can be as smooth and painless as possible.

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If you’ve been struggling with disordered eating for most of your life, you likely already know that there’s something deeper going on that you’re not seeing.

My most valuable skill is being able to identify the invisible reasons you keep getting stuck, and to teach you how to become permanently unstuck.

Last week we talked about the all-or-nothing mentality, as well as self-criticism and the guilt/shame cycle.

This week, on the podcast, we’ll focus on the first mindset shift that everyone needs to make when first BEGINNING the journey out of binge eating and into food freedom, and how to do it. This talk is also suitable for people who are well on their way to food freedom, and could use a mindset boost. By shifting this invisible pattern, you’ll be far more likely to succeed, and far less likely to self-sabotage.

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