Compulsive Overeating Diary

We celebrate Halloween with scary tales, tricks, special music and other surprises. Mark returns as our annual Ghost Host to intro all of the fun. Cheryl and Suz's comment conversation on day 79 about how it feels when people comment on our weight loss, inspires Laurie to ponder how she feels about that scary topic and to ask all of the BCs to post their feelings too. Halloween special segments include an opening Halloween greeting by Dawny, a true-life ghost story written by Cheryl, Music from Suz and Laurie's voice acting friend, Max, reads the Legend of Stingy Jack, a story Cheryl sent in about how the tradition to carve Jack O' Lanterns began. Mark writes and narrates this year's spooky campfire tale. Halloween songs by Apache Tomcat and TinyFolk.

Where does using personal effort and energy best serve your life? Laurie decides it makes the most sense for her personal energy to let the live YMCA group and the Sparkpeople team go due to lack of likely participation. Laurie muses about various social media outlets and which ones she actually uses more often than others and why. Thanks to an Amazon shopper for using Compulsive Overeating Diary's link prior to an amazing purchase! New Episode and Blog Post index pages take the place of the broken episode widget. Suz and Cheryl have submitted their Halloween fun. Send your audio or written Halloween items in! Welcome to Lauren from Down Under, a friend of Amy from Australia. Featured comments supporting Corinna from Dawny and Suz. Thanks to others who took the time to post. Cheryl is not only the first BC to put herself on our new Bravery Report page, she's also on the bravery report for her brave and heartfelt writing dedicated to BCs on her blog, Wellsprings and Dragonfly Wings. Stéfanie from Quebec gives us words to ponder about how literal are we with what we say.

Procrastination can delay more than your chores. It can put your entire life on hold and kill your dreams. Corinna, from the live YMCA support group, is on the bravery report for recording her thoughts after their first meeting. The YMCA group will continue on and we have an actual bravery report now! We also have a show audio archive again. Featured comments by Rachel about perfectionism, Amy from Australia about Laurie's weight photos, Suz about supporting Amy from WI and Laurie, Cheryl about knowing when to give up an activity without guilt, and Sue from the U.K. about the value of persistence. Laurie shares her latest singing adventure as well as her voice acting report card results.

Giving up too easily can be an automatic response and a terrible dream-destroying habit. A special shout-out to Heung, a lady Laurie met hiking after recording last episode. Hear clips from Laurie's latest voice acting class with her scene partners Len and Matt and learn why she's so glad she didn't give up after last week's snafu. Welcome to new brave companions Joe, who posted on day 1, and Kelly who shares her story and tells about her new healthy eating blog. Thanks to the latest Coffee Klatch subscriber and Laurie shares why it touches her so much, ala Sally Field's famous best actress win quote. Alen Standish releases their second interview on his show, Progress Not Perfection, and thanks to Cheryl's great idea, Laurie interviews him back for one of her future shows. Hear about Laurie's ongoing YMCA live support group and how the first meeting went. Amy from Wisconsin calls the bravery hotline about her stumbles with intuitive eating and how she refocuses. Featured comments from Suz, Cheryl and Stéfanie about negativity, bravery and creativity. Send in some fun Halloween audio or stories if you'd like a special Halloween episode.

Letting go of inappropriate levels of devastation is today's topic as Laurie shares a cringe-worthy story from her latest voice acting class despite encouragement by Sue from the UK and Jackie on Facebook. Thanks to Sofia and Courtney for their 5 star iTunes reviews and to Suz for being an Amazon book shopper through the show link. The live support group starts tomorrow! Greetings and welcome to new brave companions June, who found us on the Natural News, and to Amy who is sharing our show with a group of ladies in Australia! Foolish Fun is a musical extravaganza featuring Suz's piano rendition of a song that really surprised Laurie. Long-time listener and one of the very first brave companions, Jenny, steps on the bravery report for stepping off the scale and into her new life. Supportive and brave comments are featured by Marquita, Stéfanie, Suz, Amy from WI. and Rachel

Laurie's freaked out and asks for help sharing the details of the upcoming free support group she's facilitating at the YMCA. She also ponders possible childhood reasons of why she always feel that nobody will EVER come to her party. Marquita and Amy from Ohio call the bravery hotline with their reactions to Day 78's bravery tip

How can we let go of our false selves and learn to express who we are? Welcome to new BC Rachel who recommends a new podcast for us to check out. Now available, a certificate of completion for Brave Companions who have listened or binge-listened, all the way through the episodes so far! Laurie announces her upcoming live support group - details to come. Touching letters from two new brave companions on the bravery report, María from a Spanish speaking country and Amy from Ohio. Courtney, another new brave companion is on the bravery report a record three times in one day! Once for her bravery hotline call, once for her comment on day 4 and once for posting her story on Who are the Brave Companions? Dawny also calls the bravery hotline with an update about her vacation, how she's doing with intuitive eating and what SHE's bravely giving up today! Featured comments by Stéfanie from Quebec and Amy from Wisconsin. Laurie also reveals her secret binge behavior these days. Courtney ends the show by making Laurie LOL!

Laurie rushes down to the park to squeeze in a bonus walk and talk before she and Mark leave for a memorial service. Laurie ponders how to stop letting what others say or think about her, or what Laurie THINKS they think of her, determine her mood. Josh's album, The Simple Life, which contains Laurie's theme song, I'm Letting Go, is the resource of the day. Quick shout-outs to new brave companions, Courtney and Amy from Ohio, who will be featured next episode. Laurie explores how dieting really IS the flip side of her binge eating disorder. Laurie appreciates the new things and relationships in her life now that she has space in place of food obsession. Laurie reveals her inner body fears and how she overcomes them.

When might limiting some kind of food become a free choice rather than an event that triggers diet mentality? Mark and I go bike riding on the LA River Bike Path. Mark gives his monthly unbiased report on my progress. I'm excited by my voice acting teacher's comments on my last take. Marquita and Stéfanie have their comments featured.

Why does Laurie always want to isolate and what can she do about it? Alen recommends via text a great movie that's on Netflix about voice acting and Laurie wonders if we shouldn't share cool movies and books on the show? Besides supporting the show financially with cups of coffee you can also support it with likes, reviews and ratings so new brave companions can find us. Stéfanie from Quebec supports us with her comments on Day 74. Laurie gets encouragement for her singing and acting with comments from Sandy, Cheryl and Stéfanie. Fionna calls the bravery hotline with her opinion. Helen cheers Laurie up with another joke on Foolish Fun. As an experiment, Dawny and Laurie Skype about Intuitive Eating.