The Done Bingeing Podcast

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With a sense of the actions you need to take to create a life free from bingeing and full of living, we need to fuel those actions with the emotions that will inspire you to take them. How do we do that? With your thoughts. This episode is a deep dive into new thoughts to shift your focus from taking in food to taking in life. We know what you want to leave behind. And we know where you want to go. Now, let's get you there. Listen in for more details!

I want you to look beyond the end of your bingeing. Why? Because bingeing or overeating may have become an all-consuming drain on your life, a central focus, perhaps even an identity. When it's gone, there may be a hole in its wake. And what then? What will you do and who will you be? A hole that remains after you stop bingeing may have contributed to why you started bingeing in the first place. Start thinking about what will replace this focus in your life so that you don't fill that hole with another pattern that keeps you spinning in a groove you don't want to be in. How can you fulfill that empty part of your life so that you don't just plug it up with a different behavior or a different substance with its own net-negative result? Listen to the episode to find out more!

Everything you create in your life is an indication of your power. Your thoughts cascade into the results you have in your life. And that is amazing news. Why? Because you can choose the thoughts you want to think. So, in this episode, we're breaking down how to think deliberately into four manageable steps: finding out what you're currently thinking, evaluating whether those thoughts are serving you, choosing new thoughts that will serve you (if necessary), and practicing your new thoughts (which is the topic of Episode 19). Listen in for the details!

There's nothing more important than how we feel when it comes to getting what we want and need. Why? Because feelings are the reason why we do everything we do. They are the reasons why we make the choices we do around our eating. In fact, feelings are so central to eating that emotional management is a must if you want to reach the goals you have for your eating and your weight. You are one feeling away from shifting your eating and weight loss toward where you want them to be. Find out how to create that feeling by listening to the episode!

We began looking closely at emotions in Episode 12 in a conversation about how to lose weight after being a binge eater without triggering any more binges. In that episode, we started to study why we have the desire to overeat in the first place. To understand question, we needed to understand the three main reasons why we have the desire to overeat: 1. we use food to anesthetize painful emotions, 2. we're conditioned to overeat by society, and 3. our dopamine system gets hijacked by high-sugar foods. So, since then, we've been exploring emotional eating and taking a deep dive into emotions—understanding them, choosing whether to eat them or feel them, and now we're on to creating them.

Episode 12 began the discussion of losing weight—without triggering more binges. And, in that episode, we started to explore why we have the desire to overeat in the first place. To understand that, we needed to dig into the three main reasons why we have the desire to overeat: 1. we use food to anesthetize painful emotions, 2. we're conditioned to overeat by society, and 3. our dopamine system gets hijacked by high-sugar foods. Episode 13 started the examination of how we use food to deaden uncomfortable feelings. Episode 14 went even deeper by differentiating between eating a feeling and feeling a feeling. Now, in Episode 15, we take time to understand feelings even more deeply.