Mine isnt a habit. Ive done trauma therapy for a year and only in the last month started to gain some normalcy around food. I mean it has been 50 years! Its glorious to not feel driven to eat.

@em945

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Wishing you the BEST. Nice to hear your therapy efforts are going well!

I am definitely going to purchase and study this book, even though I fully understand your criticisms, Sarah. On the one hand, I have struggled since toddlerhood (and I am now 69 years old, so we are talking a LONG time) with CPTSD and compulsive overeating, and I have had endless professional therapy as well as trying just about every diet and/or self-help program ever conceived. BUT, I also have a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, was a university professor for my entire career, and specialized in research based on the Rescorla-Wagner model! Given my deep understanding of the model, my intellectual curiosity is definitely piqued!!

Appreciate your candid reviews.

Very interesting! I always trust your book reviews and recommendations. Do you have any experience with binge-eating recovery apps? I would love a video on the best ones. I don't mean calorie counting apps, but ones where you track your moods, your environment when you eat, etc. Off the top of my head, I can think of Eating Buddy, RR Eating Disorder Management and Brighter Bite.

I just can't make it through PMS without binge eating. I know you have a video on it, but that's the biggest struggle for me. I can do really good for days 1-19 then 20-28 is just all prefrontal control goes out the window.

@corporate_campers

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Are you sure you’re not experiencing PMDD?

@thealiceftw

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There are ways to regulate your hormones and skip PMS xx

@TheBingeEatingTherapist

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Please don't assume this to be true for everyone. My hormones cannot be regulated due to a pituitary tumour. Hormones are complex, people are diverse and there may be many different reasons why someone's hormones are disregulated.

@thealiceftw

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@@TheBingeEatingTherapist yes very true. I was talking about people that don’t have tumors etc 🫶

Thank you for your insightful, thorough and extremely helpful review - I agree with much of what you observe in this book! ❣

Great review. Thank you Sarah. I think I will be skipping this book lol.

Your reflections are always so helpful. I was booked to come to see you in Brighton yesterday but have a terrible cold/cough and lost my voice. I wanted to ask you about the Zoe programme and how you felt about it and whether you'd recommend it to your clients.

@TheBingeEatingTherapist

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Ahh, so sorry you couldn’t make it last night. I hope you feel better soon. I wouldn’t recommend CGM’s for anyone without diabetes who have disordered eating as it can just lead to more obsession and the evidence isn’t clear that ‘flattening the glucose spike’ makes a difference for non diabetic individuals. Martin MacDonald has been talking about this quite a bit and has some informative takes instagram.com/reel/Cryr-8poQw_/?igsh=MWg0d3RubWY4YWZmbg==

@TiaraHelen

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Thank you so much

Thanks, I'll keep the book waiting in my ebook reader. Very good review 👌

Thank you ❤

I don’t know if you are aware of his Buddhism and meditation background. This in a way is how he explains how getting rid of desire and are aware and accepting will help you. Just in the same way that Sapiens could be named “Lessons by an historian that meditates two hours a day”. When you know this, the book is way easier to understand. It pairs well with “How emotions are made”, by Lisa Feldman, on the predictive model of the brain. There are many people writing about contemplative science and how meditation helps you to free yourself from the automatice predictions (system 1 - top-down - diet culture), and step into a bottom up (responding instead of reacting) mode.

I like this book and found it very helpful. I liked how it had some concrete tools and was positive.

Good book!

Ways I ignore: Sleepy at night but staying up (to finish a Twilight movie) Or eating when I’m not hungry or especially when I already feel full or bloated.

Hmm... it feels like this book doesn't address the restrict part of the binge/restrict cycle. Eating to a strict schedule, even when I didn't feel like eating, is the biggest part of what helped me to break free of the cycle. Also, no food was off-limits to remove the guilt. I have not read this book, so I may be wrong!

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Writing a book about something you have never experienced is a very difficult thing to do successfully, in my opinion.

Oh this book annoyed me.completly.

Thank you, but I don't think the author of that book really understands binge eating. Too much intellectualizing IMHO. A better book (by Dr. Vera Tarman) is "Food Junkies".