The Binge Eating Therapist
The Binge Eating Therapist
Welcome to my channel, The Binge Eating Therapist. I'm Sarah and I am a former binge eater turned psychotherapist. My mission is to use this space to share content with you that will help you to make sense of your struggle with food and break free from compulsive eating and binge eating.
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Ive been there too. Once I got there, I could feel myself losing control and was never able to get back in control and gained the weight back. I am currently 75 lbs lighter but I struggle daily with bingeing.
Ive been there too. Once I got there, I could feel myself losing control and was never able to get back in control and gained the weight back. I am currently 75 lbs lighter but I struggle daily with bingeing.
Big struggle for me is when i can't define and recognise my own emotional state and become overwhelmed..than i stuff myself with food to feel grounded 🥹😥
What about every time you focus on weight you add in thoughts of other benefits of not bingeing like good noghts sleep, betterental health etc
1) butterfly technique ( calm lower brain) 2)now or later on ( avoid saying no and creating a rebellion battle) 3)asking a question - what happens if I don’t eat this food right now ( ask brain to imagine another outcome) 4) plan to eat MORE ( instead of less) Law of reversed effort
Ah, thank you! I think you've identified my problem. I really appreciate this video! I've been using food to transition. I have autism and experience intense anxiety if I don't eat before I go to bed. If I avoid eating, I end up staying up much later than I intended and ultimately give in and eat something so I can go to sleep. I wasn't sure where this anxiety was coming from, but it's very likely just a transition issue. The only time I don't need to eat before bed is when I'm so exhausted that my brain gives me no choice but to sleep. I'll work on developing a new bedtime routine for my brain to latch on to.
this just hits it on the nose for me. thank you so much❤️
Biscuit definitely - to all us British people, "cookies" are a type of biscuit haha. Love all your videos!
You just hit every point for me, thank you🙏🙏. I‘m a health food junkie, eat loads of veggies and Whole Foods, keep my Insulin/Sugar levels low, yet I binge eat and I am an emotional eater. Thanks to you, I now know where to change and observe myself differently😊
I am working whole day like from 9:00 to 18:00 so breakfast quickly lunch quickly and snacks so I don’t have that much time to eat or to spend time to eating. And when I arrive home 7pm of course I have more time to eat so dinner like I can eat while watching but then it can so easily go to the overeating I don’t know but maybe it is better to be busy all the time 😅
Okay my problem is I don’t understand which one is binge eating. Cause I can finish so easily one ben and Jerry ice cream pot and one package of cookie while watching Netflix or even big ice cream sundae bowl So is this binge eating over eating or normal And even if I ate dinner still later I can have space for desert and for ice cream one scoop not enough at all 😅 I can finish whole What is calling this ?
I think you have to accept the obsession as it won't ever go. The more you accept and live with the unpleasant feelings the easier it gets
I think the feeling of wanting to binge is addictive desire for the highly addictive junk food. You either satisfy the desire and eat it..or feel the unpleasant feelings of unsatisfied desire to binge. I don't see how it has anything to do with and other feelings such as self worth etc. that's far too complicated
Compassion even when you don't understand it might be just what the doctor ordered for a more harmonious world in general! "Thinking is hard, that is why most people judge" I strongly dislike defending my coping mechanism behaviors, eating might seem a mundane activity but it is at its core so intimate and private. ✌️
Could this be compliance mode when restrcting and then rebellion kicks in because it feels restrictive.
This is a great video. I was for over 15 years on my ideal weight. Than my father died and I started to go up and down with my weight, and I am someone who gains weight very easy 😂 Than I was on a good weight some time, and after that I gain lot's of weight in a short period of time. When I started to analyse what is happening here, I realised that I got fed up of different food restrictions and I was watching people around me that was literally eating anything what they want at literally any time and they didn’t gain any weight! And myself, if I eat 2 days what I want I can see the weight gain immediately 😂 I am on a weight loss journey again, but I still fight with this feeling that is absolutely not fair that someone can eat any type of food during day or night ans stayed in a same weight 😂
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The "one more" thing!!! Part of my brain says that if i haven't been satisfied with the first 10 then what is 1 more going to achieve. I still can't resist. One more biscuit, one more glass of wine, one more episode, one more website to check if I have the best price for something that i don't actually need. When i was a kid I was constantly thinking about what i was going to eat next, even if i wasn't hungry. I relate to the reading too but study has always been hard. 1hour for most people takes me maybe 3 or 4. Takes more effort than exercising! Especially when they use paragraph long sentences.
its true when i go through times of overeating and binging ,if i fight it i can hit upto 10k caloires our more .But when i except and reason with myself i eat a lot more nurieshing food and not so much high calorie foods which helps more with the negative health effects and gives me progress in the gym fitness ect.
So eat whatever you want if you are truly hungry but work out other ways of dealing with emotional hunger?
The opening section of this c where you describe your own experience is like magic. I feel so understood and hopeful hearing someone else put words to what I feel. Soooo right on. Caving “feels” so inevitable that I have a LOT of “F’it” behavior. And now I see how through my experienced reality of course it’s actually completely logical, sanity preserving behavior! But seen differently I see a glimpse of hope of how a different experience could actually happen!!
Not everyone who is overweight overeats. I'm so tired of the binge eating argument. It ignores metabolic issues and when i started focusing on weight loss, I lost 60 pounds and kept it off for a decade. So tired of this rhetoric.
There's a difference between weight loss and fat loss.
Wow, she gets restrected but Euginia Cooney who “works out” with skeletons in her hand does not xd
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I feel like in addition to not catastrophizing eating the wrong thing, I also need to not catastrophize my weight struggles. I am obese and have been since I was 21, for almost 30 years. It's been like waking up to a daily nightmare the whole time as I fail to recognize myself in every reflection and photo I see. What people see is just not how I see myself. It's miserable. How do I stop feeling so extreme about it? And on top of it, knowing that the world believes it's my fault, my choice, my weakness, my sin, my failure, and my punishment, despite a lifetime of trying, trying, trying...knowing way too much about the health properties of every food and exercise routine. Nothing I know matters. This is a prison.
Thank you So Much Sarah!!
Thank you for these reflexions, they really help...
Thank you so much it was really helpful🩷
Thank you for this! ❤
Happy I found you! <3
I’m not dieting any more . I’m going to eat like a normal weight person .
Omg you’re amazing! I thank my support worker everyday she introduced me to your channel and vids, thanks and keep up the good work :)
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@@TheBingeEatingTherapist I’ve gone from 21 stone down to 13 yet I still binge eat and it’s compassionate self that I’m struggling with :(
Me: "OK brain... what would happen if I did NOT eat the food right now?" Brain: "I'll tempt you to eat it again in three seconds until you do... so you might as well eat it now..." But for real. I've tried so many times... It's just a non-stop loop that plays in my brain. Ugh
My therapy feels like a speed session. Unpleasant.
I’m allowed to show up to counseling but the therapist does weird things like sets shortened appointments and makes me say everything is good.
Thank you for this video it’s very helpful ❤
Wow. This youtube channel is my church service. I find myself coming back regularly to study. This is perspective that I find difficult to find anywhere else. You have such a succinct, compassionate, and professional way of communicating. I chose this video on a whim thinking I was above the cycle of a diet mindset, but I left with many changes in awareness that will probably result in my tweaking my habits. Thank you so much Sarah, your channel is a gold mine. You are helping me build and choose a recovered state every day.
So glad to hear this! 🥹
@@TheBingeEatingTherapist I completely agree. You answer questions I've literally had for decades... that I could not find anyone else addressing. I thought it was just me. I felt all alone for so long and that no one could understand...even the professionals. You especially address how many conflicts and issues occur simultaneously within a person. So no, a book on mindful eating alone will not be the end all be all solution for me. But your channel is the only resource I've found that seems to understand that and address it very well. All the other book and self help courses I've done have been addressing a single thing and humans are just so much more complex than this!! THANK YOU
Omg I’m in tears, She is describing my life 😢
God bless you all act 238 for heaven Love these people videos I been eating at night. Like whole box donuts. Im working on it apples curb appetite This Lady. Has beautiful ideas with Good helpful Tips
deep sleep is not the same as REM sleep... fraud video
My bpd caused me to struggle with binge eating (Self harming behavior combined with the impulsivity and how bored and empty I feel :/ all the time) honestly it was a nightmare im happy im finally starting to get better
Wow this was a great talk! So many lightbulb moments for me around food but also addictive behaviour in other areas. This was excellently explained and rings true for me. #5 was amazing too, to extend your thinking into how changed behaviour looks when used in conjunction with self care as opposed to stress (or self hatred as motivation). Bravo!
When a binge (sugar) hits me it’s like NOTHING can stop me. I will fill up on sweets and feel like hell for days on end. 🙏🏼
I'm sorry but when. She said she has just found google 😂😂😂 I didn't know that's was possible great tips tho ❤😂
I am a mother of two, and I can’t seem to accept the changes in my life. 7 years ago I was living in London, working hard and was in a great shape, had my “freedom”, i had many friends and had no issue with food. Then I had my babies, we moved to a village in my home country, and I felt/feel kind of isolated. On top of all these, I still wish to be the same girl I was, not an overweight mom… i am trying to get a better relationship with food for now and taking care of myself. Specially mentally
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Great video thank you ❤❤
#2 is called Metabolic Efficiency. It's when your body becomes more "efficient" at storing fat and utilizing energy to help you survive during a famine. It's a survival mechanism built into us unfortunately
Thank you you didn't just give me inspiring feedback on eating but it helped me remember I'm in control of my life and testing things but to remember to give myself feedback and learn from it will build my trust I use to think like that alot more but got lost on the way I really do appreciate it💯♎️♎️
Thanks for offering the nuances!! I appreciate your focus on emotions. 😊
As always, your insight is extremely helpful ❤👍🏼