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Free Course Resources to Help You Stop Binge Eating
in Binge Eating, Blog, Brain over Binge Book, Coaching, course, Habits, Health, motivation/by Kathryn HansenI want to let you know that I’ve created a free preview of the Brain over Binge Course. I realize that times are difficult right now, and you may not be in a position to purchase the whole course, but I hope you can use the free resources to help you stop binge eating. When […]
How to Conquer Binge Eating in Isolation and in Any Situation
in Anxiety, Binge Eating, Blog, Body Image, Habits, social events, Stress, Triggers/by Kathryn Hansen[This is the Part III post of the Binge Eating Recovery During a Crisis series. Read Part I and Part II] No, I’m not going to tell you all of the reasons why your situation right now could help you conquer binge eating. I’m not going to tell you that because of the pandemic and […]
Accept Imperfection & Avoid Binge Eating During Quarantine
in Binge Eating, Blog, Calories, Emotional Eating, Health, Nutrition, Overeating, Processed foods, Self-Control, Stress, Stress Eating, Trigger Foods, Weight/by Kathryn Hansen[This is the Part II post of the Binge Eating Recovery During a Crisis series. Read Part I]. This is an unprecedented time, and no one is handling these sudden life changes perfectly; and no one is handling their anxiety, fear, sadness, and loneliness perfectly either. You may find yourself feeling lost, distracted, and questioning […]
Binge Eating Recovery During a Crisis, Part 1: Opportunity to Binge
in Binge Eating, Blog, Emotional Eating, Emotions, Habits, Health, social events, Stress, Stress Eating, Triggers/by Kathryn HansenThis is the first part of a 3-part series that I’m going to complete over the next several weeks, and I hope it will help you in some way during this difficult time of dealing with the direct and indirect effects of the coronavirus crisis. Even if the virus itself hasn’t impacted you or your […]
Questions in Binge Eating Recovery (Course Q&A’s)
in Alcohol, Anxiety, Binge Eating, Blog, Body Image, Calories, Coaching, course, Detachment, Dieting, Emotional Eating, Exercise, fasting, Food Addiction, Habits, Health, Hunger and Satiety, Intuitive Eating, Journaling, Meals, motivation, Night Eating, Nutrition, Overeating, Purging, Relapse, Self-Control, Setbacks, social events, Stress, Sugar, Support, Therapy, Triggers, Weight/by Kathryn HansenIf you are like most people struggling with binge eating, you probably have questions. The women and men I’ve spoken with over the years—who have read my books or been in my course, or who are new to the brain over binge approach—find it comforting to know that they aren’t the only ones with a […]
Fasting & Binge Eating: Not So Fast (Post from Gillian Riley)
in Anorexia, Binge Eating, Blog, Body Image, Calories, Dieting, fasting, Food Addiction, Habits, Health, Overeating, Resolutions, Starvation, Weight, weight loss, yo-yo dieting/by Kathryn HansenIt seems that fasting has become the new standard of dieting, and also a central focus of the health community as well. Like most diets, it’s presented as the answer (or at least a partial solution) to many health and weight issues, and even as a potential solution for binge eating. I’m sure you know […]
Don’t Start the New Year with a Diet
in Binge Eating, Blog, Body Image, Dieting, Health, holidays, social events, Weight/by Kathryn HansenThis will be a short and simple blog post, and the message is just what is stated in the title. January 1st is coming soon, and you’ll of course see that people are going on diets; you’ll see weight loss heavily marketed as a goal you “should” have. I’m here to tell you that it […]
Holiday Binge Eating: Learn to Deal with Weight & Food Talk
in Anxiety, Binge Eating, Blog, Body Image, bulimia, course, Detachment, Dieting, Emotions, Habits, holidays, Meals, motivation, Overeating, social events, Sugar, Triggers, Weight, weight loss/by Kathryn HansenIt’s difficult to deal with binge eating at any time of year, but the holidays can bring extra challenges. One of those challenges is dealing with holiday events where people frequently talk about food, weight, and diets. These seem to be favorite topics of conversation for some people, and when I was a binge eater, […]
Don’t Let a Holiday Choice Lead to a Holiday Binge
in Binge Eating, Blog, Coaching, Dieting, holidays, social events, Stress, Weight/by Kathryn HansenIf you are newly binge-free, or trying to stop binge eating, you may be wondering how to avoid holiday binges. First, I want you to know that you can avoid binge eating regardless of the date on the calendar. There actually isn’t anything special you need to do or not do during the holidays. The […]
How I Stopped Binge Eating Cereal and Craving It Too
in Binge Eating, Blog, Calories, Cravings, Dieting, Food Addiction, Grains, Habits, Health, hunger, Nutrition, Pleasure, Processed foods, Self-Control, Starvation, stop dieting, Sugar, Trigger Foods/by Kathryn HansenIf you’ve read Brain over Binge, you know how much trouble I had with cereal during my dieting and binge eating days. But now, many years after recovery, I don’t eat much cereal at all, and it’s not a struggle to avoid it. I never would have believed that was possible when I was a […]
Can I Recover & Be Healthy if I Eat Everything in Moderation?
in Binge Eating, Blog, bulimia, Coaching, course, Cravings, Dieting, dieting weight gain, Emotions, fasting, Food Addiction, Habits, Health, Intuitive Eating, Nutrition, Overeating, Paleo, Processed foods, Sugar, Weight, weight gain/by Kathryn HansenThe idea of eating all foods in moderation or allowing all foods (provided there are no allergies, sensitivities, or medical conditions) is common in the eating disorder recovery community, and I’ve also promoted this idea in my blog, books, and podcast. Health-conscious people can often be skeptical about this advice, because they may imagine that […]
Addressing Weight Issues in Binge Eating Recovery
in Binge Eating, Blog, Body Image, Calories, Cravings, Dieting, Health, motivation, Weight/by Kathryn HansenRestrictive dieting is harmful and can lead to binge eating; therefore, a big part of my approach to recovery is encouraging people to eat adequately and make sure the body is getting plenty of nourishment (and not in a calorie-deprived state). I find that binge eaters usually understand the reasons behind the advice to avoid […]
Identity Reconstruction in Bulimia Recovery
in Anorexia, Binge Eating, Blog, Body Image, Coaching, Dieting, identity, motivation, self-esteem, Weight/by Kathryn HansenI am excited to bring you a guest post from Katherine Thomson, PhD about recreating your identity as you stop bulimia and binge eating disorder. Katherine contributed some extremely helpful ideas and advice to The Brain over Binge Recovery Guide, and she also shared great insights and information in three of my podcast episodes so […]
Affordable Help: An Alternative to One-on-One Coaching
in Binge Eating, Blog, Brain over Binge Book, Coaching, course, Support, Therapy/by Kathryn HansenIf you’ve read my blog posts or listened to my podcast, you’ve likely heard about the Brain over Binge Course. In this post, I want to talk from the heart a little about the course, how I created it, and how it could help you end binge eating. I wrote Brain over Binge thinking that if […]
Brain over Binky: Childhood Habits, and Letting Go of Harmful Behaviors without Drama
in Addiction, Binge Eating, Blog, Emotional Eating, Habits, Parenting, Pleasure, Self-Control/by Kathryn Hansen*Originally posted on May 1 , 2011. Updated and re-published on July 23, 2019 (My little boy I wrote about here is almost 13!) My four-year-old son gave up sucking his “binky” (pacifier) a couple weeks ago. We had already reduced his use of it during the day, but he was still very attached to […]
Brain over Binge: Tips to Help You Achieve Recovery, Part 2
in Binge Eating, Blog, Brain over Binge Book, Detachment, Resisting Urges/by Kathryn Hansen[Read Part 1] In order to end the binge eating habit, it’s necessary to stop acting on the urges to binge. You are trying to de-condition a habit, and to do that, you want to stop reinforcing the brain pathways that leads you to binge. Once the binge urges no longer lead to binge eating, […]
The Brain over Binge Blog: Tips to Help You Achieve Recovery
in Binge Eating, Blog, Coaching, Detachment, Dieting, Resisting Urges, Self-Control, Setbacks, Support, Weight/by Kathryn HansenI created the Brain over Binge blog to give you a variety of tips, ideas, information, and insights to go along with my two books. Even if you haven’t read the books, you can benefit from my posts, especially if you’ve learned the basics of the Brain over Binge approach in my free PDF or […]
Indulging in Food, Part 3: Getting over Overindulging
in Binge Eating, Blog, Cravings, Dieting, Food Addiction, indulging in food, Overeating, overindulging, Pleasure, Self-Control, Sugar/by Kathryn HansenThis is the third and final post in my blog series on indulging in food. If you have not read Part 1 and Part 2, I recommend you do that before continuing with this post, which aims to help you stop overindulging in food. In those previous two posts, I talked about what indulging may […]
Indulging in Food, Part 2: It’s Okay, You are Okay
in Binge Eating, Blog, Cravings, Dieting, Health, Hunger and Satiety, Sugar/by Kathryn HansenThis is the second part of a 3-part series on “indulging” in food. In my part 1, I talked about the fact that there is no consensus on what it means to indulge. I gave you two tips for how to think about indulging: First, remember that indulging is not the same as binge eating, […]
Indulging in Food, Part I: Reality Check
in Binge Eating, Blog, Dieting, Health/by Kathryn HansenI’m starting a 3-part blog series on indulging in food. This is a multifaceted topic and I find that it leaves many recovering binge eaters confused. So, I’m going to do my best over the next 3 posts to talk about what it might mean to indulge in food, when it may become problematic, and […]