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Don’t Binge When You Break A Resolution
in Binge Eating, Blog, Dieting, Habits, Health, holidays, Weight, weight loss/by Kathryn HansenIf you have a goal to stop binge eating in the new year, I want to give you some advice that I hope will help you keep that resolution. My advice is twofold: 1.) Prioritize stopping binge eating 2.) Don’t connect stopping binge eating to your other resolutions. Let’s talk first about prioritizing your […]
Look Behind the Scenes to Ease Your Mind
in Anxiety, Binge Eating, Blog/by Kathryn HansenI had a conversation with my daughter a couple of weeks ago that immediately inspired an idea for this blog post. It all started when my oldest son, who is 11 and not scared of much at all, wanted to watch a trailer of a movie about aliens. The trailer wasn’t too scary in my opinion, […]
What Makes Recovery “Work”? Part III (You Don’t Need to Work so Hard)
in Binge Eating, Blog, Dieting, Emotions, Resisting Urges, Self-Control, Support, Therapy/by Kathryn HansenThis is the 3rd and final post in my blog series, “What Makes Recovery Work?”. In Part I, I talked about expectations surrounding what it means for a recovery method to work. In Part II, I discussed the work you personally need to do in recovery, which is to dismiss each urge to binge (and […]
Tips to Help You Stop Purging
in Binge Eating, Blog, Body Image, Coaching, Dieting, Purging, Support, Weight/by Kathryn HansenIf you’ve read my books or blog, you’ll know that I did not purge through self-induced vomiting (instead, I purged with excessive exercise and also with restrictive eating). I fully realize that those of you who purge through self-induced vomiting face a different set of challenges in recovery. Many of you have told me that […]
What Makes Recovery “Work”? Part II (The Work You Need to Do)
in Binge Eating, Blog, Resisting Urges, Support/by Kathryn HansenIn last month’s blog post What Makes Recovery “Work?”, I talked about how an effective recovery method or strategy is not defined by its ability to take away your binge urges, but by its ability to help you stop acting on them. So, when you try an approach to recovery and hope that it will […]
What Makes Recovery “Work”?
in Binge Eating, Blog, Resisting Urges, Support, Therapy/by Kathryn HansenI know a life free of binge eating is completely possible for you, but if you are like many binge eaters who I’ve spoken to over the years, you may have a hard time believing that right now. You may have searched for years for a cure, for something to “work,” for it all to just […]
You are Never Destined to Binge
in Binge Eating, Blog, Detachment, Self-Control/by Kathryn HansenDo you ever have thoughts that say, “you know you’re going to binge eventually, so you might as well just do it now”? If you do, you are not alone. I had a client refer to these type of thoughts collectively as the binge inevitability mindset, and I think it’s an accurate way to describe […]
What is Your Motivation for Dieting?
in Binge Eating, Blog, Calories, Dieting, dieting weight gain, fasting, Habits, motivation to lose weight, Overeating, stop dieting, stop overeating, yo-yo diet cycle, yo-yo dieting/by Kathryn HansenThe first urges to binge commonly appear after a period of restrictive dieting. The binge urges are a primal survival response—when you restrict food, the primitive part of your brain starts to encourage you to eat as much as possible. (You can learn more about this in Episode 2: The Cause of Binge Eating: Urges […]
Challenge Cultural Body Messages (with Ayurveda)
in Binge Eating, Blog, Body Image, Dieting, Health, Weight/by Kathryn HansenI often speak out against restrictive dieting, because not only does it promote binge eating, it is a harmful practice that is not effective in helping you reach and maintain a healthy weight. Giving up restrictive dieting does not mean giving up health or fitness, in fact, it’s quite the opposite. When you stop restrictive dieting (and binge eating), you can focus on […]
If You Decide You Binge to Cope
in Binge Eating, Blog, Emotions/by Kathryn HansenIf you are familiar with my blog or books, you know I hold the opinion that binge eating is not a coping mechanism for underlying emotions or life’s problems. Instead, I believe binge eating is about coping with the urges to binge. In the Brain over Binge approach, the urges to binge are the one […]
Freedom: Reframing Your Motivation to Stop Binge Eating
in Binge Eating, Blog, Habits, Health, motivation/by Kathryn HansenTo stop binge eating, you have to want to…not in every moment, but on the whole, you have to have reasons why you no longer want the destructive habit in your life. If you feel very little or no desire for recovery, then your higher brain is likely to continue following the binge urges from the lower […]
Don’t Let Thoughts of Purging Encourage You to Binge
in Blog, Detachment, Purging, Resisting Urges/by Kathryn HansenIt is my belief that the urges to binge are the only direct cause of binge eating. An urge to binge is: any thought, feeling, or physical sensation that encourages a binge. For those with bulimia, the thought of, “I can just purge afterward” often strongly encourages binge eating. To avoid a binge, it is necessary […]
Dealing with PMS as a Recovering Binge Eater
in Blog, Cravings, Emotions, PMS, Triggers/by Kathryn HansenHas this happened to you?… You feel like your eating is going pretty well, and you are feeling relatively good in your life, and then suddenly, you start to feel down, and everything seems a little darker and more difficult? At the same time, do you experience an increase in appetite and food cravings? Whether you have recently stopped binge […]
Weight Gain from Binge Eating Recovery?
in Anorexia, Anxiety, Binge Eating, Blog, Body Image, Calories, Dieting, dieting weight gain, Health, stop dieting, Weight/by Kathryn HansenIf you have bulimia or binge eating disorder, you’ve most likely experienced weight gain from binge eating. You may wonder what will happen as you recover…will you lose the weight you’ve gained? Will you gain more weight as you begin eating normally? What will your weight be as a binge-free and diet-free person? It’s important […]
Orthorexia and Binge Eating: Guest Post from Elisa Oras
in Anorexia, Binge Eating, Blog, Calories, Cravings, Dieting, fasting, Health, Intuitive Eating, Nutrition, Orthorexia, Purging/by Kathryn HansenIf you struggle with binge eating, you may also have obsessive thoughts about eating healthy. Extreme or excessive preoccupation with healthy eating that results in unhealthy consequences is called orthorexia. Like other forms of restrictive dieting, orthorexia can lead to binge eating, and orthorexic tendencies can fuel the binge and purge cycle. Trying to eat […]
Is “Wanting to Binge” Holding You Back in Recovery?
in Binge Eating, Blog/by Kathryn Hansen(I originally wrote this as a guest post for bulimiahelp.org) Today, I’m going to address an issue that may be causing you some confusion and stagnation in your recovery. The issue is a common inner conflict, which can be described like this: Wanting to binge,while also knowing that you want to recover. Any eating disorder recovery program […]
How to Get Unstuck with Recovery: The Meta Chatter (Guest Post from Lydia Wente)
in Binge Eating, Blog/by Kathryn HansenHi! My name is Lydia Wente. I was a Lifestyle coach that had coached hundreds of people to better health, but also had a terrible secret: I would regularly feel like I had lost total control, my body hijacked, leading me to eat massive amounts of food, and only stopping once the pain became too […]
Learning How to Eat in Recovery
in Binge Eating, Blog, Coaching, Dieting, Meals, Nutrition/by Kathryn HansenA central theme of my new book is that only 2 goals are necessary for recovery: 1.) Learning to dismiss urges to binge and 2.) Learning to eat adequately I share principles, recommendations, written exercises, and resources to help you accomplish those two goals in a way that works for you. One of the resources I recommend–primarily in the area of learning […]
The Primal Brain’s Role in Normal Eating (and Binge Eating)
in Binge Eating, Blog, Cravings, Dieting, hunger and fullness, Hunger and Satiety, indulging in food, Intuitive Eating, Pleasure/by Kathryn HansenI received a good question today from someone struggling with binge eating regarding which part of the brain—the higher brain (rational) or the lower brain (primal, habitual, and instinctual) is involved in normal eating. This is topic I address thoroughly in my new book, the Brain over Binge Recovery Guide (now available on Audible) but […]
Improve Self-Control and Stop Binge Eating Under Stress
in Binge Eating, Blog, Self-Control, Stress/by Kathryn HansenI received a request for a blog post about how to improve self-control and dismiss binge urges when you are under stress. Stress can deplete the self-control functions in your higher brain, especially if you have stressful responsibilities that seem to require heroic self-control—like caring for an aging parent, nursing a sick spouse, being with […]