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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 here, 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 should […]
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 […]
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 […]