Show Notes

Key Points:

• Thank you for your letters to Food. They blow me away!
• Food is one of the basic human needs to stay alive (with oxygen, water, sleep, and warmth) yet designed to be thought about only when not getting enough.
• Even when you feel like the only person experiencing food like this, those in binge eating cycles are NOT alone!
• Research has some solutions warranting experimentation.
• In order for these to be possible solutions, you must practice personal kindness, compassion, and patience. Without these, no one can recover from binge eating experiences. Practice using a calm and compassionate adult voice as navigating recovery.
• Mistakes will pave your way to recovery rather than keep you from it. Look for them and welcome them. They will help you understand HOW to move forward.
• We have circadian rhythms with eating just like with sleep. It will take time for your body to get used to not bingeing because of these.
• When a person experiences diet-restrict to binge cycles, the brain feels the threat of deprivation and acts accordingly. It sends more obsessions. They way out? Stop pursuing weight loss.
• You CAN rewire our brain to not obsess about food except for when we need it. Julie describes using check in times to begin this process.
• The proof is in the pudding: keep track of your rewiring process to show the ED that you are making important baby steps away from ED’s grip.
• Make an investment in you: do one year in personal psychotherapy. It’s a gift that keeps on giving!

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