How to Stop Mental Restriction Around Food

When you feel the pull to get thinner and lose weight, when you are already objectively underweight or at a healthy size for your body. It can feel extremely seductive to chase extreme thinness in the current world climate. This video gives four reminders about why this might not ...  Show more

The 5 stages of eating disorder recovery from inside the therapy room. Time slots: - 0:59 The honeymoon. 1:53 The darkness descends. 3:03 Quasi-recovery. 3:53 Glimmers of hope. 4:35 Food freedom. 🌐 If you're looking for more support in your recovery journey, you can explore my w ...  Show more

Excessive mental restriction is when you aren't externally restricted (the food you want is available) but you're not allowing yourself to eat the food you want. This kind of restriction is going to cause you to feel deprived, which is one of the main causes of urges to binge ...

Do you get stuck in the binge/restrict cycle? Before the binge stops, the restricting needs to stop first.

Restricting yourself in unhealthy ways is perpetuating your binge eating. This is probably not new information for you but what I'm talking about in this episode w ...

If you're going to stop binge eating you'll need to stop overly restricting your eating. You'll need to be more permissive with what food you allow yourself to eat. But stopping overly restricting doesn't mean you're going to have zero restrictions. It would be beneficial to s ...

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