How to Stop Mental Restriction Around Food

In this episode, I explore my 3 secrets in eating disorder recovery. Time slots 1:31 My story 3:40 Food Freedom App 4:32 Working on motivation for change. 8:32 Roots of the past. 13:00 Regular eating. 16:42 Takeaway messages 🌐 If you're looking for more support in your recovery ...  Show more

In this episode, I explore how to deal with extreme hunger in a Q and A format. 00:37 What do we mean by extreme hunger? 1:41 Can you avoid extreme hunger? 2:26 How long does extreme hunger last? 3:31 How does extreme hunger feel? 4:30 Physical versus mental hunger. 5:32 All-in o ...  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 ...

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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 ...