How to Stop Mental Restriction Around Food

In this episode, Dr Rachel Evans (Psychologist) talks all about bulimia, sharing her personal experience of recovery and how she works with clients today. Rachel shares her story, defines bulimia, and talks about the binge/restrict/purge cycle. She shares her tips on interrupting ...  Show more

Today, I talk about some of the common themes from inside the eating disorder therapy room in recovery. To find out more about my work: - My YouTube channel Substack Do check out Food Freedom - my app if you’d like some support. Take me to the app! Buy me a coffee! New mini cours ...  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 ...