Binge eating and emotional eating keep millions of people from living their best lives. If you're one of them, this podcast is for you. Hosts Georgie Fear and Maryclaire Brescia share insights and key lessons from their wildly successful Breaking Up With Binge Eating Coaching Program. Their methods integrate Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, nutritional science and change psychology -- but what you'll notice is that it works and feels good. Step off the merry ...
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Dusting off the shame & knowing your worth
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This week, we are excited to share a Client interview from our 1:1 coaching program. Join Coach Christina and her former client, Maddie, as they discuss her journey of overcoming the binge and restrict cycle and developing food freedom. We all have different challenges, backgrounds, habits, and lifestyles. Maddie shares her story as someone who lov…
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Research Updates On Emotional Eating and Binge Eating Disorder
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Join coach Georgie and the Confident Eaters team in today's episode, as we discuss recent updates to Emotional Eating and Binge Eating Disorder in one our monthly coaches education meeting. One of the papers we discuss in this conversation is all about self control. If you struggle with self control or wondered if you can maximize your own, then we…
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Everybody is "stressed", but we don't always understand exactly what that means. We believe that not all stress is bad. It is a protective mechanism that helps us survive situations in life. It also allows us to be challenged and have meaningful experiences. At the same time, if we are stacking stress on top of itself without coming back to baselin…
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How to Not Beat Yourself Up (And Still Be A High Achiever)
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If you've listened to our podcast before, then you've heard us talk extensively about the fact that being kind to yourself can lead to remarkable personal growth and improved well-being. In this episode, Coach Georgie explores the reasons people are often overly critical of themselves and how this can hinder progress. Join us as we unravel the psyc…
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Brian: How getting to know yourself helps stop binge eating
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This is a free preview of subscribers-only content! To unlock ALL the subscribers-only episodes with real clients and conversations, join us at georgiefear.com/podcast. Join Georgie with her real life client Brian, who has had a really good week. He has been making progress in utilizing the tools they have worked on together, like taking good care …
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Help! I Meant To Make It Last All Week, But Ate It All
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Right after an overeating incident or binge, once of the most helpful things to do is look back and consider what lessons we want to take from the experience. Maybe you discovered a situation you don't want to put yourself in again, or a choice you don't want to repeat. Or, perhaps your regrettable incident revealed a supportive routine, which when…
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Rachel: "How To Get Off the Hamster Wheel"
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This is a free preview of subscribers-only content! To unlock ALL the subscribers-only episodes with real clients and conversations, join us at georgiefear.com/podcast. Today you'll hear Georgie and real life client Rachel in a conversation about what Rachel can do to escape the "hamster wheel" of swearing she will not binge, but then doing it one …
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"I'll get started... after a snack." "This is so overwhelming... I need candy." Life contains onerous tasks, and they can cause dread and anxiety even when we haven't begun them. Because avoiding a chore presents its own drawn out emotional torture, binge eating or procrastineating entices us to escape BOTH the task and the heavy guilt we feel for …
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"Now's my chance." "I'll be better tomorrow." "One last time." Thoughts like these can make you feel just a little more reactive, a little more tense, a little less settled. And frankly, they also make you more prone overeating or binging. In this episode, you'll learn to recognize when you slip into a scarcity mindset. More importantly, you'll lea…
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The Best Things to Do After a Mistake (To Avoid Bingeing)
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The sinking feeling of realizing you made a mistake can be awful. It can lead to panic, fear, embarrassment, and often, binge eating. Presumably you are already trying hard to not make mistakes, so what else can be done? A lot. Here are five precise things to do after you make a mistake to help you get back to your feet emotionally without bingeing…
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The following sequence of events may be all too familiar: You want to push yourself to do something different with food - maybe order a carb, eat the dressing, or enjoy dessert out in the open instead of in secret. So you gather your strength, recite a mantra or two, take the leap... and then feel mega guilty afterwards. What gives? This is what yo…
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Kaitlyn: "My entire day revolves around food"
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"It's frustrating," says Kaitlyn. Who wouldn't be frustrated? Watching your mind circle around the next opportunity to eat like a moth doing laps around a garden light...is hardly the fully-lived life most of us want to be experiencing. Let's look at how we can help Kaitlyn. Kaitlyn has already made some progress, including a recent win with handli…
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Enrolment for the Breaking Up With Binge Eating coaching program starts this week for 7 days only! Learn more at https://www.nutritionloft.com/store (Sign ups for the group begin 10/5/22, the program starts 10/12/22). When it comes to problems in our lives (such as disordered eating or excess weight), we can create full-time jobs for ourselves just…
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“I listed alternate behaviors, now how do I get myself to do them?”
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Making a list of alternatives to turn to instead of food is an important step. (Don't count on yourself to be creative when you are in a moment of distress.) But what if you have a list and keep ignoring it? Let's ensure that your list is done right, and look for the stories or thoughts you might be telling yourself that are keeping you from changi…
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Food Limit Reactivity: "Even the thought of cutting back makes me binge” (part 2 of 2)
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Does any type of food guideline, rule, or limit "set you off?" You're not alone. As a person's relationship with food heals, this type of food limit reactivity goes down. In other words, it becomes tolerable, then comfortable to experiment with waiting to eat for a short time, or choosing some foods more often than others... without alarms going of…
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Food Limit Reactivity: "Even the thought of cutting back makes me binge" (Part 1 of 2)
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Food limit reactivity is an issue that I often see in my clients. If you feel like the mere thought of eating less drives you into a panic, sparking an immediate desire to eat compulsively, you may be experiencing it. This state makes it all but impossible to lose weight, or follow food guidelines for the sake of your health. Let's explore it toget…
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Subscribe to the premium channel for Bonus Episodes and Recorded Client Sessions Hear the real conversations which move people past binge eating and emotional eating. Wouldn't you love to listen in on people's private nutrition counselling sessions? You can't anywhere else. But with a premium subscription to the Breaking Up With Binge Eating Podcas…
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Some of the topics we discuss in this episode include: Why ignoring your wants causes problems Why you can feel like you really want a particular food, but then be unsatisfied once you have it Why wanting something doesn't mean it's a good idea to eat it (or that it will make you happy) Why we are poor at predicting how it will feel to have (or not…
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It's interesting how even if we hide to eat in total secrecy, we don't really have peace. Not when the voices in our minds tell us that we're pathetic, weak, being "bad," or that no one would love us if they only knew. In this episode we map out a plan for Julie to finally end the hiding and break out of the shame that has plagued her since her chi…
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Moving from Calorie Counting to Using Body Signals (And Emotions!)
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If you've counted calories for ages and have become afraid to stop, here's a guide. You don't have to do it all at once, you can do it in several gradual phases, laid out for you in this episode.By Georgie Fear and Maryclaire Brescia
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Can I Count Calories AND Learn To Follow My Body Signals?
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What a conundrum: Nobody likes counting calories. But people are also afraid to stop. So they continue. The idea of being able to eat an appropriate amount for our bodies *by feel* seems like nirvana. But how can a person get to this promised land, if counting calories feels absolutely necessary? Let me draw you a map.…
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How to Stop Eating at Satisfied (even if you've tried and failed 87,523 times)
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In this episode, we discuss the most common reasons people eat past the point of satisfaction. And with that knowledge in hand, we can go over exactly what you personally can to work on to achieve more success with eating the perfect feel-good amount for your body.By Georgie Fear and Maryclaire Brescia
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Subscribe to the premium channel for Bonus Episodes and Recorded Client Sessions Hear the real conversations which move people past binge eating and emotional eating. Wouldn't you love to listen in on people's private nutrition counselling sessions? You can't anywhere else. But with a premium subscription to the Breaking Up With Binge Eating Podcas…
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Surviving Holiday Visits With Fat-Phobic or Rude Family Members
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Some people just don't realize how hurtful or insensitive it is to comment on your body. If seeing family feels like putting yourself out there to be picked on or judged, this episode will give you some techniques for surviving he conversation. You'll learn how to use humor to respond to poor manners, end gossip about other people's weight on the s…
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"I am 54 years old, and I don’t know how to eat if I'm not dieting"
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When decades of your life have been spent alternating between binge eating and dieting, it makes to not know how to eat "normally". Many people we work with are accustomed to following a rigid low-calorie meal plan, punctuated by periods of eating excessively. But to lose the binges, we also need to kick the habit of rigid dieting to the curb. In t…
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