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Binge Eating on Healthy Food (Tips for choosing healthier foods as a binge eater.)

Finally Free!! 12.2.20

As promised from my last blog... I am going to share the second intuitve eating tip that that helped me step back into intutiive eating. It has to do with the idea that our bodies seek homeostatis and constantly seek to be balanced. This notion gives me the security and trust to listen to my body because it will tell me what it needs. We see our bodies seek homeostatis in our blood circulation, sweating to cool our increased body temperature down when exercising  and more. Our bodies are magnicificent. So, I do believe our body seeks a set point weight and food volume as well. I understand how diets, negative self-talk, or emotional eating can sabatage our bodies innate ability to feed when appropriate. Our bodies are simple but we overcomplicate with our overdeveloped and sometimes misguided society and minds!

So, just this simple notion that my body wants to return to balance is so comforting. Yes, I have been feeling more food obsessed and binge-y lately. But it hasnt been satisfying and now I feel my body coming back down. Its feeling more at peace, less anxious, less food obsessed, less a sense of urgency for food or when I am around food. 

What’s helped:

1) my bodies natural desire to be in balance when we truly listen to it’s hunger cues, fullness cues, or signals for self-care be it food, a bath, or exercise. 

2) Finding pleaure in our primary foods so that we arent seeking pleasure only in our Primary foods as mentioned in my previous blog allowed me to bring my attention and focus to the things that truly bring me energy, fullfillment & joy! 

Binge Eating Triggers (Three Common Overeating Triggers & How To Minimize Them

Stop Binge Eating with Mindful Snacking (Yes, you can stop binge eating with mindful eating.)

How to stop binge snacking and be more mindful about your snacking.

The trick to overcoming bad, snacking habits (vs mindful snacking) is to start paying attention. To not only to what you are snacking on. but how you are eating.

This is called, mindful eating.

Whenever I catch myself unconsciously snacking, I try to immediately stop.

I put the food down.  and I turn my attention to my breath. Away from the food.

This helps me relax, slow down and pay attention to what I'm doing.

I make and effort to notice the worrisome thoughts going through my mind.

I notice my mood.

It is even a good idea to write down what I am noticing. This helps me learn the emotional triggers to my binge eating.

I've learned that binge snacking when I'm stressed is an automatic pattern.

I've learned that I reach for a snack rather than feel hurt or angry.

I've also learned that one of my biggest triggers is feeling not appreciated; or loved.

Does any of this sound familiar?

I've learned that the mindful eating approach to controlling my binge snacking works for me.

Stop Binge Eating With Journaling (How a binge eating journal works to help you stop the binge.)

How a binge eating journal helps. I personally have found journaling to be very effective to manage my binge eating.

Here’s how journaling can help you with your binge eating problem.

Journaling works to slow down your eating.

While you are eating, grab your journal and start writing. Write about what you are eating and why. Write about what you are feeling as you are eating.This will allow the food time to settle.  and let you actually feel when you are full rather than binge eating and feeling overly full later.

Journaling can help narrow down binge eating trigger patterns.

Journaling during, or just following an binge eating episode can help you see a pattern of what is triggering you the most.

If you don't know how emotional triggers make you binge eat then you can check out my other videos that talk about this.

The more that you journal your feelings and triggers, the more you can start to explore the real issues behind your binge eating.

When you journal, you can work out the issues; and get to your deeper emotions that are triggering your binge eating.

By journaling through your binge eating moments, you can learn more about yourself. your true triggers. and what to do to avoid the issues in the future.

Stop Binge Eating With Mindful Eating

How to stop binge eating with mindful eating.Success to stop binge eating can be found in something called, mindful eating. What is mindful eating ? FIND OUT HERE! In a nutshell, mindful eating is paying attention. when you eat. You pay attention to your bodies signals of fullness; by becoming aware of all the senses you use when you are eating. Since a large part of binge eating is eating mindlessly,  without awareness. Mindful eating makes a lot of sense. Mindful eating is a method that anyone can learn to successfully stop binge eating. If you are about to binge, then takes a minute of mindfulness, to ask yourself if you are really hungry. Or are you eating just because? Listen to your body, and learn how to properly interpret your body signals. Mindful eating teaches you how to listen. after years of ignoring your body's signals. You can learn how your body differentiates its signals between hunger; and thirst for food.  by learning to be more mindful. It may take a few months of questioning and listening; but you will get there. Other aspects of mindful eating include Planning Meals to Avoid becoming Overly Hungry. as well as taking time to eat, when you are eating. You learn to listen to your cravings, to understand why you crave to the point of binge eating.Is it a physical craving; or an emotional craving? Being mindful is about your physical senses, as well as emotional triggers to binge eating. Mindful eating is especially helpful for anyone who is experiencing any type of eating disorder. When you eat with intention and are paying close attention to everything about your meals (instead of just giving it only passing attention) you can stop binge eating.

Binge Eating on Healthy Food (Tips for choosing healthier foods as a binge eater)