4 Essential Strategies to Stop Binge Eating for Good

Are you ready to stop binge eating for good this time? If you feel out of control and deeply ashamed of your binge eating or your weight, this post is for you. I'm Shawn. I'm a clinical psychologist who has studied the psychology of eating behavior since 2008. I also spent 13 years of my life stuck in the binge eating and dieting cycle. This post is a summary of what I learned. It's about what truly works and what is a waste of your time. F*ck Coping Start Healing I became aware recently of a book with that title. The book is about healing from anxiety, and I haven't read it yet. But I love the title. Don't you? We are a very quick fix society. I get it. Who doesn't want quick relief and to feel good? Dieting offers that hope. So does eating. At least temporarily. But if you are ready to get to the root cause of your binge eating, versus a short-term temporary fix, settle in, because this post is for you. Vulnerability is courage in you, and weakness in me Do you ever listen to this podcast, or read what others write online and think, "Wow that's brave, but I could never do that?" If so, I have been where you are. Back in 2009, I was deep in my binge eating disorder shame spiral. No one knew how much I was struggling. And I wanted to keep it that way. I would walk around the streets of Philadelphia listening to the Inside Out Weight Loss podcast. I listened to the things that Renee Stephens said about eating food out of the garbage can and think that "my goodness, I can't believe she's sharing this publicly." Sometimes I would think, "should she really be sharing all of this with us?" It felt so raw, so deeply vulnerable and person. It also gave me immense hope that I too could overcome my binge eating, achieve peace with food, and become who I was meant to be. Ready to Break the Binge Eating Cycle for Good? Ready to stop avoiding and break the binge eating cycle for good? The first step is to disrupt the cycle. My free practical guide has 23 po