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4 Steps To Overcome Binge Eating | Nutritionist Explains... | Myprotein
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Feb 16, 2025
An expert nutritionist explains how to heal your relationship with food and break the binge eating cycle, it’s essential to understand the root causes of binge eating. Jamie Wright, an expert nutritionist and specialist in binge eating disorders, tells us how identifying the source of any issue allows us to implement a more effective solution. Jamie will tell us why we binge eat and break down a strategy that can help overcome binge eating. If you do relate to anything being mentioned in this video, please make an appointment with your GP. Follow Jamie on IG: jamiesdietguide *** Chapters: 00:00 - Why do we binge eat? 01:24 - A coping mechanism 02:35 - Behaviour 03:57 - How to overcome 06:19 - Finding support 06:33 - Any questions on binge eating? ********************************* Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MyproteinUK?sub_confirmation=1
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why do we binge eat and is there a
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specific diet that will fix my binge
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eating
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hi I'm Jamie Wright an accredited
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nutritionist and I help people all
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across the world overcome disordered
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eating no matter what someone may tell
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you or how you may feel if you find
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yourself binge eating this is not done
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to lack of willpower binge eating is a
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hard thing and you absolutely shouldn't
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be making it worse by berating and being
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cruel to yourself in order to heal your
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relationship with food and break the
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binge eating cycle it's important to
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understand the root cause of binge
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eating identifying the source of any
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issue allows us to put in place a more
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effective solution let's talk about why
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binge eating happens and the absolute
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worst approach you can take to solve it
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broadly speaking there are two
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recognized primary contributing factors
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to binge eating Behavior being overly
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restrictive with our diet and the role
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of food and overeating as an emotional
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coping mechanism when we become overly
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restricted with our diet it can wreak
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havoc on our brain namely when it comes
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to binge eating the parts of our brain
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best described as the Primal brain the
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more Primal parts of our brain generate
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an immense urge to overeat as our brain
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panics and believes this restriction is
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some kind of common and its sole Focus
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turns to survival this overeating May
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gradually progress into habitual
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uncontrolled overeating often
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accompanied by a crippling sense of
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guilt and shame it's at this stage that
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we would then categorize that behavior
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as binge eating and you most often see
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this progression in those who have an
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extensive history of overly restrictive
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dieting binge eating behaviors can also
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develop as a means of coping with
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challenging circumstances as well as
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dealing with difficult emotions now I'm
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sure I'm not rocking the boat when I say
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that food is amazing the sensation of
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flavor and the response our body and
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mind have to eating allows us even for
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just a moment to escape or to feel
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better in fact it's actually quite
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normal to eat for emotional reasons
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whether it be the morning of a loss or
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even celebrating a birthday we use food
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for all manner of situations to make us
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feel better emotional eating only
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becomes a concern when it's our only
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means of coping with difficulty in life
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you see binge eating a negative
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self-talk go hand in hand it's not just
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that we're abusing our body with these
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behaviors we're also being incredibly
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cruel and how we speak to ourselves
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chronic critical self talk leaves us in
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a continually low mood and feeling low
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is why you turn to food and the critical
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self-talk essentially perpetuates the
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cycle of binge eating basically the
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self-talk which goes along with binge
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eating protects and fuse further binge
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eating episodes is there a certain diet
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that can fix my binge eating absolutely
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not if anything dieting or even having a
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diet mentality will just perpetuate and
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prolong binging behaviors the essence of
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a diet is restriction restriction is one
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of the key predictors and triggers for
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binge eating behaviors remember the
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Primal brand well you're doing it no
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favors by launching yourself into
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another miracle cure diet now this
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doesn't mean that diets are inherently
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bad it just means that it would be a bad
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idea for you to try another the
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definition of insanity is doing the same
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thing over and over and expecting a
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different outcome trust me I can
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empathize you're worried about getting
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wet if you're not on a diet you've been
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subjected to years of conflicting
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nutrition advice and information and you
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don't know where to turn to for a
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solution you love the idea of a diet
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because it feels like you're doing
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something no matter how Dreadful it
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actually is you've been told over and
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over again by society and the media that
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if you just had the perfect body then
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everything will sort itself out
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naturally well let me tell you this you
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need to flip that mentality on its head
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turn the I'll be okay once I get my diet
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sorted to I'll get my diet sorted once
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I'm okay and it's not like if you spend
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time improving your relationship with
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food and reducing the binge eating
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episodes that you'll necessarily gain
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weight in fact when you remove those
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binge eating episodes out of your life
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you'll most likely notice that your body
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composition begins to improve again
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organically not only that but you'll
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feel less polluted you'll sleep better
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you'll be less stressed you'll be less
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erratic you'll be more productive and
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fall back in love with exercise again
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there will be living back in your life
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and that's invaluable so no there isn't
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a diet that's going to fix your problems
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in fact most ads cause more problems
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than they ultimately fix here are the
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actual basic fundamentals for overcoming
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binge eating the first strategy is all
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to do with structure more specifically
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it's having a structured eating pattern
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and plan not a rigid one a structured
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one planned regular fueling will help to
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negate the Primal urge to binge the
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second step is to begin to break down
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the barriers and associations you've
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developed with your fear foods and the
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foods you binge on when you restrict
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yourself from a food or create a story
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around it that elicits a greater
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short-term emotional response than you
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give the food more power over you it's
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driving you to eventually eat it you're
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not the one making that conscious
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decision instead you want to plan to
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incorporate these Foods into your diet
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in a way that's comfortable for you
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slowly and steadily reintroduce them a
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really great strategy for this is to do
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it alongside a friend who can support
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you through it and listen to any of the
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concerns and feelings of guilt you may
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have while eating the food you'd be
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amazed just how much of a difference it
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can make when you have someone who is
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there to support you just by listening
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to what you have to say and how you're
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actually feeling the third step is to
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audit your social media don't want to
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expose yourself to harmful dieting
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messages and adverts with unrealistic
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beauty standards and pressures that have
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pushed you into extreme dieting in the
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first place if it doesn't serve you
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don't follow don't like don't comment
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get rid of it move on the fourth step is
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adding in some movement that uplifts you
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I personally love exercise I think it's
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widely underrated especially as a means
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of empowering someone there are a few
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things in the world that make you feel
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more confident in yourself than the
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achievement of moving your body and
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facing a challenge be it lifting a
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weight climbing a hill or finishing a
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run exercise will always make you feel
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awesome it's really important that you
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work on your internal narrative around
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training too when it comes to adding it
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back in you're not necessarily
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exercising for weight loss although that
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might be a byproduct of it what you're
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doing is exercising as a means of
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celebrating your body and all of its
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capabilities shifting our internal
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narrative on exercise is one step on the
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journey towards a healthier view of self
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and the path to Optimal well-being binge
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eating behaviors are the product of
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being overly restrictive or relying
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solely on food as a means of coping with
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the difficulties and challenges of life
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everyone's journey to binge eating is
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unique and so it's vital that you
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explore and understand your own Journey
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so that you can put the absolute best
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plan of social Solutions in place for
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you there aren't any magic diets out
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there that are going to fix it either in
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fact they'll probably just make it a
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whole lot worse understand why put
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structures in place embrace the foods
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you've restricted yourself from find
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support reduce your exposure to those
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triggers of critical self-talk and fall
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in love with empowering exercise again
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always remember binge eating is a
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chapter of your story it's not the whole
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book you can overcome it with the right
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approach as always if you have any more
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questions let me know in the comments
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below and remember to like And subscribe
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