How Julie Stopped Bingeing

Posted by isabelletierney - January 24, 2012 - Overeating, Upcoming Events & Opportunities - No Comments

Julie came to me because she struggled with a severe case of binge eating. She had tried to stop it in various ways, including counting calories, weighing her food, locking up her refrigerator, and cutting out all sugar. Nothing worked.

Let me rephrase that.

Her various ways did work, but they only worked temporarily.

She’d sometimes last a week (weighing her food). Other times, a day (cutting out all sugar). Locking up the refrigerator kind-of-worked: it led her to turn to the cookies in the pantry rather than the ice cream in the freezer!

I asked her to describe what happened when she did stop overeating. She immediately described intense feelings of depression, boredom, and anger. In fact, she reported that she only felt good when she overate and felt pain when she stopped.

Julie is a perfect example of one of the primary lessons I teach in the Feel Good Solution: We have to learn to feel good BEFORE we can let go of our painful habits.

Why? Because feeling good is actually a biological and spiritual imperative. Needing to feel good and to get away from pain is what drives all of our actions.

The Feel Good Solution helps you develop ways to feel good that will be self-constructive rather than self-destructive. This is truly the only way to heal your painful habit for if you can’t find more effective ways to feel good, you will end up right back into its clutches.

I helped Julie create all kinds of yummy strategies to feel good in her life. While this took some practice (how cruel am I to make her practice feeling good?!), she eventually learned to habitually feel good constructively and her need to binge eat literally disappeared.

I’ll be teaching these tools and strategies to help you feel good in my upcoming 6-week course!

Join us to practice receiving more pleasure in your life and watch your painful eating habits dissipate into nothingness, as Julie’s did.
p.s. Be sure to watch the interview at the top of the page ~ it was a great conversation, and I think it will answer any questions you may have about the course (and my approach for that matter!)
Questions? Comments? Post them here, or email me directly!

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