Clip-n-save quit bingeing plan.
Just establish a rhythm!
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Hello friends! I continue to get requests for coaching. I have questions for you about this so I can do some planning: If you are looking for a coach, please tell me more.
Do you have a particular goal you want to reach? A particular problem you want to solve? Do you need someone to help guide you through a difficulty? Do you need someone to talk things over with? Would you use some other way of describing what you're looking for?
If you are one of the people who's been asking for 1:1 coaching—or wishing but not yet asking!—please let me know what you're thinking about. Short-term, long-term, goal-oriented, exploration, I've been dying for coaching, I'm just kind of low-key wondering about coaching: Any answers are fine.
I just want to get a sense of what's on your mind, as I plot out offerings for the coming year.
Meanwhile, if you want to quit bingeing today...
I have also heard from people really struggling with binge eating. Here is what I continue to find helpful in my own life and it sure seems to be working for a lot of you as well:
Start eating meals at mealtimes.
Be generous with yourself when putting together a meal, not stingy or diety. Try to serve yourself things that you like and that will get you through to the next meal.
Eat at about the same times every day. Any times that work for you are fine. Just establish a rhythm.
Don't worry about waiting until you're hungry "enough" to eat. You don't have to earn the damn meal. Get yourself into a meal groove, and your hunger will soon match your rhythms.
Wait for the next meal before eating again. If there's some food you're dying to eat right now, tell yourself you'll have it at the next meal. (And then do that, unless you don't want that food anymore. No bait-and-switch diet tricks here.)
There's a lot more one could say about binge eating and breaking the habit, but the above might be ALL YOU EVER NEED. It's an incredibly simple and useful set of suggestions, so please feel free to forward.
And that makes this another excellent opportunity for me to remind you I have recovered from BED. I have not gone to therapist school, doctor school, nutritionist school, or any stripe of healer school. I have OBSERVATIONS, not licenses.
And that's the week. I hope all is well with you! xoxok