You know that moment when a binge urge comes on and suddenly it feels like you need to do SOMETHING?
Maybe you’re standing in the kitchen opening cupboards even though you’re not physically hungry.
You’re thinking about the chocolate.
The chips.
The cereal.
The leftovers.
And a part of you is saying:
“Don’t do it.”
“Get out of the kitchen.”
“Distract yourself.”
“Just don’t binge.”
So you scroll your phone, put on a show, go upstairs, brush your teeth, try to stay busy.
But the entire time…the urge is still freaking there.
In this episode, I’m breaking down why trying to distract yourself or think your way out of a binge urge can leave you feeling even MORE mentally exhausted and why what you may actually need is a state change.
You’ll learn:
- Why distraction techniques can work short term but still leave the urge there
- Why white-knuckling your way through an urge is so exhausting
- Why telling yourself “DON’T binge” can sometimes make you think about bingeing even more
- The difference between trying to change your thoughts and actually changing your physical state
- Why being highly impulsive makes it harder to hear your True Brain
- One specific state-change tool I used during my own binge eating recovery
- Why creating a state change can help you feel more grounded and less reactive around food
- Why the goal isn’t to forbid yourself from eating, but to get out of that impulsive 10/10 state so YOU can decide what you actually want
- How practicing a new response can help weaken your urges over time
The goal isn’t to spend the rest of your life distracting yourself from food.
It’s to get to a place where you don’t even feel the urge to binge anymore.
Where you can be home alone, around your favourite sweets, on vacation, at a wedding or at a social event, and food doesn’t feel like it’s controlling you.
If you want support learning how to stop giving into binge urges AND understand why those urges are showing up in the first place, join my Stop Giving Into Your Binge Urges 30-Day Challenge.
Inside the challenge, I’ll help you work on both:
1. How to respond differently when an urge hits
2. How to start preventing those urges from becoming so strong in the first place
👉 [JOIN THE CHALLENGE HERE]
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