Why Am I Binge Eating?
Binge eating is one of the most common challenges many of our members inside of the RTH programs experience prior to joining.
Whether they’re experiencing this weekly or in specific situations – they’re confused, overwhelmed, and unsure of what exactly is happening, why it’s happening, and how to move forward to balance their relationship with food.
When you can better understand what’s triggering your binge-eating tendencies, you can begin taking steps to prevent it, heal your relationship with food, and restore the balance you’d like to have.
1. Not eating enough – intentional restriction (restriction of entire meals, certain food items, or portion sizes) or unintentional restriction (stress).
2. Assigning morality to food & the scarcity mindset – act of deeming food to be good or bad, right or wrong, correct or incorrect. The scarcity mindset is telling ourselves that this is the “last time” we’re going to consume said items.
3. Not eating balanced meals – balanced meals are comprised of primarily whole food sources of protein, starchy carbohydrates, non-starchy carbohydrates, fats, and flavour factors.
4. Unaddressed emotions or stress – eating is a way to distract oneself from the emotion or stress they’re feeling.
5. Low self-esteem and poor body image – If you find that you reach for food and say things to yourself such as, “I’m already unhappy with my body so I might as well just eat more.”, “Everything is already terrible so who cares if I eat too much”, or, “Eating healthy never makes a difference so I should just eat whatever I want and eat as much as I want”, you may be eating this way as a means to self-sabotage.
In order to stop binge eating, the first step is to heal your relationship with food.
This is exactly what we teach individuals how to do in our RTH programs.
We walk you through the steps for healing your relationship with food.
We teach you how to build a new relationship that allows for growth, stability, and support.
