Lisa’s Story: Self Care Coach
Lisa eventually realized that restrictive dieting and punitive exercise isn’t the answer because although it might give temporary results, it doesn’t last.
Bernadette’s Story: From a Program to a Process
Like many of us, Bernadette’s journey included body shame, rigid eating, and emotional eating. In this interview, she described this way: Food was something I treated myself to or tortured myself with. While searching for answers after following a very rigid but only temporarily successful diet, she came across the free chapter 1 download of
Cheryl’s Story: Finding joy by showing up
“I always thought that happiness was what happened when you got what you wanted,” Cheryl Harris MPH, RD explains in this interview. Then she learned about finding joy by showing up.
Paulette’s Story: From Emotional Eating to Freedom
Paulette had been coping with food and struggling with emotional eating from a young age. In this interview she talks about her journey to freedom.
Jenn’s Story: Learning to love herself
Jenn found mindful eating after gastric sleeve, because you can’t “expect surgery on your stomach to change your actions or reactions to food.”
Nicole’s Story: Recovery from Binge Eating Disorder – “I deserve it!”
In this honest and moving audio, Nicole describes how, after thirty years of bingeing, she is now able to live a bigger life than she ever thought possible!
Gretchen’s Story: A Weight Off Her Shoulders
Gretchen explains, “I became obsessed with food, logging, and exercise. I’d go through my ‘I hate my body’ times. I was plagued by it. Slowly the other things I loved fell away. It felt tragic, but I didn’t know what else to do. I felt so sad, but I continued to log every bite.”
Nesha’s Story: Letting Go
Editor’s Note: After receiving the lovely email below from Nesha, a participant in a recent Am I Hungry? Mindful Eating for Binge Eating Retreat, we asked her to share her story. She agreed, saying, “What you’re doing is important and valuable. I want to validate this process! It is truth.” Just wanted you to know
Kari’s Story: Finally, Peace
In 2013, Binge Eating Disorder was added to the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5)—thirty-six years after I found myself sitting on the floor of a dark basement, leaning up against a chest freezer, eating a case of frozen Twinkies—my shameful secret. My first memory of hiding food was when I was 8
Ann Marie’s Story: Beauty from Ashes
Ann Marie’s mother vacillated between chronic dieting and binge eating-and still does. “From early on I was made to feel ‘less than’ my slim siblings. My mother called me ‘pushy and bossy’ and said that I just had to get out first ahead of my twin brother at birth.” Tragically, her twin brother was “born
