The podcast

You do not need to like the way you look but it is your duty to will your own good. A bad body image does not simply mean you don’t like your physique. A bad body image is comprised of two components. One, you don’t like the way you look and two, because of dislike toward your body you allow looks to dictate the choices you make. The good news is, you do not need to like what stares you back in the mirror to make choices that are ultimately best for you.

We live thinking, "I am never going to achieve 25 % body fat, might as well not go to the gym, never going to be a marathon runner, why run at all, I'll never be able to consistently eat healthy why try." If a loved one heard you talking like this what would they say ? They would say, “listen up! you can be fluffy, puffy, heavy and without an ounce of muscle and still go and experience a post workout endorphin high, you are worthy of the best.”

I began binge eating in response to the restriction I thought required to maintain a perfectly chiseled, adolescent, athletic physique. Once learned, bindge eating became so much more. My coping mechanism, my avoidant mechanism, my source of exhilaration, sadness, joy ect. Binge eating became my everything, my adventure. It was however an adventure rooted in a lie, vanity and thus only on a "False Adventure" did binge eating lead me.

At my lowest point of depression and disordered eating I had to reason, logic, speak and then move myself to act in accordance with what I knew to be true and good as opposed to continuing down the path of self-destruction. We must say the ultimate, good, truth over and over again until it becomes engrained in our bodies enough to which we start acting in accordance with this truth.

While the title is, “Tips to Stop Binge Eating,” breaking free from this problem goes deeper than the robotic pursuit of said tips and the magical disappearance of food attachment. In my experience I could not simply pursue certain strategies, check them off of a box and miraculously be okay. No, I had to, and continuously have to transcend to a place of peace.

Bodies Change. A short encouraging message.