Winter is here! For many of us, it's a long stretch of the year—one that can throw a wrench in even the best-laid health plans. If you're someone who tries to stay active, eat well, and nurture your mental wellness throughout the year, you probably know that winter brings its own unique set of challenges.

Whether it's battling the winter blues, staying on track during holiday festivities, or simply managing the cold, winter can make healthy living feel more difficult. If you're feeling the seasonal struggle, you're not alone. But don’t worry—this episode is packed with practical, real-world tips to help you stay on course through the colder months.

Winter doesn’t have to be something we simply survive—it can be an opportunity to approach our health in a new, more sustainable way. Join Georgie and Christina for actionable steps, client stories, and personal insights that will help you navigate winter and come out the other side without derailing your health goals.

Tune in to learn how to thrive, not just survive, this winter!

 
We mentioned several "wintering" books in this episode. See the links below!
-How to Winter: Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Days
-The Finnish Guide To Happiness
-The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country

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Have you ever thought, "I know what to do, I just need to consistently do it"? Who hasn't? Sometimes we need accountability. Sometimes we need specific strategies, new tools, or a bit of help. If you are want help to become a confident, sensible eater with 1:1 personalized attention, sign up at ConfidentEaters.com.

Today on the show, we are going to talk about procrastineating, which is procrastination, where food is concerned. Procrastineating may show up like snacking or grazing, or it may be the form of a binge.

When we sort through procrastination eating, we are less concerned about the magnitude of eating and more concerned about why it's happening in the first place. Because like many problems, as we discover the reasons why people do this behavior, then we can start to unlock solving those problems in new ways.

So like other issues that we discuss on this podcast, procrastineating is something we can approach in layers. Join Georgie and Christina as we address the surface issues of procratineating which is typically the simplest and fastest approach. Then, we will discuss how to change what's underneath those deeper layers, which takes more time and practice (but worth the extra effort to achieve a more fundamental change!)

Do you need some more support with your own procrastination eating? We would love to help! For more information about our twice-yearly group coaching program, learn more here. Our next group starts December 2, 2024!

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Have you ever thought, "I know what to do, I just need to consistently do it"? Who hasn't? Sometimes we need accountability. Sometimes we need specific strategies, new tools, or a bit of help. If you are want help to become a confident, sensible eater with 1:1 personalized attention, sign up at ConfidentEaters.com.

Want some more help learning how to become a confident, sensible eater? Check out our Confident Eaters podcast here. 

Whats the best way to smother a binge before it snowballs, stopping it from gaining momentum, and spreading it to destroy your day, weeks, or decades? Well, we actually are going to talk about exactly that in today's episode.

Overcoming binge eating challenges must happen from several different angles. First, we can look at it from a prevention angle: identifying the triggers you experience and learning to prevent binge eating by developing helpful skills to address your thoughts and emotions. Second, you can think about how you can support yourself after a binge, to prevent the all or nothing pendulum swing from keeping you stuck in a binge-restrict cycle. Lastly, which Georgie and Christina will cover in today's episode, is how to stop a binge in the middle of one. 

Once a binge has started, one of its defining characteristics is that it includes a sense of losing control, and that can be scary, but  there are things you can do to extinguish the binge. You are not helpless in this situation. You are capable and you're the only person for the job.  

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Have you ever thought, "I know what to do, I just need to consistently do it"? Who hasn't? Sometimes we need accountability. Sometimes we need specific strategies, new tools, or a bit of help. If you are want help to become a confident, sensible eater with 1:1 personalized attention, sign up at ConfidentEaters.com.

Want some more help learning how to become a confident, sensible eater? Check out our Confident Eaters podcast here. 

Our group coaching client Emma recently reached out feeling defeated. Her vacation got derailed by an incoming hurricane. She felt like a failure of the program because she was going back to old ways of using food to cope with the disappointment of her intended family plans, wondering if she would ever get better from these eating and body struggles.

Maybe you've been there too...

Thankfully, she reached out to the group to share some of the sabotaging thoughts that were plaguing her so we could help! Many of them can be traced back to what we like to call your brain's "cut and run mode". It's those sabotaging thoughts that make you believe you need to abort the mission and do something drastic, because CLEARLY this is not working!

In this episode, join Georgie and Christina as we share exactly how we helped Emma and (other clients like her) reframe the all or nothing thoughts that make you feel like you should just give up. Our brains can be dramatic! But we are here to support you! Let's take a beat, calm down, and help you think through the sabotaging thoughts with a more clear head. 

Most importantly, we don't want you to quit! We've got your back. And if you need support unraveling any of your sabotaging thoughts, send us a message at confidenteaters.com.

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Have you ever thought, "I know what to do, I just need to consistently do it"? Who hasn't? Sometimes we need accountability. Sometimes we need specific strategies, new tools, or a bit of help. If you are want help to become a confident, sensible eater with 1:1 personalized attention, sign up at ConfidentEaters.com.

Want some more help learning how to become a confident, sensible eater? Check out our Confident Eaters podcast here. 

This is our 100th episode of the Breaking up With Binge Eating Podcast! Thank you, listeners, for the love and support of this podcast. We are glad you are here and thankful to be a small part of your healing journey to food freedom.

Does encouraging yourself feel weird? If so, then this episode is for you. In fact, the "weirder" it feels to give yourself praise and encouragement, the more you probably need to do it. 

As coaches at Confident Eaters, Maryclaire, Christina, and I have noticed many people express what we'd call anti compassion, anti praise, and anti encouragement. Some of the people we work with aren't just low on expressing compassion, praise, and encouragement, they're actively against it. 

Join Georgie as she explains some of the most important work we get to to with clients. We love getting to help people morph out of these unhelpful thinking patterns and begin to learn to be nicer to themselves, try to encourage themselves rather than put themselves down, and begin to use positive reinforcement like a powerful tool which keeps them going. 

These three elements can help you to become more confident and feel more positive emotions around the healthy behaviors you have spent much of your life trying to establish. If you need support unraveling any of your barriers against health, fitness, or weight loss, send us a message at confidenteaters.com.

Connect with Georgie and the Confident Eaters Coaches: 

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Have you ever thought, "I know what to do, I just need to consistently do it"? Who hasn't? Sometimes we need accountability. Sometimes we need specific strategies, new tools, or a bit of help. If you are want help to become a confident, sensible eater with 1:1 personalized attention, sign up at ConfidentEaters.com.

Want some more help learning how to become a confident, sensible eater? Check out our Confident Eaters podcast here. 

Food can be a wonderful tool of connection. You can use it to connect with others, to a nostalgic memory, while traveling to a new culture, or even connecting to your own heritage. But food is not the only way you can connect to these things.

In today's episode, join Georgie as shares some ideas for other ways you can connect with and enjoy time with others without feeling like you have to eat a particular way or default to socializing over food or drinks. 

We want you to have strong bonds to other people, without worrying that it conflicts with wanting to get healthier and eat better. Connections with people are fostered by what you say, how you listen, and whether you show interest and curiosity about them. It's not about how much or what's on your plate or in your glass. 

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Have you ever thought, "I know what to do, I just need to consistently do it"? Who hasn't? Sometimes we need accountability. Sometimes we need specific strategies, new tools, or a bit of help. If you want 1:1 shame-free personalized attention, sign up at https://confidenteaters.com/.

Want some more help learning how to become a confidence, sensible eater? Check out our Confident Eaters podcast.

The days are gone when eating disorders and body image struggles were secrets to keep. Nowadays, people talk about them openly, which a beautiful thing. But if you aren't prepared, those conversations can get awkward, or worse yet, start disagreements when you were only asking for some help and support. 

Join Georgie and Christina in this episode to hear how we guide our clients through chatting about your experience with friends, your doctor, your family, partner, and more. You will hear how to be authentic without "dumping" on others, how to ask for support without making your recovery *their* responsibility, and more. 

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Have you ever thought, "I know what to do, I just need to consistently do it"? Who hasn't? Sometimes we need accountability. Sometimes we need specific strategies, new tools, or a bit of help. If you want 1:1 shame-free personalized attention, sign up at https://confidenteaters.com/.

Want some more help learning how to become a confidence, sensible eater? Check out our Confident Eaters podcast.

Are you a long term calorie counter? Then you may want to consider whether it is helping or hurting your journey to breaking up with binge eating. What we have seen with clients is that calorie counting and binge eating are linked, and can unfortunately perpetuate the pendulum swing of binge and restrict.

Maybe you have used calorie counting as a way to manage your weight or feel more in control around food, but instead it has made you feel less in control and more disconnected from your body as a result. If you have listened to this podcast before, then you know that we like to help clients feel more connected to their needs, both physical and emotional. We help clients develop these kinds of skills every day! 

With real client (and personal) examples of how to go through this process, join Georgie and Christina to take your first steps of breaking up with calorie counting!

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Have you ever thought, "I know what to do, I just need to consistently do it"? Who hasn't? Sometimes we need accountability. Sometimes we need specific strategies, new tools, or a bit of help. If you want 1:1 shame-free personalized attention, sign up here.

Want some more help learning how to become a confidence, sensible eater? Check out our Confident Eaters podcast here. 

“We all make mistakes” - you’ve heard that so many times that I bet it’s practically meaningless. It’s like a bland hallmark card inscription that has zero power for most of us. Many people who are working on improving their relationship with food, such as stopping binge eating or emotional eating say their #1 struggle is how to recover after slipping up. 

Knowing what to do AFTER a slip is often more important than perfecting the art of preventing them. Yes, we want to prevent them, too, But if we focus all of our efforts on the things we need to do to prevent binges or overeating incidents, a client is left with a major problem when slips happen. 

Join Georgie and Christina in this episode to hear how we guide our clients through the skill of managing slip ups with compassion. You will hear how to identify where you are amongst the four stages of pathology in a slip up condition, along with our practical guide of do's and don'ts when you find yourself in the aftermath of a slip up. 

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Have you ever thought, "I know what to do, I just need to consistently do it"? Who hasn't? Sometimes we need accountability. Sometimes we need specific strategies, new tools, or a bit of help. If you want 1:1 shame-free personalized attention, sign up here.

Want some more help learning how to become a confidence, sensible eater? Check out our Confident Eaters podcast here. 

This week, we are excited to share an insider review of our Breaking up with Binge Eating Group program. Join Georgie and Berenice, as they discuss her journey from being a listener of the podcast, to joining the group program 6 months ago, to overcoming the binge and restrict cycle and developing food freedom. Berenice is a joy and a delight to talk to and we hope her story will encourage and inspire you!

We all have different challenges, backgrounds, habits, and lifestyles. Berenice shares her story as someone who loves to figure things out on her own, stay on the move, and cook and prepare healthy meals. But she was struggling with fighting with food and her body for long enough and it was time to get some support from a professional specifically for her eating challenges.

Berenice was once in your shoes, looking for a solution to her binge eating and found this podcast. Now you can listen in to hear her experience of the program (and why she is going through it a second time) on her way to becoming a confident, sensible eater. 

We covered a lot of topics, including:

• More about Berenice and her biggest challenges and her relationship to herself before joining the BUWBE program
• Lessons learned and obstacles she has overcome in the program (including her favorites and ones she found most challenging)
• How the program addressed the way she eats, thinks, and treats herself 
• What life looks like now for Berenice as a result of the support of the program and her dedication to recovery so that she can live her life to the fullest.  

Thanks to Berenice for being our guest on this week's episode and sharing her valuable experience!

For more information about our twice-yearly group coaching program, learn more here. 

Connect with Georgie and the Confident Eaters Coaches: 

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Have you ever thought, "I know what to do, I just need to consistently do it"? Who hasn't? Sometimes we need accountability. Sometimes we need specific strategies, new tools, or a bit of help. If you want 1:1 shame-free personalized attention, sign up here.

Want some more help learning how to become a confidence, sensible eater? Check out our Confident Eaters podcast here. 

Have you ever wondered if you are addicted to food? Can someone be addicted to food like they can be to alcohol and other substances? Many of our clients feel out of control around certain foods, and may feel as though they are food addicted, which is why we thought this would be an important topic to cover together.

Each month, the coaches at confident eaters explore topics related to challenges we see our clients facing so that we can better support them in our work together. In today's podcast episode, you are going to hear Georgie, Maryclaire, and Christina talk about some research surrounding the idea of Food addiction and differing views on its validity.

In this conversation, the Confident Eaters team explores various aspects of food addiction and binge eating disorder. You will hear us discuss differences among clients, variations in eating behaviors, and the impact of relationships on food-related behaviors. We also delve into gender differences in binge eating disorder and personality traits associated with eating disorders. We will highlight the complexities of these concerns and the challenges faced by individuals seeking treatment, including the role of hyper-palatable foods, and the importance of promoting self-efficacy and flexibility in recovery efforts.

For more information about our twice-yearly group coaching program, learn more here. 

Connect with Georgie and the Confident Eaters Coaches: 

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Have you ever thought, "I know what to do, I just need to consistently do it"? Who hasn't? Sometimes we need accountability. Sometimes we need specific strategies, new tools, or a bit of help. If you want 1:1 shame-free personalized attention, sign up here.

Want some more help learning how to become a confidence, sensible eater? Check out our Confident Eaters podcast here.