The Stop Binge Eating Podcast

Ep #100: Binge Eating Success Story - Lainie

30 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I'm bringing on a very special guest! My former client Lainie is joining me to share her binge eating story with you all. You'll hear...

Ep #99: Choosing Love

23 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Love is the best feeling in the world. When we love ourselves and love other people it feels so good. But I often find that many of my clients and oth...

Ep #98: Chronic Physical Pain

16 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

You're a human, so you've experienced physical pain. Maybe you have chronic pain, maybe you just have acute pain that happens more rarely. When you ex...

Ep #97: Believing Good Feelings Are Coming

09 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

When you're feeling an urge to binge, are you thinking it's going to last forever? Are you thinking it's not going to go away? If you are, you're not ...

Ep #96: Eating Out vs. Eating at Home

02 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Do you freak out when you go out to eat or when you eat at someone else's house? So many concerns come up about what you're going to eat and how much....

Ep #95: Creating a Great Life

26 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Do you have a great life? If you're binge eating, you might say you don't. Or maybe you do, and everything is great except your eating. If you life is...

Ep #94: Feelings You're Not Supposed to Feel

19 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Are there certain feelings you think you're not supposed to feel? Maybe anger, fear, frustration, sadness? Then when you do feel them, you might try t...

Ep #93: Pleasure Scarcity

12 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

If you've ever felt disappointed by the amount of pleasure you experienced while eating then you've experienced pleasure scarcity. This concept is all...

Ep #92: Stopping Binge Eating After Many Years

05 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

If you've been binge eating for a long time, you may be feeling some hopelessness. You may think that it's just a part of you now or that you'll never...

Ep #91: Celebrating Successes

28 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Do you focus more on your failures than your successes? If so, you might feel like you're not making enough progress and you might be feeling bad abou...

Ep #90: Coaching Session with Jenny - Changing Beliefs

21 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Have you been having concerns about loved ones getting sick and even dying from the coronavirus? Are you having trouble believing that you really can ...

Ep #89: Useful Feelings After a Binge

14 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Do you feel guilty after you binge? Do you feel apathetic, resigned, or indifferent? These are all feelings that make sense to feel after you do somet...

Ep #88: Uncertainty and Worry

07 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Are you feeling a lot of uncertainty and worry? You may have had some changes in your circumstances recently, or a lot of changes, or you're worried a...

Ep #87: Planning Your Life

31 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Are you feeling a lot more stress and overwhelm these days? You're not alone. Circumstances, schedules, and routines are changing and you might be hav...

Ep #86: Choosing Your Story

24 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The way you choose to tell your stories matters. Right now, when this episode is being released, we're in the midst of a pandemic. People are telling ...

Ep #85: Deprivation

17 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Do you feel deprived when you don't eat certain foods? Do you fear feeling deprived so you eat things off your plan to avoid it? Deprived is a common ...

Ep #84: Good and Bad Foods

10 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Do you label foods as good and bad? If so, why do you do that? What classifies a food as good or bad? In this episode, I'm talking about the different...

Ep #83: Self-Care

03 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Are you engaging in enough self-care? Do you even know what it is? Are you unsure about whether or not what you are considering as self-care actually ...

Ep #82: Eating Differently Than Other People

25 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Do you ever find yourself in situations where you want to not eat when everyone else is? Or when you want to eat different foods than everyone else is...

Ep #81: Binge Eating on Healthy Foods

18 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Do you ever binge on healthy foods? A lot of people don't, but there's a lot who either exclusively do or sometimes do. In this episode, I'm talking a...

Ep #80: Escaping Yourself

11 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is all about escaping yourself. When you binge, that's exactly what you're doing. You're trying to get away from your thoughts, your feel...

Ep #79: Counting Calories

04 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Should you be counting calories? I get asked that question sometimes and it's not a simple yes or no answer.   In this episode, I'm going to help you...

Ep #78: When Other People Decide What You Eat

28 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Do you ever find yourself in situations where you don't have options for what to eat? Maybe someone made you food or other people decided what restaur...

Ep #77: Dismissing Thoughts and Allowing Feelings

21 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today's episode is digging in to habits a lot of us have when dealing with thoughts and feelings. Since it's our thoughts and feelings that drive us t...

Ep #76: Allergies, Intolerances, and Chronic Illnesses

14 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Do you have some kind of health issue that restricts what you can eat? Or have you noticed that some foods just don't sit well or react well in your b...

Ep #75: Making Better Eating Decisions

07 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Are you not good at making eating decision? If you're constantly making the decision to overeat and binge then you just might. In this episode, I'm gi...

Ep #74: Stopping When You're Full

31 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Do you stop eating when you're full? Or do you just keep eating until you feel stuffed or sick or really just until you feel like stopping? For most w...

Ep #73: Listening and Talking to Yourself

24 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

All day, we are thinking thoughts. Thousands of them. Some just pop into our minds, others we think on purpose.   When our thoughts are just happenin...

Ep #72: Fast Eating

17 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Do you eat too fast? When you binge you most likely do, but for a lot of people it shows up in their regular eating times too.   In this episode, I'm...

Ep #71: Useful Thinking

10 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Does trying to think more positively not work for you sometimes? Once we realize how our negative thoughts make us feel and act, the usual reaction is...

Ep #70: Boring Food

03 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Do you think eating the same stuff all the time is boring? Do you think healthy food is boring? Do all this boringness then lead you to seek out the f...

Ep #69: Justifications and Excuses

26 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Do you justify your binges and come up with excuses to binge? Most who binge do and it's partly because you're trying to convince yourself that it's o...

Ep #68: Goals Pt.2 - How to Achieve Goals

19 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ready to learn how to achieve goals? If you listened to the previous episode and did the assignment I gave there then you are!   In this episode, I'm...

Ep #67: Goals Pt.1 - Why You're Not Achieving Goals

12 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

If you're not achieving goals then this is the episode for you. In part one of my two part series on goals, I'm talking here about why you're not achi...

Ep #66: Comparing Yourself to Others

05 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

When you compare yourself to others, it can really bring you down. You start thinking people are better than you, doing better than you, look better t...

Ep #65: Positive Emotion Eating

29 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Do you ever binge or even just overeat when you feel positive emotions? This can be confusing for people who are used to hearing about emotional eatin...

Ep #64: True and False Wants

22 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Do you ever get confused about what you want? You're faced with a decision to eat or not to eat, to eat more or to not eat more, to binge or not to bi...

Ep #63: Ending the Struggle

15 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Do you ever think that you're going to have to struggle with binge aeating forever? That even if you're able to control it sometimes, that the struggl...

Ep #62: How to Have More Fun!

08 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Are you having enough fun? When I was binge eating, eat was my fun too much of the time and it obviously left me feeling unfulfilled. If you find your...

Ep #61: Perfectionism

01 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Are you a perfectionist? It can sometimes be a good thing, but when things don't go perfectly, it can be something that doesn't serve you well. Someti...

Ep #60: Identifying True Physical Hunger

24 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Do you ever get confused about whether or not you're actually hungry? You're not alone! A lot of people tell me they're hungry before they binge, and ...

Ep #59: Fear of Weight Gain

17 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

You probably know the importance of not restricting your food too much when you're trying to stop binge eating. But it can be hard because you want to...

Ep #58: Apathy

10 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Do you ever binge because you just don't care? Or you think it won't matter or you're just lacking motivation? Too often we're doing well for awhile a...

Ep #57: Breaking the Binge Cycle

03 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

At one time or another you've probably referred to what happens with your binge eating to be a "never ending cycle." You feel bad, binge, feel bad, re...

Ep #56: Being Patient with Your Progress

27 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

You want to stop binge eating like yesterday. You want it bad and if you're feeling impatient about the progress you're making and how slow your progr...

Ep #55: Consistency and The Compound Effect

20 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Stop Binge Eating Podcast has released an episode, every week, for an entire year (three were released on day one). Now there are 55 episodes and ...

Ep #54: When People Don't Understand Binge Eating

13 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It's hard when you try to talk with someone about your binge eating and they clearly don't understand it at all. You may feel misunderstood and alone....

Ep #53: Anxiety

06 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Anxiety is not a comfortable feeling to feel. Because of this, many of us eat to try and calm ourselves down. But as we know, eating is only a tempora...

Ep #52: Identifying Emotional Eating

30 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We've all heard about emotional eating, but do you know all the ways that it shows up in your life? When we're working on stopping binge eating, it's ...

Ep #51: Fearing Your Life Without Binge Eating

23 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What do you imagine your life without binge eating to look like? Do you get excited when you think about it or a bit apprehensive? There's lots of unk...

Ep #50: Believing Without Evidence

16 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Your belief is the most important thing. If you don't believe you can stop binge eating, you won't be able to. The problem most people fall into is th...

Ep #49: Overcoming Discouragement

09 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It's not fun to feel discouraged. A mistake, fail, or misstep happens and discouragement stops you in your tracks and prevents you from taking action ...

Ep #48: Two Types of Restriction

02 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Restricting is a bad thing to do when you binge eat, right? Well, sometimes, sometimes not. Not all restricting is the same and your intention behind ...

Ep #47: Holding Yourself Accountable

25 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It can be easier to achieve goals if someone is holding you accountable. But what if no one is there to help you? Then what? It's all on you.   In th...

Ep #46: Vacation Eating

18 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes time for a vacation, does your concern about eating during it take away from some of the excitement and joy you're supposed to be feelin...

Ep #45: Labeling Yourself as a Binge Eater

11 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It probably makes sense to you to label yourself as a binge eater. You do binge eat, right? But here's the question to consider: does it serve you to ...

Ep #44: Binge Eating When You're Tired

04 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How many times have you binged or even overate because you were tired? You stop caring, stop trying, want to feel better, or are looking for energy. E...

Ep #43: When You've Gained Weight

28 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

When you're consistently binge eating, weight gain tends to happen. Maybe it's continual gain, or maybe it's fluctuations up and down. Either way, alo...

Ep #42: Procrastination Eating

21 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Do you ever eating while your procrastinate? What is it that you're trying to avoid doing when you do that? It's most likely something you don't feel ...

Ep #41: What You Were Taught to Believe

14 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Throughout our lives we are taught to believe many things. Sometimes it's done directly and sometimes indirectly. You're taught what to think about ea...

Ep #40: Your Relationship With Yourself

07 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How strong is your relationship with yourself? Is it good? Great? Terrible? Does it even matter? Yes! Yes it does. In this episode, I'm showing you wh...

Ep #39: Your Future Self

30 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Do you ever stop to consider what your future self would want you to do when you're making an eating decision? Most people who binge eat don't and the...

Ep #38: Why You Give Up and How to Not

23 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Why do you keep giving up on yourself even though you want to stop binge eating so badly? It can be quite a mystery and I'm going to solve it for you ...

Ep #37: What You Should and Shouldn't Do

16 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

You know what you should and shouldn't do, but are you following that? It's so common for people, my former self included, to be in midst of a binge a...

Ep #36: Building Confidence to Stop Binge Eating

09 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Are you waiting to feel confident that you can stop binge eating before you start trying what you've been learning on this podcast? Well stop waiting....

Ep #35: Allowing Discomfort

02 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Any time you feel the discomfort of urges or negative emotions, it's really easy to eat and make it go away. But this is a very short term solution an...

Ep #34: Body Acceptance

26 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Too many people spend too much time hating their body, or at least disliking them. There's a lot of encouragement for people to love their body but fo...

Ep #33: When People Aren't Supportive

19 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Stopping binge eating can be easier if you have support from people around you. But what if you don't have that support? What are you supposed to do w...

Ep #32: All or Nothing Thinking

12 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

You ate off your eating plan, you went over your calorie goal, or you ate more than you said you would. You blew it. You ruined everything.   But did...

Ep #31: Mindless Eating

05 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Mindlessly eating may seem like a fun, enjoyable, relaxing, or comforting thing to do, but is it really? Yes you get to shut off your mind and eat, bu...

Ep #30: Fearing Hunger

26 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How scary is hunger to you? It's uncomfortable and you might think that too much hunger leads to overeating and binge eating. So you avoid it as much ...

Ep #29: Lessening Your Desire for Food

19 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine what it would be like if you just didn't desire to binge. Or if you didn't desire the foods you binge on. It would be so much easier to not do...

Ep #28: Sugar and Flour

12 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

There's a lot of talk out there saying that if you want to stop binge eating then you have to stop eating sugar and flour. There's definitely some goo...

Ep #27: Why Willpower Doesn't Work

05 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A lot of people blame their lack of willpower when they can't stick with the actions they know they need to take in order to reach a goal. But the lac...

Ep #26: Changing Your Beliefs About Food & Eating

29 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What do you believe about food and eating? Whatever it is, it might be keeping you stuck in binge eating and overeating.   Is this episode, I'm shari...

Ep #25: How to Motivate Yourself

22 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What happened to your motivation? Where did it go and how can you find it?   In this episode, I'm showing you why you feel unmotivated and how you ca...

Ep #24: Fighting Urges

15 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Do you feel like every time you feel an urge to binge it turns into a battle? You say no and the urge says yes and the fight begins.   People often t...

Ep #23: Cheat Days

08 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Should you have cheat days? It depends on how you define cheat days and how they affect you. There's a lot of opinions on this topic and in this episo...

Ep #22: When Your Eating is Good for Awhile

01 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It's pretty great when you're eating is going well. You haven't binged in a few days or weeks and you're excited. But there's two things you might be ...

Ep #21: Loneliness

25 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Are you a lonely binge eater? I sure was! I binged because I felt lonely often and it was a tough cycle to get out of – I felt lonely, so I binged t...

Ep #20: Eating What You Want

18 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

You may have heard that eating whatever you want will take you away from restriction and binge eating, but it might also not make much sense to you. I...

Ep #19: Avoiding Trigger Foods

11 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

If you are a binge eater, there are probably foods you do your best to avoid. They're ones you binge on the most or have binged on in the past and you...

Ep #18: How to Fail

04 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Failure stops so many people. Either they're afraid to fail so they don't even try, or they do fail and make it mean nothing will work.   But failing...

Ep #17: Handling Food Events

27 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Events that have food can be tough to deal with. Sometimes you start binge eating while you're there in the form of incessant grazing, or maybe you re...

Ep #16: Dealing with Food Pushers

20 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Don't you hate it when people push food on you? I used to, until I learned how to deal with it. It can make you angry or frustrated when you don't kno...

Ep #15: Stopping Brain Chatter About Food

13 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Food chatter in your brain can be SO annoying. So many thoughts about food! It takes up so much time and mental energy that you could be using for muc...

Ep #14: Doing Hard Things

06 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Not giving in to binge urges can be hard. Not binge eating can be hard. Too often we let hard things stop us from making progress toward our goals. In...

Ep #13: Nighttime Binge Eating

30 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Nighttime is the most common time for binge eating. You eat well all day and then BAM! Binge time. Maybe it's right when you get home, maybe it's afte...

Ep #12: Jealousy of People Who Don't Binge

23 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What do you think about people who don't binge? Do you wish you were like them, or do you get mad at them, or are you just super jealous? I sure did w...

Ep #11: Stress Eating

16 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Do you stress eat? Does that usually lead you into a binge? It used to for me a lot of the time and I hear it from other people all the time. We use e...

Ep #10: Losing Weight While Binge Eating

09 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

I tried so hard to lose weight while I was binge eating. It was not a fun experience at all, to say the least. I know not all who binge eat want to lo...

Ep #9: How to Stop Feeling Guilty About What Or How Much You Eat

02 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Do you ever feel guilty after you eat? Maybe you feel bad about what or how much you ate. If you do, it could be leading you into overeating or binge ...

Ep #8: How Your Thoughts Affect Your Eating

25 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Do you know what you think about before, during, and after you binge? It would be really helpful if you did. It's going to show you why you feel urges...

Ep #7: How to Get Through An Urge Without Eating

18 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

When you feel an urge to binge eat, you might give in it to right away, or you try to resist it for awhile but, at some point the binge happens. It mi...

Ep #6: Can YOU Stop Binge Eating?

11 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Can YOU stop binge eating? Sometimes, you might have a hard time believing that you can because you've failed at stopping many times or because it's b...

Ep #5: Why You Want to Binge Eat

04 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

I know this may sound crazy, but there are times when you want to binge. OF COURSE most of the time you don't, which is why you're listening to a podc...

Ep 4: The Restrict/Binge Cycle and How You'll Get Out Of It

28 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It can be hard to get out of the restrict/binge cycle. If you binge, you want to restrict but then, after restricting, you feel urges to binge on what...

Ep #3: What Happens After You Binge Eat

21 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

When you're working on stopping binge eating, binges will likely happen. You're probably not going to stop right away because you need to create new h...

Ep #2: Why A Binge ISN'T Inevitable Once You Feel an Urge to Binge Eat

21 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

When you feel an urge to binge, you might think that a binge is inevitable, that there is nothing you can do but binge. But, that's not actually true....

Ep #1: Why You Binge Eat

21 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating podcast! In this first episode, I'm diving into the first topic you need to know about – why you binge eat.   When...