Reclaiming Yourself from Binge Eating: A Step-by-step Guide to Healing - Softcover

Fulvio, Leora

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ISBN 10: 1780996802 ISBN 13: 9781780996806

Verlag: John Hunt Publishing, 2014

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Are you one of the millions of people suffering from Binge Eating Disorder? Are you caught in the trap of binge eating, emotional eating, mindless eating, and diet obsession? This book will help you to stop binge eating right now. You will heal the underlying issues that lead to your binge eating when you implement this complete mind, body and spirit approach to healing. It will help you to become the person who you know you are while gently guiding you away from the tyranny of food and body obsession, diets, binge eating and scales. You will come to a place of freedom and peace around food and your body so that you can enjoy your life. You will be able to breathe with ease and settle in to a place of normalcy around food and your body. Reclaiming Yourself from Binge Eating uses a new approach to treating binge eating that does not include dieting, deprivation, willpower, or any kind of self-criticism. These easy steps to becoming a normal eater are thought provoking, action oriented and enjoyable. Recovery from the torment of food and negative body image is within reach.
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Leora Fulvio, MFT is a licensed psychotherapist and hypnotherapist practicing in San Francisco. She has been treating women with food and body-image issues since 1999. She is passionate about helping women heal from the tyranny of eating disorders and self-reproach. When she is not working with clients or writing about healing, she enjoys relaxing with her husband and son.
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Leora Fulvio, MFT is a licensed psychotherapist and hypnotherapist practicing in San Francisco. She has been treating women with food and body-image issues since 1999. She is passionate about helping women heal from the tyranny of eating disorders and self-reproach. When she is not working with clients or writing about healing, she enjoys relaxing with her husband and son.
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Reclaiming Yourself from Binge Eating

A Step-by-Step Guide to Healing

By Leora Fulvio

John Hunt Publishing Ltd.

Copyright © 2012 Leora Fulvio
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-78099-680-6

Contents

Acknowledgments, xi, 
Part One – All About Binge Eating, 1, 
Introduction, 2, 
Chapter One – Using This Book, 10, 
Chapter Two – What is Mindfulness and How Will It Help Me Heal?, 15, 
Chapter Three – Understanding Binge Eating Disorder, 19, 
Chapter Four – Why Do I Binge Eat?, 25, 
Chapter Five – The Inner Wars, 39, 
Chapter Six – Types of Binges, 53, 
Chapter Seven – Binge Eater Personality Types, 56, 
Chapter Eight – Getting Started, 65, 
Part Two – A Step-by-Step Guide To Healing From Binge Eating, 71, 
Step One – Create Purpose, 73, 
Step Two – Learn Intuitive Eating, 76, 
Step Three – What's Behind the Urge to Binge Eat?, 85, 
Step Four – Figuring Out Your Binge Triggers and How to Defeat Them, 88, 
Step Five – Self-Monitoring, 98, 
Step Six – Making Your Home a Safe Zone, 104, 
Step Seven – What Should I Be Eating?, 106, 
Step Eight – Plan on Eating Three Meals a Day, 113, 
Step Nine – Understanding Your Hunger, 116, 
Step Ten – Overpowering Your Urge to Binge, 132, 
Step Eleven – Increasing Your Tolerance for Uncomfortable Feelings, 136, 
Step Twelve – Balancing Self-Acceptance with the Need to Change, 142, 
Step Thirteen – Retroflecting, 150, 
Step Fourteen – Dealing with Self-Sabotage, 157, 
Step Fifteen – Dealing with Procrastination, 161, 
Step Sixteen – Dealing with Boredom, 165, 
Step Seventeen – Sleep Issues and Night Eating, 167, 
Step Eighteen – What Do You Binge On?, 171, 
Step Nineteen – How to Soothe Yourself through Uncomfortable Feelings, 173, 
Step Twenty – Healing Shame, 182, 
Step Twenty-One – Dealing with Your Inner Critic and Gaining Self-Esteem, 202, 
Step Twenty-Two – Being Kind to Yourself, 214, 
Step Twenty-Three – Letting Go of Polarized Thinking, 219, 
Step Twenty-Four – Releasing Your Fear of the Binge Food, 226, 
Step Twenty-Five – Learning to Love Your Body, 233, 
Step Twenty-Six – Body Trust: Learning to Listen to the Wisdom of Your Body, 244, 
Step Twenty-Seven – Dealing with Saboteurs, 250, 
Step Twenty-Eight – Feeling Jealous, Envious and Making Comparisons, 258, 
Step Twenty-Nine – Exercise, 262, 
Step Thirty – Dealing with Desire and Wanting, 268, 
Step Thirty-One – What if I Relapse?, 273, 
Step Thirty-Two – Understanding How Your Family Dynamics Have Influenced Your Binge Eating, 279, 
Step Thirty-Three – Understanding Binge Eating in Your Relationship, 284, 
Step Thirty-Four – Tell Your Story, 287, 
Appendix A: Further Resources, 288, 
Appendix B: Quick Tips to Stop a Binge in Its Tracks, 290, 
Appendix C: PMS and Binge Eating, 300, 
Appendix D: Supplements and Medication, 301, 
Appendix E: When You Feel Like Giving Up on Reading This Book, 303, 
Appendix F: Tools, 305, 
Recommendations for Further Reading, 323, 
References, 324, 
Endnotes, 325, 
About the Author, 327, 

CHAPTER 1

Using This Book

This is not a diet book, nor is this a weight loss book, though weight loss may be an incidental part of the healing process as you let go of binge eating. This is a mind, body and spirit book, that utilizes mindfulness and self-acceptance in order to help you heal on every level.

The book has an action plan, specific external steps that you should take to help yourself stop binge eating, and it also has more internal steps to help you increase your awareness and understand why you binge eat. Finally, it has exercises and meditations that will completely change the way you think and behave around food.

In addition to this book, make sure to have a notebook or journal on hand. During the course of the book, when it is advisable to write through the steps, you will see the phrase Journal Opportunity. If you would prefer to go through the book and go back to do your steps after you've read it, you can do that too. You can also find a journal with all the writing prompts at www.reclaimingyourselffrombingeeating.com. There is no prescribed formula. Just find what works for you. You might find that just one or two steps click for you and help you to completely give up binge eating, and you might find that different chapters resonate for you at different times in your life. You can return to things at certain times in your life when they have more relevance and learn something different from them then.

Throughout the book, you will also see the phrase Meditation Time. At this time, you can read the meditation, then close your eyes and focus on the specific meditation that is relevant to the chapter. Each of these meditations is also available for download at the website if you would prefer to be guided through the meditations.

Besides a journal, I also recommend having a support person on hand while you are working through this book. You can use this book with a therapist, a friend, a 12-step sponsor, you can create a Reclaiming Yourself from Binge Eating group, or you can just use it by yourself. It's encouraged to have at least one support person on hand so that you don't have to do certain exercises alone. You might feel that some of the chapters or the exercises don't resonate with you or are not relevant to your situation. That's okay. You don't have to do every step. Some might just feel that they are not for you. Just do what makes you comfortable and what your wise mind (more on that in Chapter Eight) tells you is right for you. This is about finding yourself and learning to meet your needs without food. You might find that you come back to certain exercises later and notice that they resonate with you more than they did when you first looked at them.

I do not recommend reading this book all in one sitting. You could do a step every few days, once a week, once a month or even more. Take time to metabolize it, to be with it, to think about it, to discuss it with your support people, or just spend time thinking or journaling about what's coming up for you. There is no urgency when it comes to recovery. It's about slowly coming back to yourself, getting to know you in a deep meaningful way.

The book is divided into two sections. The first section is about understanding Binge Eating Disorder. The next section is a step-by-step guide on exactly how to stop binge eating. The first steps are action steps. They give you very specific actions to change your behaviors. The next steps are internal steps. They are meant to help you think about your relationship to food, your body, the people around you and how they all relate to binge eating issues. At the end, there are appendixes with all your tools. These are your worksheets, your meditations and some quick references for you.

Letting go of Binge Eating Disorder is usually not a quick fix. It is a rich process of increasing awareness at the same time as you change behaviors, a glorious exercise in patience and self-acceptance. The great news is that you begin to have insight into who you are and why you do what you do, and gain new and different behaviors that help you to...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: John Hunt Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1780996802
• ISBN 13: 9781780996806
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 340
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